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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