Artist News
Arts Training for Health Care and Aging
I am excited to announce I have been accepted into this program, with full scholarship, which will provide me further training working with older adults and those living with illness:
The Creative Center Training Institute for Artists and Administrators in Arts-In-Healthcare and Creative Aging Monday, March 23 through Friday, March 27, 2020 This week-long training, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, will focus on the role of the arts in healthcare and creative aging, providing theoretical and didactic approaches to implementing and sustaining highquality arts programming in a variety of settings serving older adults and people living with illness across the aging spectrum. Artists, arts educators and administrators, long-term care staff, senior and community center workers, healthcare administration and medical staff will be given everything they need to create "best practice" arts programming in a wide variety of settings serving people living with illness as well as older adults. Founded in 1994, The Creative Center at University Settlement has been training professionals from across the US since 2002 to replicate our model using the unique approaches featured in our book, Artists in Residence: The Creative Center’s Approach to Arts in Healthcare.
Presentations, workshops and site visits, led by national leaders in the field, will include:
• Dementia: Making Moments Matter
• StoryCorps: Memory Loss Initiative and Legacy Project
• Healthcare Artists-In-Residence: How to Make it Work!
• Older Professional Artists: A Model for an Aging Society
• Lifetime Arts: Arts Education for Older Adults • Opening Minds Through Art: an intergenerational program
• Arts&Minds: Museum Programming for People Living with Dementia and Their Partners
Support for The Creative Center Training Institute for Artists and Administrators in Healthcare and Creative Aging comes from the National Endowment for the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
BCA’s SU-CASA Program Brings Art to Seniors in the Bronx:
Welcome to SU-CASA, New York City’s effort to enrich the lives of its senior citizens through the arts. This initiative connects artists with seniors at their local community centers and positively impacts the well-being of older adults through multidisciplinary arts activities. Past activities have included memoir writing, crafting, dance and theater production, and many more. Programming is scattered throughout the Bronx, providing a creative outlet for seniors near and far to express themselves as they please.
I am currently an artist-in-residence through the Su Casa Art Program for Seniors. I am teaching "Sculptural Expressions in Color" at William Hodson Senior Center in the Bronx, NYC. I am finding this to be a wonderful experience working with seniors who incredibly embrace arts creation though they have no previous experience in arts making at all. They love art and are so proud that, they too, are artists. It is a pleasure to enrich and serve this treasured population. Seniors rock!