CCH - (Christian Church Homes)’s Post

Give a senior a can of spray pain and a blank wall, the following will happen: It will bring the senior closer to a form of artistic expression usually associated with the younger generation. It will prove that concepts such as ACTIVE AGING and intergenerational solidarity make more sense every day. It will demonstrate that age is just a number. Taken from the thread entitled, “LATA 65 | urban art workshop for seniors” @ https://lnkd.in/gueGxds

Why It Matters

Check out this post from one of our recent graduates, Emily Zarse!

Hey educators! Explore our art resources to discover various aspects of art, including the skills and habits developed through artistic activities, how art influences children's growth and development, and more. https://lnkd.in/dggyeK_e

Hey educators! Explore our art resources to discover various aspects of art, including the skills and habits developed through artistic activities, how art influences children's growth and development, and more. https://lnkd.in/dggyeK_e

Hey educators! Explore our art resources to discover various aspects of art, including the skills and habits developed through artistic activities, how art influences children's growth and development, and more. https://lnkd.in/dggyeK_e

Public art is a reflection of our cultures with diverse meanings for the communities that interact with it. In all its forms, public art provokes reactions from the public. Conserving it is a complex process that involves different actors, with local communities playing a significant role in creating, assigning values, advocating for what needs to be preserved and, in some cases, conserving what is valued. Also important is the relationship between public art and museums. 'Public Art Inside and Out, which will take place in a hybrid form, aims to include a wide variety of professionals to exchange ideas-from practitioners to researchers and academics, artists, art historians, curators, conservators, architects, city planners, policy makers, collectors, benefactors and institutions procuring public art. Registration for in-person and online participation will close on 30th April. Read the full program and get your registration via the link in the comments.

More Than Art, a therapeutic arts program for birthparents, designed and run by Tiffany, our 2023 Create! Birthparent Arts Grant winner, starts this Spring, and their supply wishlists are now available! Each participant has their own wishlist (all with the exact same supplies), so that they can create together, using art-making as a catalyst to healing and growth without the financial burden of having to purchase art supplies. Their wishlists are on Amazon so that supplies will be sent directly to each of them, and every item listed is really affordable, making it easy to help even on a tight budget. Click the link below to access their wishlists, add items to your cart, and give birthparents an opportunity to be creative without the burden of having to purchase everything they need to make art and have fun. https://lnkd.in/gVEUG2DD

Eight years ago, during my tenure as Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Roswell Museum, I started learning about federal community art centers, a remarkable New Deal initiative that remains one of the most expansive art-sharing programs in the history of the United States. Ever since I learned about this program, I've wanted to map its history digitally so that researchers could follow the movement of art exhibitions, observe the opening and closing of art centers, and trace the migrations of art center personnel as they were assigned to different sites. Today, I'm happy to share I've taken a first step toward this long-term goal by creating a StoryMap about federal community art centers. Here, I share all the information I've learned about them since 2016, from the addresses of specific sites to the contents of circulating exhibitions. This StoryMap, in short, represents eight years of ongoing research and analysis. More than a repository for my research though, this project is an invitation to other researchers interested in federal community art centers. I'm asking everyone interested in this initiative to share their data so we can compile all our research in one place. This program is too vast for one person to document, and I know there are others as passionate about it as I am. So let's get together and share our data. Together, we can document this significant but understudied initiative. #newdeal #digitalhumanities #federalcommunityartcenter https://lnkd.in/eenEHd_p