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CREATIVE AGING NEWS | DECEMBER 2021
2021 Year in Review
Lifetime Arts has stayed true to our mission and expanded our impact in our field in each of the years since our founding in 2008, and 2021 was no exception. 

This past year, we added 20 new state arts agency partners, and continued work with national, state, and municipal partners, such as the American Alliance of Museums, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and the National Guild for Community Arts Education. 

We delivered hundreds of training hours to more than 800 people across the U.S., and coached 42 partner organizations in 26 states and territories to successfully deliver 116 creative aging programs.

We did all of this through the continued, generous support of Aroha Philanthropies, New York State Council on the Arts and Office for the Aging, The May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust, The New York Community Trust, and The Wyoming Community Foundation. 

Coming in 2022
In 2022, we will launch Creative Aging Foundations, a free, self-paced, online version of our professional development training, and will embark on an IMLS funded project with the state libraries of Wyoming and Florida. We will also expand our work with the Brooklyn Public Library, and continue partnerships with state arts agencies. 

We will also soon launch a newsletter curated and written by cultural programming and aging expert, Diantha Dow Schull, via our Creative Aging Resource website. The more than 500 of you who are already subscribed will receive your first issue shortly. 
Staff News
We are pleased to announce that Julie Kline has been named Director of Professional Development and Training, and Gahlia Eden has joined us full-time as Education Producer. Jacqueline DuMont is now our Digital Media Producer, and we say thank you and farewell to Joe McCarthy, our Digital Media Associate.
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