Elder Arts:  Creative growth, connection, and self-expression with fellow life travelers

In this class, Ann Marie invites older adults to reflect on their life stories and explore present-day identities through collage, mixed media, and other hands-on approaches. No art background is needed—just curiosity. Come for one class, or make this a weekly practice! 

Each session introduces a theme that guides participants in making new meaning from past experiences, with opportunities to incorporate personal materials and self-reflections into their artmaking. Sessions also include journaling and mindfulness prompts that participants can continue on their own. We close by witnessing one another’s artwork in a supportive way—inviting self-acceptance and opening possibilities for further discovery.

Sample themes/artmaking:

• Family, kin, and community:  Paper weaving.  Transform cards, letters, and other personal correspondence into a new image honoring strands of care and connection   
• Present-day self & strengths:  Hand Self-portrait. Drawing or tracing one’s hand and selecting images/adding color/textures/lines to represent and reflect on all you hold.   
• What matters most:  Textile arts & reflective writing.  Participants use fabric, beads or buttons, and accessible sewing techniques to create beaded packets to encase a hope, dream, blessing or prayer written on a piece of paper.  These messages may be intended for oneself, loved ones, or one’s community.  

Offered every Thursday at 10:00AM

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(*) Non-technical elders can register by sending us an email: info@cabbagetownarts.com

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