Lifetime Arts, Inc.

06/22/2026

What does a creative aging class feel like from the learner’s perspective?

On July 15th from 1:00–2:30 PM ET, you’ll have the unique opportunity to find out! Step into a live creative aging class led by Lifetime Arts Trainer and experienced teaching artist, Lynda Monick-Isenberg, and experience firsthand the creativity, connection, and engagement that make these programs so impactful. The session concludes with a live Q&A.

Learn more + register here: https://na2.hubs.ly/H06f8CC0

06/17/2026

How do you build support for creative aging when funding is limited, partners are stretched thin, or stakeholders don’t yet understand its value?

Join us on Monday, June 29th (4-5pm ET) for an interactive conversation on communicating the impact of your work and building the support needed to sustain it. Through peer learning, discussion, and hands-on exercises, you’ll refine your “pitch” to make the case for your creative aging work and explore strategies for engaging funders and partners. Register for free at https://na2.hubs.ly/H06bjzr0.

This convening is part of our New York State Creative Aging Leaders Network, a statewide initiative made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, designed to strengthen the field of creative aging through connection, learning, and shared leadership.

All opportunities below are free and open to those involved in creative aging across New York:

- Join the free network to connect with peers, share ideas, and access ongoing learning opportunities: https://na2.hubs.ly/H06bhHJ0

- Sign up for a free one-on-one office hour session on June 30th for personalized support in sharpening your creative aging pitch: https://na2.hubs.ly/H06bjsV0

-Apply for a free seat in our virtual Creative Aging Foundations: The Essentials Training to build your knowledge and skills in the field: https://na2.hubs.ly/H06bjHQ0

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06/04/2026

“The arts are good for you!” More specifically, they’re good for brain health. But what does that really mean and what does the research say?

As we live longer and aging policy continues to evolve, brain health—the ability to maintain cognitive function and overall well-being—is becoming a major priority in healthy aging conversations. And increasingly, research points to creative aging as part of the solution.

Arts learning and creative expression engage multiple sensory pathways in the brain while supporting healthy behaviors like physical activity, intellectual engagement, and social connection—all key components of healthy aging.

Want to learn more about how creative aging is shaping the healthy aging agenda?

- Explore our national policy brief: https://na2.hubs.ly/H05YFW80
- Stay tuned for our upcoming guidebook, "Expanding the Circle: Practical Strategies to Build Support for Creative Aging" releasing this month—a companion resource filled with practical tools for communicating the value of creative aging in healthy aging policy and practice.

06/02/2026

It’s time to expand the creative aging circle, together! Join us June 10th for a workshop on communicating the value of creative aging, building stronger partnerships, and connecting your work to healthy aging goals.

You'll also get an exclusive sneak peek of our upcoming guidebook, “Expanding the Circle: Practical Strategies to Build Support for Creative Aging,” and explore how to use it in real-world advocacy and outreach. Through discussion and exercises, you’ll leave with fresh strategies, new connections, and free resources to support your goals in aligning creative aging with healthy aging policies and practices.

Register here: https://na2.hubs.ly/H05StVX0. This will be a highly-engaging interactive session, so please plan to attend live if you register.

05/29/2026

This week, we were graciously hosted by The Harlem School of the Arts for the first part of our creative aging training with a fantastic group of teaching artists as part of our project, "Culture and Care: Healthy Aging Through the Arts in NYC Neighborhoods."

Through this city-wide initiative, we’re supporting sustainable partnerships between community arts organizations and senior-serving partners to co-create programs shaped by older adults’ identities, histories, and creative goals across Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.

"The incredible range of artistic practices, lived experiences, perspectives, and community expertise of this group of teaching artists is what will bring this project’s vision to life—supporting older adults’ health and well-being through creative aging engagement that is deeply embedded in the community. And a shout out to our equally incredible Lifetime Arts Trainers: Annie Montgomery, Daniela Del Giorno, and Asma Feyijinmi!" - Julie Kline, Director of Program Strategy

Part two of the training will focus on creating responsive, flexible creative aging curricula across art forms, followed by one-on-one coaching for each teaching artist. The momentum continues as programs begin rolling out this summer and fall! ✨

Learn more about this project: https://lifetimearts.org/culture-care-nyc/

05/22/2026

Before we can advocate for creative aging in policy and funding spaces, we first have to understand what we mean by “the arts.”

Our national policy brief explores how visual, performing, literary, digital, and cultural arts all support healthy aging through creativity, connection, and purpose. And creative aging (the practice of intentional artistic and creative engagement) is showing up everywhere: libraries, museums, senior centers, universities, and even healthcare systems through “arts on prescription” partnerships.

For funders and decision-makers, this work is valuable. The more clearly we can link the arts to health and wellness outcomes, the stronger the case becomes for investing in older adults and their communities.

Stay tuned for more highlights from our brief, “Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem,” and explore it on your own at https://na2.hubs.ly/H05HntD0.

05/14/2026

Are you a New Yorker passionate about serving older adults through the arts? Your work is already helping reshape how aging is experienced across the state. Join Lifetime Arts' New York State Creative Aging Leaders Network, a free and growing leadership network of artists and aging-service professionals committed to creative aging. Strengthen your work, build meaningful connections, and grow your skills alongside peers who share your vision!

Don't miss our next virtual convening on May 20th from 4-5pm EST, where we, Arts NYS Coalition, and the New York State Council on the Arts discuss how we can strengthen creative aging support and better align our messaging with emerging statewide priorities.

Join the free network at https://na2.hubs.ly/H05vhHp0 and register for our next convening at https://na2.hubs.ly/H05vnwD0.

Join the New York Creative Aging Leaders Network for an interactive conversation to shape our future together.

05/08/2026

Championing our health starts with creativity! This Older Americans Month, we’re putting creative aging where it belongs: at the heart of how we think about growing older.

Over the past year, alongside our partners and supporters, we’ve advanced policy and advocacy, launched arts and health pilots, and built strong statewide coalitions. Our latest newsletter highlights how we’re building this momentum and expanding creative aging's role in health and wellbeing.

Join our free mailing list for creative aging news, events, and resources: https://na2.hubs.ly/H05m-130. And if you’re able, please consider donating to help us build an even brighter future for aging: https://na2.hubs.ly/H05mZ3t0

Together, we’re making creativity what it should be: essential to health and a human right for all. Happy Older Americans Month! ❤️

05/05/2026

Did you miss our New York State Creative Aging Leaders Network kick-off? No worries, we’re just getting started!

Join us Wednesday, May 20th (4–5pm ET) for our next virtual gathering with Lifetime Arts, ArtsNYS, and the New York State Council on the Arts. We’ll explore the creative aging ecosystem, share insights from our national policy brief, highlight advocacy efforts across NY, and offer practical tools you can use in your own work. Register for free: https://na2.hubs.ly/H05hNYr0

If you’re involved with creative aging in New York, this network is for you. Join for free to connect, learn, and grow alongside practitioners across the state: https://na2.hubs.ly/H05hNvv0

04/29/2026

Our partnership with and is bringing arts “prescriptions” into senior living in North Carolina — and it’s already in motion, literally! 🎉

We kicked things off this week with an on-site orientation alongside residents, and it was a blast!

Learn more about this “first of its kind” initiative and the ripple effect we hope it has on health and housing communities nationwide via the article screenshotted above at McKnightSeniorLiving.com.

Much more to come, and dance about!