Once a month the Boys & Girls Club of Burbank and Greater East Valley gather up their art supplies and visit the NoHo Senior Arts Colony in North Hollywood, CA, where they get artistic advice from our sage NoHoSAC artists. Under the tutelage of their art teacher, the young students worked in the NoHoSAC art studio, first drawing their outlines in pencil, then adding color and texture with acrylic paints. Their canvases came to life with high tech Transformers, cherry blossom branches, and a pair of luminous pop art-esque eyes. This field trip, part of the After School Education and Safety Program (ASES), is fully funded by the Boys & Girls Club and allows for intergenerational socialization and promotes hands-on creativity—for all ages.
Left: Encouragement from NoHo resident and painter, Cyrena. Right: Drawing a Transformer from the Internet.
Left: Next step is adding the cherry blossoms. Right: The Eye has it!
EngAGE connects across generations, helping older adults become involved with younger people in their communities as mentors, sages, and neighbors.
Regional Arts Director: Amie Mack
Event Date: January 29, 2019
Made possible with support from the Boys & Girls Club of Burbank and Greater East Valley
North Hollywood Senior Arts Colony is a Meta Housing Corporation community.
