Resources
Lifetime Arts Resource: Envisioning Your Creative Aging Program Worksheet
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Teaching artists may use this worksheet to assess their skills and/or prior experience working with older adults and brainstorm how they could design and deliver a creative aging program in an in-person or remote setting.
Lifetime Arts Resource: Social Engagement Tips and Techniques
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This resource provides instructors and programmers with the tips and techniques necessary to incorporate social engagement components into their creative aging programs, and how these components will create an inclusive and supportive environment for older …
Lifetime Arts Resource: Social Engagement Activities
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This resource provides instructors with social engagement activity warm ups, topics, and examples to incorporate into their creative aging programs. These examples can be used and extended to all artistic mediums.
Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process: The Basics
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From the outline: Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process helps to shape constructive dialogues about works-in-progress. Using a series of steps guided by a facilitator, it affords both the maker and a group of responders a …
Lifetime Arts Resource: Sample Teaching Artist Budget for a Dance/Movement Program
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This sample budget provides organizations with a general understanding of teaching artist fees, art supplies/equipment costs, and program expenses for a dance/movement program.
Lifetime Arts Resources: Sample Teaching Artist Budget for a Storytelling Program
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This sample budget provides organizations with a general understanding of teaching artist fees, art supplies/equipment costs, and program expenses for a storytelling program.
Lifetime Arts Resource: Sample Teaching Artist Budget for a Watercolor Program
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This sample budget provides organizations with a general understanding of teaching artist fees, art supplies/equipment costs, and program expenses for a visual arts program.
Lifetime Arts Resource: Sample Teaching Artist Budget for Remote Creative Aging Programs
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This sample budget provides organizations with a general understanding of teaching artist fees for a six-session remote creative aging program (plus a culminating event) with asynchronous elements and office hours with students.
Lifetime Arts Resource: Sample Teaching Artist Budget for In-Person Creative Aging Programs
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Here are two case examples from different parts of the country, which illustrate the range of potential teaching artist fees and program expenses for different art forms. These programs consisted of 8 workshop sessions at …
Lifetime Arts Resource: Planning Meetings with the Teaching Artist
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This worksheet is designed to assist organizations on effectively communicating with their selected teaching artist on planning and implementing creative aging programming in-person or online.