April 2019 NEWSLETTER
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Creative Aging Training Updates: NYC, Chicago & Wisconsin
Annie Montgomery leading a training
In March and the beginning of April, Lifetime Arts conducted professional development workshops in New York City ( Creative Aging in NYC sponsored by the New York Community Trust, offered in partnership with LiveOn NY and the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College); Chicago ( Silk Road Rising) and Wisconsin (sponsored by IMLS/ Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction).

These workshops were offered to teaching artists across NYC and Chicago and librarians working in suburban or rural libraries across northern Wisconsin. Lifetime Arts also participated in a week-long training conducted by The Creative Center in NYC. For complete details about each of these events, please click the links below:
Creative Aging in NYC, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY
Lifetime Arts Headquarters in New Rochelle, NY
The Creative Center at University Settlement, NY
Winnefox Library System, Wisconsin, WI

PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS
School of Drag at MOCA Tucson Attracts Intergenerational Performers
School of Drag, a Creative Aging programming collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, AZ (MOCA) and Fluxx Productions, is a 10-week workshop series that invites 55+ LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual, non-binary, pansexual, etc.) community members to explore art, narrative and performance as part of Aroha Philanthropies' Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums initiative. Read more
Creative Aging Enrollment at Pasadena Conservatory Increases
Now in its second year, the National Guild for Community Arts Education’s Catalyzing Creative Aging initiative is helping arts organizations to better serve older adult learners. For example, since last fall, enrollment has rapidly increased and continues to expand at Pasadena Conservatory of Music . View photo gallery
ED TALK
black and white version of drama masks
Art Imitates Life in the Waverly Gallery
Written almost 20 years ago, and a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize, Kenneth Lonergan’s, "The Waverly Gallery," is very much a “memory” play. The focus of the play, and the family’s energies, is the rapid cognitive decline of the 80- something grandmother, Gladys, a former attorney and gadfly, played by Elaine May.

STAFF NEWS
This spring, Lifetime Arts promoted four staff members. Lindsey Francis, most recently Program Manager, is now Project Manager; Abigail Jefferson, who joined us in 2018 as Program Coordinator is now our Education Manager; Nathan Majoros, who was most recently Director of Programs is now Deputy Director; and Shannon McDonough, who was previously our Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communications is now Deputy Director.
Lindsey Francis
Project Manager
Nathan Majoros
Deputy Director
Abigail Jefferson
Education Manager
Shannon McDonough
Deputy Director
OF NOTE
On May 20, Lifetime Arts will participate in a panel titled, "Artful Aging: What Museums and Arts Educators are Learning from Each Other about Creative Aging," at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Alliance of Museums in New Orleans.

And in other exciting related Creative Aging news, last month the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) named William (Bill) Tramposch the Aroha Senior Fellow for Museums and Creative Aging . As a former member of the AAM Accreditation Commission and recently retired director of the Nantucket Historical Association , Tramposch has a 40+ year distinguished career in museum leadership. A hearty congratulations to all for this major investment in making Creative Aging a priority for America's museums. Read more
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