The Pomerene Center for the Arts
Promoting Community Involvement in the Arts
GIVE THE GIFT OF ART
Why Arts Education?
In their September 2, 2007 Boston Globe article Art for our sake: School arts classes matter more than ever - but not for the reasons you think, Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland argue that the arts teach important ways of seeing, imagining, inventing, and thinking. “Those who have learned the lessons of the arts, - how to see new patterns, how to learn from mistakes, and how to envision solutions - are the ones likely to come up with the novel answers needed most for the future.” check out our opportunites for children
Artist Friends of the Pomerene
The Artist Friends’ mission is to help provide and promote visual arts opportunities in our community for adults of all skill levels and interests. They recognize that though art may not be vital to fulfilling our basic needs, it does make life more joyful. The group believes that studying art encourages adults to be creative and freethinking. Working with the Pomerene Center the Artist Friends recognize the artist in all of us and encourage people to identify and develop their creativity and additionally, to appreciate local individual talent and our collective artistic riches. Christy Mosier, Barbara Hill, Shara Prindle, Esther Marie Versch and BJ Taylor sit on the steering committee for the Artist Friends of the Pomerene Center. click to see upcoming opportunities
Shifts In Thinking About Aging
“In 2001, a study co-sponsored by George Washington University and the National Endowment for the Arts found that people 65 and older who were regularly involved in participatory arts programs reported fewer doctors’ visits and less need for medication and were less prone to depression.”
“We’re thinking beyond the problems of aging to its potential,” said Dr. Gene D. Cohen, the director of the Center on Aging, Health and Humanities at the George Washington University Medical Center. “What’s emerging is a very talented group of people—” http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/us/10senior.html
