Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide
Program Announcement for Interested Artists Bronx Council on the Arts is pleased to announce Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide (SPARC) for 2013, a community arts engagement program that places artists-in-residence at senior centers across the five boroughs of New York City. The program provides selected artists with a stipend and access to workspace in senior centers in exchange for the creation and delivery of arts programming for seniors. Participating seniors will be engaged in an art project or series of cultural programs over the course of the residency, which will also include a public program component - exhibits, readings, performances, open houses and other cultural interactions open to the surrounding community. This initiative seeks to connect artists with seniors in senior centers and positively impact the well-being of seniors through arts-based activities. Artists will be selected for SPARC through a competitive application process. A call for applications is expected to be released on October 1st, 2012 for the SPARC 2013 program and will be available online for all artists interested in working with a senior center in the borough of the Bronx. Artists interested in a SPARC residency with a senior center in another borough are encouraged to visit the website of that borough’s local arts council for application materials and guidelines. Please read the guidelines before filling out the application. NOTE: The submission deadline has passed. We are currently not accepting applications.
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RAIN Boston East
PEP for Seniors NORC
Bronxworks Innovative Senior Center 
Kips Bay Castle Hill Senior Center
Neighborhood
Neighborhood Shopp Casa Boriqua 
Coop City NORC
Sister Annunciata Bethel Senior Center
For additional information
about the SPARC guidelines,
call 718-931-9500 x20
SPARC is a collaboration among the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Department for the Aging and the City's five local arts councils situated in each borough – Brooklyn Arts Council, Bronx Council on the Arts, Council on the Arts and Humanities of Staten Island, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Queens Council on the Arts. It was developed as part of Age-Friendly NYC, a citywide effort to make the City more livable for seniors, and previously ran in 2011-2012 after a successful pilot called Space for Art in 2009. The 2012-2013 SPARC program is supported, in part, by public funds from the Department for the Aging.
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