Inspiring Art workshops for older adults

Partner with us to host a dynamic Creative Aging program for seniors!

T&W partners with NORCs and senior centers throughout the city to offer innovative programs for adults 50 and older. Like our writing workshops, Creative Aging programs are led by experienced teaching artists who are professional writers, storytellers or visual artists. Our programs, informed by Gene Cohen MD’s groundbreaking “Creativity and Aging” study, are designed to teach older adults mastery of an art form while building community through social engagement.

Past Creative Aging programs have included:

Storytelling
Poetry and songwriting
Pottery
Jewelry making
Memoir
Painting and sculpture
Intergenerational programs with youth

Current and past community partners:

VISIONS Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
SAGE GRIOT
JASA Coney Island
Morningside Retirement and Health Services (NORC)
Cypress Hills Fulton Street Senior Services
Selfhelp Innovative Services for Seniors, Flushing

Bring Creative Aging to your Community

Older adults stand onstage presenting with a microphone. Others sit behind them looking on.

Overhead shot of an older adult moulding clay into a terracotta planter. Their hands are marked with messy clay.

Older adults lean over a communal craft table and work together on a complicated looking mixed media work of art

An older adult plays with a coloful stick that has multiple threads and strings and yarns hanging from it. They are excited and full of energy.

Older adults with gloved hands are touching a piece of artwork on a communal table. The group is dressed colourfully, and one participant wears a headscarf.

An older adult uses their fingertips to shape clay into a terracotta flowerpot mould. They appear very focussed on their work.

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