Generously supported by Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, AZ Creative Aging is a three-year initiative of the Arizona Commission on the Arts which aims to embed creative aging knowledge and best practices in the community, build an infrastructure for high-quality arts and aging programs, and enhance quality of life for older Arizonans. The AZ Creative Aging Teaching Artist Institute is the initiativeās first programmatic module.
TheĀ application period for the AZ Creative Aging Teaching Artist Institute has ended. The deadline for applications was December 1, 2015.
AZ Creative Aging Teaching Artist Institute
The Teaching Artist Institute is a comprehensive training program that will introduce teaching artists to the variety of settings, programs, and partners that make up the creative aging field, while providing skills-building activities allowing participants to attain the specialized knowledge needed to work successfully with older adults. Inspired by ArtSage and other national models, the Institute has been developed around the philosophies of person-centered care, a process-based approach, and cultural responsiveness.
Teaching artists selected to participate in the AZ Creative Aging Teaching Artist Institute will:
- Discover the unique ways that quality, meaningful, participatory arts engagement improves quality of life for adults across the aging spectrum.
- Explore the unique developmental needs of lifelong learning, legacy-leaving, and meaning-making.
- Learn tools and techniques to utilize existing teaching skills to create innovative and relevant arts learning opportunities for older adult populations.
- Understand the aging field with respect to research, myths of aging, levels of care, changes in the brain, physical challenges, and memory decline.
- Understand the process of initiating partnerships for facilitating work with older adults in a variety of settings, and have an opportunity to promote oneās teaching artistry to interested parties and potential community, aging service and healthcare partners.
- Establish a peer network of teaching artists working with older adults.
The AZ Creative Aging Teaching Artist Institute will be highly experiential, allowing participants to observe and practice activities and processes. Participants will receive training facilitated by master teaching artists, work with a mentor throughout the course of the Institute, and engage in applied learning through guided, on-site teaching opportunities.
Participation includes:
- all curriculum materials;
- lunch at each of the in-person workshop sessions;
- a free background check, often required when working in care facilities; and
- a free copy of Creativity Matters: The Arts & Aging Toolkit.
Thanks to the generous support of Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, there is no fee to participate in the AZ Creative Aging Teaching Artist Instituteās pilot year.
How to Apply:
AZ Creative Aging Teaching Artist Institute: Call for Teaching Artists
The Call for Teaching Artists provides additional information about the Teaching Artist Institute and detailed instructions for how to apply.
TheĀ application period for the AZ Creative Aging Teaching Artist Institute has ended. The deadline for applications was December 1, 2015.
