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Posted inVisual Arts

Helping the Community CREATE: After Almost Closing 18 Months Ago, the CREATE Center for the Arts Is Expanding—and Thriving

About 18 months ago, I volunteered with the CREATE Center for the Arts for a week to see what it was all about. The fledgling nonprofit was approaching its first anniversary in its inaugural home, subleasing space in a former thrift store on Highway 111 in Palm Desert. The members and students were still reeling […]

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