A Coloring Book Comes to Life! Inside the Creativity Bar That Sparks Big Ideas

Just outside Nashville, some working adults say the daily grind can drain your energy and your ideas. They're finding a refreshing reset at the Creativity Bar, where community and a little play help people feel better, think clearer, and leave inspired. Reporter Tracy Cornett takes us inside for a tour. Welcome to the Creativity Bar, Tracy. Stephanie Pruitt-Gaines hopes to help shape the future of those drawn to her door off Donelson Pike. I've always loved coloring books and it feels like walking through a coloring book. And also in my dreams, I often dream in black and white. The Creativity Bar is part playroom. Something happens when you have a princess rainbow ribbon. Part art studio. Our members can come drop in anytime and make stuff. Part office. To come up with the next great idea, you've got to have some playfulness and creativity. Every inch of it outlined in black. All of these little lines really intentionally play with your eyes and your mind wants to fill them in. And so part of what I hope this space does is people walk in and feel a sense of possibility. The effect is otherworldly. We're not walking up a ramp. This is flat. No, we're not. It's not. This is. So wild designed to unleash the imagination and help ideas flow. . . . . . . It's raining on me. Members pay a monthly fee or day rate. . . . . My work is all about creating something out of nothing. And so . . . . this place is just so inspiring. The energy that's here. . . . Founding members Don Cornelius . . and Lee Patton have attended several workshops here. . . . I just feel better. . . And I am better when I come here. I leave inspired. Community and creativity, it doesn't have to be difficult. You can actually just walk in the door and your brain starts working. That place looks so fun. You know those coloring books that they have for adults that you can color in and it helps you meditate and think? A place you can go to. I'd work there if I could. I like that concept. Like you said, your mind begins to fill in the blanks for you. You start to see color where there's not. Yeah, and I've always thought I'm not that creative. So I wonder what they would do if somebody like me that doesn't think I'm that creative, just do I walk in and sit there and go, help me out here? You're probably more creative than what you know. Probably so. I think you are. I think you're creative with your jewelry and your accessories and how you do things. So I think you have a creative streak. I think we all do. We get away from our creative side because we've got to spend our time being realistic. Got to be more realistic. By golly, we got to make a living and do all those things. So we lose touch with that. But she brought hers right back out and then made a business out of it. It has a way for people to come in there and. Feel that, their memberships and all that. Absolutely. So you can make a business literally out of anything. And so she put her talent, creativity to use. And this gives you the opportunity to unplug and stimulate yourself in a different way. It's so true. And I want somebody that's really creative, that builds a business out of being creative. Where do they go to stimulate themselves? That's a great spot. Right, right. It's an amazing spot. I like this too, that all the generations are working together to introduce new things. Thanks, and I hope that... Older people in the community might take a look at it because it's really different and really fun. And let's face it, we're all getting older and we might as well talk about it. Until next time on Aging Untold.