MAKING ART WORK 

Making Art Work is a multi-faceted program that provides access to arts and arts education at our older adult centers in New York City. It offers a community for older adults where they can be creative, learn new skills and crafts, and socialize with others through group activities and art classes. Making Art Work keeps older adults active and engaged through art and socialization, which reduces isolation and improves the overall health and well-being of participants. With the opening of the Carter Burden/Leonard Covello Center in 2012, the additional space has allowed us to expand the Making Art Program dramatically, making Covello a major art center in the older adult community. The teaching staff is constantly developing new projects and initiatives that can bring art to people who might not otherwise have opportunities to participate in creative arts programs.

Making Art Work Programs:

older adult CENTER ART CLASSES 

Our older adult centers offer access to quality art and crafts classes and activities taught by professional teaching artists. These classes offer opportunities for older adults to be creative, learn new skills, and socialize with others through group activities.

Classes include painting, ceramics, printmaking, sewing, quilt making, clothing construction, and more.

ANNUAL FASHION SHOWS

Every year, the Carter Burden/Leonard Covello Center and the Carter Burden Luncheon Club each host their own fashion show, where older adults walk the red carpet in clothing and jewelry made in Making Art Work classes at the centers. The theme of the fashion show is to celebrate beauty at any age and gives older adults the opportunity to show off they hard work and talents. 

CARTER BURDEN older adult PROGRAM ORNAMENTS

Each year, the Carter Burden Luncheon Club on the Upper East Side hosts a Christmas Day Party for older adults in the area that seats 160 people. As part of the Making Art Work program, teaching artists and older adults created over 350 handmade ornaments over three years for the Christmas tree that is put up at the center. The impressive array of ornaments are made from techniques including knitting, crochet, paper arts, embossed metal, sewn felt objects, mixed media and more. There are also trees with handcrafted ornaments at the Carter Burden Leonard Covello Center, Lehman Village, and Metro East 99th Street Adult Day Program. 

For further information on Making Art Work, please contact:
Alexandra Borovski, Making Art Work Program Coordinator borovskia@carterburdennetwork.org 212-423-9665

Diane Schneck, Teaching Artist
schneckd@carterburdennetwork.org
212-423-9665

Carter Burden Network’s Making Art Work program is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.