For many years Dr. Maureen Kellen-Taylor has been engaging people in the creative process and, through the arts, helping them recognize themselves as creative beings. This has been formalized through work as:

Recipient of a number of Artist-in Residence grants- most recently from Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to bring out stories in pictures and words of elderly immigrants. Consulting with RxX Regenerative Life Science Lab at USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, where she redesigned intergenerational Cultural Legacy programs.

COO of a non-profit (EngAGE) for 14 years delivering services to address the needs of the residents of 32 affordable senior apartment communities, including 4 Senior Arts Colonies; included training artists to work with seniors and piloting intergenerational programs with at-risk high school students.

Founding Director of the pioneering ArtWorks at Mount Zion Hospital – which brought the arts to thousands of homebound people and hospitalized patients coping with catastrophic illness- She received 5 California Arts Council grants for this work; the California Arts Council presented her with The Directors Award for dedication to the arts in California.

Her work with children includes: designing and delivering arts programs for 250 students as well as classes in Arts in Math, Social Studies and Language Arts to integrate different art forms with learning and to include children with many different learning styles.  Designing and teaching in intergenerational programs with at risk high-school students, middle-school students and religious schools. She also designed workshops for classroom teachers.

More teaching: Community College Arts Instructor in Lifelong Learning programs for older adults for 12 years; Teaching Fellow for returning students in a BA Completion program bringing arts and experiential learning into integral studies degree program; teaching classes for children and adult members of the Cancer Support Community.

Acting Executive Director of the Institute for Deep Ecology where she organized and directed bi-coastal environmental trainings for international activists.

Advisory Committee Member to Actors Fund Workforce Training Program.

Past Volunteer for TreePeople, Los Angeles

Volunteer for La City funded Children’s Art and Nature classes for 3 to 8 year olds.

Maureen speaks regularly at events and conferences. She trained in Fine Arts and Theatre Design in UK; Expressive Arts Therapy (M.A.) and PhD with research in Learning and Change in Human Systems in San Francisco. She also trained with Arne Naess, Joanna Macy and Fritjof Capra in Ecology, The Systems View of Life, and has taken the Pachamama Alliance training “Awakening the Dreamer”.

Maureen grew up in Guyana where she was surrounded by people finding creative solutions to the many problems that arise in everyday life.

She is currently involved in environmental art work – with several shows of her work highlighting the dangers of plastic in our waterways.

She authors a blog at Regener8tion.wordpress.com – It is Never Too Late to Create.