Resources
Lifetime Arts Resource: Envisioning Your Creative Aging Program Worksheet for Teaching Artists
As you begin to think about what kind of creative aging program you will teach, use the following worksheet as a starting point. If you have already taught arts programming in your community, then many …
Mastering the Art of Teaching Adults
This video, created by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy, dives into the importance of the teaching artist, and how they foster a supportive and inclusive learning environment in delivering sequential and instructional creative aging programs. The following …
Remote Post-Program Participant Survey
This survey is to be completed by participants of remote creative aging programs. These responses are important to analyze and use to improve future programs. This survey is property of Touchstone Center for Collaborative Inquiry developed …
Culminating Event Audience Survey
This survey is to be completed by attendees of creative aging culminating events. These responses are important to analyze and use to improve future programs. Participants of creative aging programs should not complete this. This …
“Peace 4 the Ages” Forges Intergenerational Bonds During COVID-19
In the beginning of 2020, Michael Matthew Ferrell, founder of Alive & Kickin, a touring vocal ensemble of older adults “who rock,” collaborated with Sandy Boren-Barett, the CEO and Artistic Director of Stages Theatre Company, …
Lifetime Arts Resource: Creative Aging Program Participant Attendance Template
This template is designed to assist teaching artists and program coordinators in tracking participant attendance over the course of an 8-week creative aging program.
Six Months of Piano Training in Healthy Elderly Stabilizes White Matter Microstructure in the Fornix, Compared to an Active Control Group
From the abstract: “While aging is characterized by neurodegeneration, musical training is associated with experience-driven brain plasticity and protection against age-related cognitive decline. However, evidence for the positive effects of musical training mostly comes from …
Lifetime Arts Resource: Remote Creative Aging Program Planning Template for Synchronous & Asynchronous Work
This resource is designed to assist teaching artists in planning synchronous meetings as well as asynchronous activities between their remote creative aging sessions to supplement the learning and/or offer potential for social engagement.
School One: Art Making For All Generations
In this video, Jennifer Borman, Head of School One, discusses an intergenerational creative aging program that was offered at School One, and how this program benefited the older adult participants and younger students through storytelling. …
Lifetime Arts Resource: Considerations for Feedback in Creative Aging Sessions
Talking about artwork and giving and receiving feedback is part of an artist’s process. What separates artmaking from passive entertainment activities is the opportunity for the participant to grow as an artist — this must …