What It Actually Takes to Keep Making Art After 50

What a book club revealed about the gap between generations, the pull of place, and what it really takes to keep making art

We were reading Sharon Louden’s Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life Over 50, and the conversation went places the preface didn’t quite reach.

The Gap No One Talks About

Louden writes about the dangerous divide between artists under 30 and those over 50. Someone without kids but decidedly “kid-adjacent” talked about why conversation…