seniors

SENIORS TAKOMA PARK SENIOR PROGRAM Artists from Art For The People have provided arts and crafts workshops through the Takoma Park Recreation Council since 2001. The Maryland State Arts Council funded a AFTP program called "The Gift of Art". Seniors sewed blankets for the residents of the Helping Hands Family Shelter in Rockville, Maryland and painted small acrylic works which were donated to Holy Cross Hospital adult day care. AFTP provides ongoing arts and crafts to seniors.

		PAINTING AT HOLLY HALL APARTMENTS AFTP has done several workshops at this Senior Subsidized Housing including jewelry making, and painting silk scarves with artist Clare Graves.

THE FRANKLIN APARTMENTS Subsidized Housing Takoma Park, MD AFTP has presented free workshops for seniors and disabled adults who are generally restricted to the building's premises since 2003. Workshops included silk painting, decorating clay flower pots, and flower arranging, making Valentine's Day door decorations and painting vases and place settings.
TAKOMA PARK COMMUNITY CENTER Art Room, Tile Backsplash Bisque tiles were glazed by Seniors at the Takoma Park Community Center and the Franklin Apartments, and they contributed buttons, jewlery that became part of the piece. Alice Sims and Laurie Stepp designed the backsplash, worked with Seniors and assisted with the permanent installation in the Takoma Park Community Building art room.
LONG BRANCH COMMUNITY CENTER SENIORS Silver Spring, MD AFTP held three ceramic workshops where seniors constructed clay tiles of flowers and leaves. Artists Alice Sims and Laurie Stepp constructed five acrylic cement "plants" to which the glazed tiles were attached. The finished sculptures were permanently installed at the entrance to the center and replaced an unsightly, empty planter. The Community Center serves a large immigrant population.