1st Edition
Art Education and Creative Aging Older Adults as Learners, Makers, and Teachers of Art
Section 1. Creatively Aging 1. Aging as Improvised Performance 2. John (Jack) Leo Roggenbeck’s Life Through Art 3. Flowing Downhill, We Never Stop Creating Section 2. Meeting Older Adults’ Unique Needs 4. Bridging Art, Aging, and Alzheimer’s 5. The Color of Memory: A Case Study 6. A Critical View of Art Education’s Responsibility to Disability and Aging Section 3. Intergenerational Art Education 7. Intergenerational Artmaking: Creating Connected Cultures 8. ART CART, a Transformative Journey: Assisting Aging Artists in Documenting Their Artistic Legacy 9. Digital Interactions and Intergenerational Connections Section 4: Engaging Older Adults With Artworks and Objects 10. Meaningful Objects: Memory Stories for Older Adults 11. Lifelong Learning and Museums: An Exploration of Arts- and Object-Based Experiences for Older Adults 12. Art Museums and Creative Aging Section 5. In Our Own Voices: Older Adults as Learners, Makers, and Teachers 13. Curating a Life: Seeing Much More 14. Grandma, Let’s Draw! Children’s Art and Intergenerational Connections 15. The Long Hill: One Lifelong Learner’s Meandering Path to the Doctorate in Art Education 16. Art + Culture + Elders 17. A Personal Narrative About Retirement: Continuing to Pursue an Active Professional and Creative Life
Biography
Melanie Davenport is Associate Professor of Art Education in the Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University, USA.
Linda Hoeptner Poling is Associate Professor of Art Education at Kent State University, USA.
Rébecca Bourgault is Assistant Professor and Chair of Art Education at the Boston University College of Fine Arts, USA.
Marjorie Cohee Manifold is Professor of Arts Education at Indiana University, USA.
Research and practice in the field of art education has evolved well beyond the K–12 art classroom and students, but addressing specific needs and potential of our nation’s aging population has been largely overlooked.
This collection of essays and research clearly attests to the life-affirming value of the arts and is a significant contribution to literature in the field. Multiple realities of aging are deftly woven alongside hopeful strategies for creative engagement and intergenerational connection. All of us who have elders in our professional and/or personal lives, or anyone wishing to creatively enhance the aging process will embrace this volume.
- Melody Milbrandt, Professor Emerita of Art Education, Georgia State University, and author of Art for Life (with Tom Anderson)
