Community Engagement Lab

At A Glance

Location: 

Montpelier, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

  • Climate Change & Energy
  • Food
  • Environmental Health
  • Land & Water
  • Living Economies

Active since:

2011

Our Purpose

We bring people of all ages together in projects that activate their creativity to imagine and build more just and thriving communities. We believe: 
  • Acknowledging and challenging our inequities and working in partnership is how we will make change happen.
  • Everyone deserves equitable access to a full, vibrant creative life, which is essential to a healthy and democratic society.  
  • The transformative power of creativity, innate in all people, can be guided into activities that create lasting change.
  • Art and culture can build empathy, create a sense of belonging, and activate the social imagination and civic agency needed to make real change.
  • Teaching artists can help people come to know each other, to build trust and respect, to foster creative problem solving, and to change our collective story.