Let’s Elevate Your Community Through Artful Aging™ Experiences
Inspire your community with lifestyle-enhancing creativity. COMPAS offers tailored, award-winning experiences for older adults, inspiring and rejuvenating people of all backgrounds. Art for seniors improves quality of life, combats social isolation, and brings groups and communities together. Our teaching artists can assist older adults in exploring their thoughts and emotions in a creative way.
Explore our expertise with dedicated teaching artists who lead engaging programs in various arts disciplines, from songwriting to creative movement.
We bring our programs directly to you, eliminating transportation barriers and offering intergenerational connections. Let’s discuss how COMPAS can inspire your community. Contact us to start a conversation or book now.
Art Programming Opportunities COMPAS Offers for Older Adult Communities
Artful Aging™ Residencies
Artists with additional training in teaching older adults work alongside participants, guiding them to learn new creative skills and create their own visual art, writing, music, dance, or theater pieces. Programs start with an artist meet & greet. A community celebration (an event to highlight and demonstrate the participants’ accomplishments) caps off each residency. Artful Aging™ residencies can be structured as a camp or a series of classes to meet the needs of your site and the people you work with.
- Traditional Artful Aging™ residencies include 1 meet and greet session to gather participant information and build excitement, and then 8 or more sessions with the artist, each lasting 90 minutes to 2 hours. Classes are typically held once a week, but can be customized to your unique environment.
- We also offer one-time 60 minute workshops and customized residencies that adapt to your community.
Artful Aging™ programming start with a planning session before the artist’s first session. This will ensure that staff, volunteers, and participants get the most from their time with the artist and help your organization grow its creative capacity. Our teaching artist will be prepared for their program and adapt as needed.
Artful Aging™ Samplers
Not sure where to start? Artist Samplers are workshops that bring one of our certified Artful Aging™ artists to your site for a one or two-hour session featuring projects designed to be completed within this timeframe. Samplers are offered as both single and multiple sessions. It’s a perfect opportunity to explore the COMPAS Artful Aging™ program and discover which project or artist suits your community’s needs best.
Performances in Older Adult Settings
COMPAS Artist performances can be for small or larger groups. They can accompany a meal or event, or just be standalone. They are great for busy days in your community and/or for enlivening a quiet day.
