Kai comes to Children’s Creative Project from the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation. She received a bachelor’s degree in Art from California State University Channel Islands with an emphasis in Studio Art and Art History where she discovered her love of arts nonprofits. A passionate arts advocate for the last decade, Kai has focused particularly on youth arts initiatives in Santa Barbara County. She is active in many community organizations.
Kate has been involved with the Children’s Creative Project since 2006 when she began as a parent volunteer with the Arts Network. Kate’s involvement grew in 2015 when she accepted the position of Treasurer for the CCP’s Board of Directors. She officially joined the Children’s Creative Project staff in 2017 as a Program Associate. She was promoted to Administrative Assistant in 2023. She has worked with every aspect of the CCP and brings her enthusiasm for arts education and professional experience as a teacher to the organization.
Meredith has been a resident teaching artist for Children’s Creative Project since 2015. Having taught dance and creative movement in more than 20 different preschool and elementary schools throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties as a dance educator for various organizations, she is excited for this new chapter as Program Associate for Children’s Creative Project. Meredith looks forward to helping expand opportunities for professional artists to develop and share their work while providing the opportunity for every child to have access to arts education.
Erin is a dedicated Program Associate and arts liaison for CCP. With a lifelong love for the arts, she has been preparing for this role since early childhood. From directing plays with the neighbor kids (The Sheep Parade, featured real sheep) to teaching kindergarten at an arts’ charter school in LA, Erin’s commitment to arts education has been unwavering. She has created arts programs in public and private schools and played a key role in developing an online theatre program for the Laguna Playhouse. Now at CCP, she is excited to use her expertise and enthusiasm to help ignite creativity, curiosity, and joy in individuals throughout the community through transformative arts experiences!
Kelly has been a career art educator as a K-12 credentialed visual arts teacher since 2009. She has taught junior high and high school art for over 11 years, specializing in high school photography courses. As a classroom teacher, Kelly challenged her students to expand their definition of creativity and discover new ways of incorporating creative problem-solving into everyday life. Kelly holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Brooks Institute and Academy of Art University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Visual Culture Education from the University of Arizona. She comes to Children's Creative Project with a passion for equitable art education and is excited to broaden her reach to students county-wide through expanded resident artist programming.