A Collaborative Spirit

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. —Henry Ford

The Mason-Deerfield Arts Alliance has begun a creative collaboration with an amazing group called The Creative Collaborative. Robin Ok and Glenda Miles are the minds that sprinkle glitter gently to grow ideas and generously come to the table.

We're always open to new partners. We've built our success on collaboration. We're often approached with "a great idea". Sometimes we embrace it and sometimes we have to let it go. We look closely at our mission and vision, take a gut check and make sure that we will be "right" for each other. We take care to make sure that we all will have all of our best interest at heart.

Along time ago, someone said to me..."Your organization has a nice spirit." To date, that remains the highest compliment about the Arts Alliance because it truly embodied the "feel" of who we want to be.

The day I met Robin and Glenda, these two whimsical and quirky characters, my inner voice said , "I like their spirit."

Since that day, we have worked to help each other grow. The Creative Collaborative has brought some very unique programming to the Arts Alliance. Starting with the Creativity Camp for young girls and the Kick Booty Series for Women.

This summer, the Creative Collaborative will present two incredible summer art camps for young girls called Creative Summer DREAM Camp for Girls, on June 11 - 14 from 12:30 - 4:30. And then the Creative Summer WISH Camp for Girls will be held on July 23 - 25 from 12:30 - 4:30.

These camps are magic. Young girls ages 10 - 15 will leave these camp different people. They will walk away feeling secure in who they are, happy to be who they are and free to express themselves. They'll spend the week exploring words and images that reflect their inner beauty. They will leave with art projects that will tell a story...just about themselves. It's amazing what a little glitter and glue can do...it builds a young woman...it builds a spirit.

Visit the Mason-Deerfield Arts Alliance website at www.masonarts.org for Summer Art Camp registration, Camp Descriptions and Instructor Information. Or call 513-309-8585.

Visit www.creativecollaborative.us for more information about Robin and Glenda.