The Creative Learning Initiative (CLI) is a city-wide collaboration between MINDPOP, the City of Austin, Austin Independent School District (AISD), and more than 100 art and cultural organizations dedicated to equitable access to creative learning and the arts for every student in Austin. The CLI model is grounded in research showing that arts programs in and out of school have a powerful impact on students' cognition and youth's development (Ruppert, 2006). At the campus level, the three pillars of the program are to (a) increase students' access to sequential fine arts instruction, (b) increase community arts programming during and out of the school day, and (c) foster classroom learning with Creative Teaching across the curriculum. This paper describes the work done to advance CLI goals across the three pillars of the program despite the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was a consequence of the strong foundation CLI maintained over the 10 years prior.