Community Engagement & Impact

Artful Aging: What Museums and Arts Educators Can Learn from each other about Creative Aging

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Learn about a growing body of practice and research that documents how museum environments can encourage social, intellectual, and artistic learning among artists and adults ages 55 and older. Ask questions and share wisdom about how these programs can ensure that museums continue to be meaningful, useful, and vital.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the need to promote healthy attitudes about aging in America, and learn about successful arts education programs for the growing population of adults ages 55 and older.
• Learn how a collaboration among a funder, a creative aging organization, and museums is gathering data on the value of programs that support arts learning and social engagement.
• Take away information about best practices in creativity and social engagement that use museum resources and collections to revitalize staff, volunteers, docents, teaching artists, and the public.

Moderator(s)

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  Ed Friedman

  Co-Founder, Executive Director
  Lifetime Arts, Inc.

Panelist(s)

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  Lindsay Lewis

  Program Manager
  Aroha Philanthropies
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  Annie Montgomery

  Director of Education
  Lifetime Arts, Inc.
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  Sonnet Takahisa

  Director, Strategic Education Initiatives
  Newark Museum