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What we heard in Salt Lake City reinforced something important: states have a powerful role to play in making creativity part of healthy aging. And...
From statewide partnerships to innovative community programs, see how creative aging is moving from conversation to action—and advancing healthy...
As Nathan Majoros, Director of Consulting and Capacity Building, concludes 14 years with Lifetime Arts, we celebrate the extraordinary legacy he...
We’re proud to be part of this groundbreaking initiative with Southminster, Wake Forest University, and national experts to explore how creative...
Lifetime Arts today released a new national policy brief – Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem: Advancing Brain Health, Social...
Jean Keane, Program Manager at Front Porch Communities & Services, shared this poem with us after attending a Lifetime Arts Creative Aging...
At two Idaho State Veterans Homes, veterans aren’t just participating in creative aging programs—they’re making them their own, transforming hallways...
At the Nebraska Arts Council (NAC), program leaders are growing creative aging from a promising idea into a statewide strategy—partnering with...
A Western roundup of creative aging across WY, UT, NV, MT, and ID—making the arts a vital part of healthy aging in the West.
Musician, gerontologist, and creative aging advocate Emily Christensen shares how Utah’s first-ever Creative Aging Festival transformed a statewide...
Executive Director Caryn Campbell on the launch of “BE BOLDER," Lifetime Arts’ collaboration, and why ballet belongs to everyone.
At the Creative Aging Network-NC, Executive Director Lia Miller envisions a future where older adults are valued, visible, and vibrantly creative.
A training with Lifetime Arts gave Joylynn M. Ross the tools to deepen what she’d been doing for years—empowering older adults to shape their untold...
Reframing aging through art, care, and collaboration—how filmmaker Sarah Friedland empowered older adults to create, perform, and transform the story...
At CommonBond Communities in Minnesota, a group of veterans discovered the power of creative aging—turning stories into memories, neighbors into...
As someone who’s spent years advocating for arts education for older adults, I was moved to witness a program that not only works—but feels like it...
Lifetime Arts announces the early closure of its national initiative, Advancing Creative Aging through State Library Leadership, following the...
Libraries and museums are cornerstones of our communities—spaces where people of all ages come together to learn, create, and connect. For more than...
Imagine a library not just as a place for books, but as a stage where older adults rediscover creativity, forge new friendships, and transform the...
Lifetime Arts Grows Team and Refines Roles to Drive Vision Forward
Lifetime Arts receives a Music Man Foundation grant to champion creative aging in healthy aging policies, combating ageism and isolation while...
Lifetime Arts is thrilled to announce the growth of our Board of Directors with the addition of three distinguished members: Amy Fuller, Jamie...
The Power of Creative Aging in Action At Lifetime Arts, we know that our later years can be a season for discovery, creativity, and connection. This...
Emily Christensen—musician, gerontologist, and creative aging advocate—discusses her journey working with older adults through music therapy and...
Librarian Krisene Watson shares an unexpected journey from one of her most initially reluctant creative aging students.
In marginalized communities, especially Black communities, access to arts education has historically been limited. However, creative aging programs...
Dixie Means shares her experience as a first-time woodworker through her time in Area 59's Woodworking class.
The proposed budget cuts for New York City's Department for the Aging threaten to reduce vital services for older adults—here's why we need to fight...
Connection is what fuels the power of creative aging programs for older adults, and it begins with us and those we partner with.
Lifetime Arts’ Director of Education and Training, Julie Kline, shares her thoughts on the inspiration behind the brand new training course,...
Starting in 2024, she will paint, garden, spend time with family, and continue to serve Lifetime Arts as a Board Member, advocate, and partner in our...
New Initiative Catalyzes State-Level Partnerships to Advance Creative Aging in Western States
Lifetime Arts Co-Founder Named 2024 AARP Purpose Prize® Award Fellow
This summer, we trained hundreds of teaching artists, library workers, museum educators, and arts organization staff in Missouri, Wyoming, Hawaii,...
Remembering Ann deVere: A Passionate Artist, Teacher, and Community Builder
Lifetime Arts Announces the Promotion of Heather Ikemire to Executive Director
Learn more about two innovative programs implemented via a partnership between the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Utah Pride Center.
Institution of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Califa Group, Wyoming and Missouri State Libraries, and Lifetime Arts Launch $1.2 Million Project...
From 2021-2022, Lifetime Arts trained and coached nearly 1,000 teaching artists, librarians, and community-based organization staff across 22 states...
Lifetime Arts Extends Capacity-Building Efforts with State Arts Agencies in CT, DE, UT + MI
Maura O’Malley and Annie Montgomery share their experience speaking at an Arts and Aging Forum in Singapore.
This October, Lifetime Arts will be participating in a series of virtual and in-person engagements for arts and aging professionals in New York, Ohio...
Maura O'Malley, Lifetime Arts' CEO/Co-Founder, to serve as leading creative aging expert at Arts and Ageing Forum 2022: The Future of Arts and Ageing...
Hear from Lifetime Arts' CEO and Co-Founder, Maura O'Malley, about being named a NYU Alumni Changemaker for her 40+ years of experience in the arts...
Take a closer look at some creative aging programs supported by Lifetime Arts.
Virtual and in-person programs have been offered throughout Brooklyn Public Library branches and the Library's Services for Older Adults department...
Read about our ongoing work with the National Assembly of State Arts Agency's Leveraging State Investments in Creative Aging initiative.
Drawing on 20+ years of experience in arts education and nonprofit leadership, Heather is responsible for Lifetime Arts’ field building and advocacy...
At the American Alliance of Museums' Annual Meeting & Museum Expo in Boston, Massachusetts this past May, Lifetime Arts joined museum educators and...
Maura O'Malley discusses the global impact of social isolation on older adults, the diverse approaches to creative aging programs worldwide, and the...
Lifetime Arts has been working with 21 state arts agencies to grow their creative aging practice, partnerships, and programming.
Lifetime Arts trained and coached staff members from 7 area agencies on aging and nearly 70 New York state based teaching artists to plan, design,...
Lifetime Arts trained nearly 100 library programmers and their community teaching artist partners in the delivery of direct and innovative in-person...
Lifetime Arts' ongoing initiative, Brooklyn Digital: Connecting Through Creative Aging has proven to serve as an anti-isolation remote program model...
For cultural organizations like museums, creative aging extends their reach; advances their educational, cultural, and social missions; builds new...
In recent years, Lifetime Arts' work has focused largely on state, system, and sector-wide capacity building initiatives. The end goal here is to...
Taking a closer look at upcoming creative aging programs supported by Lifetime Arts.
Maura O'Malley, Lifetime Arts' co-founder and CEO, was joined by fellow creative aging practitioners from across the country in the virtual series,...
By listening and learning, teaching artists and arts organization staff across the country are implementing inclusive programs where all older adults...
Beginning in May, Lifetime Arts began a series of engagements with 19 state arts agencies as part of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies'...
The project is made possible through a partnership between the Wyoming State Library, Wyoming Arts Council, and Lifetime Arts with funding from the...
Lifetime Arts Director of Education, Annie Montgomery, and Pushcart Prize nominated poet, Mary Moore Easter, delivered “Combating Ageism in a...
The National Guild for Community Arts Education and Lifetime Arts are pleased to announce that 14 nonprofit community arts education organizations...
Lifetime Arts Co-Founder Ed Friedman shares his favorite art pieces from around his apartment, and what they mean to him.
Lifetime Arts’ Director of Education, Annie Montgomery and Pushcart Prize Nominated Poet, Mary Moore Easter, will present the virtual workshop,...
The program paired older adults and teens as pen pals to explore how ideas about peace differ due to variation in background, age, and experience.
Lifetime Arts is proud to launch The Creative Aging Resource website, offering artists, community educators, program administrators, senior service...
The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) works with more than 40 senior service organizations around Boston to welcome approximately 75 older...
Thinking through our new relationships with using Zoom—the good, the bad, and the path forward.
Since March 2020, the CMC has developed several new ways to adapt their Older Adult Choir Program (OACP), which serves nearly 400 older adults in...
This workshop was offered to Louisiana teaching artists and arts organizations interested in adapting the Creative Aging arts education curriculum...
Lifetime Arts announced that in addition to the professional development training for teaching artists and library programmers previously announced...
With COVID-19 forcing many arts programs to suspend in-person classes, performing arts organizations like Stagebridge, the nation’s oldest and most...
Greacian and her students were devastated when COVID-19 forced the Albany Senior Center to shut down. However, she immediately reached out to her...
When Dane Stauffer's storytelling program was forced to close due to COVID-19, he shifted to an online format and retitled the program: “Storytellers...
On August 25, Lifetime Arts’ Education Associate, Julie Kline, will deliver the interactive virtual session, “Creative Aging During COVID,” part of...
Teaching Artist Susan Willerman has been teaching “Writing From Life” for 26 consecutive years. However, the impact of COVID-19 halted this...
Not wasting time means not wasting the opportunity to create something. So if we’re trying to write NOW for the theatre, are we writing for what...
Explore emerging efforts to keep older adult's creativity engaged amidst stay-at-home orders.
Vinny Mraz, playwright, teaching artist, theater maker in NYC, and Lifetime Arts Trainer, takes a brush to canvas to paint portraits of some of his...
Debra and her students were preparing for their culminating event when the COVID-19 crisis forced them to cancel. Feeling compelled to find a way to...
When the COVID-19 crisis hit, DOROT was determined to continue serving their community members who have come to appreciate the high-quality arts...
The Wyoming Arts Council is pleased to announce the receipt of a $20,000 grant from the Wyoming Community Foundation’s McMurry Library Endowment Fund.
Greenwich House, founded in 1902, has been a pillar of community social services for Greenwich Village for nearly 120 years. During the COVID-19...
Based on the Creative Aging classes that they teach at senior centers, Spica Wobbe and Karen Oughtredhave developed an online class called "Pop-up...
The San Juan-based Museum de Historia, Antropología y Arte quickly adapted its Creative Aging program to an online format when COVID-19 disrupted...
Spark LeoNimm was one month into teaching clown and comedy skills to older adults at the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, when the...
Teaching artists are figuring out how to foster connection during COVID-19, and using technology to do it.
We’re so grateful to our teaching artist colleagues, arts organization partners and funders for their commitment and compassion. We know that when...
A reflection on current events, the arts, and what it takes to move forward at a time like this.
Mark Twain famously said “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
Julie co-facilitates Lifetime Arts’ trainings across the country, assists with the design and development of training curriculum, and supports all of...
Creative Aging programs are shown to have significant positive impacts on healthy aging.
In January, at the culminating event for, “A Storied Life,” a 12-week digital storytelling workshop, eight filmmakers wowed a packed screening room...
Lifetime Arts is humbled to acknowledge the contributions of our small, full-time professional staff who lead Education, Programming, Digital Media,...
The concept of "instant theater" has come to Westchester under the auspices of the White Plains Performing Arts Center.
Earlier this year, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced a partnership with Goddard House Community Initiatives and Lifetime Arts that has brought free...
Though progress may be slow, this past decade has seen great strides in valuing Creative Aging as a vital part of healthy aging.
This month, the Union County Historical Society and Heritage Museum held their culminating event for the workshop, Journeys Through Clay, part of the...
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the launch of a three-region Creative Aging Initiative to provide hands-on art-making programs that support...
To meet the growing demand for Creative Aging programming across the U.S., for the first time ever, the National Guild for Community Arts Education...
Twenty nonprofit arts education organizations from 13 states have been selected to participate in the third cohort of the National Guild for...
On October 15, the National Guild for Community Arts Education presented the professional development workshop, "Age Equity: The Impact of Ageism on...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh along with the Age Strong Commission and the Office of Arts and Culture today announced a partnership with Goddard House...
Learn more about Debra Pasquerette, a teaching artist and Manager of Community Engagement at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in...
A reflection on retirement, relocation, and healthy aging.
On September 18-20, Aroha Philanthropies and Lifetime Arts presented, “Collaborations in Creative Aging,” at National Assembly of State Arts...
Lifetime Arts Trainer, Vinny Mraz, has been selected to join the fifth international cohort of National Arts Strategies (NAS) 2019 Creative Community...
On July 29 and 30, Aroha Philanthropies and the Minnesota State Arts Board offered the third in a series of Creative Aging trainings for teaching...
Lifetime Arts’ Deputy Director, Nathan Majoros, participated in this year’s five-day in-person seminar held at Bryn Mawr College.
An exploration on what drives us to retirement, how we know we might be ready, and preparing for the inevitable self-reflection that comes with that...
The National Guild for Community Arts Education and Lifetime Arts are pleased to announce that 10 nonprofit arts education organizations from 9...
The National Guild for Community Arts Education is proud to announce the 2019-2020 Catalyzing Creative Aging program, provided in partnership with...
A look into the positive impact of music on healthy aging, and the barriers that keep some people from exploring it.
Lifetime Arts’ Deputy Director, Nathan Majoros, has been selected to join the 2019 class of the Community Arts Education Leadership Institute.
Lifetime Arts’ Roster Teaching Artist and award winning storyteller, Robin Bady, discusses her work, its importance, and some of her biggest pieces...
This past year, our initiative, Creative Aging in Westchester County, supported by the Westchester Community Foundation, resulted in five new...
On Saturday, May 4, gender performers of all ages wowed local audiences at the culminating event for “School of Drag,” an innovative arts workshop...
On Monday, May 20, the American Alliance of Museums held a panel titled, “Artful Aging: What Museums and Arts are Learning from Each Other about...
My most recent experience acting in the Red Monkey Theatre/M&M Production of Chekov’s, “The Seagull” was very positive, but the reality is, engaging...
Lifetime Arts co-founders, Ed Friedman and Maura O’Malley were honored with The Teaching Artist Ally Award in recognition for their support of...
Each May, the Administration for Community Living leads our nation’s observance of Older Americans Month. This year’s theme is Connect, Create and...
Education Director, Annie Montgomery, and teaching artist, Julie Kline, traveled to northern Wisconsin to deliver two full-day professional...
Lifetime Arts delivered two days of extensive teaching artist training in Chicago with Silk Road Rising.
Lifetime Arts is a regular presenter at this training and this year, I was asked to discuss the nuts and bolts of the planning and sustainability of...
School of Drag, a Creative Aging program collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, AZ and Fluxx Productions, is a 10-week...
In an effort to meet the growing, nationwide demand for our professional development services, we held a train-the-trainer event at our headquarters...
Kenneth Lonergan’s play, The Waverly Gallery, focuses on the rapid cognitive decline of the 80- something grandmother, Gladys, a former attorney and...
"It's a good thing to care about something — but it's a really good thing to act on what it is you care about."
Lifetime Arts presented to over 70 social workers, senior center program coordinators, directors, arts therapists, advocates, and other senior staff...
Lisa Spraragen, a Lifetime Arts Roster teaching artist, is a classical and flamenco guitarist and dancer who taught three Creative Aging Programs for...
A great starting point for finding an arts community in retirement.
Peyton Scott Russell’s focus is to increase the awareness of graffiti as a teachable art form by teaching, doing more community events, exhibitions...
This fall Lifetime Arts has delivered of live Creative Aging training sessions in New York City, around the state, and across the country.
Learn more about Lifetime Arts' participation in Creative Aging-related events.
This fall older adults at West Michigan Center for the Arts and Technology learned shibori, a traditional Japanese fiber art, through Catalyzing...
Lifetime Arts, Inc. is proudly teaming up with the Teaching Artist Project (TAP) Cohort, a division of Community-Word Project (CWP).
I know that in the commercial end of the film and theater businesses, the current wisdom is that stars = box office. But we’ve seen enough exceptions...
This year's Westchester County Senior Hall of Fame honorees include our Executive Director and Co-Founder Ed Friedman.
This year more than 900 people aged 55+ from New Mexico to New Hampshire attended 65 Creative Aging programs in public libraries, arts organizations,...
This multi-phase initiative, provided in partnership with Lifetime Arts, is designed to support the establishment of new, professionally-led arts...
As part of this cohort, we will work in partnership with leading arts education organizations from across the city.
Lifetime Arts to train and support educators at 20 museums across the U.S. as they develop and implement high-quality, intensive arts learning...
This week Lifetime Arts traveled to southern Wisconsin to deliver two full-day professional development workshops on Creative Aging programming for...
It would be a welcome change to hear a doctor say, “take two painting classes and call me in the morning”.
The National Guild for Community Arts Education is pleased to announce that 10 nonprofit arts education organizations from 9 states have been...
Artsy Magazine interviewed Maura O'Malley, Lifetime Arts' co-founder and CEO, about the way arts learning, skill-building, and social engagement are...
Aroha Philanthropies, the American Alliance of Museums, and Lifetime Arts announced today that they will collaborate to launch Seeding Vitality Arts...
Maura O'Malley, co-founder of Lifetime Arts, on the beginnings of LTA.
Ashton Applewhite, author and activist, was interviewed by KCRW's Jonathan Bastian ahead of her appearance at UC Santa Barbara last week where she...
Lifetime Arts co-founder, Ed Friedman, reflects on Lifetime Arts' beginnings.
Lifetime Arts Co-Founder Ed Friedman discusses the presence of women over 50 in roles in film and theater.
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Sandra Drabant
New research published by the National Endowment for the Arts reminds us that Creative Aging is healthy aging.
Lifetime Arts is grateful to be among this year's esteemed group of individuals and organizations whom Arts Westchester is honoring as the "creative...
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Marjorie Shaefer
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Mansa Mussa
For those who are learning or creating, it’s not so much fun as it is satisfying. And the process of creating the work is perhaps even more...
Five Westchester County senior service organizations have each been awarded $2,500 by Lifetime Arts to plan and implement Creative Aging programs as...
Twenty nonprofit arts education organizations from 14 states have been selected to participate in the National Guild for Community Arts Education’s...
Lifetime Arts, Inc. announced today the receipt of a $600,000 grant from The New York Community Trust (NYCT) in support of a two-year effort to...
Hear the difference creative aging makes from those who benefit from it.
Lifetime Arts and Aroha Philanthropies announced today the launch of a new, three-year 1.5 Million National Impact Initiative, funded by Aroha and...
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Frank Ingrasciotta
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Judith Sachs
Maura O’Malley, Co-founder and CEO of Lifetime Arts, has been recognized as one of Next Avenue’s Top 50 “Influencers in Aging” for 2017.
Ed talks the relationship between work, stress, and leaning into excitement in retirement.
Lifetime Arts is pleased to announce the launch of Creative Aging in Westchester County, a capacity building and seed grant program to improve the...
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Richard Estrin
Ten NYC senior service organizations have each been awarded a grant of $7,500 to plan and implement Creative Aging projects as part of the Catalyzing...
NPR's Ina Jaffe Covers Lifetime Arts Programming for All Things Considered
Speaking with Al Boudreau: His life, his passions, and how he is aging creatively.
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Karen Fitzgerald
This new initiative will build the capacities of organizations in the state of Minnesota to develop successful creative aging programs.
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Bernie D'Ettorre
Lifetime Arts Co-Founder Ed Friedman reflects on his efforts to stay connected to the arts, and his recent theater experience as an older adult.
Meet our teaching artist of the month: David Deblinger
Lifetime Arts is pleased to announce the launch of Catalyzing Creativity, a major Creative Aging initiative for New York City.
Lifetime Arts Co-Founder Ed Friedman talks the positive impact of Creative Aging on creating meaningful social interaction
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Julie Kline
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Mark Nowak
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Linda Luisi
Exploring the impact of Lifetime Arts' seed programs on Creative Aging across the country.
Lifetime Arts Co-Founder Ed Friedman talks aspirations and challenges after retirement.
Our teaching artists are the boots on the ground, teaching new skills to curious minds and turning a group of strangers into lifelong friends, and at...
Lifetime Arts Co-Founder Ed Friedman speaks with Ashton Applewhite, author and creative aging influencer, about ageism.
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Lauren Jost
Studies show that teaching artists have a strong interest in teaching older adults.
Lifetime Arts Co-Founder Ed Friedman talks about his own ideas of retirement, and his feelings about this new phase of life.
Meet our teaching artist of the month: Jeremiah Jenner
Lifetime Arts Co-Founder Ed Friedman talks retirement and his relationship to work.
Lifetime Arts Tapped to Support Aroha “Seeding Artful Aging” Initiative
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