Imagine Creativity Center Competitors

Imagination Stage is the largest and most respected multi-disciplinary theatre arts organization for young people in the Mid-Atlantic region. We offer a year-round season of professional shows (adult actors performing for families and classes), after-school programs and summer camps for ages 1-18, and arts-integration professional development training for teachers, students, schools, and families. All of our programs are informed by our core belief in making the arts inclusive and accessible to all children, regardless of their physical, cognitive, or financial status.

Young Audiences Arts for Learning is the nation's largest arts-in-education network, serving more than 5 million young people each year. The National Office of Young Audiences Arts for Learning helps the broad network of Young Audiences affiliates play a decisive role in all young people’s education and development. Young Audiences envisions a future in which the nation’s children and youth will have the opportunity to engage in quality arts learning experiences that nurture creativity, build cultural understanding and enhance the development of their learning and life skills. Young Audiences Arts for Learning is an association of affiliated organizations that are each dedicated to local education and community development. The YA network collectively works together to impact arts in education practices and policies on a national level. Young Audiences advocates for the YA network and the arts-in-education field, coordinating national advocacy efforts through a National Young Audiences Week every spring. Young Audiences connects exceptional teaching artists with teachers to provide in-depth arts residencies that raise academic and artistic achievement, while enhancing and developing learning skills that translate across curriculums.

The Creative Arts Center of Dallas (CAC) is a nonprofit community arts organization and school of visual arts geared to working artists and students of all skill levels and experience. Operating for over 50 years, CAC has become one of the top adult art education destinations in North Texas. Its continued mission is to nurture a community where citizen artists discover, develop, and express their artistic vision. Led by a Board of Directors, the Creative Arts Center of Dallas has a long history of nurturing generations of Dallas area artists by providing an outstanding faculty of professional artists to ensure quality instruction in classes and workshops to beginning, emerging, and established artists. Classes and workshops are offered in ceramics, clay sculpture, drawing, glass, jewelry, mosaic, painting, printmaking, stone carving, welding, and other visual media. Instructors include well-known artists and art educators whose work is in public and private collections. CAC also maintains exhibition space to showcase faculty and student creations and to feature work from our outreach activities.