Creative Aging Programs
An offering of programs for adults to engage in creative lifelong learning. Programs explore the rich potential of aging and offer opportunities to impact the community’s health and wellbeing.
here:now
Designed for adults living with dementia and their care partners, here:now is a free arts engagement program that celebrates present-moment awareness and new possibilities for creative expression.
Alzheimer’s Café
Enjoy artwork discussions, live music, snacks, and fun at the Alzheimer’s Café at The Memory Hub, next to the Frye.
Creative Aging Special Events
The Frye Art Museum offers professional development opportunities and public programs for community conversations on art, creativity, dementia, and healthy aging through hands-on workshops, interdisciplinary lectures, and a variety of special events.
Meet Me at the Movies
Meet Me at the Movies is a unique film experience. Short clips from classic and contemporary films are shown, followed by audience discussion guided by a facilitator.
Bridges
Home-based creative arts experiences for adults living with dementia.
The Memory Hub
The Frye Art Museum is a founding partner of the Memory Hub: A Place for Dementia-Friendly Community, Collaboration, and Impact. Spearheaded by UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center and located on the Frye campus, the Memory Hub welcomes visitors year-round to experience new perspectives on living well with dementia.
ABOUT CREATIVE AGING
Advisory Committee
Karen Maeda Allman
Assistant Agent, Wales Literary Agency; Community Relations and Events Coordinator (retired), Elliott Bay Book Company
Marigrace Becker
Program Manager, Community Education and Impact, UW Medicine Memory and Brain Wellness Center; Director, The Memory Hub: A Place for Dementia-Friendly Community, Collaboration, and Impact
Tamar Benzikry
Director of Learning and Engagement, Frye Art Museum
Amy Hamblin
Artist
Patricia Klingler
Corporate Trainer and Personal Coach (retired)
Jennifer Kulik, PhD
Founder & CEO, Silver Kite Community Arts
Katie Lamar
Director of Creative Aging, Aging Wisdom
Kavan Peterson
Co-Founder, ChangingAging.org; President, Harvest Home Care
Kristoffer Rhoads, PhD
Neuropsychologist, UW Medicine Memory and Brain Wellness Center
Karen M. Winston
Senior Planner, Aging and Disability Services, City of Seattle
Blog
Creative Aging Art-Making Tips: Getting Ready for Art-Making
February 18, 2022
Singalong with Carmen Ficarra: In the Name of Love
December 17, 2021
Guided Artwork Discussion: Rie Muñoz
September 27, 2021
Moonlit Mobile Activity
September 24, 2021
Guided Artwork Discussion: Johan Barthold Jongkind
September 13, 2021
Singalong with Carmen Ficarra: Songs about the Moon
September 09, 2021
Guided Artwork Discussion: Julius Scheuerer
June 15, 2021
Still Life Collage Activity
June 07, 2021