Basic Arts Competitors

Founded in 1998, Creative Kids Brands exploded onto the market with the launch of our first Art Activity line under the house name of “Creative Kids”. The line ranged from easels to crayons and everything in between. Since then, CK’s offering has expanded to over 12 categories with distribution in over 40 countries globally. Our success and tremendous growth year after year is due to our uncompromising commitment to innovation and quality driven toys. Creative Kids is headquartered in NY, with offices in Hong Kong, Manchester, Shanghai and Guangzhou. With over 200 people in our roster, we all work together with the same goal in mind: to bring innovative, quality driven products to market. Our Culture: Creativity For All We seek to inspire young people every where, from the second they start one of our projects to the moment they have that WOW feeling that they created something amazing. We want to give children the confidence that they can do everything and anything .

Inspire Arts & Music (IAM) is a not-for-profit organization whose programs seek to develop and ‘inspire’ young adults via both scholastic and non-scholastic activities. The vehicle we use to do this is a portfolio of performing arts programs, and our mission is to help them develop and demonstrate the qualities needed to achieve excellence in both their program and their personal lives. IAM member programs are generally related to performing arts with a current focus on music, dance and marching arts. We have both competitive and non-competitive programs, and each program has its own performance venues and schedule. Inspire programs utilize trained music & movement educators as well as a youth/peer leaders to deliver both music and arts instruction, and to instill the qualities we seek to teach and instill in our young adults: -Integrity, confidence and motivation -Teamwork and communication -Commitment to excellence, and the work ethic required to reach it -Discipline and personal accountability -Resilience and the ability to work through and overcome adversity