Welcome from the Executive Director
Dear Friends,
A new energy pervades the Center for Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP). Over the past several years, CCAP has been working through a significant transition. The name change from "Office" to "Center" symbolizes the vision behind this transformation. What we are, and what we offer to students and faculty in particular is more accurately reflected in the idea of a Center. One that is open to those interested in exploring the world of community arts learning, and to those who embrace Columbia College's commitment to serving the city and its youth. By design, CCAP is very much an integral part of the College's mission to "conduct education in close relationship to a vital urban reality and to serve an important civic purpose by active engagement in the life and culture of the city of Chicago."
CCAP's connection to community is what makes it so unique. At its essence, CCAP is an organization that specializes in designing, facilitating, and implementing high quality, arts education programming for Chicago youth. CCAP's work takes many forms. We have programs that support the students, teachers and parents of K-12 Chicago Public Schools through our Community Schools, Project AIM and ArtUP initiatives. Our Urban Missions program and Arts in Youth and Community Development graduate program create important collaborations with community-based arts organizations throughout Chicago. We build partnerships between various stakeholders who help us create synergies where none existed before. And perhaps most importantly, we provide Columbia College students with a myriad of opportunities to experience community as their larger classroom. Thanks to service-learning components developed through CCAP's partnership with College departments, students and faculty are provided with avenues for real world, experiential learning.
The work we do here at CCAP would not be possible without this unique collaboration between College and community. And you are a part of this vital community. As CCAP continues to grow and evolve, we need your ideas and support to strategize new, innovative ways to encourage creative thinking as we embrace the development of systemic vehicles for life-long learning. This path is wholly collaborative, and its co-creation depends on the very essence of partnership. Your voice helps make these partnerships genuine. Your involvement helps bring them to fruition.
Best regards,
David A. Flatley
Executive Director
Center for Community Arts Partnerships
A new energy pervades the Center for Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP). Over the past several years, CCAP has been working through a significant transition. The name change from "Office" to "Center" symbolizes the vision behind this transformation. What we are, and what we offer to students and faculty in particular is more accurately reflected in the idea of a Center. One that is open to those interested in exploring the world of community arts learning, and to those who embrace Columbia College's commitment to serving the city and its youth. By design, CCAP is very much an integral part of the College's mission to "conduct education in close relationship to a vital urban reality and to serve an important civic purpose by active engagement in the life and culture of the city of Chicago."
CCAP's connection to community is what makes it so unique. At its essence, CCAP is an organization that specializes in designing, facilitating, and implementing high quality, arts education programming for Chicago youth. CCAP's work takes many forms. We have programs that support the students, teachers and parents of K-12 Chicago Public Schools through our Community Schools, Project AIM and ArtUP initiatives. Our Urban Missions program and Arts in Youth and Community Development graduate program create important collaborations with community-based arts organizations throughout Chicago. We build partnerships between various stakeholders who help us create synergies where none existed before. And perhaps most importantly, we provide Columbia College students with a myriad of opportunities to experience community as their larger classroom. Thanks to service-learning components developed through CCAP's partnership with College departments, students and faculty are provided with avenues for real world, experiential learning.
The work we do here at CCAP would not be possible without this unique collaboration between College and community. And you are a part of this vital community. As CCAP continues to grow and evolve, we need your ideas and support to strategize new, innovative ways to encourage creative thinking as we embrace the development of systemic vehicles for life-long learning. This path is wholly collaborative, and its co-creation depends on the very essence of partnership. Your voice helps make these partnerships genuine. Your involvement helps bring them to fruition.
Best regards,
David A. Flatley
Executive Director
Center for Community Arts Partnerships