Tag: Wyoming Arts Council

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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New Initiative Catalyzes State-Level Partnerships to Advance Creative Aging in Western States

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Cross-sector, state-level partnerships are key to sustaining and ensuring access to creative aging programming, especially for older adults in rural communities. Research shows that these arts education programs contribute significantly to healthy aging and increased social connection. The Advancing Creative Aging in Westerns States Initiative, launched in 2023, is designed to deepen and sustain collaboration among state agency partners to advance creative aging in the Western region. Currently the Initiative includes partnership teams in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah. These teams include leaders from state arts agencies, state libraries, and state veterans services, and will expand to include aging services and health and human services. 

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2022: The Year in Review

If there's one thing that we can take away from our collaborative work in 2022, it's that responsive, purposeful, and accessible arts education programming is a foundational pillar for lifelong learning. This work can only be achieved when every older adult is seen, valued, creative, proud, and part of a community. We couldn’t have accomplished this work without the abundant support of our staff, trainers, partners, and funders.

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How We Build Capacity of State Arts Agencies + Partners

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In recent years, Lifetime Arts' work has focused largely on state, system, and sector-wide capacity building initiatives. In this post, we provide an overview of our training and executive coaching engagement on this front from July through mid-October.

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Programming Roundup: State Agencies, Urban Library Systems, Museums, & Arts Organizations

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A run-down of creative aging work we have been doing with state agencies, urban library systems, museums, and arts organizations around the U.S.

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Fifteen Wyoming Public Libraries to Receive Financial Support for Creative Aging Projects

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Fifteen Wyoming libraries will soon offer arts-based programming that will enrich the lives of older adults (55+) in their communities through the Creative Aging in Wyoming Public Libraries Project. The project is made possible through a partnership between the Wyoming State Library, Wyoming Arts Council, and Lifetime Arts with funding from the Wyoming Community Foundation and the May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust.

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Creative Aging in Wyoming Public Libraries Initiative Adds Seed Grant Program

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Shannon McDonough Lifetime Arts smcdonough@lifetimearts.org   This innovative collaboration promotes wellness and combats social isolation through anti-ageism training and community-based arts education programming. NEW ROCHELLE, NY: Today, Lifetime Arts announced that in addition to the professional development training for teaching artists and library programmers previously announced as part of the Creative Aging …

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Creative Aging Partnership in Wyoming Receives Funding

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Wyoming Arts Council Receives $20,000 Grant from the Wyoming Community Foundation for Creative Aging Training in Partnership with the Wyoming State Library and Lifetime Arts The Wyoming Arts Council is pleased to announce the receipt of a $20,000 grant from the Wyoming Community Foundation’s McMurry Library Endowment Fund. Through a partnership between the Wyoming Arts …

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