SENIORS

 

HOLLY HALL
In addition to sillk painting at the Franklin Apartments, Art For the People also worked with artist Clare Graves at Holly Hall, subsidized Senior housing.

woman lookiing at painitng

seniors and their art

 

 

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.

tile backsplash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tile Backsplash at the
TAKOMA PARK COMMUNITY CENTER
Art Room

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.

planter with sculptures

 

 

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.
seniors

 

 

TAKOMA PARK
SENIOR PROGRAM

Artists from AFTP worked through the Takoma Park Recreational Council, from 2001-2004 on weekly or bi-weekly arts and crafts. 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.