Denver Art Museum

The Denver Art Museum will extend its Creative Aging initiative by developing new arts programs for Colorado's rapidly increasing older adult population to be delivered at the museum in dedicated workshops and outdoor learning spaces. The museum will develop and evaluate two program models: an outdoor Sensory Courtyard program that supports multi-sensory art experiences and is fabricated, maintained, and activated by older adults from the community and a Create Café program focused on peer-to-peer engagement and socialization around artmaking. The programs will be developed with older adult community partners, local creatives, and professional teaching artists. A comprehensive evaluation plan will inform project development and refinement, assess impacts on participants and community partners, and guide development of an implementation and evaluation framework that can shape future creative aging programs and measure the long-term impact of arts programming on healthy aging.