What's Next on Life's Playground?: Using Art to Find Purpose (In-person)(In-person)

What's Next on Life's Playground?: Using Art to Find Purpose (In-person)(In-person)

In-Person: Adult | This program is completed

20 Academy Street Arlington, MA 02476 United States

Main Classroom

All skill levels

4/29/2024-5/13/2024

9:30 AM-12:00 PM on Mon

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133.00 USD

Member Discount Available

What are you yet to do in life? What does your life story suggest? Would engaging in your own artistic process help you answer some of these questions? Let’s find out. What from the past do you want to bring forward? Write and draw what you see. By selectively illustrating your life story you may soften memory and gain access to ideas and combinations of ideas not yet seen. By looking at photos, film clips and selected art, you may find bits and pieces of roads not yet taken. As you get closer to hopes and values and the beat of time, energy quickens. What if you crafted storyboards that went from here to there? What if you did research, made calls, and saw parts of a desired future coming towards you? Try 3 weeks of it. What might happen? Bring some of your art tools and an open imagination.

With Artist Kendall Dudley

  • Important: Facilities Update for Spring 2024 Programs

    Due to facility improvement projects being conducted by the Town, ACA has been notified that our building’s elevator will be out of commission for 6 weeks this spring, beginning in mid-April. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have concerns about traveling the three flights of stairs to our space on the 3rd floor, please let us know via email (info@acarts.org) or phone: (781) 648-6220. 
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  • Students should bring the following:

    Please bring your customary art supplies, a journal and favorite pen
Dudley, Kendall

he/him/his Kendall Dudley, MA, runs in person and online programs that integrate life direction with writing, art, travel and creativity. He’s received many grants for his public art projects on social justice themes. An explorer’s guide to life’s next chapter, “Itineraries For An Original Life” and a novel “Woman in Red Gloves” will be published in 2021. Kendall Dudley received an M.A. from Columbia University and served in the Peace Corps in Iran. All of these experiences inform his artistic and teaching practices.