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Creative Aging II Teaching Roster Update & Grant Opportunities Still Available

By Kim Johnson, Director of Arts Access –

As of March 30, 2022, Lifetime Arts has trained thirty-three (33) artists and nonprofit arts organizations as part of the Creative Aging Tennessee II initiative and is now a part of the Tennessee Arts Commission’s (TAC) Creative Aging Teaching Artist Roster.  Located on TAC’s website, the Creative Aging Teaching Artist Roster highlights the artists trained to provide specific instruction in working with older adults.  This training is crucial in building arts programming that creates sustainable, relevant outcomes for older adults in communities throughout Tennessee.

The building of this Creative Aging Tennessee Teaching Artist Roster is part of an initiative funded by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in partnership with E.A. Michelson Philanthropy. The Special Opportunities: Creative Aging Tennessee II Grant is open to Tennessee nonprofit arts, senior service or community organizations, and governmental entities offering sequential arts learning for seniors aged 60+. The purpose of the grant program is to support organizations to reduce social isolation and loneliness and increase creativity and artistic techniques among participants. This program builds on previous work in creative aging by the Tennessee Arts Commission.

This grant provides one-time non-matching funds up to $3,000 for nonprofit arts, senior service, or community organizations, and governmental entities to support sequential arts learning for older adults aged 60+ to reduce social isolation and loneliness and increase creativity and artistic techniques.  As an added incentive to use the artists on the new Creative Aging Teaching Artist Roster, all projects must be implemented by teaching artists on the new TN Creative Aging Teaching Roster.  For more information on the Creative Aging TN II grant guidelines, visit https://tnartscommission.org/grants/special-opportunities-creative-aging-tennessee-ii/.

The Creative Aging Tennessee II Grant is available through June 15, 2022. Funding is distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis by geographic location until funds are expended and paid on a reimbursement basis for submitted applications that are complete. Applicant organizations are eligible to apply for up to $3,000 to pay for contractual artist fees and/or supplies.

For more information, see the Creative Aging Tennessee II grant guidelines or contact Kim Johnson, Director of Arts Access, at kim.johnson@tn.gov or 615-532-9797.

 

This activity is made possible by a grant provided by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in partnership with E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.