I'm now listening to some of today's live "Transforming Aging" sessions on the web-- still free for 48 hours -- that started today. You can just go to the website... sign up here
again if you didn't already.
Then click on any of the sessions that have already happened -- and you can listen! (I list the schedule at the end of this post.)
Here are a few highlights of "The Art of Aging", with artists Alice and Richard Matzkin.
Richard Matzkin, sculptor: "Creativity is the willingness to move into the unknown.
This has a lot of meaning for older people who have the tendency to go with the tried and true, the habitual ways of being. That deadens creativity. Bringing creativity into your life is like bringing renewal into your life....You have to let go of judgment. That's what stops creativity.
Alice Matzkin, artist:
It doesn't have to be art-- can be gardening, cooking, being with your family in certain ways. Having a passion for something you love to do and put your heart and soul into it.
Q. How to tap into your creativity?
R.M.: Have the attitude of "play," of being a child again and play.... When you're in the zone, creating, it's a meditation.
A.M.: Take a class, meet others... you don't have to show your creation to anyone. It's for you.
Confronting her own aging, Alice Matzkin, whose work is in the National Portrait Gallery, also painted herself:
again if you didn't already.
Then click on any of the sessions that have already happened -- and you can listen! (I list the schedule at the end of this post.)
Here are a few highlights of "The Art of Aging", with artists Alice and Richard Matzkin.
Richard Matzkin, sculptor: "Creativity is the willingness to move into the unknown.
This has a lot of meaning for older people who have the tendency to go with the tried and true, the habitual ways of being. That deadens creativity. Bringing creativity into your life is like bringing renewal into your life....You have to let go of judgment. That's what stops creativity.
Alice Matzkin, artist:
It doesn't have to be art-- can be gardening, cooking, being with your family in certain ways. Having a passion for something you love to do and put your heart and soul into it.
Q. How to tap into your creativity?
R.M.: Have the attitude of "play," of being a child again and play.... When you're in the zone, creating, it's a meditation.
A.M.: Take a class, meet others... you don't have to show your creation to anyone. It's for you.
Confronting her own aging, Alice Matzkin, whose work is in the National Portrait Gallery, also painted herself:
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| Alice Matzkin: self portrait |
