The Center for Creative Education in West Palm Beach, Florida, opened in 1994. But according to CEO Bob Hamon, in some ways the organization is just four years old because “we have a new version of ourselves post COVID.”
The Center’s original mission was to support public schools, which it did through after-school programming and arts integration projects at local schools. “They had good success. I think they were very memorable for the kids who were involved,” Bob says. But it was hard to get local districts to commit long-term, and CCE didn’t know if its efforts were making