Drawing out the Wisdom of the Past
Kick-off luncheon at 24 Main Street: March 10 at noon
Six Fridays: March 17, 24, 31 & April 7, 14, 21
10 am - 12 pm
Friday April 28: Art exhibit opening and readings
by participants at MSA
Up to fifteen seniors can register for this program to turn memories into collage, watercolor painting, poetry, and story. Their work will be presented at an opening celebration followed by an interactive exhibit in the MSA gallery. The public will be invited to respond with their own insights into how to bring wisdom of the past into today. The project is a collaboration of three of Saxtons River’s institutions: 24 Main (formerly Christ’s Church), MSA, and the Saxtons River Historical Society. The program is free thanks to the generous support of the VT Arts Council's Creative Aging program.
Our project leader will be creative aging expert Susan Rosano. Susan has been a Master Teaching Artist and a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator for over twenty years, bringing visual and expressive arts projects to senior citizens, hospice patients and their families, schools, libraries, hospitals, museums. In 2021 she trained to be a Vermont Lifetime Arts Teaching Artist and in the same year was awarded a National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship. She is on the teaching roster for the VT Arts Council’s Creative Aging program.
One goal of the project is to increase awareness of creative and positive aging among both participants and the public who see and hear the products of their work. Other goals include creating a space for creativity and forming a social group. Creativity will be
nurtured through accessible techniques such as using story prompts and collage. Fellowship will be encouraged through free refreshments and social time at each meeting.
Participants are limited to 15, so please make an effort to come to all the sessions. Please register soon so we know how many to expect for the kickoff luncheon!
Kick-off luncheon at 24 Main Street: March 10 at noon
Six Fridays: March 17, 24, 31 & April 7, 14, 21
10 am - 12 pm
Friday April 28: Art exhibit opening and readings
by participants at MSA
Up to fifteen seniors can register for this program to turn memories into collage, watercolor painting, poetry, and story. Their work will be presented at an opening celebration followed by an interactive exhibit in the MSA gallery. The public will be invited to respond with their own insights into how to bring wisdom of the past into today. The project is a collaboration of three of Saxtons River’s institutions: 24 Main (formerly Christ’s Church), MSA, and the Saxtons River Historical Society. The program is free thanks to the generous support of the VT Arts Council's Creative Aging program.
Our project leader will be creative aging expert Susan Rosano. Susan has been a Master Teaching Artist and a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator for over twenty years, bringing visual and expressive arts projects to senior citizens, hospice patients and their families, schools, libraries, hospitals, museums. In 2021 she trained to be a Vermont Lifetime Arts Teaching Artist and in the same year was awarded a National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship. She is on the teaching roster for the VT Arts Council’s Creative Aging program.
One goal of the project is to increase awareness of creative and positive aging among both participants and the public who see and hear the products of their work. Other goals include creating a space for creativity and forming a social group. Creativity will be
nurtured through accessible techniques such as using story prompts and collage. Fellowship will be encouraged through free refreshments and social time at each meeting.
Participants are limited to 15, so please make an effort to come to all the sessions. Please register soon so we know how many to expect for the kickoff luncheon!
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