In keeping with Creative Generation’s values, we want to celebrate and uplift the artistic/personal lives of our collective members. Several of them have received good news lately, so we want to share that work with our community.
Camea Davis
Director of Knowledge Camea Davis had an incredible month. She facilitated the selection of the 2023 National Youth Poet Laureate in her role as director of the program.
"When they need a young poet, she will be one of the first selected to speak in both literary and civic contexts," Camea Davis, national director of the National Youth Poet Laureate program, said.
On April 22, 2023, Camea shared her debut written poetry collection at the Atlanta Theater to a sold out audience. The collection and public performances instigate community conversations about universal themes around pregnancy, the womb as a human life source, and how to love one another in public. The Atlanta performance was the third in a series of performances and writing workshops accompanying Dear Womb: a love letter. Get a copy of the book here.
André Solomon
André recently won the National Flute Association’s Adult Amateur Competition with his two recorded pieces: Alfredo Casella’s Barcarola et Scherzo Op. 4 and Allison Loggins-Hull’s Homeland. As one of the winners, he will be part of the National Flute Association’s virtual series this Fall for which he perform a prerecorded piece and be interviewed live.
The National Flute Association was founded in 1972 as a common ground for flutists to exchange ideas and inspiration and has expanded in the decades since to include a quarterly magazine, an annual convention, and a dynamic assortment of scholarship programs, commissions, and member-driven initiatives.
Ali Pavlich
Ali recently performed in RACE Dance Company's performance of Resurgence. Resurgence is a thought-provoking, multi-genre dance performance featuring fourteen local artists that uses movement to bring to life coping mechanisms and thoughts patterns to help audiences navigate the challenges of mental health. Inspired by the Netflix documentary, Stutz, Resurgence sheds light on tools developed by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels that help individuals find the willpower to live their lives in forward motion. Our performance has created a variety of works that represent these tools, as well as acknowledge the dark places that mental health can put us in and though we may suffer in some way, there are ways we can heal together.
Maddie Pivonka
Maddie will be receiving her Bachelor of Science in Dance and Arts Management from Oklahoma City University, where Jeff Poulin and Ali Pavlich also received their Alma maters. After graduation, Maddie will be pursuing a professional dance career with her first contract beginning in September as a performer with Norwegian Cruise Lines!
Bridget Woodbury
Bridget Woodbury recently kicked off Galaxy Brain Design’s 20+ event market season with two events centered around the oddity & curiosity community and a 2023 Pride Drop. GBD’s newest collection centers progressive messaging with products like “PROTECT QUEER KIDS,” “ANTIFASCIST,” and “ABORTION IS HEALTHCARE” iPhone bumper stickers; neon sign prints with sayings like “Drag show save queer lives”; and a variety of “SAY GAY” products.
Galaxy Brain Design is a queer-, woman-owned small business selling art, gifts, + home goods for folks that love little-known cryptids, unusual plants, + big feelings! We primarily make art about queerness, mental health, and — idk — what it means to be a good person in a broken society? which you’ll find on high quality art prints, stickers, pins, puzzles, + whatever else strikes our fancy! We also sell handmade embroideries by Hot Floss Embroidery, a nonbinary textile artist, which often feature real animal bones and other oddities.
Galaxy Brain Design | for folks that <3 cryptids, oddities, + feelings
Katie Rainey
Director of Communications Katie Rainey recently was accepted into the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Katie is thrilled to enter into law school this fall and to attend a school dedicated to public service and scholarship.
Located in Arkansas’s capital city, the hub of Arkansas business, government and non-profit enterprises, Bowen was established by the Arkansas General Assembly in 1975. Since then, the law school has become a leader in practice-ready and skills-focused learning. The law school offers an innovative, nationally-respected, high-quality legal education focused on hands-on learning.
Valerie HD Killebrew
In 2003, Valerie HD Killebrew co-founded a dance company for high school youth to provide them an opportunity to create, teach and perform their original dances to their peers. The Dance Theatre Ensemble is now an accredited course at the Amherst Regional High School and led by a former company member. This year the program is honoring its 20 year anniversary with a community celebration and special performance on June 1 featuring current youth dancers and program alumni from over the decades. Valerie is humbled to witness the legacy of this program over the years and the platform it has given to hundreds of young dancers who are now spread around the globe.