Our Story
One idea sparked a wave.
New England Coastal Creative started as a single event and became something no one planned — a real community. Today we're a full-service creative agency and platform connecting and elevating the brands, entrepreneurs, and destinations making waves across the modern coastal world. Because a rising tide raises all boats — and that's exactly what we're here to do.
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Events worth
showing up for.
Spring Retreat
BLOOM 🌸
A spring creative women's retreat for those ready to grow. Intimate, intentional, and built to leave you different.
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Fall Retreat
GATHER 🍂
A fall retreat for creative women — skills, connection, and space to breathe. Capped at 30. Fills fast.
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Annual Summit
ELEVATE ✨
The Creative Women's Summit. Panels, keynotes, brand pop-ups, and the most electric room in New England.
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Island Day Trips
Creative Cruises ⚓️
For the woman who craves adventure and good company. NECC Creative Cruises are day trips to New England's most beautiful islands — think coastal air, great conversation, and a little spontaneity. Come for the scenery, stay for the connections.
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Creative Retreats
THREADS 🪡
Put the work down. This one's just for you.
Where creativity and connection are beautifully intertwined. THREADS retreats bring together creatives, entrepreneurs, and dreamers for hands-on experiences that blend creativity, conversation, and community. More than a retreat — it's a reminder that the best ideas come from the threads that connect us.
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Sponsor an event.
Own the room.
NECC events put your brand in front of influential, engaged creative women across New England. Custom partnerships built around your goals.
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We connect women who are already making waves.
NECC was built to celebrate and elevate the brands, entrepreneurs, and creative women shaping the modern coastal world. We are the community where creatives find each other, where brands find their people, and where ideas become something real.
"Connecting creatives, brands, and community — across New England and beyond."
NECC Studio
The agency behind the brand.
We live inside the creative women's world — then we help brands show up authentically in it. Strategy, partnerships, influencer campaigns, content, and AI consulting — giving brands the tools to connect more powerfully with their own communities.
From the Studio
Insights for creative
brands & businesses.
Education
Creative U.
Your coastal classroom.
Live Zoom courses, workshops, and 1:1 consulting for creative women who want to work smarter — with Canva, with AI, and with real strategy.
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Your curated marketplace
of creative must-haves.
For work, travel & play. Shop our signature collections, exclusive collabs, and thoughtful partnerships — plus edited affiliate links from brands we love.
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conNECCtions
A curated app for finding the vetted people, places, and resources the creative community actually trusts. No noise — just the real recommendations from women who know.
Meet the Founder
Kim Thomas.
The woman behind the waves.
I built NECC because it's what I always needed when I was building my own brand. A place to find real connections, meaningful collaborations, and answers to all the things creative founders are quietly searching for. A community that gets it — the hustle, the vision, and everything in between.
Kim is also the editor and publisher of Shorelines Illustrated, a digital coastal living magazine — and has been featured in and collaborated with local and national media including Greenwich Lifestyle, Yankee Magazine, Coastal Living, and more.
Find Us Here
On Creative Confidential we share the real talk — behind the scenes, what we're building, the podcast, shopping guides, and the conversations creative women actually want to have.
On Instagram we show up daily — day-to-day inspiration, event moments, coastal life, and all the things that make the NECC world go round.
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The Magazine
Shorelines
Illustrated
Coastal living, beautifully told. Real estate, travel, style, food, and home across New England and beyond. Where the NECC world comes to life on the page.
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