Collaborate
We welcome partnerships with older artists and their loved ones, community-based organizations, residential communities, researchers and scholars, social service and healthcare practitioners, and anyone else who shares our vision of reimagining aging through art.
We achieve our work through six primary strategies and would love to partner with you and your community in pursuing any of these goals!
Our Collaboration Goals:
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Identifying community-driven issues and solutions
We center the perspectives of older adults, their families, and communities. This means following their lead in terms of identifying critical social issues, concerns, and solutions using collaborative approaches toward programming design and delivery.
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Developing and applying holistic measures to arts-based programming
We measure the impact of art in diverse ways that prioritize meaning making, social connection, collective health and wellbeing. At the individual level, arts-based programming can foster a sense of wellbeing, belonging, and ward off isolation and loneliness. In communities, it can foster meaningful connection, inspire collaborative initiatives, and combat societal ageism and age-based segregation.
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Designing and implementing evidence-based programming
By rigorously measuring the impacts of arts-based programming and ensuring sound implementation, we design and deliver programs that are effective, evidence-based, and sustainable. We draw evidence from innovative, pioneering academic and community-based research efforts to document these programs as well as disseminating findings to diverse audiences to further develop and refine the field of arts-based intergenerational programming.
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Pursuing sustainable funding partnerships
We pursue funding for arts-based programming and research from diverse sources by combining university-based resources and access with community-based expertise and vision. We enjoy partnering with funders who recognize holistic impacts of arts-based methods and value intergenerational programming.
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Fostering interdisciplinary and cross-system partnerships
Description goesWe believe that varied sources of perspective, knowledge, and experience make the artistic, creative, and community-building process richer and more meaningful. To create stronger programming and impact we strive to connect folks working across visual arts, social services, community organizing, advocacy, higher education, the nonprofit sector, and more. here
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Training the next generation of health and social service providers and arts educators
Currently, there are relatively few professionals in social service and art education fields who are well-trained in aging-related services. This shortage of expertise is particularly acute in light of the large and aging baby boomer generation. We use our programming as an opportunity to train the next generation of providers and educators to be knowledgeable and experienced in serving older adults and their communities.