Seniors Flex Creative Muscles In Retirement Arts Colonies
Submitted by Steve on July 5, 2013
From NPR's Morning Edition comes this story about retirement institutions designed around arts:
Some famous writers, painters and musicians have done some of their best work in their later years — impressionist Claude Monet, for one. But at the North Hollywood Senior Arts Colony, older people are proving that you don't have to be famous — or even a professional artist — to live a creatively fulfilling life in old age.
With a fully equipped theater and painting and sculpture studios, there seems to be rehearsals or exhibitions of some sort going on here all the time.
Resident Nailah Jumoke, 64, moved here all the way from her home in Chicago. “I was looking for a place where seniors weren't being treated as seniors,” she says. “As an artist, I needed to be around motivation.”