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JPMorgan Chase Center for Creativity
Cultivating Creative & Civic Capacities (C4)
JPMorgan Chase Center for Creativity
The JPMorgan Chase Center for Creativity at CMA serves as a hub for exploration, collaboration, and connection. In September 2023, Battelle made a transformative gift of $1.2 million to establish the “Fund for Learning,” a three-year initiative to nurture creativity, critical thinking, and civic-mindedness through the Center for Creativity and other Learning & Engagement initiatives. This year, the Center for Creativity unveiled two new exhibitions:
Thriving communities rely on lifelong learning that sparks imagination and curiosity.
Cultivating Creative & Civic Capacities
Shapes BIG IDEA GALLERY
The Big Idea Gallery highlights art from diverse times and places, centered around accessible, universal themes. In Shapes , visitors encounter everything from found object sculptures to woven textiles, exploring how artists use form to create harmony, investigate their surroundings, and depict real or imagined experiences.
This year, CMA concluded the five-year Cultivating Creative & Civic Capacities (C4) initiative, developed in collaboration with Project Zero and local educators. C4 provides a research-based framework that promotes the creative and civic agency necessary for our complex world. Funded by Battelle and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, C4 offered free professional development to 195 teachers through half-day sessions. An additional 20 educators participated in a learning community that applied the C4 framework in their classrooms. This initiative highlights the role of art in Cultivating Creative & Civic Capacities, equipping educators and students to engage with complex issues and imagine more just, sustainable futures.
The impact on my students was profound...reaffirming how important being a teacher is. Classrooms are also worlds, and our ideas can shape the bigger world, starting with the real people in front of us. ”
Playful Perspectives LOANN W. CRANE FORUM
Playful Perspectives emphasizes the essential role of play in mental and physical well-being. Play stimulates new ideas, activates neurons, and promotes health. For this installation senior members of CMA’s Experience Team, who guide visitors and protect the art, offer their perspectives on how selected works from our collection evoke different forms of play.
—C4 teacher
Laura Sanders, Girls and Plastic Floating , 2010. Oil on canvas. Museum Puchase, Howald Fund
Impact Report FY24
Impact Report FY24
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