Tag: professional development

Combating Ageism in a Socially Distanced World

Screenshot of participants during a remote training workshop.

On February 10, Lifetime Arts Director of Education, Annie Montgomery, and Pushcart Prize Nominated Poet, Mary Moore Easter, delivered the virtual workshop, “Combating Ageism in a Socially-Distanced World,” during Roowork, an online learning series hosted by the National Guild for Community Arts Education.

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The Creative Aging Resource Website: An Online Hub for an Emerging Field

Image showing screenshots of the Creative Aging Resource website

Lifetime Arts is proud to launch The Creative Aging Resource website (http://www.creativeagingresource.org), the first dedicated place on the web to offer artists, community educators, program administrators, senior service professionals, and funders a browsable directory of hundreds of hand-curated pieces of research, media, case studies, experts and organizations related to the field.

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Lifetime Arts to Offer “Creative Aging During COVID-19” at Louisiana Arts Summit

A promo image featuring a training with headshots of Annie Montgomery and Julie Kline.

On September 30, Lifetime Arts’ Director of Education, Annie Montgomery and Education Associate, Julie Kline, will deliver an interactive virtual session on the topic of creative aging programming during COVID-19, part of the 2020 Louisiana Arts Summit and hosted by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge in partnership with the Louisiana Division of the Arts.

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Beyond Bingo: Aging Creatively in Public Libraries

Creative Aging Professional Development for Librarians As part of Lifetime Arts IMLS National Leadership Grant, a two part professional development workshop engaged 40 librarians from the NY Metro Region in four sessions.  Led by national experts, librarians learned about creative aging best practices, the nuts and bolts of program implementation and sustainability and what kinds of …

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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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