Creative Aging for 55+

Description

Creative Aging Sample Class

Tuesdays, January 7 – February 11, 2025, | 10:00 am -12:00 pm

Experience Level: Beginners Ages 55+
Medium: Mixed Media
Materials Included in Fee
Registration: If you are a caregiver and are registering yourself plus your loved one, please contact Bernadette
Location: Sedona Arts Center, Theatre Studio

Creative Aging is the practice of engaging older adults in participatory, professionally run arts programs with a focus on social engagement and skills building. This program is for people ages 55+ and is also open to participants and their caregivers.

Explore different art mediums in this Creative Aging Sampler Class led by Sedona Arts Center artists. This class is for ages 55 and older interested in tapping into their creativity and trying out different art forms. Participants will try their hand at storytelling, collage, watercolor, acrylic pens, and water-media and more

No experience necessary! Caregivers also welcome.

Instructors will include Claire Obermarck, Mary Helsaple and more!

Claire Obermarck is a traditional oral Storyteller specializing in British & Celtic folktales. Working with all ages, her Storytelling has been utilized by festivals, prisons, recovery programs, historians, archeologists, architects, health services, charities and even Scottish Parliament. Claire is a Certified Facilitator for Timeslips. She is currently working on a collection of short stories. Learn more about Claire here!

Mary Helsaple is an accomplished nature and environmental water media artist from San Francisco State University with a BFA. She exhibits nationally, and earned, several NEA education grants, and distinguished herself in the year 2000 Colorado’s Governor’s Award in the arts. She recently self-published “The Physics of Watercolor”. Now 16 years in Arizona, she teaches and is known as an inspirational artist who willingly shares her creativity in the arts. Her work can be seen on her website: https://www.helsaple.com/

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Claire Obermarck

Claire Obermarck is a traditional oral Storyteller specializing in British & Celtic folktales. Working with all ages, her Storytelling has been utilized by festivals, prisons, recovery programs, historians, archeologists, architects, health services, charities and even Scottish Parliament.

Claire is the former Chair & programmer of Edinburgh’s oldest Storytelling club ‘The Guid Crack’ and was mentored by Master Storyteller David Campbell amongst others.

Claire provides workshops through the City Chambers Artist in the Classroom Directory, hosts Storytelling by the Friends Fireside at Sedona Public Library, and special Storytelling events at the Sedona Center for Harmony & Enrichment. She is a Certified Facilitator for Timeslips. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Mary Helsaple

“Every painting begins with investigation into the subject. Every artist is then challenged to infuse that knowledge with the skills they have accumulated in their art ‘toolbox’. My goal as an instructor is to motivate and assist artists where they are and encourage them to learn and refine those talents to create their best Masterworks.”

I was raised on the west coast, lived and worked in Colorado for 35 years and now live full time in Sedona, AZ. I have also been involved in the regional arts in Arizona these last 15 years. I participate in exhibitions at Sedona Arts Center, Sedona Visual Artists Coalition Open Studio events, Artlink shows in Phoenix, AZ, and many national juried exhibitions around the country. I am an environment-focused artist, whose objective is to create a visual that connects people with wild nature. I am also an avid birdwatcher and made nature documentaries for television. My detailed watercolors are large works on paper, done in the ‘narrative style’ that often touches on important social and environment concerns.

I teach drawing, watercolor, and mentor artists and friends with creative projects. Currently, I am writing a series of inspirational nature books based on my travels and sketch journals containing stories of wildlife about the interesting people I encountered both in North and South America.

Presently my paintings are traveling in a national exhibition “Environmental Impact II” 2019-2024, an exhibit compiled of 26 national artists whose art shows the effect and demands humans put on their environments throughout the world, bringing to the forefront pressing and critical issues facing global communities in the next decades.

I am fully vaccinated for Covid-19.

www.helsaple.com

Materials Are Included in the Price

Cancellation Policy

Registration and Cancellation Policies

Registration

Each student must enroll individually.
Students may register online or by calling the Sedona Arts Center’s Office at 928-282-3809, ext. 1.

In-Person and Online Classes Cancellation

Students must cancel or transfer at least 7 days prior to the first day of class.
If a student cancels or transfers before the 7-day cut-off, a 15% fee will be applied.
If a student cancels within 7 days prior to class, there are no refunds.
If Sedona Arts Center cancels the class for any reason, all payments made will be refunded in full.

Important Message

The Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for providing make-up sessions or issuing refunds, credits, or transfers for courses missed as a result of illness, emergencies, or other events beyond our control. There are absolutely no refunds after the cut-off date for any reason, unless the Sedona Arts Center has to cancel the workshop, then all fees paid will be refunded in full.