Bringing Creativity to our classrooms

The Goal

Close the Arts Education Gap for Rural Oregon Youth

The Sitka Youth Program, now K-8 Create, is a response to community-based need. By partnering directly with schools to address barriers to arts education unique to rural Oregon, K-8 Create is on a mission to close arts education access gaps across the coast and statewide, inspiring the next generation of creative Oregonians.

We provide arts and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) education through rural Oregon PK-8 schools (all Title 1) with limited or no art programs of their own.

Download the 2023 Sitka Youth Program Impact Report.