Category: Media Coverage

The Wellness Movement That’s Empowering Older Adults to Become Artists

Artsy, an online platform for collecting and discovering art, has as its mission “to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.” Recently, Artsy Magazine interviewed Maura O’Malley, Lifetime Arts’ co-founder and CEO, about the way arts learning, skill-building, and social engagement — the tenets of creative aging — are increasing …

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NPR’s Ina Jaffe Covers Lifetime Arts Programming for All Things Considered

Two of our master teaching artists, Lauren Jost and Dave Johnson are co-teaching a memoir class titled “I Know a Thing or Two”, at the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. The sessions are well attended with participants sharing their experiences and diverse backgrounds as the impetus for their stories. Lifetime Arts’ work in …

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Programs for 55+ Shifting from “Needy” to “Engaging”

For the second time in a year, Preserving Your Memory magazine, a publication of the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation, has profiled Lifetime Arts’ Creative Aging in Libraries Project sponsored by MetLife Foundation. “With this new set of creative aging programs, MetLife Foundation is helping us share Lifetime Arts’ successful program model with major …

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Lifetime Arts Classes in Miami-Dade Heralded

Five Miami-Dade library system branches are now offering Lifetime Arts creative aging classes through the Creative Aging in Public Libraries Project funded by MetLife. Ana Veciana-Suarez of The Miami Herald interviewed Lifetime Arts Co-Founder and CEO Maura O’Malley and Miami-Dade Library Director, Raymond Santiago, for this feature article which also includes frank anecdotes from participants …

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Lifetime Arts In The Press

This year Lifetime Arts has been featured in several publications relating to the field of Creative Aging including Preserving Your Memory Magazine,  Library As Incubator – an online magazine exploring the links between artists and libraries and Stories for Change – a publication of Partners for Livable Communities and MetLife Foundation that examines exemplary organizations …

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