Author: Cahill, Pati

Publication Year: 1980

Media Type: Report

Summary:

This catolog profiles some three dozen projects and programs in the arts and humanities for and by older people. One of the basic purposes of the catalogue is to explain both the nature and the organizational detail of projects so that readers will gain a full overview of a project's operation. Consequently, directors of projects were asked to follow a standard format and provide, whenever possible, information fitting into similar categories. (from abstract)

Abstract:

This catolog profiles some three dozen projects and programs in the arts and humanities for and by older people. One of the basic purposes of the catalogue is to explain both the nature and the organizational detail of projects so that readers will gain a full overview of a project's operation. Consequently, directors of projects were asked to follow a standard format and provide, whenever possible, information fitting into similar categories. The 2-3 page limitation imposed on each entry, and the format, do not, unfortunately, allow for expansive explanation of the exciting results of each project. (p. iii).

The compilation of this catalogue has been occasioned by the Policy symposium on the Arts, the Humanities, and Older Americans, convened by the National Council on the Aging in Philadelphia in February 1981. The results of the Symposium and the contents of this publication testify to the creativity and vitality older Americans bring to the arts and humanities and to the contributions the arts and humanities make to enriching the lives of our nation's elders.

Viewed collectively and individually, the some three dozen projects and programs profiled in the catalogue reveal a rich diversity and steady expansion of arts and humanities programs for and by older people. Only in the last five years or so have such programs begun to flourish. While the catalogue profiles a small sampling of these programs from across the nation, it nonetheless reflects their overall growth in terms of quantity and range of projects, the numbers of people involved, and the quality of programming created. This catalog is intended as a preliminary effort which, in time, we hope to revise and expand. The entries appearing here are not considered model projects, but rather models of projects reflecting the scope of activities in the field. Project and programs were identified for inclusion on the basis of their scope, history, and distinguishing features. A future edition of the catalogue will attempt to be more comprehensive. Readers are welcome to recommend any missing projects for mention in the next edition.|One of the basic purposes of the catalogue is to explain both the nature and the organizational detail of projects so that readers will gain a full overview of a project's operation. Consequently, directors of projects were asked to follow a standard format and provide, whenever possible, information fitting into similar categories. The 2-3 page limitation imposed on each entry, and the format, do not, unfortunately, allow for expansive explanation of the exciting results of each project.

CONTENTS
Introduction.
Recollections.
Revitalize!
A pilot program of arts with older Americans.
Prairie Peoples' Handicraft Market, Inc.
A history in text and photographs of older Black Women of North Carolina.
Life not death in Venice.
Cultural services programs.
HISTOP: History-sharing through our photographs.
Free Street Too.
Senior citizens program.
Value dilemmas in the aging society.
The Senior citizens arts project.
Threads.
Capital children's museum Senior volunteer program.
Elder Arts.
Continuing education programs in the arts, humanities and aging.
Arts and older Americans.
Palmcrest Senior eye gallery.
Senior Center Humanities program.
COMPAS/Senior Arts program.
Human values and aging: New challenges to research in the humanities.
Arts and aging program.
Older adult art program.
Images of Old Age in America: 1790 to the present.
Arts for the aging.
Cultural arts program.
The Gerontological uses of history.
National Center on Arts and the Aging.
Arts for older adults.
Outreach program for the low-income elderly.
Arts and elders.
Celebration of life festival.
Community forums on ageism.
New perspectives in introductory course in the humanities.
In praise of age.
Herman L. Donovan Fellowship program for the eighties.
Arkansas Autumn: a tapestry of vital aging.

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Categories: Cultural Diversity