A magazine for the years
that keep changing us.
The Artful Age is for people navigating later life, family across generations, and the creative habits that make aging feel more human. Steered by Editors-in-Chief Graeme and Jeanette Brown.
We've become The Artful Age
This publication began with kids' art, process crafts, and creative family life at the table. That archive still lives here, and we still care about making as connection.
What readers actually come for now is broader and older: retirement and purpose, memory and hearing and health, adult children and aging parents, loneliness and friendship, nostalgia from the 1960s and 70s, and the psychology of becoming yourself again after the kids leave home.
The name caught up with the magazine. The Artful Age is the same publication, grown up with its audience, still published by Brown Brothers Media, still edited by Graeme and Jeanette.
What we cover
Aging with a clear eye
Retirement, purpose, health, memory, friendship, solitude, and the daily choices that shape how the years feel from the inside.
Parents, children, grandparents
Adult children, aging parents, grandparenting, inheritance of habits and stories, and the repair work families keep doing.
Making as connection
The craft archive that started this magazine: screen-free projects, seasonal making, and creativity as a family practice, not a performance.
We treat creativity as something bigger than crafts. It is how people notice each other, repair, remember, and keep becoming, at every age.
Who steers the magazine
Graeme and Jeanette Brown — a husband-and-wife team, grandparents, and parents of writer Lachlan Brown — serve as Editors-in-Chief. Meet the full masthead, including this week’s writers, on our Masthead page.
Graeme Brown
Editor-in-Chief
Graeme Brown is Editor-in-Chief of The Artful Age alongside his wife, Jeanette. A founder of The Expert Editor, Australia's leading online editing and proofreading company, he has spent a career refining other people's words — and now brings that same…
Jeanette Brown
Editor-in-Chief
Jeanette Brown is Editor-in-Chief of The Artful Age with her husband, Graeme. A writer, retired education leader, and career coach based in Australia, she spent decades in classrooms and leading education teams before turning to the questions that stay with…
Editorial standards
- Every published piece is reviewed and approved by a member of our team before it goes live. AI tools are a substantial part of how we produce The Artful Age: they help find and organise sources, draft, edit, check facts and links, and audit published work, and they may produce much of an initial draft. Where an editor is named on an article, that is the person who reviewed it. Important factual claims are supportable and important sources are linked. We say that we interviewed, contacted or investigated something only when we did.
- Quotations are attributed. Images carry credits where available.
- We correct confirmed errors promptly. Material corrections carry a dated note explaining what changed. Articles whose central premise cannot stand are withdrawn, with a notice left at the original address where appropriate.
- We follow established journalistic practice for sensitive topics: medical, financial, and mental-health content is published with appropriate disclaimers and links to qualified professional advice.
- Where an article contains an affiliate link or recommends a product or service connected to Brown Brothers Media, its founders, its staff or their families, that relationship is disclosed in the article near the recommendation.
Corrections
Found an error? Email corrections@brownbrothers.io with the article URL and a description of what needs correcting. We review every report we receive, and material corrections carry a dated note explaining the change. Full process: Corrections.
Get in touch
- Editorial: editorial@theartfulage.com
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- General: hello@theartfulage.com
Ownership & independence
The Artful Age is published by Brown Brothers Media. Display advertising is served by Adnimation / Setupad, with Taboola content recommendations. Editorial decisions are independent of advertisers, sponsors, and external parties.