Connecting Through Creativity

Project Added: November 28, 2020
Project Point of Contact: [email protected]
A person sits smiling, holding a painting of themselves.

A participant holding a colored-in photo of herself

Arts for the Aging

Arts-and Intersections:

Aging

Collaborators:

Location:

Rockville, Maryland

Region:

Genre/Discipline:

Visual art

Population Density:

Suburban, Urban

Large Intended Impact Area:

Multi-State Region

Foundations:

OVERVIEW

Using visual art, poetry, story and movement in various combinations, participants in Connecting Through Creativity use their imagination to learn about poets and artists while engaging in discussions, writing collaborative stories and poems, and making individual artworks.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

PROJECT EVALUATION

Data was collected from 633 multidisciplinary AFTA artist-led programs over a 12 month period in 2018 at 33 AFTA partner sites throughout Greater Washington DC. https://aftaarts.org/by-the-numbers/