Creativity Chronicles is an independent arts, writing, and creative-resource platform founded by artist, writer, and art educator Jessica Carey in May 2022.
It is built around a simple belief: creativity belongs to everyone.
Creativity should not be reserved for people with abundant money, professional training, conventional abilities, expensive materials, or access to traditional artistic spaces. It can be a source of expression, discovery, connection, healing, play, and belonging—and people deserve opportunities to experience it without first having to prove that they are “good enough.”
What You’ll Find Here
Creativity Chronicles explores art, creativity, accessibility, community, human connection, personal growth, creative reuse, and the overlooked possibilities within people and everyday materials.
Here you may find:
- Artist stories and Creative Spotlights
- Experiments with familiar and unconventional art materials
- Accessible and affordable creative ideas
- St. Louis art resources, organizations, opportunities, and hidden gems
- Reflections on creativity, relationships, belonging, and being human
- Practical guides intended to make unfamiliar information feel more approachable
- Honest accounts of exploration, uncertainty, discovery, and learning
The subjects may vary, but they grow from the same underlying questions:
What helps people flourish?
What possibilities have we overlooked?
What could this become?
About Jessica
Jessica Carey is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, art educator, and creative community-builder whose work explores creativity, human connection, belonging, accessibility, and the conditions that allow people to become more fully themselves.
She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in art education. Her artistic practice crosses drawing, painting, ceramics, jewelry, mixed media, fiber arts, digital work, creative reuse, and experimental materials. Rather than committing herself to a single medium, Jessica follows curiosity—learning what a material can do, what else it might become, and what can emerge through experimentation rather than perfection.
Her background in art education shaped a philosophy that continues to guide her work: people learn and create most meaningfully when they are given room to make choices, follow questions, take risks, and develop their own artistic voices.
Jessica is currently participating in Artist INC, a professional-development program for artists. Through that experience, she is developing the language, relationships, structures, and professional materials needed to support a more sustainable creative life.
Current Projects
Creativity Chronicles
Creativity Chronicles is where Jessica brings together art, writing, reflection, education, artist stories, community resources, and practical discoveries. It is both a record of her curiosity and an invitation for other people to reconnect with their own.
The Materials Lab
The Materials Lab is an ongoing exploration of artistic materials, creative reuse, and unconventional processes.
Jessica experiments with donated, discarded, surplus, and overlooked materials—including offcuts, samples, scraps, and objects that might otherwise enter the waste stream—to discover how they can be used creatively. She has been developing relationships with local businesses and organizations willing to redirect suitable materials toward artistic experimentation.
The project asks a deceptively simple question:
What else can it do?
Through these experiments, Jessica documents what she learns and shares possibilities that other artists, educators, families, and curious beginners may be able to use.
Everyone Creates
Jessica is also developing an inclusive community-arts initiative tentatively called the Everyone Creates Project.
The long-term vision is to reduce financial, social, and accessibility barriers to creativity while building a welcoming community where people can experiment, learn, connect, access resources, and create without shame or intimidation.
The project is still growing, but its foundation is clear: creativity is a human capacity, not an exclusive club.
How Creativity Chronicles Has Grown
Creativity Chronicles began as a place for sharing creative discoveries, products, supplies, ideas, and resources. Product research, recommendations, online publishing, and affiliate-supported content were part of its early development.
Over time, the project expanded.
It became a home for original artwork, reflective writing, artist interviews, community-resource guides, creative experiments, accessibility advocacy, and the early foundations of larger projects such as the Materials Lab and Everyone Creates.
That evolution does not erase where Creativity Chronicles began. It reflects what naturally happened as Jessica continued asking questions, meeting people, experimenting, listening, and discovering where her work was most needed.
Trust, Transparency, and Recommendations
Creativity Chronicles aims to approach recommendations with care, curiosity, and honesty. Whenever possible, Jessica draws from direct experience, research, conversations with artists and organizations, and close examination of the resources being discussed.
Some pages may contain affiliate links. If a reader makes a purchase through one of these links, Creativity Chronicles may receive a small commission at no additional cost to the reader. Affiliate relationships do not determine whether something receives a positive recommendation, and relevant relationships will be disclosed.
Not every resource will be right for every person. The goal is not to tell readers what they must buy, use, or believe, but to provide thoughtful information that helps them make their own decisions.
The Invitation
Creativity Chronicles is for accomplished artists, uncertain beginners, lifelong makers, curious experimenters, people returning to creativity after years away, and anyone who has ever wondered whether art truly belongs to them.
It does.
You are allowed to explore.
You are allowed to be imperfect.
You are allowed to follow your curiosity.
You are allowed to make something simply because making it helps you feel more alive.
Creativity belongs to you, too.
Backstory
Jessica has been creating ever since she was little, loving art and writing. She continued her exploration throughout her schooling experience; art classes were always her top pick for elective classes. Jessica took creative writing and AP Studio Art in high school before continuing her education, earning a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts and Master degree in Art Education.
She's worked with all levels of school children at a wide variety of schools, starting with preschool and going up to high school. She's led art clubs and taught after school lessons. Jessica is incredibly passionate about art, creativity, and free expression. She hopes to one day open a creative space for anyone and everyone to come create in.
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