Beginning in 2010, AVA Gallery and Art Center partnered with the Dartmouth Aging Resource Center to offer writing classes. Ever since, a six-week workshop on memoir has been offered each fall and a six-week workshop in poetry has been offered each spring.

The memoir sessions were first led by Katherine Harbaugh. Memoir is currently taught by Kim Gifford.

The poetry sessions are led by Tom Haushalter, who also provided this image from the 2018 classes.