The Conservatory Outreach Department has been singled out by the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, an organization that represents more than 350 independent and collegiate divisional schools across the U.S.
According to Bryan Bowser ’97, assistant director for external affairs at the Conservatory, the Outreach Department is the sole Guild member school to be highlighted in an upcoming “Americans For the Arts” monograph as a “Guild program that does excellent work in arts and aging.” Bowser said this honor recognizes the Conservatory’s programs for retirees such as the New Horizons program, group classes and private lessons.
The Guild also has identified B-W as one of two test sites as Gene Cohen develops assessment tools to monitor the health of older adults as they participate in arts programs and activities. Cohen is the author of The Mature Mind and The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life and the director of the Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at The George Washington University. The Guild and the National Center for Creative Aging will eventually publish the assessment tools for use throughout the field.
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