Specialties
Our goal at The Creative Living Room is to create a space where members of the community can explore their depth of creativity, in a warm and welcoming atmosphere through song, dance, theater, art, yoga, martial arts and play. Please visit our website to access a list of all our current classes. We also specialize in themed birthday parties of your choice including art parties, ninja, parties, dance parties, and more.
History
Established in 2008.
The Creative Living Room is a nonprofit community arts education organization that inspires creative curiosity in kids and families. Founded in 2008 by four enterprising women in the arts, TCLR has become a space to try on something new. Our themed classes, camps and parties combine artistic and creative mediums.
The Creative Living Room is a registered 501c3 organization in PA. EIN 47-2319165.
Meet the Manager: Lisa O.
Lisa is a dancer, dance educator, nonprofit administrator and mother. She earned a BFA in Dance Education from The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) and a graduate degree in Nonprofit Management from The John Molson School of Business at Concordia University (Montreal, QC, Canada). Her career began in Philadelphia, teaching dance and creative movement in several schools, and then headed to New York to work with arts organizations throughout the New York City metro area and on a statewide level. She was in program management with the Arts & Business Council Inc and Americans For The Arts. After a three-year stint in Montreal completing a graduate degree and working for a The McConnell Foundation, Lisa returned to the Philadelphia. She was member of the dance faculty at at Darlington Arts Center (Garnet Valley, PA) and in Corporate Relations for People's Light (Malvern, PA). Lisa, her husband Andrew, a graphic designer and photographer, and their two sons live in Media, PA.