Tag: Creative Aging

Exploring New Horizons at Area 59: A Wyomingite’s Journey with Creative Aging through Woodworking

Hello! I'm Dixie, and I’d love to share my experience in the Creative Aging Woodworking class for adults 55+ at Gillette College’s Area 59, a fantastic maker-space in my home state of Wyoming.

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Interview with Emily Christensen: Creative Aging, Music Therapy, and Building Social Connections

In this interview, Emily Christensen, a musician, gerontologist, and creative aging advocate, shares her journey and insights into working with older adults through music therapy and creative aging.

By Liza Cucco This month, I spoke to Emily Christensen, a musician, gerontologist, and creative aging advocate, on her journey and insights into working with older adults through music therapy and creative aging. Q: How has your journey through music, therapy, and gerontology shaped your work with older adults? EC: I started out with a …

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Teaching Creative Aging Classes Online: 1. Troubleshoot, 2. Don’t Sweat the Details

Teaching Artist, John LeoNimm leads his students through warm-ups during an online class.

“We're all doing this really new and hard thing by trying to translate in person experiences to the virtual platform,” he says, “Don't stress yourself out trying to make it perfect.  Be upfront with folks about the experiment of it and leave space for them to give feedback.”

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Where Do I Belong: Finding the Right Place to Retire and Create

State map by Andrejs Kirma from Noun Project. A red heart is placed on the map.

I’ve never lived more than thirteen miles away from Yankee Stadium.  As I enter my “third act” I’m feeling psychologically ready to retire, which impels me to ask the question, “Where do I want to live?”  I’ve spent parts of the last 16 summers in the Berkshires. The Berkshires is a highland region mostly located …

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U.S. Museums Receptive to Creative Aging Programming

photo of Aroha Senior Fellow and Creative Aging panelists at AAM annual conference

On Monday, May 20, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) held a panel titled, “Artful Aging: What Museums and Arts are Learning from Each Other about Creative Aging” during their annual conference in New Orleans. Ed Friedman, Executive Director at Lifetime Arts moderated the panel which also featured Annie Montgomery, Director of Education at Lifetime …

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Teaching Artistry & Adults 55+: Individual Perspectives on Creative Aging

Teaching Artists: Make Your Voices Heard! This survey is one of eight projects currently underway as part of the National Guild for Community Arts Education-‘s Teaching Artist Development Track, and one of three National Surveys on Creative Aging that we are publishing this year. In November our CEO and Co-Founder, Maura O’Malley sat down with …

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Lifetime Arts and Partners Offer Creative Aging Training for Artists

November 4, 2012 – Friday, November 9, 2012 The Creative Center at University Settlement Presentations and workshops by national and local leaders in the field, including Lifetime Arts’ founder and CEO, Maura O’Malley, – combined with site visits to museums, galleries and “best practice” programs, will enable accepted trainees to raise the bar on arts engagement …

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Beyond Bingo: Aging Creatively in Public Libraries

Creative Aging Professional Development for Librarians As part of Lifetime Arts IMLS National Leadership Grant, a two part professional development workshop engaged 40 librarians from the NY Metro Region in four sessions.  Led by national experts, librarians learned about creative aging best practices, the nuts and bolts of program implementation and sustainability and what kinds of …

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Lifetime Arts In The Press

This year Lifetime Arts has been featured in several publications relating to the field of Creative Aging including Preserving Your Memory Magazine,  Library As Incubator – an online magazine exploring the links between artists and libraries and Stories for Change – a publication of Partners for Livable Communities and MetLife Foundation that examines exemplary organizations …

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Lifetime Arts, Inc. Receives $125,000 Grant from MetLife Foundation to Pilot Creative Aging Programs in Boston, Dallas and Miami Public Libraries

MetLife Foundation has awarded Lifetime Arts, Inc. a $125,000 grant to expand their groundbreaking work in creative aging through partnerships with Boston Public Library, Dallas Public Library and Miami-Dade Public Library.  The MetLife Foundation Creative Aging Libraries Project is designed to increase the capacity of public libraries to serve older adults, provide models of high …

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