Indiana Lifelong Arts Cohort: Creative Aging Foundations Training (July 2023)

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July 10 – 12, 2023 from 10am-12:30pm ET

Welcome Teaching Artists! We hope you enjoyed this training as part of Indiana Arts Commissions’ creative aging initiative. 

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  • All training recording links and presentation decks are available in each training day section and all post-training resources are available for your convenience.
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Curriculum coaching | Training Description | Trainer Bios
Post-training Resources | Evaluation Survey 

Curriculum Coaching

To support the development of your creative aging curriculum, Lifetime Arts will review your curriculum outline, provide written feedback, and host a virtual one-on-one coaching session for teaching artists.

  • First, teaching artists should complete their curriculum outline using the In-Person Creative Aging Program Curriculum Outline (DOCX) template.
  • Next, teaching artists will submit curriculum outlines to Lifetime Arts for review. 
  • Once your outline has been submitted, you will be invited to schedule a 20-minute coaching session when we will review your plans and provide customized guidance to help ensure your success.

Coaching Timeline

Coaching Sessions: July 17 – August 18, 2023

Submission Deadline: August 11, 2023

Coaching Registration is Now Closed

Day 1

Ageism Workshop, Creative Aging Program Models, and Older Adult Learners

Monday, July 10, 2023, 10am-12:30pm ET:

SESSION RECORDING PRESENTATION SLIDES

Please review the following resources prior to Day 1:

“Creative Aging: Enriching the Lives of Older Adults Through Arts Ed” [3:12]

“Let’s End Ageism,” TED Talk by Ashton Applewhite [11:38]

“Creative Aging: Isolation to Connection,” E.A. Michelson Philanthropy [2:49]

Day 2

Demonstration Classes and Program Design Best Practices and Adaptations

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 , 10am-12:30pm ET:

SESSION RECORDING PRESENTATION SLIDES

Please review the following resources prior to Day 2:

Day 3

Older Adult Community Partnerships and Teaching Artist Preparation

Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 10am-12:30pm ET:

SESSION RECORDING PRESENTATION SLIDES

Here is a link to a PDF containing a list of best practices when partnering with new communities. This list was developed by facilitators based on conversations had in Day 3 breakout groups: Partnering with New Communities Best Practices (PDF)

Please review the following prior to Day 3:

As you begin to think about what kind of creative aging program you will teach, use the following questions as a starting point to envision your program. 

These questions are designed to help organize your thoughts around building a responsive creative aging program.  Keep in mind that the key goals are building artistic skills, and creating opportunities for intentional social engagement.  Programs should also be responsive, and may need to be adapted to fit the needs and capacity of the communities you work with.  While we will use the insights you gain here as a jumping off point for group discussions on Day 3, your responses to these questions will not be shared or reviewed.

You can respond to these questions in a personal notebook. Or you can use the links below to download these prompts as a worksheet in PDF or Word Document formats.

      1. Personal mission/spark: What draws you to work in creative aging? What do you believe is your greatest asset/strength to bring to this work?
      2. What is your biggest concern about teaching creative aging programs?
      3. List all art forms you teach.
      4. Describe the age groups and settings you typically work with.
      5. How might you adapt a program you already teach to younger students – or a different population of learners – to better serve older adults?
      6. What do you want older adults to learn in this class? This can include specific skills, techniques, fluency in terminology and concepts.
      7. What are some methods/activities within your art form(s) that could enable social engagement between older adult participants?
      8. What are some ideas for the culminating event for this program?

Post-training Resources

Teaching artist resources for in-person & remote programs:

Teaching artist resources for funding and fiscal sponsorship:

Teaching artist resources for in-person & remote programs:

Teaching artist resources for funding and fiscal sponsorship:

Research supporting the creative aging arts education model:

Technology support & accessibility considerations:

Combatting Ageism

Training Description:

This 6-hour training will take teaching artists through the Lifetime Arts Creative Aging Foundations course. We will cover:

        • Current research on arts and aging

        • Inherent biases about aging

        • Best practices in the field

        • What’s different about adult learning

        • How to apply K-12 arts ed expertise to 55+

        • How to develop responsive programming that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable

        • The planning, implementation, and sustainability of successful programming

        • Developing impactful cross-sector and community partnerships

        • How to deliver both in-person and remote programming

In addition to covering the topics included in the core Creative Aging Foundations training, this course for teaching artists also will feature the examination and demonstration of approaches for teaching adult learners and to the development of skill-based, sequential lessons for older adults. Additional curricular topics include:

      • Exemplary programming from across this growing field across artistic disciplines
      • Embedding intentional social engagement activities 
      • Impact of ageism on creative aging program design and delivery
      • Best practices in both in-person and remote programming
      • Creative aging curriculum development
      • Partnering with older adult communities

This training includes the following demonstration classes:

        1. Ballroom Dance

        1. Drawing

Lead Trainers:

 

 

 

Headshot of Lifetime Arts Trainer, Clark Jackson. His head is buzzed and he has dark eyes. He is smiling.
Clark Jackson, Lifetime Arts Trainer

 

Headshot of Lifetime Arts Trainer, Daniela Del Giorno. She has dark hair styled in a ponytail. She has brown eyes and is smiling.
Daniela Del Giorno,  Lifetime Arts Trainer

Demo Artists

Daniela Del Giorno (Ballroom Dance)

Lynda Monick-Isenberg (Drawing)

Trainer Facilitators

Lynda Monick-Isenberg

Dane Stauffer

 

 

Staff Facilitators

Nathan Majoros (Director of Programs)

Annie Montgomery (Senior Education Designer & Trainer)

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