Celebrating National Creativity Day with Great Ways to Support Local Artists and Makers

May 29, 2022

Today is National Creativity Day, and we’re here to celebrate with a list of things that can help promote creative thinking, innovation, and imagination! Being creative can help us build a better tomorrow by opening doors to new ideas for feats of engineering, environmental conservation efforts, new inventions, and so much more. It doesn’t matter what your creative pursuit is, whether it’s music or photography or filmmaking or cooking or even blogging, there’s something for everyone. The possibilities are endless!

Every year new shining stars rise to the top of the ranks in innovation and invention. By supporting The Arts in your local schools and communities you’re helping insure that younger generations will have the opportunity to further their education, and become an integral part of shaping the future. Who knows? The teen you inspire to vlog about their efforts for community park cleanup may lead the charge for cleaning the ocean, or the kid you’ve shown how to paint may create a magnificent urban renewal mural to revitalize downtown.

Let’s look at some great ways to engage creatively and expand our horizons!

What are some ways you like to engage in creativity? Do you know any great local hot spots for creative activities? How can creativity improve the automotive industry? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments section on our social media!

You can use your creativity to make a difference in your community right here on Long Island! Want to learn more about how to do that? Check out the rest of our blog post today for new ideas on how to get involved.

Great Ways to Make a Creative Difference:

Volunteer at your local library to run creative workshops for youth over the summer! If you’ve got a skill in the arts, one of the ways that you can give back to others is sharing your creativity in the form of teaching. You can work with local schools or arts organizations and volunteer to teach beginner music lessons, art or mural workshops, and even a short class on taking selfie portraits or videos for young vloggers. There are also lots of organization that work with at-risk youth to help them find creative ways of self expression, and getting involved in community work through public art installations
If you’re a maker and artist, you can create a local treasure hunt to find your artwork. Take a few of your prints, pieces of art, or whatever goods you make and place them into little waterproof baggies or acetate gift bags. Put your business card inside with a little note of positivity to whomever is the lucky finder. Head over to a local park to drop your packages near playgrounds, public benches, local gardens, or even attach them to trees to bring some unexpected smiles. Post and share it to your social media with photographs or a brief description of the location, and ask your followers to go and find them!
Find a local makerspace and take a class in something you’ve never tried before! Trying hands-on workshops can introduce you to new passions and get your mind going to think creatively. Plus, it’s a great morale booster for mental health to spend time making things from nothing into something!
Did you know your local farmers market or downtown arts festival is a great way to support the local economy? Talk to the artists and get to know them a little more, and you may start to see more friendly faces at events around town! Feel free to ask about their process, purchase some goods from their stall, and post about the experience online!Shopping small helps individual sellers continue to do what they love, and makes you a patron of the arts so they can help beautify our lives and hometowns. The more you shop art market events, the more encouragement towns and businesses will have to book more frequent public events!