Annie Montgomery What is your primary artistic medium? Theatre. How did you get started as a teaching artist? When my first child was a baby, I was a professional actor but most of my jobs were out of town and paid very little. I couldn’t travel like that anymore with a baby and I definitely …
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10 Arts Org Receive Grants Via Catalyzing Creative Aging Program
The National Guild for Community Arts Education is pleased to announce that 10 nonprofit arts education organizations from 9 states have been selected to receive seed grants of $7,000 each to support the launch of new, innovative arts education programming for older adults in their communities. Research shows that participation in activities that foster creative …
Creative Aging in Wyoming Public Libraries Initiative Adds Seed Grant Program
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 …
Creative Aging Program Roundup
This year more than 900 people aged 55+ from New Mexico to New Hampshire attended 65 Creative Aging programs in public libraries, arts organizations, and community spaces where they mastered new art-making skills such as digital photography, acting, creative writing, singing, and dancing. How do these programs work? These arts workshops were offered through several …
“Tell me about a time when you were resilient.”
For the past three years, teaching artist, Dane Stauffer, has been teaching his storytelling programs to the same group of students at the Park Square Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Dane was in the middle of teaching his program when COVID-19 forced the theater to close. With Park Square Theater’s blessing, Dane shifted his program to an online format and reclaimed it as, “Storytellers Online: Bringing Our Stories to the World.”
Creative Aging in Southern Wisconsin Libraries
“I want to get started immediately!” This week Lifetime Arts traveled to southern Wisconsin to deliver two full-day professional development workshops on Creative Aging programming for public librarians working in suburban and rural libraries there. We began the week on Tuesday in Brookfield where we worked with 26 librarians from the greater Milwaukee area. The …
Ed Talks About Arts on Prescription
I Get By With a Little Help from My… Most all of my contemporaries are on some kind of medication regimen. Whether it’s for high blood pressure, cholesterol, bladder issues, hormone replacement, blood sugar — it seems like we’re all on something (and not in a fun way like the 70s). A history of less …
Creative Aging Partnership in Wyoming Receives Funding
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 …
Greenwich House Brings Classes Online, Launches Virtual Art Show
“I think Zoom is a good platform because our members have the option to call in [by phone] — even from a landline,” said Laura Marceca, Director of Greenwich House Senior Center on the Square. Laura has been thrilled to see that classes are very well attended and are attracting new students.
Teaching Artist of the Month: Mansa Mussa
Mansa Mussa What is your primary artistic medium? My primary artistic medium is visual art. My process encompasses drawing, photography, collage, mask making, mixed media, three dimensional art, and iPadology (abstract photography using the iPad). How did you get started as a teaching artist? I started working as a Teaching Assistant in the Open Writing …
A Balanced Life: Creative Aging and the Serious Leisure Perspective
A while back in this column, I took the position that art-making wasn’t just about “fun,”...science has confirmed my musings.
“A Storied Life”: A New Generation of Digital Storytellers Emerges
In January, at the culminating event for, “A Storied Life,” a 12-week digital storytelling workshop offered by the Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) in partnership with The Knolls, a Bethel Community, eight filmmakers — all aged 55+ — wowed a packed screening room with digital film shorts depicting personal stories of love, loss, and discovery. …
20 Selected for Catalyzing Creative Aging Program
Arts education programs enhance the well-being of older adults New York, NY—Twenty nonprofit arts education organizations from 14 states have been selected to participate in the National Guild for Community Arts Education’s Catalyzing Creative Aging Program. This multi-phase initiative, provided in partnership with Lifetime Arts, is designed to support the establishment of new, professionally led …
Landmark $1.5M Grant Will Catalyze National Creative Aging Movement
New Rochelle, NY– Lifetime Arts and Aroha Philanthropies announced today the launch of a new, three-year 1.5 Million National Impact Initiative, funded by Aroha and led by Lifetime Arts. As the benefits of arts engagement for older adults gain recognition, more and more community organizations, policymakers and funders are turning to Lifetime Arts to provide …
National Efforts Prove Arts Ed Vital to Lifelong Learning
Public funding for the arts at the state and national levels has always supported arts education. Historically, that has meant funding programs serving the k-12 population. Shortly after we launched Lifetime Arts more a decade ago, two state arts agencies, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, expanded …
Final Critiques and Closure via Google Hangouts in San Juan
The Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, part of the Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums Cohort, were at the end of their self-portrait program when COVID-19 impacted in-person programming. With two classes left unfinished, the museum's staff and teaching artist joined forces to design and implement an online session which gave students the opportunity to socially engage with one another, share their culminating work, and end the program as a community.