The Middle Peninsula Fine Arts Association of Gloucester, a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts community partner, continues the 2026 lecture season with “The Amazing Benefits of Art on Aging” next Thursday, Feb. 19. Speaker Rick Griffin is a clinical psychologist, artist and MPFAA board member. The presentation will focus on the positive effects that art and art classes have on the aging process. Griffin will review his personal experience participating in a wide range of art classes over the past decade, beginning with drawing classes and progressing to oil and watercolor classes and plein air workshops. The program will be at Arts on Main, 6580 Main Street. The free presentation starts at 7:15 p.m. Those who would like to have dinner with the association members starting at 5:45 p.m. at a cost of $26 should email mpfaa1958@gmail.com no later than Sunday. The benefits of art on aging The later years are sometimes viewed through the negative lens of physical and mental decline, social isolat...