Creative Aging Grant
Forecasted
The Creative Aging Grant supports Idaho libraries in offering artist-led arts workshops for older adults, fostering creative skills and social connection while strengthening library services.
Funder: Idaho Commission for Libraries
Due Dates (Anticipated): December 2026 (application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $2,000 per library in 2025; 2026 award details forthcoming
Summary: Supports artist-led arts programming for older adults in Idaho libraries.
Key Information: The program is for Idaho libraries; arts organizations and teaching artists participate as partners.
Description
The Idaho Commission for Libraries runs the Creative Aging Grant to help Idaho libraries offer arts-based learning for older adults. The program draws on Lifetime Arts’ Creative Aging model, which emphasizes artist-led learning, creative engagement, skills mastery, and social connection. It aims to strengthen libraries’ capacity to serve older adults and assess how programming affects their well-being.
The initiative also builds connections between libraries and arts organizations. Lifetime Arts provides guidance and professional development, while Arts Idaho helps connect libraries with regional teaching artists and supports those partnerships with tools and resources.
