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A Little Creative Class has partnered with Escape Tiny Houses, to offer short-term leases on two of their units for artists for self-directed residency. Forty percent of the rental fee goes directly to support A Little Creative Class’s work with marginalized youth and their families throughout New York State. We fixed up our old scrapbook studio and now are ready …

In January A Little Creative Class purchased a house at auction in Troy, New York. The four-bedroom two-bathroom property sat vacant for three years until we got in there with hammers, trash bags, and a vision to turn this creekside parcel into our Troy home and gathering place for creative class families. A Little Creative Class will continue the scrapbook …

On April 25, 2019, three of our A Little Creative Class board members were invited to speak at the first Building A New American Promise: It Takes a Community symposium, hosted by Habitat for Humanity, The United Way of Greater Capital Region ALICE (Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed), and YWCA NorthEastern New York. The symposium was held in Schenectady, New …

The fall of 2018 saw the completion of a year-long process of cleaning out the 5000-square-foot vacant lot next to the Little Creative Class house. For the past decade, the lot had been used as a toxic dumping ground, left to collect several 40-foot trash containers and abandoned construction machinery, including leaky bulldozers, old trucks, and even a boat. With …

We started an art project with our young creatives called Creek & Rail. After harvesting trash and other found objects along the railroad tracks and from the lot next to our Little Creative Class house, our mentor Don Shearer helped us design high-fashion art to wear. The young people from Troy came to Maspeth to model their creations in our …

In the summer, we gathered on 5th Ave in Troy for an all-girls mini scrapbook workshop. Heather, one of the original Scrappin’ Upstate girls, helped her daughter Jaeda, now age 10, to make her own scrapbook. We met every day – we had a lemonade stand, made cookies, and hiked along the Hudson. We made a window display of some …

Tony celebrated his 14th birthday with five mentors and artists from A Little Creative Class. We joined the Newtown Creek Alliance for the annual Creek-A-Thon, an epic 13-mile walk led by historian Mitch Waxman. The Creek-A-Thon is a narrated exploration around the industrial periphery of Newtown Creek, which is literally situated in the backyard of the Little Creative Class arts …

A Little Creative Class was recently mentioned on Kingston Creative’s blog: http://kingstoncreative.net/the-new-york-capital-regions-66-most-instagrammed-places/. Read the excerpt below: “Kingston will always be the first capital of New York, but we decided to turn our gaze to the north and see what’s going on in New York’s fourth capital, Albany. We discovered that Instagram is very much an Albany thing (in addition to …

Over Spring Break 2018, several Price Family Fellows from Rutgers University——along with their mentor Jonna McKone, who is a Duke University Hine Fellow——joined A Little Creative Class for a two-day Scrappin’ Upstate mini “scrapzine workshop.” About The Price Family Fellowship Funded since June 2013 by the Price Family Foundation, the Price Family Fellows is a Rutgers University-based supportive program for …

It was wonderful to have time to take in the best of both worlds — urban with a heavy dose of industrial nature, and s’mores over a bonfire. Our two father-and-daughter teams were so beautiful together. It was a real bonding experience for us all, and inspired us to understand more deeply the value of our special spot here at …