Our goal at the Center of Creativity is to provide a fertile learning environment for people who want the freedom to create in a range of mediums. We will soon be offering workshops and learning experiences as well as open studio time in 2021. Please check back or contact us to learn more.
Our Founders:
Cindy Chinn – Creating is my life. I don’t know anything else. As far back as I can remember, I have been an Artist… I have been very fortunate to make a career of it and surround my life with it. Though my true love is sculpting, I also enjoy to paint. But recently metal art has been occupying my time!
I do have a problem though; there aren’t enough hours in the day. Never enough tools or supplies at hand. And there is the “business end” of things that is all consuming at times and takes me away from what I would prefer to be doing, CREATING! Someday! Someday I’ll find a Business Manager that likes to vacuum!
I have so many projects going on at once and even more that I want to start, just sitting there in the back of my mind, waiting for it’s turn to be unleashed. It could be anything from painting a bug mural to sculpting a lion’s head out of marble. The trick is to convince a client that they need “IT” as much as I want to make “IT”… whatever “IT” might be. So far in my career, my artwork has been directed by my clients. I never seem to have the time to create for myself and often wonder if I did, what would I do.
I have a very practical approach to what I make, it has to have purpose and function or I feel that I am wasting my time. I don’t have much artwork hanging on my walls unless I think that it is very special. That kind of thing takes away from the mural that is suppose to be there… And the everyday things that you would find in a home, shouldn’t be “everyday” they should speak to you, like a mosaic counter top in the kitchen or toilet paper holder made out of an old chain. These types of things are special… and they make you think or smile… this is what I enjoy about my life. This is what I’d like to share.
Cindy@CindyChinn.com
www.CindyChinn.com
The Center of Creativity – Founder
Artist
210 Hebron Street
P.O. Box 337
Chester, Nebraska
68327
402-324-5250
Art Whitton –I’ve been wandering on and off the path of Photography for most of my life. I can’t ever remember not having a camera. Now that I’m fully immersed in the digital world, I’m shooting more, and enjoying it more. For the most part I shoot in more genres, including landscapes, portraits and still life.
Sometimes I don’t know whether I travel to take photos, or travel for the sake of traveling, but I love exploring new places (with or without a viewfinder in front of me). Still the photos make the memories, and I try to capture what I’m feeling at the time.
I have an ongoing project called “The Digital Process” which is a website dedicated to teaching photography from the ground up. After spending 15 years developing myCADsite.com (which taught AutoCAD) before selling it, I am looking to create a site which will answer most budding photographer’s questions.
www.TheDigitalProcess.com
Photographer / The Center of Creativity Co-Founder
210 Hebron Street
P.O. Box 337
Chester, Nebraska
68327
402-324-5250