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CAAN has a new blog address:
www.ArtfulAging.blogspot.com

Go to Artful Aging and read our new posts!

Eva Zeisel: Still Creating Beauty at 102!

TED.com is a great site...ideas worth spreading. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. But its scope has become ever broader. TED brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives--in 18 minutes--all recorded on video.

Here a great video from the ceramics designer Eva Zeisel looking back on a 75-year career. What keeps her work as fresh today (her latest line debuted in 2008) as in 1926? Her sense of play and beauty, and her drive for adventure. Listen to Eva Zeisel: The Playful Search for Beauty for stories from a rich, colorful life. It's worth spreading!

About Eva:

Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships. Work from throughout her prodigious career is included in important museum collections across the world. Born in 1906, Zeisel declares herself a "maker of useful things." Zeisel currently resides in New York where she continues to design furniture as well as glass and ceramic objects.

2009 PennPAT Spring Artist Workshop

Showcasing: Why, Where and How? PennPAT's Spring Artist Workshop is open to all Pennsylvania-based performing artists and groups, and will be offered in Philadelphia (April 16). For complete details and information on how to register, please visit their website.

The purpose of Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour (PennPAT) is to increase opportunities for professional Pennsylvania-based performing artists to obtain successful touring engagements.

Age & Art...

An excerpt from an MMCA Marketplace interview with PA artist Linda Benton McCloskey--when asked what made her decide to become an artist and how old was she when she knew:

"Actually, it wasn’t until I was in my late fifties …. Years ago when I was a young high school student, loving my art class, I mentioned to my art teacher that I was thinking about art as a career. Her response to me as that she felt that I didn’t have a talent in the art field and that it would better to pursue something different. And, I believed her... never painting, just admiring those who could... one of my co-workers suggested that I take a beginners watercolor class held in the evening. My first thought was 'Are you kidding? I haven’t picked up a brush for over 40 years.' But, what did I have to lose? I took that first class and the first night my teacher asked me to paint a landscape. Afterward - looking back on that 1st painting - it was awful - my first reaction was 'my art teacher was right - I don’t have talent.' But I was encouraged to continue to try… the rest is history."

Watch Amy make a cool thing.

Need a little lift today? Pour yourself a cup of tea, sit back, relax and enjoy this little 7 minute film about Amy--who made 17 things--making a cool 18th thing together with a bunch of people.

Amazing this power of the internet...of YouTube...of creativity...of one person. Follow Amy's internet trail for more or just smile and enjoy this cool 18th thing.

And now, for your fun viewing pleasure...The Beckoning of Lovely.

2009 CAAN Meeting Calendar

CAAN meetings will be held bi-monthly, on the second Tuesday of the month. The time will rotate between morning and afternoon.

2009 CAAN General Meetings

(a.m. meetings in purple, p.m. meetings in green)

• Tuesday, March 10 - 2:00-3:30 p.m.


• Tuesday, May 12 - 9:00-10:30 a.m.


• Tuesday, July 14 - 2:00-3:30 p.m.


• Tuesday, September 8 - 9:00-10:30 a.m.


• Tuesday, November 10 - 2:00-3:30 p.m.

If you are interested in hosting one of these meetings, please contact Meaghan Brown.

2009 CAAN Board Meeting Calendar

CAAN Board Members will meet every month, on the second Tuesday of the month.

CAAN general meetings will be held bi-monthly, with the time rotating between morning and afternoon. CAAN Board meetings will be held on the alternate months, on the second Tuesday, always in the afternoon.

2009 Board Meetings (in red)

• Tuesday, March 10 - 2:00-3:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, April 14 - 2:00-3:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, May 12 - 9:00-10:30 a.m.
• Tuesday, June 9 - 2:00-3:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, July 14 - 2:00-3:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, August 11 - 2:00-3:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, September 8 - 9:00-10:30 a.m.
• Tuesday, October 13 - 2:00-3:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 10 - 2:00-3:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, December 8 - 2:00-3:00 p.m.

If you are interested in hosting a Board Meeting, please contact Meaghan Brown.