Tag: Online Classes

Online “Pop-Up Pages” Workshop Offered to Older Adults in Queens, NY

MAKING A POP-UP MEMORY PAGE with Spica Wobbe & Karen Oughtred | PART 1: Materials and Tools | Making the Base Page Queens, NY is one of the most international places in the world. The Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts have set up a program called FTH at Home: Global Arts for Global …

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Final Critiques and Closure via Google Hangouts in San Juan

Participants engage in the Zoom workshop, "Autorretrato en Medios Mixto," a program by the Museum de Historia, Antropología y Arte.

The Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, part of the Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums Cohort, were at the end of their self-portrait program when COVID-19 impacted in-person programming. With two classes left unfinished, the museum's staff and teaching artist joined forces to design and implement an online session which gave students the opportunity to socially engage with one another, share their culminating work, and end the program as a community.

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Teaching Creative Aging Classes Online: 1. Troubleshoot, 2. Don’t Sweat the Details

Teaching Artist, John LeoNimm leads his students through warm-ups during an online class.

“We're all doing this really new and hard thing by trying to translate in person experiences to the virtual platform,” he says, “Don't stress yourself out trying to make it perfect.  Be upfront with folks about the experiment of it and leave space for them to give feedback.”

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