Browse “Creative Aging”
Art for Life’s Sake: The Case for Arts Education
via American Academy of Arts & Sciences | Articles and Blog Posts
This report highlights the importance of arts education for personal and societal development, while addressing disparities in access, particularly in underserved communities.
Art Therapy and Creative Aging: Reclaiming Elderhood, Health and Wellbeing
Books and Chapters
Art Therapy and Creative Aging offers an integrated perspective on engaging with older people through the arts. Drawing from the author’s clinical, research and teaching experiences, the book explores how arts engagement can intertwine with …
Beyond Older Age: Approaches to Understand the Diverse Lives of Older People
via The University of Manchester Library | Books and Chapters
‘Beyond Older Age: Approaches to Understand the Diverse Lives of Older People’ is a booklet for anyone wanting to engage older people in a more inclusive, creative, and participatory way. It aims to equip policy …
Black Students Deserve Equitable Access to Arts Education
Articles and Blog Posts
Declines in arts education disproportionately impact Black and Brown students, who have seen 49% and 40% reductions, respectively, since the 80s, while white students have faced essentially no reduction.
Centering Anti-Ableism in Creative Aging Programs
via GuildNotes | Articles and Blog Posts
Discussion of how creative aging programs in community arts education have the opportunity to work at the intersection of anti-ageism and anti-ableism.
Creative Aging: Drawing on the Arts to Enhance Healthy Aging
Books and Chapters
From the abstract: The term “creative aging,” in the broadest sense, describes an aging policy idea that focuses on highlighting the creativity of older adults in order to prepare individuals and communities to manage old …
Norman Rockwell + The Problem We All Live With
Articles and Blog Posts
Learn why a controversial painting became a symbol of the American civil rights movement.
Pedagogies of Care and Justice: African American High School Art Teachers During the Civil Rights Era in the Segregated South
via Studies in Art Education | Articles and Blog Posts
This study examines the art pedagogies at Southern African American high schools during the civil rights era (1955–1969). I examine three segregated high schools located in South Carolina as a lens to highlight art pedagogies …
Survey Highlights: Leveraging State Investments in Creative Aging
via NASAA Notes | Reports
Supported through a partnership with Aroha Philanthropies, the “National Assembly of State Arts Agencies conducted a national survey that inventoried state arts agencies’ creative aging efforts.” “Survey Highlights: Leveraging State Investments in Creative Aging summarizes …
The Creative Connections Project- Fully-Funded Arts Programs for Older Adults and Their Caregivers
Press Releases
Arts for the Aging is seeking long term care communities of older adults located in Montgomery County, Maryland to receive four therapeutic arts programs at no cost to selected communities. Montgomery County Department of Health …