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"I believe that creativity is the major foundation of life," Andrea Parker tells the Portland Press Herald.
So when the multimedia artist and educator recently opened The Creative Playground in Newcastle, Maine, she knew she wanted a place where local creatives could come to work and learn in community.
The two main spaces are a studio and classroom where artists and makers can rent work stations, as well as a practical workspace where people can access the tools and space they need to bring their visions to life.
"There's something about the quiet, and having the space to just create," Parker tells the Press Herald.
"But when you bring that into a space where you are working alongside other people, it helps you get curious, it helps you explore, it helps you start communicating, and seeing how we can help each other, share each other's work, or collaborate and make the community stronger."
Parker, who returned to the area 15 years ago to raise her daughter, says it took five years of looking before she identified the space that The Creative Playground now fills.
She says she wanted a location that was downtown and accessible on foot or by bicycle, and when she saw the 4 Mills Road location, she knew she'd found a spot that checked all her boxes.
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