Creativity, Aging and Purposeful Engagement with Martin Bloom, artist and UCONN professor emeritus Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 5:30-7:00 pm in The Annex (upstairs @ WindhamARTS) Afterward, receive 10% off dinner at Main Street Cafe $5 suggested donation. Open to All. Space is Limited ~ Please RSVP to 860.450.1287 or
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Martin Bloom, an emeritus professor from the University of Connecticut, started auditing basic art classes at UCONN and Eastern about five years before he retired and several years thereafter. During his career, he did research, taught and wrote in the areas of gerontology, primary prevention, human development and evaluation methods.In retirement, he continues his research and writing, but now devotes much time and energy to work in collage, an art method of "attaching something to something else" with aesthetic intent. He currently has a solo exhibition at the Mansfield Community Center through December -- which you are cordially invited to visit.
Read a recent New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell about later-life creativity -- "LATE BLOOMERS: Why do we equate genius with precocity?" <http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_gladwell>
======================== ABOUT CREATIVITY NETWORKING SPONSORS:The Creativity Networking Series is sponsored by the WindhamARTS Collaborative and the InternationalCentre for Creativity and Imagination. It provides a forum for exploring the many facets of creativity and for discovering other people interested in creativity. Additional support comes from the Willimantic Brewing Company.
Steven Dahlberg heads the Willimantic, Connecticut-based International Centre for Creativity and Imagination, which is dedicated to applying creativity to improve the well-beingof individuals, organizations and communities. He is associate director of the Creative Community Building Program at the University of Connecticut. He collaborates with artists, scientists, business people, educators and others to help people develop their creativity. Dahlberg authored the foreword to the book, "Education is Everybody’s Business: A Wake-Up Call to Advocates of Educational Change."
