An acrylics program hosted at Lincoln County Public Library System in Wyoming. Credit: Richard Landreth and Melissa Haderlie
Lifetime Arts and 5 Western States Are Bringing Arts Education Programming to Scale in Rural Communities
The Advancing Creative Aging in Westerns States Initiative (2023-2025) is designed to deepen and sustain collaboration among state agency partners to advance creative aging in the Western region. Lifetime Arts is partnering with multiple stakeholders in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah to provide consulting services and information resources designed to support new and existing partnerships across state agencies and their constituent organizations. Lifetime Arts also is supporting the development and implementation of up to five creative aging programs in sector-specific host organizations in each state. These programs will serve a total of 500 older adults and help to demonstrate the benefits and efficacy of creative aging.
In addition to state art agencies, our partners will include state libraries, state veterans services, and will expand to include aging services and health and human services. Our current partners are listed below:
Sector-Specific Creative Aging Seminars
Lifetime Arts is hosting three FREE virtual sector-specific seminars featuring case studies and panel discussions on how creative aging work integrates into each sector’s goals. The live online seminars are open to any individual in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, or Wyoming working at a state agency organization that serves older adults, or at a state agency seeking to partner with veteran services to deliver creative aging programs. Recordings of the seminars are being posted on this page.
1. Creative Aging Seminar: Library Workers Leading the Way!
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This one-hour recorded seminar equips viewers with knowledge to plan evidence-based programs, featuring real-world case studies and insights from successful library workers, Krisene Watson from Campbell County Public Library System and Jamie Markus from Wyoming State Library. This video is a starting point to help you turn your library into a hub of creativity, connection, and empowerment.
2. Creative Aging Seminar: Serving America’s Older Veterans
April 2nd 2024, 10am-11am Mountain Time
In this seminar, you’ll gain insights into building effective partnerships between cultural institutions and veteran-serving organizations and explore how creative aging arts programs offer proven health and wellness benefits and reduce social isolation for veterans 55 and better. You’ll also learn about successful Idaho-based programs from Laura Roghaar from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Kevin Wahlor from the Idaho Division of Veterans Services, April Floyd and Larissa Dittman from Idaho State Veterans Home.
3. Creative Aging Seminar: Making Connections between the Arts and Healthcare
This seminar is currently being rescheduled for a different date. We will update this page as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience!
An increasing number of studies are confirming that active engagement with the arts is an essential component to healthy aging. At this seminar, you’ll hear from experts on how arts agencies can partner with health and human services to provide evidence-based creative aging programming. Join this seminar to ensure you are on the forefront of the ‘prescribing for the arts’ movement.
Registration link coming soon.
