Cassidy Creek

Biography

Cassidy Creek is an artist and art educator based in New Orleans who specializes in sculpture, ceramics and immersive spaces. She has 14+ years experience in art education including college level art courses, adult community education, K-8 Talented Art, museum workshops, after school programs, and experience teaching in both adult and juvenile detention centers. She currently serves as a Talented Art teacher in New Orleans. Creek earned her MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in sculpture from Louisiana State University in 2017. From 2011- 2013 she served as a resident artist and community educator at Red Star Studios in Kansas City.

Her lessons emphasize personal expression and exploration through play-based learning. She stresses student leadership and restorative practices as forms of classroom management and utilizes a student centered approach to teaching. Through these methods she creates an environment that nurtures student self advocacy and confidence.

Creek’s sculptural work is dynamic and experimental marrying the immediacy of material with complex structural systems. During her time in the Master of Fine Arts program at Louisiana State University, she researched and created community based dialogical exhibitions centered on Jungian archetypes as a way to explore social relationships and people’s storied backgrounds.