Create Lab

The CREATE Lab welcomes all students, staff, and faculty to Stroud Hall room 107 where one can think critically and creatively, where people investigate, collaborate, and  innovate in a calming environment that focuses on process not product. In this space, in this place one can…

• Connect ideas, feelings, and people through playful collaborative inquiry
• Realize the curious and creative potentials within and across individuals and disciplines
• Engage body, mind, heart, and hands to communicate powerful, innovative ideas
• Attend to the aesthetic and imaginative qualities of the natural and global environment
• Transform thinking through critical and creative problem posing and problem solving
• Expand possibilities by listening, documenting, and curating our discoveries through multiple literacies and technologies.

Through the interdepartmental collaboration of College of Education professors Dr. Diane Cavanaugh (Special Education), and Dr. Patricia Pinciotti (Early Childhood/Elementary Education Distinguished Professor), and with support from Dr. Jo Bruno and the Office of the Provost, the CREATE Lab was conceptualized and created in 2013 as a Reggio Emilia inspired space for process learning, well-being, and innovation.

Since its inception the CREATE Lab has been a space that has welcomed thousands of individuals, groups, classes, and prospective students. Some of these are listed below…

The CREATE Lab has been run by volunteers from all colleges. Interns from the Psychology Department have dedicated hundreds of hours every semester to ensure that the CREATE Lab is open and available to everyone 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Friday with mindfulness creativity hours from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. to foster well-being and reduce stress through art therapy approaches.

Whether we are weaving, drawing, sculpting, painting, printing, constructing, or collaging, there is room for your ideas to come to fruition in this small studio space in Stroud.

Be part of this ongoing dynamic place for provocative ideas, creative inquiry, and documented discoveries. Volunteers are always welcome. This year our provocation to inspire us is Unearth Joy! Come to calm. Come to collaborate. Come to the CREATE Lab.