The Center has received funds from the Irvine Foundation to provide arts classes for non-mobile, low income senior citizens at assisted living and adult day care venues in the northeast San Fernando Valley. The program will be launched in the Fall of 2009. McGroarty Arts Center has hired highly trained instructors and teaching assistants and will provide art materials for each class. The goals of the program are to increase seniors' arts participation, engage seniors who are unable to travel to McGroarty Arts Center, provide personalized, artist-designed instruction in drawing and painting.

Classes will give each participant a positive, hands-on experience in creating thoughtful artwork. The program aims to assist seniors, through in-depth fine art classes, increase intellectual and physical activity levels, build an ongoing rapport with professional artists, and provide an outlet for personal expression. Classes will include innovative lessons in subjects such as abstraction, gestural drawing, color theory, gray scale values, experimental ‘non art' media, and negative space. Works created in the senior art classes will also be displayed in residences following culminating exhibitions.