Arts Service Organizations, Community Educators, and Others Invited to Contribute
New Rochelle, NY: Lifetime Arts is proud to launch The Creative Aging Resource website (http://www.creativeagingresource.org), the first dedicated place on the web to offer artists, community educators, program administrators, senior service professionals, and funders a browsable directory of hundreds of hand-curated pieces of research, media, case studies, experts and organizations related to the field.
Taught by professional teaching artists, creative aging programs inspire older adults from all walks of life to tap into their inner artists through instructional workshops in all art forms and in socially-supportive environments. Often, the programming is subsidized, and therefore, widely accessible to people in a variety of community spaces — and now online. Forward-thinking, innovative funders and agencies have realized that creative aging is a positive way to enhance well-being for older adults across the U.S. and abroad.
The Creative Aging Resource website aims to provide a hub for the field by:
- Aggregating resources about creative aging, positive aging, and community engagement
- Highlighting the cross-sector partnerships that make creative aging programs happen
- Inviting organizations serving older adults (arts service organizations, museums, libraries, arts organizations, senior service organizations, etc.) to share information about their own creative aging work, and learn about that of their peers
In addition to browsing the collection and filtering by subject, resource type, and year, site visitors will be able to search it by keyword, as well as access original resources such as case studies, audio, and video content. The Creative Aging Resource project has been made possible through generous support from Aroha Philanthropies, The New York State Council on the Arts, and The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
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About Lifetime Arts
Lifetime Arts is a nationally recognized nonprofit transforming the way our society understands and experiences aging through the arts. Since 2008, we have been at the forefront of the creative aging movement—an evidence-based practice that combines arts participation with social engagement to foster healthy aging. Our team has trained over 11,000 professionals and supported the launch of more than 1,000 programs across 44 states. Together with a network of more than 6,000 partners, we are working to combat isolation, challenge ageism, and celebrate lifelong creativity. By bridging vision and action, we embed creative aging practices into public health, cultural policy, and aging services—ensuring that creativity is recognized as essential to well-being at every stage of life.
