Art Thinking Your Way to an Encore Career

A chat about using creativity to make a difference and make a living Amy Whitaker lives at the intersection of two seemingly opposing worlds — art and business. She’s been toggling between teaching artists about economics and coaching business people to think like...

15 Questions for Encore Thinkers: Cal Halvorsen

Just who’s writing, thinking and talking about the encore movement? Encore.org’s new feature showcases some of the behind-the-scenes players who don’t often get time in the spotlight. Do you want to answer the Encore 15Qs? Better still, is there...

Art and Activism, Stitch by Stitch

The latest Encore.org story featured by our media partner The Christian Science Monitor profiles Nedra Bonds, who creates “quilts with a message.” Bonds, a retired educator and social worker, started quilting at age six. But in the 1980s, when a controversial landfill...

Wise Aging: Joy and Resilience in the Encore Years

Rabbi Rachel Cowan and Dr. Linda Thal have written a new book, “Wise Aging: Living with Joy, Resilience and Spirit” (available here), that challenges readers to question preconceived notions of aging and ask what it truly means to live a life of connection and...