Campus Funding Opportunity

Faculty/Staff Enduring Masters Grants

The Linden Center for Creativity and Aging is dedicated to the better understanding of the links between aging and creativity and the opportunities an aging society presents for all persons and institutions in society. One way to successfully bring more attention to the creativity of older adults is demonstrated by the recent Enduring Masters collaboration between the School of Music and Gerontology Institute. This recently completed $150,000 grant from the New York Music Fund provided resources to bring nationally and internationally known musicians to the College to perform, teach Master classes, and informally discuss their craft with students. These interactions were videotaped and will be available in a digital archive for teaching and scholarship. This grant also had a very successful outreach component for music students to perform for older adults in the Ithaca area.

The Linden Center plans to continue the Enduring Masters concept and is announcing a new initiative to expand it to other performing arts represented on campus. The term art is being used broadly and would include, for example, music, writing, poetry, dance, theatre, visual arts, sculpture, photography, video, and film. Enduring Masters are individuals who have had a long and sustained career and are recognized as the best and most creative in their art form. Most Enduring Masters are age 60 and over, but there is no age requirement per say. Many of the performers brought in by the Music Fund grant were in their 70s and 80s.

A total of $10,000 is being made available to academic units to bring artists to campus to perform/present over the next three semesters. As noted below, there is a dollar for dollar match requirement for grants under this new initiative.

Parameters for the grant awards are noted below:

1. Performances/presentations should be explicitly connected to curricular goals;
2. Applications that involve collaborations between departments and schools/divisions are especially encouraged;
3. Funds can be used to augment/expand existing programs or for new initiatives;
4. Four to five awards of approximately $2,000 to $2,500 are envisioned;
5. Award amounts must be matched with an equal amount of college or other grant money;
6. Applications are due by 5 p.m., October 30^th, 2009 and funds must be expended by December 31st, 2010; and,
7. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee consisting of three members of the Linden Center College Advisory Committee and the director of the Gerontology Institute.

Please call John Krout at 4-1965 to discuss this new opportunity and your proposal ideas before you submit.