Creative Aging: Celebrate Your Elder

This unique UMFA workshop invites intergenerational groups of up to three participants to create artworks celebrating elders in society.

Projects will include creating a crown, a storytelling workshop, building a diorama, and a collage based on the work of artist Arleene Correa Valencia. Participant groups must include one person 55+ and up to two people of a younger generation who are interested in working together. Participants do not need to be related. All participants must be registered for this event. Please note younger participants must be of school age and able to work in a classroom and museum setting.

Participants are limited to one eight-session UMFA 55+ workshop offered from January through June 2025.

For more information or questions, please contact Laura Sharp Wilson, manager of studio programs, at [email protected] | 801.585.6176.

Image: (Detail) Arleene Correa Valencia, Mexican American, born 1993, El Rancho / The Ranch, 2024, Textiles, acrylic, and thread on Amate paper made by Jose Daniel Santos de la Puerta, Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, Photograph by Adrian Osnaya

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