--- title: "Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School Blog: Take Charge | Building Creativity" description: "Building Creativity | The blog from the Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School community. Topics include executive function tips for students, alumni stories, and news from our campus. 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Craft Sutton, historian, researcher, cultural enthusiast, and passionate storyteller, visited our campus to explore the powerful intersection of sneakers, culture, identity, and history. From the moment he said, “Good morning,” it was clear this wouldn’t be a traditional lecture. Craft invited us into conversation immediately, asking, “Are there any sneakerheads in the building?” Hands went up. What followed was a dynamic, student-centered exploration of how something as everyday as a pair of sneakers holds generations of meaning. 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The $5.5M project has transformed a historic 19th-century Waltham barn into a 22,000 square foot, cutting edge center for the arts. [Read More](https://blog.chch.org/chapel-hill-chauncy-hall-celebrates-grand-opening-of-visual-and-performing-arts-center) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.chch.org/chapel-hill-chauncy-hall-celebrates-grand-opening-of-visual-and-performing-arts-center#comments-listing) Topics: [Building Creativity](https://blog.chch.org/tag/building-creativity) ## [Art, Nature, and Education Intersect with CH-CH's 'Campus as Canvas'](https://blog.chch.org/ch-ch-campus-as-canvas) Posted by [Maeve Doolan](https://blog.chch.org/author/maeve-doolan) on 4/17/19, 3:02 PM [![Blog Title (5)-4](https://blog.chch.org/hubfs/Blog%20Title%20(5)-4.png)](https://blog.chch.org/ch-ch-campus-as-canvas) In the spring of 2016, the Visual and Performing Art (VPA) department launched the “Campus as Canvas” program at Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School. The concept behind the program was to find ways to use the School’s campus to help facilitate learning, beautify the campus, and show the diverse culture that CH-CH fosters. The *Campus as Canvas* program is meant to demonstrate the School’s support of the arts through enhancing and expanding the visual art spaces on campus. With three installations complete, CH-CH is excited to begin work on the fourth with the esteemed local metal fabricator and artist, Alaina Mahoney. 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Educational leaders are faced with a central dilemma; how and what do you teach in the context of continuing change, with facts and ideas that become obsolete in the moment, and careers and work areas that have not yet been imagined? And how does a school like CH-CH respond to these challenges? [Read More](https://blog.chch.org/the-power-of-creativity-in-21st-century-learning) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.chch.org/the-power-of-creativity-in-21st-century-learning#comments-listing) Topics: [Multiple Intelligences](https://blog.chch.org/tag/multiple-intelligences), [Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall](https://blog.chch.org/tag/chapel-hill-chauncy-hall), [Student Skill Building](https://blog.chch.org/tag/student-skill-building), [Building Creativity](https://blog.chch.org/tag/building-creativity) ## [Where Do CH-CH Graduates Find Their Creative Inspiration?](https://blog.chch.org/where-do-ch-ch-graduates-find-their-creative-inspiration) Posted by [Steve Holt](https://blog.chch.org/author/steve-holt) on 10/24/18, 2:09 PM [![Blog Title (13)](https://blog.chch.org/hubfs/Blog%20Title%20(13).png)](https://blog.chch.org/where-do-ch-ch-graduates-find-their-creative-inspiration) Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall graduates have had their creative fires stoked in every class – not just the art and music classes – and they’re taking what they learned and applying it to careers, both creative and traditional. We asked five alums to explain how they’re creative, where their inspiration comes from, and the role that CH-CH played in helping them become creatives.    [Read More](https://blog.chch.org/where-do-ch-ch-graduates-find-their-creative-inspiration) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.chch.org/where-do-ch-ch-graduates-find-their-creative-inspiration#comments-listing) Topics: [Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall](https://blog.chch.org/tag/chapel-hill-chauncy-hall), [Alumni Entrepreneurs](https://blog.chch.org/tag/alumni-entrepreneurs), [Building Creativity](https://blog.chch.org/tag/building-creativity) ## [Art-Making in the 21st Century](https://blog.chch.org/art-making-in-the-21st-century) Posted by [Jamie Palmer Keating](https://blog.chch.org/author/jamie-palmer-keating) on 10/11/18, 11:00 AM [![Blog Title (9)](https://blog.chch.org/hubfs/Blog%20Title%20(9).png)](https://blog.chch.org/art-making-in-the-21st-century)   Art-making in the 21st century is challenging, rewarding, and maddening, all at once. 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