The Art of Aging: A Journey of Self-Discovery with Artist Teté Montero, begins June 27
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Fridays, June 27 - August 1, 2025
6:00 - 7:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$155 Paid Patreon Members / $160 General Admission
Aging is often framed as a slow process rather than an expansion of wisdom, resilience, and self-awareness. Teté Montero, alternative artist and educator will guide you through a six week journey that seeks to step outside conventional cultural narratives and explore aging as a creative and artistic psychological path, one with the capacity of deepening emotional intelligence, strengthening identity, and gifting a greater sense of clarity and purpose. With illustrated live lectures, guided discussion, mindful practices, writing prompts, journaling and art-making, we will explore what means to grow older with intention, curiosity, and playfulness while tracing personal narratives of transformation and self-discovery.
Through the lens of art history, we will examine aging not just as a physiological process, but as an evolving, expressive, transformative practice, for both the artists who have explored it, and ourselves. Iconic artworks will serve as foundation for observations, revealing how artists have confronted, resisted, and embraced the passage of time. We will look at Rembrandt’s intimate self-portraits, tracing his changing face over decades, Louise Bourgeois’ latter year sculptures, Nan Goldin’s photographic witnessing, and more. We will also look at cautionary tales, like The Picture of Dorian Gray, that reflect society’s fears of decline and impermanence. We will examine how creators have turned the aging experience into a wellspring of creativity, layering meaning and perspective over time.
This course will be a space for deep introspection, kinship, joy, and shared discovery. Each session will be set in a supportive and engaging environment. By the end, participants will have created a potential, introjective or tangible personal “Book of Aging”—a collection of insights, reflections, and creative expressions that serve both as record of this exploration, and a guide for navigating the years ahead with intention.
Teté Montero (she/her) is a Mexican artist and art educator who mindfully approaches teaching as an engaging journey. With a unique, quirky, innovative style, she inspires through education, art projects and storytelling, representing her creative, disabled, neurodivergent and BIPOC identity. She also creates unique art pieces in her studio.
Images: Käthe Kollwitz, Frontal Self-Portrait; My Grandmother, József Rippl-Rónai, 1894; Death and Life (German: Tod und Leben), Gustav Klimt, 1915.
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Fridays, June 27 - August 1, 2025
6:00 - 7:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$155 Paid Patreon Members / $160 General Admission
Aging is often framed as a slow process rather than an expansion of wisdom, resilience, and self-awareness. Teté Montero, alternative artist and educator will guide you through a six week journey that seeks to step outside conventional cultural narratives and explore aging as a creative and artistic psychological path, one with the capacity of deepening emotional intelligence, strengthening identity, and gifting a greater sense of clarity and purpose. With illustrated live lectures, guided discussion, mindful practices, writing prompts, journaling and art-making, we will explore what means to grow older with intention, curiosity, and playfulness while tracing personal narratives of transformation and self-discovery.
Through the lens of art history, we will examine aging not just as a physiological process, but as an evolving, expressive, transformative practice, for both the artists who have explored it, and ourselves. Iconic artworks will serve as foundation for observations, revealing how artists have confronted, resisted, and embraced the passage of time. We will look at Rembrandt’s intimate self-portraits, tracing his changing face over decades, Louise Bourgeois’ latter year sculptures, Nan Goldin’s photographic witnessing, and more. We will also look at cautionary tales, like The Picture of Dorian Gray, that reflect society’s fears of decline and impermanence. We will examine how creators have turned the aging experience into a wellspring of creativity, layering meaning and perspective over time.
This course will be a space for deep introspection, kinship, joy, and shared discovery. Each session will be set in a supportive and engaging environment. By the end, participants will have created a potential, introjective or tangible personal “Book of Aging”—a collection of insights, reflections, and creative expressions that serve both as record of this exploration, and a guide for navigating the years ahead with intention.
Teté Montero (she/her) is a Mexican artist and art educator who mindfully approaches teaching as an engaging journey. With a unique, quirky, innovative style, she inspires through education, art projects and storytelling, representing her creative, disabled, neurodivergent and BIPOC identity. She also creates unique art pieces in her studio.
Images: Käthe Kollwitz, Frontal Self-Portrait; My Grandmother, József Rippl-Rónai, 1894; Death and Life (German: Tod und Leben), Gustav Klimt, 1915.
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Fridays, June 27 - August 1, 2025
6:00 - 7:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$155 Paid Patreon Members / $160 General Admission
Aging is often framed as a slow process rather than an expansion of wisdom, resilience, and self-awareness. Teté Montero, alternative artist and educator will guide you through a six week journey that seeks to step outside conventional cultural narratives and explore aging as a creative and artistic psychological path, one with the capacity of deepening emotional intelligence, strengthening identity, and gifting a greater sense of clarity and purpose. With illustrated live lectures, guided discussion, mindful practices, writing prompts, journaling and art-making, we will explore what means to grow older with intention, curiosity, and playfulness while tracing personal narratives of transformation and self-discovery.
Through the lens of art history, we will examine aging not just as a physiological process, but as an evolving, expressive, transformative practice, for both the artists who have explored it, and ourselves. Iconic artworks will serve as foundation for observations, revealing how artists have confronted, resisted, and embraced the passage of time. We will look at Rembrandt’s intimate self-portraits, tracing his changing face over decades, Louise Bourgeois’ latter year sculptures, Nan Goldin’s photographic witnessing, and more. We will also look at cautionary tales, like The Picture of Dorian Gray, that reflect society’s fears of decline and impermanence. We will examine how creators have turned the aging experience into a wellspring of creativity, layering meaning and perspective over time.
This course will be a space for deep introspection, kinship, joy, and shared discovery. Each session will be set in a supportive and engaging environment. By the end, participants will have created a potential, introjective or tangible personal “Book of Aging”—a collection of insights, reflections, and creative expressions that serve both as record of this exploration, and a guide for navigating the years ahead with intention.
Teté Montero (she/her) is a Mexican artist and art educator who mindfully approaches teaching as an engaging journey. With a unique, quirky, innovative style, she inspires through education, art projects and storytelling, representing her creative, disabled, neurodivergent and BIPOC identity. She also creates unique art pieces in her studio.
Images: Käthe Kollwitz, Frontal Self-Portrait; My Grandmother, József Rippl-Rónai, 1894; Death and Life (German: Tod und Leben), Gustav Klimt, 1915.