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Beyond Walls murals at Armour Yard at golden hour, with a Holyoke mill smokestack behind

Holyoke · Canal District

An urban arts landscape.

Creators Campus sits in one of the most beautiful urban landscapes in New England — and most people are surprised the first time they see it.

The campus sits in the heart of Holyoke's historic Canal District — a planned industrial city that came to life in the mid-1800s.

Creators Campus is on Race Street, along the canal walk, where footbridges crisscross the canals that once spun massive turbines to power the entire city. The water that built Holyoke still runs right past the front door.

The campus also sits on the edge of Little San Juan, Holyoke's newly designated Puerto Rican cultural district — a vibrant neighborhood filled with colorful murals. It's the kind of place most Western Mass families have never had a reason to visit. That's exactly the point. Come discover it.

The canal running through Holyoke's Canal District
A colorful mural in Holyoke's Canal District

The neighborhood

A whole creative ecosystem, within a block.

Your teen isn't in an isolated building. The campus is surrounded by galleries, a culinary school, gathering and coworking spaces, and art studios, artisans, and makers of every kind.

Right next door

Down the block

Across the canal

At the center of it

Our campus, on Race Street.

You arrive through a courtyard between three historic mill buildings. Inside: a commercial kitchen and dining hall, an 8,000-square-foot maker basement, studios for photo and creative arts, a third-floor common room over the canal, and two venues — the De la Luz Soundstage and the Divine Theater.

The campus courtyard with colorful seating
The courtyard — the arrival
Students playing four square in the courtyard
Four square in the courtyard
The Dining Hall at LightHouse
The Dining Hall
The photo and creative-arts studio
Photo & creative-arts studio
The view over the canal from the third floor
Third-floor canal view
The third-floor common room
The common room
Lavender by the mill windows with the cityscape beyond
Lavender at the mill windows

Creators Campus is a LightWorks Collective program, on the same campus that has been home to a decade of project-based learning at LightHouse Holyoke. The place is part of the education.

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