Big changes are afoot at the CREATE Center for the Arts, as the nonprofit organization works to find a new home—and that’s just fine with Debra Mumm, founder and executive director of this unique community resource currently residing in Palm Desert.
“We’re a maker’s space meets community art center, and where tradition meets technology,” Mumm said when asked to describe the hub of communal activity and creativity she’s nurtured and expanded for more than a decade. “So we’re putting all of these things together. It’s a very exciting environment to be in.”
It was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic when Mumm decided to take advantage of an opportunity to lease the impressive 20,000-plus-square-foot building at 73600 Alessandro Drive; at the time, she believed she’d found the “forever home” of the center. The building had previously been the…
