Living
Teaching artist Marilynne Bradley encourages her students to see things in a new way
AUGUST 30, 2019 | By Patricia Corrigan
Vicki Sawyer paints birds in hats and critters in costumes
JULY 26, 2019 | By Patricia Corrigan
Do we slow down because we retire? Or do we retire because we slow down?
APRIL 29, 2019 | By Jill Smolowe
The results of a Vitality Arts survey highlight the impact of creative pursuits
OCTOBER 8, 2018 | By Julie Pfitzinger
A conversation with Nell Painter, author of 'Old in Art School'
JULY 25, 2018 | By Celia Heudebourg
Caregiving
A new program eases caregiver isolation and helps people with dementia
JULY 11, 2018 | By Mindy Fetterman
Watercolor painter Maria Bodette won Next Avenue's older artists contest
JUNE 29, 2018 | By Grace Birnstengel
These performers are 65 to 94-years-old and utterly inspiring
JUNE 28, 2018 | By Shayla Thiel Stern
These creatives prove that art adds immeasurable value to one's life
JUNE 13, 2018
Technology
A podcast from Columbia students on growing older around New York City
JUNE 8, 2018 | By Grace Birnstengel
A collaboration is making it happen at rural Kentucky nursing homes
APRIL 10, 2018 | By Anne Basting
Slideshow
They challenged the weather and themselves in this class
MARCH 5, 2018 | By Barbara La Valleur
Video
Festival director Dominic Campbell makes the case for fun
MARCH 1, 2018 | By Patricia Corrigan
Health
Solving the problem of social isolation by thinking differently about senior housing
DECEMBER 11, 2017 | By Tim Carpenter
This woman's journey to becoming a 'gutsy broad' and a painter
AUGUST 15, 2017 | By Deborah L. Jacobs
You can learn to be a filmmaker on the cheap and on the fly
JUNE 23, 2017 | By Stephen L. Antczak
A recent Kennedy Center program explored creative aging and the brain
JUNE 9, 2017 | By Susan Donley
You wondered whether learning music at your age was worth it and possible
MAY 31, 2017 | By Shayla Thiel Stern
Next Avenue readers weigh in on the importance of participating in the arts as we age
FEBRUARY 1, 2017 | By Heidi Raschke
Walk like an orangutan, and other lessons from my initiation into the aerial arts
JANUARY 24, 2017 | By Deborah Quilter
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