Creative Youth Collective
The Creative Youth Collective is committed to youth empowerment and activism through the creative process. The projects we produce and release help to build a future that we can all thrive in.
In the Creative Youth Collective, we provide super creative kids with a safe space to talk through ideas, experiment, research, and play. They get our individual attention and guided mentorship, while joining a community of like-minded creative youth. They get opportunities to share their work publicly, earn royalties from book sales (!), and if they choose, we'll help them donate their profits to support causes they care about.
Kathryn Ian is the founder and director of the Creative Youth Collective, the flagship program of The CCC Project
The CCC Project is a highly personalized, radically collaborative arts and humanities education platform for creative youth between the ages of 11 and 18. The three C’s stand for our core values: creativity, curiosity, and community.
With a foundation in mentorship and interdisciplinary arts education, The CCC Project provides the framework to help young artists and writers discover and dive deeper into their interests, develop the skills needed to realize long term idea-driven projects, and most importantly, share their creative work with the communities that matter to them most.
Kathryn Ian is professional visual artist, musician, and an award-winning educator, recognized by the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the San Francisco Legislative Assembly for her commitment to youth empowerment and civic engagement through education. She has facilitated interdisciplinary art, media, and writing workshops as well as youth mentorship and empowerment programs at cultural institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area, NYC, Upstate New York, and Berlin.
Her work has been featured in the Crossroads Film Festival (SFMoMA), and at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICALive!), among other venues in the United States, Europe, and Russia. She holds an MFA in interdisciplinary studio practice from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, an MA in the theory and history of contemporary art from International University Bremen in Bremen, Germany, and a BFA in photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo.