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Creativity Portal® inspires creativity, creative play, and personal expression through exploration, innovation, and the arts, and advocates for the growing creativity coaching profession worldwide. Creativity Portal features the voices of today's creativity leaders and has been named one of the 101 Best Web sites for creativity for multiple years by Writer's Digest magazine.

Creativity Portal® is an invigorating online community alive with the voices of creativity coaches, artists, writers, and business professionals sharing their knowledge and expertise, inspiring creative exploration and expression in everyone.

Online since 2000, Creativity Portal receives millions of annual visitors seeking articles, art & craft projects, book reviews, creativity and writing prompts, and resources to nurture their creative lives. Named a Writer's Digest Best Web site and lauded by the English Journal, Creativity Portal is proud host to Art of the Song Creativity Radio essays, book excerpts and articles by Natalie Goldberg, “America's foremost Creativity Coach” Eric Maisel, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching™ model founder Jill Badonsky, and bestselling author and artist SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy). SARK named Creativity Portal an “Excellent Writing Resource” in her book Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper.

A Quick History

Creativity enthusiast Chris Dunmire founded Creativity Portal in 2000. Since its launch, it has operated as an inspirational how-to Web resource for artists, writers, crafters, and creativity enthusiasts at all skill levels. It features creativity and life coaching perspectives, witty humor, free prompts and projects, insightful articles, and hand-selected instructional Web resources on hundreds of topics to encourage the exploration and expression of personal creativity while promoting awareness for unique self-care and spiritual issues facing creative individuals.

Among its growing list of credits, Creativity Portal has made appearances in the English Journal, Imagine magazine, Writer's Digest, Blogger's Buzz, a Web-based learning textbook, and was featured as a Good Housekeeping and Kim Komando Site of the Day. (See Media Spotlight for more info.)

In addition to its content-rich site, Creativity Portal publishes an inspiring bi-weekly free NewZine (newsletter/ezine) delivered to thousands of opt-in subscribers each month. The newsletter promotes the newest events, features, ongoing columns, creative projects, articles, and free resources published on the Creativity Portal.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Who is the driving force behind the Creativity Portal?

A: Chris Dunmire is the founder, creative director, and publisher of the site. The Creativity Portal is privately-owned and nourished by a group of wonderful creativity enthusiasts who value the free exchange of creativity-related information and inspiration online. Ongoing contributions are submitted by a variety of partners, creativity coaches, artists, writers, teachers, and guests, and are credited accordingly.

Q: How can I get my instructional site listed on the Creativity Portal?

A: The Creativity Portal includes a niche directory of Web sites that have "free" educational or instructional content available to visitors. If your site has free projects, articles, tutorials, or how-to's, and is related to arts, crafts, writing, or the topic of creativity, suggest it to us for possible inclusion on our site.

More details on the types of sites we accept and our listing criteria can be found on our site suggestion page.

Q: I submitted my URL but didn't hear back from you.

A: We may not have received your submission, or your site did not meet our listing criteria outlined on our site submission page. Please read the submission page before you submit, as we do not acknowledge all site suggestions and are not interested in linking to every Web site under the sun.

Q: Can I link my site to the Creativity Portal?

A: Yes! If you find our site of value to your readers, you certainly may. Visit our How to Link to the Creativity Portal page for special instructions.

Please note that your linking to us doesn't in any way increase our desire or interest in linking back to you, unless your site meets our specific criteria as mentioned above.

Q: How can I get my article published on the Creativity Portal?

A: If you are an expert on one of the topics we promote on the Creativity Portal and would like to reach our audience with your own projects or articles, please see our Article Submission Guidelines.

Q: Do you agree with everything you publish?

A: We believe there is plenty of room in the world for a variety of perspectives an any given subject when it comes to creativity. That being said, the opinions expressed by contributing writers do not necessarily reflect those of the Creativity Portal publisher.

Q: I found something on the Creativity Portal that I would like to share with others on a discussion board, in a newsletter, on my site, or some other way. How do I obtain permission to do so?

A: Our standard answer to this is:

Content on the Creativity Portal is © copyright Creativity-Portal.com and its contributors. No portion of this Web site may be reproduced or republished without express written permission from the publisher or the credited author of a piece. Pages from this site may be printed for your personal use only.

Please respect the creator's © copyright. If you find something on our site that you want to share with someone else, you may provide a link from your site (with brief commentary and a fair use excerpt/brief comment) ) to the page the content appears on the Creativity Portal.

In no case do we allow you to hot-link to the images on our site, duplicate, or embed our HTML code on your site(s) (including discussion boards and blogs) as "free content" to attract visitors or for any other reason. Anything beyond citing Creativity Portal material in a "fair use" (brief quotation) format will be treated as copyright infringement and will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law.

Please refer to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use page for more details.

Q: May we republish Creativity Portal's Web site content? Can we have permission to use your projects in our online newsletter? We will include a credit link to your site and archive the newsletter in a password-protected area on our site accessible to members only.

Thank you for considering copyright issues and for asking permission. At this time we do not allow reprints of the projects (or articles) commissioned for our Web site onto other sites, however, we do encourage and appreciate a “fair use” excerpt (brief quote) with a link to the original article or project on the Creativity Portal if you wish to share the information with others.

Q: We are a contemporary art studio and would be interested in running some of your articles in our monthly newsletter. The newsletter is not-for-profit and is used as a tool to inform our customers of monthly happenings as well as industry news. It is offered in the studio for free.

Please contact each of the authors of the pieces you're interested in to ask for permission to use their work in this way.

Q: What an incredibly beautiful, inspirational website that I can 'play in' for hours! A question, please... do you always keep the same articles on your website, or should I find a way to 'save' the articles in case they aren't there anymore when it's 'time' for me to create some artwork? Are your projects archived?

Yes, the articles and projects published on the Creativity Portal Web site are archived indefinitely. Once published, we don't intend to remove them, so you can bookmark away and return later.

However, due to the nature of the Web or some other unforeseen circumstance, this could change. In that case, we do allow you to save or print pages from our site for “personal use” and reference only.

I have more questions ...

Please send us your questions, comments, suggestions, and submissions through our contact form. Due to the high volume of mail we receive, we are unable to respond to every message, but appreciate hearing from you. All accepted link suggestions and articles will receive a personal response from the publisher.

Thank you for your interest in the Creativity Portal!