Resources
Above Ground: Information on Artists III: Special Focus New York City Aging Artists
Research and Studies | 2008
The purpose of Information on Artists III: Special Focus New York City Aging Artists (IOAIII Aging) is to understand how artists — who often reach artistic maturity and increased artistic satisfaction as they age — …
The Performing Arts Legacy Project
Websites | 2019
Created by the Research Center for Arts and Culture (RCAC) at The Actors Fund (AF), The Performing Arts Legacy Project is an online platform to document and represent the work of older professional artists in …
Rebuilding Pathways: How DEAI and Creative Aging Intersect at the Speed Art Museum
via American Alliance of Museums (AAM) | Articles and Blog Posts | 2020
This blog post features critical insights about how museums are poised to think differently about serving all older adults through the delivery of creative aging programming. Toya Northington, Community Outreach Manager at the Speed Art …
Keeping Generations Connected at New England Conservatory
Articles and Blog Posts | 2020
The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) works with more than 40 senior service organizations around Boston to welcome approximately 75 older adult learners onto their campus each week. When the pandemic initially hit, NEC …
Online Choir Program Retains “Friendships, Solidarity and Community”
Articles and Blog Posts | 2020
Since March 2020, the San Francisco Community Music Center (CMC) has developed several new ways to adapt their Older Adult Choir Program (OACP), which serves nearly 400 older adults in senior centers throughout San Francisco, …
“Tell me about a time when you were resilient.”
Articles and Blog Posts | 2020
For the past three years, Dane Stauffer has been teaching a storytelling program series at the Park Square Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Dane was in the middle of teaching the last segment when COVID-19 forced …
Stagebridge Explores an Infinite Digital Landscape
Articles and Blog Posts | 2020
Stagebridge is the nation’s oldest and most renowned theatre company for older adults. Founded in Oakland, CA in 1978 by Dr. Stuart Kendall, the organization’s mission is to enrich the lives of older adults and …
Finding an “Oasis in the Abyss”
Articles and Blog Posts | 2020
Teaching Artist, Susan Willerman, has been teaching “Writing From Life” at Morningside Retirement and Health Services in the Washington Heights neighborhood of NYC for 26 consecutive years. The class started as a program of Elders …
The Home/Body Warm-up for Homebound Times
Articles and Blog Posts | 2020
Lifetime Arts Roster Teaching Artist, Greacian Goeke, has taught her signature class, “Free to Move: Expressive Movement & Rhythm for Brain & Body Health,” at the Albany Senior Center outside of Oakland, CA for the …
Lifetime Arts Responds to COVID-19 with Creative Aging Program Resources
Videos | 2020
Annie Montgomery, Lifetime Arts’ Director of Education, and Julie Kline, Education Associate, talk about what COVID-19 meant for the arts education field; the genesis of the campaign; why we are offering Creative Aging 101 now; …