Join your colleagues from all of the states and jurisdictions for professional development sessions designed around the current needs of state arts agencies. During the NASAA 2026 Learning Series, participants explore subjects relevant to the daily work they undertake serving their constituents, and delve deeper into timely topics and research. Sessions offer state arts agencies a valuable opportunity to learn with and from one another, sharing an abundance of ideas to inform, inspire and energize our work.
All staff and council/board members from state and jurisdictional arts agencies and regional arts organizations are encouraged to participate. To make this program accessible to all members, NASAA has waived registration fees for this series.
This NASAA 2026 Learning Series session is supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy through the Creative Aging, Creative Futures initiative.
This webinar celebrates the launch of NASAA’s Vital and Vibrant Creative Aging Toolkit, a new resource designed to help state and jurisdictional arts agencies champion and implement creative aging in their communities. Former NASAA Arts Learning Projects Director Susan Oetgen walks participants through the toolkit’s components and helps state arts agencies dig deeper into how they can put the toolkit to work. Lifetime Arts Executive Director Heather Ikemire presents on her organization’s new policy brief, Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem: Advancing Brain Health, Social Connectedness, and Livable Communities. As longtime collaborators in this work, Heather and Susan compare notes on the evolution of creative aging as a significant policy and program area for state arts agencies and the wider arts field, and highlight opportunities for how the field can use these two complementary new tools to meet the moment of “creative aging, creative futures.”
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