Senior Center Workshops – Judy Hugentobler

Marine Park Active Adults Neighborhood

CARMINE CARRO COMMUNITY CENTER

The Brooklyn Arts Council administers Grants for projects based at senior center sites across the Borough. Since February 2018, my placement at the Carmine Carro Community Center gave me the opportunity to work with seniors from Marine Park, Brooklyn. The participants developed drawing and painting skills to render images onto clay slabs which resulted in ceramic tiles. All materials were supplied through the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA grant and firings took place at my studio in Red Hook. The Carmine Carro Community Center provided the classroom space for approximately 12-14 seniors, who were inspired to create several designs as they gained confidence working with clay.

The themes reflected their interests in various travel locations or general subjects of nature or abstraction. On June 22nd, an exhibition and reception was the final culmination of the teaching residency, coordinated along with an exhibit of artwork by children in the Marine Park community.

http://milldev.org/marine-park-active-adults/

Seslie Brock at the Carmine Carro Community Center

Poster for June 16

Relief Tiles and Ceramic Hand Building for Seniors

a SU CASA residency conducted by Judith Hugentobler

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council sponsors weekly ceramic workshops at the Center on the Square Senior Center during March, April, May and June. An exhibition of all completed tiles was presented in the Parlor of the Center between June and July 2016. Center on the Square is located at 20 Washington Square Park North, in Manhattan.

The Center Director is Laura Marceca. Phone: 212 777-3555 X 106

SU-CASA is supported by public funds from the New York City Council, in partnership with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department for the Aging. It is administered in collaboration with the City’s five local arts councils. The program began as SPARC in 2012 and was developed as part of Age-Friendly NYC, a citywide effort to make the City more livable for seniors. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Lower Manhattan and beyond.

http://lmcc.net/program/su-casa