No doubt our faculty and staff have a great time teaching at Creative Arts. It's easy to assume we promote our programs to survive as a business, provide after school care or just another thing to do; that anyone or any business can do what we do.

But, we do what we do to improve quality of life, plainly stated. It's easy to forget about this as our lives and schedules grow increasingly more complex.

The truth is, learning and doing the Arts does matter. It helps merge logic with creativity, which aids in creative problem solving - a quality required in today's workplace.

That's why a group of 13ish parents started Creative Arts 32 years ago with intent of creating an organization offering training in the Arts to establish opportunities for the community to become creative thinkers.

Visual arts is more than painting a picture, music is more than playing a song, and theatre is more than reciting lines from a script. Whether we realize it or not, the Arts plays a much bigger role in our lives and society.  I present a thought-provoking video broadcast on PBS in Oregon: http://www.opb.org/teachingcreativity/.

Reading shares a proud history as an athletic town which, by the way, is important to teach and support, too. But we cannot ignore the impact of creativity in our daily lives. As the Arts slowly disappear from our schools and thoughts...what will happen to the future of creative thinking?