Creative Aging

  • Seeding Vitality Arts at the Newark Museum

    By Sonnet Takahisa
    The Alliance is collaborating with Aroha Philanthropies and Lifetime Arts to support a cohort of 15 to 17 museums in a program to create instructional arts workshop series for older adults. Today’s guest post is by Sonnet Takahisa, …

  • Creative Aging

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    By Elizabeth Merritt
    An aging population presents museums with both challenges (of retention and access) and opportunities (for enhancing visitors’ health, well-being and lifelong learning). Thanks to the Baby Boom, at some point in 2012, the population of …

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