CreativeIdentityOC

Founded in 1996, Creative Identity is a 501(c)(3) non-profit therapuetic music and expressive arts day program that serves adults, 18 years of age and older, with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Orange County, California. Our orgniazation is based on the fundamental belief that music and the expressive arts can promote positive change on all levels of human health, well-being, and foster development.

At Creative Identity, we offer year-round education and mentoring in the expressive arts through our Onsite and Community Expressive Arts Program. The Expressive Arts Program is continuing remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through our program, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are provided the opportunity to develop their artistic skills and abilities and earn a commission as an artist through the selling of their artwork and ceramic ware at local art exhibitions and craft fairs around Orange County. By providing our students with the opportunity to creatively express themselves using a wide variety of art media and encouraging community participation, our students not only expand their artistic and creative potentials and develop important pre-vocational and life skills, but also develop a common dialogue with the wider community demonstrating that they are creative and contributing members of society.