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FROM THE GOVERNOR Dear Friends: On behalf of the great State of Tennessee, I am pleased to extend a warm welcome to the participants and guests of the 2011 Tennessee Arts Academy. I hope this time provides you with ample opportunity to meet with friends and colleagues while making CONTENTS new acquaintances. May you find encouragement as you listen to speakers, participate in sessions, and interact with others in the field. If you have the chance, I hope you will take time to enjoy Nashville and 4 FACULTY all it has to offer. Again, welcome to Tennessee. Crissy and I send our best wishes. 7 WORKSHOP SESSIONS Warmest regards, 10 INTERLUDES 15 MUSINGS 16 PERFORMANCES Bill Haslam 18 SPECIAL EVENTS FROM THE TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 20 ACADEMY AWARDS Welcome to the 2011 Tennessee Arts Academy. You are about to have one of the most enriching 21 TAA HISTORY experiences of your professional career. You will make new friends, benefit from the expertise of a gifted 22 ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL AND STAFF faculty, and renew your excitement for the arts as part of an integrated approach to education. In an era of high stakes accountability and with greater focus on student achievement, you will be reminded that 24 ADVERTISERS the arts have a vital role to play in students’ lives. I hope all of you will leave refreshed and excited about unlocking the potential in all your students.
Kevin Huffman Commissioner
FROM BELMONT UNIVERSITY It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to Belmont University. We are honored to host the Tennessee Arts Academy on our campus, and I trust that our facilities will provide for enriching learning experiences for each of you. The Tennessee Arts Academy is an excellent venue for teachers of the arts to share the best practices and receive instruction from gifted faculty within a collegial community. I am confident that your students’ learning will be enhanced by the valuable techniques that you obtain as a participant. Again, thank you for allowing Belmont to host the Arts Academy. Sincerely,
Robert C. Fisher President FACULTY FACULTY
Craig Arnold from rhythmic training, eurhythmics in teacher Maud Hickey served on the state writing team that developed Anita Manley years of general education experience at Carter- Music-Upper Middle/Secondary training is an important focus of Frego’s research. Music-Upper Middle/Secondary the grade level expectations for visual arts for Theatre-Elementary/Lower Middle Lawrence and Rose Park Middle Schools, she Craig Arnold is currently Frego also researches methods of using Dalcroze Maud Hickey is an the Sunshine State Standards and also served as As a speech and language joined the districts’ team of gifted education the artistic director and Eurhythmics as palliative treatment for adults associate professor of the state president of the Florida Art Education pathologist in the Columbus specialists. She has also served as director of chairman of Manhattan with post-traumatic stress disorder. Frego has music education at the Association. During the summer, she volunteers City Schools in Columbus, Cumberland Heights and has provided support Concert Productions published articles, book chapters, and DVDs in Northwestern University at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Ohio, Anita Manley uses for academic improvement at Community High in New York City. He both music education and medical journals. Bienen School of Music Gatlinburg, Tennessee. She has received grants classroom drama as a School. She has completed additional studies at also serves as professor in Evanston, Illinois. Her from the Division of Cultural Affairs in Florida mode for realizing the Donald Treffinger’s Center for Creative Learning of conducting at the David L. Gamble interest in research and and has also been recognized with several communication and in Honeoye, New York. In addition, she has Manhattan School of Visual Art-Upper Middle/Secondary teaching has recently awards. academic skills of her served as an adjunct instructor at Vanderbilt, Music and conductor of the United States Inter- David L. Gamble has spent focused on using improvisation and composition students. Her research has included inquiry into Belmont, and Trevecca Universities. Collegiate Chorale. His teaching experience three decades balancing to nurture musical creativity. She has worked with Mike Looney the ways drama strategies effectively address ranges from high school and university to art and business in the children and adults to assist them in integrating School Administration the communication and literacy skill challenges Cara Rawlings music ministry. Choirs under his direction ceramic industry. He music composition and improvisation into their Mike Looney has served of students enrolled in special education Theatre-Upper Middle/Secondary have performed at national conventions, toured has developed products, learning and teaching. Hickey is the author of as superintendent of the programs. She has also led many workshops at Cara Rawlings currently throughout the United States and abroad, and written many articles, and chapters in several books and articles in journals Williamson County Schools state, national, and international education and serves as assistant produced numerous recordings. Arnold serves designed and conducted including Music Educators Journal, General Music since December 2009. Born drama conferences. Manley was the co-editor professor of movement and as a frequent guest lecturer and conductor marketing campaigns Today, Journal of Research in Music Education, in Germany, Looney moved of Dreamseekers: Creative Approaches to the acting in the Department and has appeared in China, England, France, while continuously making clay art and teaching. and Research Studies in Music Education. to the United States when he African-American Heritage, which was awarded of Theatre and Cinema Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Gamble has conducted hundreds of workshops She is currently completing a book on music was in fourth grade. Prior the Distinguished Book Award by the American at Virginia Polytechnic Spain, and Wales. in the United States and Canada and has composition for music teachers. to joining the Williamson Alliance for Theatre and Education in 1998. Institute and State helped organize and participated in five clay County School District, he served in Alabama as University. She previously Debbie Burton symposiums in Eastern Europe. He recently Ron Keller assistant superintendent and then superintendent Margaret Orem taught movement, acting, and stage combat at Music-Elementary/Lower Middle presented workshops in Finland and Alaska. Theatre-Upper Middle/Secondary for public school districts in Montgomery and Music-Elementary/Lower Middle the University of Miami. Professionally, Rawlings Debbie Burton teaches Gamble and his wife, Tracy Gamble, share their Ron Keller is a professor Butler Counties, respectively. A public educator Margaret Orem teaches has worked as a teacher, performer, fight director, music in San Diego, home and studio in a converted 1886 Indiana and the head of design and since 1994, he has also served as a principal, music at Jerabek and dance choreographer in Chicago, Nashville, California, at Jerabek church. Gamble thinks of his current ceramic resident scenic designer for assistant principal, and an elementary school Elementary School in San New York, and St. Louis. She is a member of the Elementary School and work as paintings that happen to be on clay with the theatre department at teacher. Prior to entering the field of education, he Diego, California, where she Association for Theatre in Higher Education and Crown Point Junior Music glazes being used like paint. Virginia Commonwealth served in the Marine Corps, where he earned the also conducts an after- the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. Academy. She also teaches University, where he has rank of Staff Sergeant. school volunteer choir as She serves on the board of the Virginia Theatre music literature for Tracy Gamble taught for twenty-seven well as the preparatory choir Association and the advisory council of the children at San Diego State Visual Art-Upper Middle/Secondary years. He has been a Jerry Luckhardt for the San Diego Children’s Southeastern Theatre Conference. University. During her thirty-year career she has Tracy Gamble has been member of United Scenic Artists, New York local Music-Upper Middle/Secondary Choir. In 1999, Orem was named Choral Director taught elementary, middle school, and high school learning, teaching, 828 since 1989 and has designed nearly two Jerry Luckhardt is an of the Year for the San Diego City Schools as a Lorraine Shackelford students, directed concert and jazz bands, and led designing, producing, and hundred shows including productions at regional associate professor of result of her work conducting the San Diego City Theatre-Elementary/Lower Middle choral groups and hand bell choirs. She currently selling in clay for more theatres and Shakespeare festivals across the music at the University Schools Elementary Honor Choir, which she also After twenty years plays hand bells with Ringer’s Rejoyce at Point than twenty years. She United States. Internationally, Keller’s designs of Minnesota in the Twin conducted in 1992 and 2007. She was selected of service, Lorraine Loma Community Presbyterian Church in San has worked as an actor, have been seen in Beijing, Moldova, and Shanghai. Cities, where he conducts as one of the Outstanding Elementary Music Shackelford recently retired Diego. Burton has completed her certification in singer, and dancer for He is a lifetime member of the Southeastern the Chamber Winds and Specialists for the Southern Border Section of from the University of both Orff-Schulwerk and Kodaly music education. many years and has been Theatre Conference and is currently serving his Symphonic Band. He the Music Educator’s National Conference. She is North Carolina Greensboro, She is an active workshop clinician and was a a member of Actors’ Equity since 1994. She has second term as the design, technologies, and has appeared as a guest a local and national presenter for the American where she served as director presenter for the 2009 American Orff-Schulwerk also worked in theatre, commercials, industrials, management chair for Region IV of the Kennedy conductor and clinician with ensembles in Orff-Schulwerk Association and currently past- of theatre education and Association Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. and films in Chicago and the Midwest. Gamble Center American College Theater Festival. Asia, Europe, and the United States and has president of the San Diego Orff-Schulwerk chapter. created the second bachelor combined clay and theatre in The Pottery Fairy received acclaim from composers such as of fine arts degree program in theatre education in David Frego Tale, a one-act play performed at a potters’ wheel Pearl Krepps Michael Colgrass, Shelley Hanson, Libby Elizabeth O’Shea the United States. Shackelford was also a member Music-Elementary/Lower Middle in elementary schools, theatres, and children’s Visual Art-Elementary/Lower Middle Larsen, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Judith School Administration of the performance faculty at the university and David Frego is chair of museums, and at special events. For the past Pearl Krepps is recently Lang Zaimont for performances of their Elizabeth O’Shea specialized in teaching foundational acting, which the department of music ten years she has been teaching workshops and retired and has taught works. In his home state of Minnesota, is coordinator of she terms “the most important acting courses and holds the Blumberg consulting on commercial clay and glazes with art to students from Luckhardt is also the current music director gifted services for the young actors will ever have.” Early in her career, Endowed Professorship of her husband, David L. Gamble, both nationally kindergarten through of the Medalist Concert Band in Bloomington Metropolitan Nashville Shackelford worked as a freelance actor in the Music at the University of and internationally. twelfth grade in Palm and the conductor and artistic director of the Public Schools in Boston, Massachusetts, area before returning Texas at San Antonio. As Beach County, Florida, Encore Wind Ensemble of Minneapolis. Tennessee. A Nashville to North Carolina to reacquaint herself with an instructor in Dalcroze where she also served native, she began her kindergarten through twelfth grade education Eurhythmics, he regularly as the district fine arts education career in 1973 by teaching dance and drama at four elementary performs and presents workshops throughout specialist for seventeen years. Most of her as a sixth grade teacher and reading specialist schools in the Raleigh area. Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. teaching experience has been at the high school with the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools While performing artists of all ages benefit level in design, photography, and jewelry. She at Carter-Lawrence Middle School. After thirteen
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Nancy Smith designated as Teacher of the Year and Mentor Bob Wilson The underlying premise of this workshop is the Theatre-Elementary/Lower Middle Teacher and has also earned his National Board School Administration idea that when students PLAY, they don’t even Certification. Snidecor says, “I became a teacher Nancy Smith co-founded Bob Wilson taught know they are learning. because I wanted to work with youth and the Great Arizona Puppet elementary school in share my knowledge and skills. The rewards I Theater (GAPT) in 1983. Alexandria, Virginia, have experienced through the years have been Since its inception, GAPT before moving to Nashville, Secondary MUSIC enormous. I enjoy seeing students go on to seek has offered touring shows; where he initially served as Participants will attend two of the following higher art education at prestigious art schools in 1988 the organization assistant principal at Head classes each day. and universities throughout the world and also began presenting shows Middle School for five years obtain careers in the visual arts.” year-round in its permanent then principal of Bellevue Build Your Ensemble from the space—a beautiful, renovated historic building in Middle School for eight years. In 2001 he became Inside Out Pam Stephens central Phoenix. Smith writes scripts and music principal of Nashville School of Arts. Under his Instructor: Craig Arnold for the group and directs and performs in many of Visual Art-Elementary/Lower Middle leadership the school has grown immensely and Performance excellence requires that singers its shows. She is the lead teaching artist for school Pam Stephens heads gained an international reputation. Currently the be committed to the ensemble, to the score, programs. GAPT has won numerable awards, the art education institution receives more than 1,000 applications and to the rehearsal process. This session will including the Best of Phoenix and a UNIMA-USA program at Northern annually, compared with the first year of his explore methods that educators can use to build Citation for Excellence in Puppetry. Smith is active Arizona University administration when the school received only 130 their ensembles from the inside out, which will in Puppeteers of America and has served as both in Flagstaff, Arizona. applications for admission. In 2008 Wilson was encourage growth in their singers as people and festival and artistic director for regional and Stephens previously named High School Principal of the Year for the musicians, and in their programs in terms of size national puppet festivals. taught undergraduate Metropolitan Nashville School District. and quality. art education courses at Gary Snidecor the University of North Texas and served as a Lisa Wolpe Improvisation and Composition in Visual Art-Upper Middle/Secondary mentor and project coordinator for the North Theatre-Upper Middle/Secondary Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual the Secondary Music Classroom Gary Snidecor has a wealth Lisa Wolpe is an actress, Elementary MUSIC Arts. Stephens has taught art to students Instructor: Maud Hickey of experience teaching director, playwright, Participants will attend each of the following from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Probably the most common excuse music teachers art at the elementary, producer, and teacher. three classes every day. Among her many publications is the award- give for not improvising or composing in their secondary, and college She is also the producing winning Dropping In On series of animated classrooms is that they haven’t been taught how levels. He is a popular artistic director of the Making Music Theory Fun! A Blend art history videos and books for children. She to do so. In this class, participants will improvise presenter for state and Los Angeles Women’s of Orff and Kodaly Approaches has also authored Tessellations: The History and compose in a safe environment and will national conferences and Shakespeare Company, and Making of Symmetrical Designs and Instructor: Debbie Burton learn how to integrate music composition and has received numerous which she founded in 1993. Art Teacher Round Table, a monthly online In these sessions, participants will learn improvisation activities in effortless ways for awards and honors. Snidecor has spent most Described as “one of the ten coolest things to do in column for SchoolArts magazine. how to teach various musical concepts such secondary performance and general music classes. of his career at a suburban high school in Los Angeles,” by LA Magazine, the company has as audiation, dynamics, form, pitch, tempo, This workshop will explore some of the research San Diego, California, where he has been been featured on ABC, CNN, NBC, PBS, and CBS and timbre through chants, games, listening and philosophy behind the importance of creative News. Wolpe has directed thirty Shakespearean activities, and songs. Easy assessment music making. Teachers will leave with the tools productions and played twenty of the Bard’s techniques will be developed in each session, and skills necessary to develop their own methods leading roles. Other credits include performances and children’s literature will be used to explore of improvising and composing in the classroom. with the Arizona Theater Co., Berkeley Rep, the integration of music with other subject areas. Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Theater Works, Music reading and performance will be taught California Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare & Non-Verbal Communication: Do using recorder playing and Orff instruments. Co., and Southwest Shakespeare. to ensure success, select appropriate music to you know what are you saying? Session topics will include games and chants, enhance purposeful movement, and articulate the Instructor: Jerry Luckhardt books and literature, the use of the recorder and pedagogical approach of Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Orff instruments, and listening lessons. Everyone who teaches communicates non- verbally. If actions speak louder than words, then Everybody Sings! unrefined gestures can distort, lessen, or confuse Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Rhythm Instructor: Margie Orem the quality of an instructor’s message. In order for Flowing Inside You Through games, dances, creative movement, a person to keep his or her commitment to clear Instructor: David Frego folk songs, and accessible choral literature, and substantive communication, excellent non- These sequential sessions will examine the Margie Orem will demonstrate many techniques verbal communication skills must be cultivated. elements of music through kinesthetic awareness. instructors can use to fine-tune the student’s ear. This workshop will explore ways of doing just that. Participants will actively engage in music making Attendees will participate in a choral reading Special thanks to the 129th Army Band, Chief through purposeful movement and will examine session for treble choirs, which will help them Warrant Officer 2 William Stepp, Commander, learning through brain-to-body connections. improve their students’ overall classroom and and Ed Stevens, First Sergeant, for serving as At the conclusion of this workshop, participants performance singing. Kid-friendly warm-ups the clinic band. The 129th Army Band is a unit will be able to plan rhythmic lessons that are through vowel and consonant production and of the Tennessee Army National Guard under appropriate for kindergarten through sixth movement experiences that are designed to the command of MG Terry “Max” Haston, the grade levels, sequence movement instruction engage the singer and student will also be shared. Adjutant General.
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about complex art-making ideas. Activities will Clay in your Face and Teapots Elementary THEATRE Elementary VISUAL ART include painting, mixed media, drawing, simple Instructors: David L. and Tracy P. Participants will attend each of the following Participants will attend each workshop animation, and three-dimensional design. Gamble three classes every day. for two consecutive days and a summary Participants will return to their classrooms with During the first day of this workshop, participants session for both workshops on Friday lesson plans and new ideas for teaching in and will work with moist clay to create masks with Let’s Give Them Something to Talk morning. through art. About: Boosting Communicative very few tools. Effective techniques to create eyes Competence and a Wide Range Printing for Elementary and Lower and mouths that are realistic and easy to form of Academic Skills through Story Middle Grades will be demonstrated. Wet clay masks will be Secondary VISUAL ART decorated with underglazes. On the second day, Drama Instructor: Pearl Krepps Participants will attend each workshop for participants will create teapots. Texture molds and Instructor: Anita Manley Participants will begin this session by creating two consecutive days and a summary session sprigs will be available for the bodies of the pots, In this highly interactive workshop, teachers four-color reduction prints. The work will include for both workshops on Friday morning. and ideas for forming the handles and spouts will learn how classroom drama can effectively transferring an image to a block, proper cutting will be presented. The workshop will end with an achieve a network of communicative, academic, techniques, inking and printing, registration, image lecture on the topic of firing electric kilns, multicultural, and aesthetic aims. and printing a series of 4-by-6-inch images. which will include a review of pyrometric cones, Monoprinting, stamp printing, collography, bisque and glaze loading, firing bisque, and firing Caution! Teachers at Play! or What stencil printing, gelatin printing, and Gyotaku glaze loads. Do You Think This Is—a Learning will be demonstrated. Each participant will Experience? make examples of printing techniques to use as Handfuls of Ideas for Drawing Instructor: Lorraine Shackelford classroom examples. On 4-by-6-inch pieces of and Painting in the Advanced paper, participants should bring to the workshop Placement Program This workshop will explore many aspects of several examples of drawings or ideas that do not Instructor: Gary Snidecor learning through play. Participants will discover contain words, letters, or numbers. how to use their bodies and imaginations to add This hands-on workshop will be an environment inspiration and spontaneity to the classroom Dropping In On the Tennessee Arts in which creativity and learning are ubiquitous. experience. They will learn how to integrate Academy The presentation will delve into and share theatre into teaching traditional subjects, such as Instructor: Pam Stephens numerous successful drawing, painting, and math, science, and language arts. advanced placement studio art projects and This interactive workshop provides an teaching experiences. Attendees will leave musicals and plays will be examined, and the opportunity for participants to view select Puppetry: For Fun and Learning Secondary THEATRE importance of thinking outside of the box will be with instructional tips and guidelines, ideas Instructor: Nancy Smith Dropping In On videos followed by hands-on on portfolio development, and a variety of Participants will attend each of the following emphasized. activities in a variety of media. Participants will Want to drive a lesson home? Want to inspire your three classes every day. completed assignments to foster creative learning learn simple yet meaningful ways to help young environments in their own classrooms. students’ creativity and problem solving skills? Swashbuckling 101: Sword Fight learners explore art history and think critically Want to make school or after school programs Set Design: Creative Problem with Panache exciting, fun, and memorable? Through easy-to- Solving Instructor: Cara Rawlings do projects, this workshop will teach participants Instructor: Ron Keller Participants will learn classic swashbuckling the steps to take to create an entertaining show for This workshop will explore strategies and choreography found in films such asCaptain an admiring audience and will enable them to be methods that can be used to creatively design Blood, Zorro, The Court Jester, and other great effective team puppet leaders. scenery for the stage. In this session, both flicks of the 1930s and 1940s. The objective is to give participants an understanding of basic stage combat principles through the execution and CORE WORKSHOP SESSIONS ADMINISTRATION performance of fun, flexible, and dramatically effective single rapier fight choreography. K–12 programs in K–12 schools. Administrators will experiences in arts education and school Staging the Play participate in a number of sessions in areas administration. Administration participants Instructor: Lisa Wolpe specific to their own needs, including current will receive specialized instruction with several Administration Director: trends and issues. Additionally, the group will of the discipline-specific faculty members Participants will learn to be both actors and Linda Hall Anderson attend sessions in music, theatre, and visual art as well as one-on-one sessions with the daily analytical observers while working to create at Guest Instructors: Mike Looney, to enhance their knowledge and understanding musings speaker. A special visit to the Frist least three distinct genres of acting styles. Styles Elizabeth O’Shea, Bob Wilson will vary from Greek to Shakespearean and those of the roles each of these areas plays in the Center for the Visual Arts is included as part total education of a student. On Tuesday, of the course of study. Please refer to the other inspired by contemporary playwrights. Texts will Linda Hall Anderson will serve as the facilitator be drawn from Euripedes’ great tragedy Medea, three outstanding educators—Mike Looney, content areas for further information about for the administration component of the superintendent of the Williamson County faculty and sessions offered. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and Burt Royal’s Tennessee Arts Academy. Anderson will also contemporary play Dog Sees God. Schools; Elizabeth O’Shea, coordinator of gifted offer her own unique perspectives and insights services for the Metropolitan Nashville Public on arts administration and share strategies and Schools; and Bob Wilson, principal of Nashville techniques for maximizing the benefits of arts School of the Arts—will reflect on their own
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Every afternoon from 2:25 until 3:10 p.m. composition, movement, sight-singing, story- Arts Education Teacher Evaluation repertoire, as well as methods of achieving state Verbal Communication: Developing there will be a series of 45-minute sessions telling, and visual arts environments as they also in Tennessee: An Update and national standards with a style of music that a Larger Vocabulary for Music called Interludes. Each content area will share activities that can be modified for students Dr. Dru Davison students will want to keep singing … over and Jerry Luckhardt offer several sessions open to any from kindergarten through twelfth grade. over again! (Monday only) Jerry Luckhardt will explore ways of using participant throughout the Academy. This Participants will be encouraged to explore their In June 2006 James Estes joined the Barbershop creativity and imagination to develop a is an opportunity for cross-disciplinary own creativity throughout the workshop. The Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee training. All participants will attend an has recommended that the state of Tennessee Harmony Society staff as student activities vocabulary that relates to beauty and aesthetics. coordinator. He is currently the liaison to the Interlude session during this 45-minute Classroom Compositions: Guiding develop alternative growth measures for period each day. Biographical information educators who lack Tennessee Value Added Society’s Youth In Harmony Committee and also Spotlight on Music ©2011: Your Students in Creativity on the instructors may be found either in Assessment System data. This discussion will coordinates the Collegiate Barbershop Quartet Excellence in Music Education a David Chambers the faculty section of the program book or highlight the proposed teacher evaluation and Contest and International Youth Barbershop Mouse Click Away! (Monday only) in the workshop descriptions below. student growth measures recommendations for Chorus Festival. Gregory Roman This interlude will focus on the dreaded arts educators. As the new teacher evaluation (Monday only) Standard 4: Composition. David Chambers will system stipulates that a portion of teacher Connecting Aural and Visual: share his method for helping students learn to evaluation is based on student growth, it Music and Movement Imagine having the ability to project EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY combine short, individual pieces into longer is important that Tennessee arts educators David Frego component from your K–8 music series right INTERLUDE SCHEDULE classroom compositions that can be performed support a system that relies on actual student (Wednesday only) from your computer. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill’s during programs. Interlude participants Hip-Hop in the Classroom Spotlight on Music is the only music program The following Interlude sessions are performance in the arts. This session will This participatory session will help teachers will view videos of the works created by his include updated information, results from a Alexis Yatuzis-Derryberry to offer that flexibility plus much more! In this available to all Academy participants and will learn how to connect the aural nature of music session participants will see complete lessons students that show how improvisation can be state-wide evaluation survey, detailed committee and Amy Gray be offered on both Monday and Wednesday with the visual qualities of movement. David come to life through the myriad of technology incorporated into performance. recommendations, and proposed next steps. (Monday only) afternoons from 2:25 p.m. to 3:10 p.m. unless Frego will share activities that are designed for options only available in this program. otherwise indicated. David Chambers is a music specialist for the Dr. Dru Davison is chairperson of the Tennessee This hands-on and collaborative session will use with learners of all ages. Handouts will be Workshop attendees will also get a sneak peek Fentress County School System, where he teaches First to the Top Fine Arts Growth Measures explore the history of hip-hop and its four provided. at Macmillan/McGraw-Hill’s newest component, Pre-K through eighth grade. He is the founding Committee. He is the Music and Dance elements: DJ’ing, MC’ing, graffiti, and dance. the Interactive Listening Maps. MUSIC-RELATED INTERLUDES director of the YAI Community Choir. Administrator for Memphis City Schools. Participants will also learn about national Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music Gregory Roman is a music consultant with standards-based lessons and classroom Graham Hepburn 101 Ways to Use Camille Saint- McGraw-Hill. Before joining the company in activities that they can use with their own (Wednesday Only) 2002, he was a music educator in Florida for Saens’ Carnival of the Animals students. Debbie Burton and Margie Orem Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music is a twenty years. (Wednesday only) Alexis Yatuzis-Derryberry is the music specialist high-energy, captivating experience that leads and choir director at Siegel Middle School in students on an exciting journey of musical Interactive White Board in a Bag This workshop will explore the number of new Murfreesboro, Tennessee. While at Siegel, she has discovery. It’s a world where anything can Jason Simmons ways teachers can use Carnival of the Animals created an innovative general music program happen and does, while encouraging kids (Wednesday only) in their classrooms. Margie Orem and Debbie that offers a guitar lab, piano lab, traditional to love music. Graham Hepburn (Quaver), Burton will discuss ideas that can be used in Orff-Schulwerk instruments, world drumming, will lead workshop participants through the The Mimio is a devise that turns a regular and a classroom iMac lab. world of Quaver using DVD episodes, teacher whiteboard into an interactive computer touch screen. It can be used in a variety of ways to Amy Gray is an art educator at Siegel Middle guides, online Quaver classrooms, and the kid’s website (a virtual world of music creation on help teachers communicate with their students. School. She offers an innovative program that It is also an excellent way for teachers to create includes the opportunity for students to work in quavermusic.com) to bring twenty-first century skills, as well as a love of music, to life. portfolios that document student progress. a variety of media such as clay, collage, paint, Even if he or she does not currently have one, and sculpture. Graham Hepburn has served as an elementary each teacher will come away from this session school music teacher both in Illinois and his with more knowledge about a way of making Choral Program Building: home country of England. He is an accomplished the classroom more technologically interactive. Integrating Barbershop Harmony musician and is the heart and energetic force into the Choral Classroom behind the character of Quaver. Jason Simmons is the music specialist at Barfield Elementary School in Rutherford James Estes County, Tennessee. In his classroom, he uses a (Wednesday only) Improvisation NOW computer to teach each of his music lessons, from Maud Hickey Barbershop is one of the few truly American the simplest to the most advanced. Simmons forms of music, and it has become one of What can I do to improvise NOW? What does currently serves as the secretary/treasurer of the most effective tools to teach ear-training, it mean to improvise “freely.” This session will the Middle Tennessee General Music Educators performance training, sight-reading, and vocal answer those questions and focus on non- Association. independence. This session will provide an idiomatic (or “free”) improvisation activities that in-depth look at the barbershop genre, methods teachers can do with any students in any music of instruction, the benefits that studying teaching situation. barbershop harmony can provide to other
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THEATRE-RELATED INTERLUDES The New Visual Arts Standards and youth and families, and teachers, at the Frist Hillary Steinwinder, Manager of Assessment Center, which includes developing exhibition Education and Public Programs, Cheating in Origami: An Jeanette Crosswhite materials, film series, lectures, outreach programs, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & tours, and workshops. Henderson also oversees Museum of Art, Nashville Introduction to White Paper Models This presentation will be an overview of the the Frist’s interactive education space, Martin Ron Keller new state curriculum standards in visual Hillary Steinwinder has served in the education ArtQuest Gallery. Recently named the National art and the way these standards may impact and programs department at Cheekwood for Yes, you can use scissors, glue, and tape! White Art Museum Educator by the National Art models are a fast and fun way to visualize a set instruction and assessment. the past five years. As the manager of education Education Association, Henderson is currently and public programs, Steinwinder oversees before you jump into building the real thing. Jeanette Crosswhite served as the director of serving as the president of the Tennessee Art Cheekwood’s wide variety of educational Ron Keller will demonstrate basic techniques arts education at the Tennessee Department of Education Association. activities and initiatives including school and that can be used to make three-dimensional Education. In 2005 and 2011 she was named Rosalind R. Martin, Associate Curator teacher programs, community outreach, and objects from flat sheets of paper. Administrator of the Year by the Tennessee Art of Education, K–12 Programs, exhibition interpretation. Education Association. More than Short Answers: Igniting Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville Carving the Spirit Man Two-Part a Language Explosion through Art Museums and Their Resources Rosalind Martin joined the education department Interlude Process Drama Dixon and Memphis Brooks Museums at the Knoxville Museum in 1993 and became Bill Shinn Anita Manley and the Frist Center the associate curator of education and K–12 programs in 2003. Martin oversees youth outreach Anita Manley will lead participants in an (Monday only) This two-part interlude features award-winning and family programming, pre-K–12 grade student exploration of the ways drama can help wood carver Bill Shinn. Shinn will feature a Knoxville Museum of Art and Hunter and teacher services, and tour scheduling. In students be more effective and flexible demonstration of a safe and simple way to and Cheekwood Museums 2005, Martin was selected by the Tennessee Art communicators able to demonstrate what include carving in the classroom curriculum. (Wednesday only) Education Association as Art Museum Educator they know, negotiate, and problem-solve in In session one, Shinn will demonstrate carving of the Year. educational contexts and beyond. The interlude This One is for You! Breath and Voice Art centers and museums develop specific a “spirit face” in balsa foam. In session two, will focus on the five categories of language Lorraine Shackelford Lisa Wolpe teaching resources for exhibitions and, if they Margarita Sandino, Curator of participants will bring their own “spirit man” to life in minutes. function as reinforced through drama. The session will actively explore Gabriel Roth’s (Wednesday Only) have them, their permanent collections as well. Education, Dixon Gallery and “Five Rhythms,” a movement meditation. Learn easy, fun, and enlivening vocal warm-up These materials are typically available both Gardens, Memphis With more than forty years of experience, Bill online and in print. In these sessions, museum Exploring Stanislavski Objective Lorraine Shackelford has used this technique techniques suitable for all actors who want to Margarita Sandino has been a museum educator Shinn is presently teaching in Knox County. As a educators from across the state will present Theory in Movement for more than twenty years in her acting classes. achieve greater vocal resonance and breath since 1997. She served five years as the education student, he attended Concord University, in West information about upcoming exhibitions at Cara Rawlings All participants should prepare by wearing support. Physical flexibility, breath capacity, manager at the Children’s Museum of Memphis Virginia, and Yale University. their respective institutions along with related (Monday only) comfortable clothes appropriate for movement and a basic spirit of play combine in practices before joining the Dixon Gallery and Gardens resources and programs. Cara Rawlings will lead participants through and perspiration. Hand towels are suggested. designed to improve the ease and flow of vocal as curator of education in 2007. Currently Freebies ... Using Free Supplies and a series of psycho-physical exercises derived Everyone participates! No one may simply production and develop more confident and Presenters: Sandino oversees the wide variety of education Materials in an Art Classroom observe. This one is for you: to DO! from contact improvisation and stage combat powerful theatrical performance skills. Adera Causey, Curator of Education, programming offered at the Dixon Gallery, Christine S. Harness while exploring a methodology for teaching Hunter Museum of American Art, including initiatives for adults, children and (Wednesday only) The Three Little Pigs in Forty-Five families, and students and teachers, as well as and applying acting terminology to scene VISUAL ART-RELATED INTERLUDES Chattanooga Lesson plans and classroom teaching work. Psycho-physical work effectively links a Minutes community outreach and interpretation. ideas will be shared to teach participants Nancy Smith Adera Causey joined the Hunter Museum character’s psychological needs and emotional Making Art History Relevant to staff in November 2003 as part of a large-scale about ways free supplies may be used in a truths to physical action in an effort to drive Leave this workshop with a puppet that is easy Students reinstallation and new program plan for the classroom environment. This is a great class home the reality that acting is doing rather for teachers on a limited budget or who are to make and a clear understanding of how to Mary Katherine Wooten museum. She develops gallery interpretation and than showing. organize children and create a puppet show new to the profession. Participants will learn (Monday only) also oversees the education department’s wide within forty-five minutes. Leave all inhibitions range of programs for children and adults. about numerous sources for free supplies Characterization through Laban behind. Mary Katherine Wooten has researched and discarded materials. Lesson plans will be Movement Analysis techniques designed to motivate students to Kathy Dumlao, Associate Curator of provided. learn about art history. In this workshop Wooten Education, Memphis Brooks Museum Cara Rawlings Cold Reading Shakespeare Christine Harness was an art teacher in the Knox will discuss the importance of art history in the of Art, Memphis (Wednesday only) Lisa Wolpe County Schools for more than thirty years before art classroom and how to incorporate popular (Monday Only) Kathy Dumlao has been a member of the retiring in 2004. Recently she has been conducting Cara Rawlings will lead participants culture references into art history discussions. through a series of exercises exploring basic Solve the mystery of the ancient texts, crack education department at the Memphis Brooks workshops in Dalton, Georgia, for the Jonas Laban movement analysis, which is useful the code of the Folio Clues, and learn valuable, Mary Katherine Wooten is a graduate student Museum of Art since 2000 and has served as Foundation as well as in-service activities for the in developing an actor’s self-awareness quick ways to lift Shakespeare’s lines from the at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who is the associate curator of education since January Whitfield County Education Department. She is a and providing a vocabulary for character page to the stage! Beginners and adepts alike working on her masters in teacher education with a 2006. Dumlao currently coordinates school and watercolorist and winner of several art shows. physicalization. Handouts will be provided and will marvel at how easy it can be to make this concentration in art. Her artwork has been featured family programs at the museum. the group will discuss ways that Laban work may ancient language come alive as you read it aloud in multiple gallery shows, both individual and Anne Henderson, Director of be used both in the classroom and in production. following the simple and invaluable tools that collaborative, throughout the university. Education and Outreach, Frist Center will be shared in this workshop. for the Visual Arts, Nashville Anne Henderson oversees the education department and education programs for adults,
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TUESDAY AND THURSDAY Theatre Curriculum Caring and Pulling the Curtain, Pushing the Linda Solomon and a Drama Desk Award, Secret Garden as Sharing: Kindergarten through Boundaries Tuesday • July 12 Neville Craven, and Sunday in the Park with INTERLUDE SCHEDULE Sixth Grade Nancy Vorhis 1:10 PM George, where he replaced Mandy Patinkin in Tina Crawford (Thursday Only) the title role. Other Broadway credits include The following Interlude sessions are Linda Solomon is a available to all Academy participants and will (Thursday only) leading roles in Les Miserables, 1776, Company, Bleep! X-rated? This session will explore how nationally renowned, be offered on both Tuesday and Thursday Elementary and lower middle school theatre has reflected and pushed societal Abe Lincoln in Illinois, for which he was named afternoons from 2:25 to 3:10 p.m. unless award-winning Drama League Outstanding Artist, A Christmas participants are encouraged to share their boundaries since actors first graced the ancient photojournalist. She otherwise indicated. stage. Nancy Vorhis will present an overview Carol, and Zorba, for which he received a Theatre favorite classroom activities, teaching tips, has been a television and theatre lesson plans with other teachers of the first plays to challenge the boundaries of World Award. His film and television credits correspondent for Good from across the state. Theatre facilitator Tina language, content, and even costumes (or lack include The Ice Storm, Before and After, The Stars MUSIC-RELATED INTERLUDES Morning America and Crawford will lead the session. thereof). Are such challenges necessary and Fell on Henrietta, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Swift beneficial or just shocking? Participants will her profiles composed Justice, Central Park West, and Law and Order: Academy Chorale Imogene “Tina” Crawford’s teaching career has discuss these questions as well as their own of still images have SVU. He has sung at Carnegie Hall in The Gay Craig Arnold spanned almost three decades. She currently schools’ boundaries. also been featured on Divorcee and can be heard on several original teaches creative writing and drama at Rozelle Please come and join other participants as the World News Tonight, CNN, and CBS’s The Early Creative and Performing Arts Elementary School Nancy Vorhis is president of Eldridge Publishing “Musings” is a time of thoughtful inspiration cast albums. Westenberg is married to Kim Academy Chorale prepares a program of music Show. Solomon has divided her career between in Memphis. Co., Inc., which has been publishing plays and and introspection built into the heart of Crosby and is the proud father of their three to be performed at the Academy luncheon capturing the most famous personalities of our musicals for community theatres, schools, and the busy Academy schedule each day. All children. He presently directs extensively and on Friday. The Academy Chorale is under the time on film and teaching others to express churches since 1906. Eldridge now represents participants assemble to think about the serves as the chair of the theatre department at direction of Craig Arnold, secondary choral Theatre Curriculum Caring and themselves through photography. She has more than a thousand titles and hundreds of role of the arts in education and in life. At Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. music faculty. Love of singing is the only Sharing: Seventh through Twelfth founded and created educational programs that playwrights. The company is also the industry each Musings session, an individual who is prerequisite for this Interlude. Participants Grade significantly involved in the arts acts as a have donated more than one million cameras leader in digital downloads. from any area of the Academy are welcome! Pollyanna Parker muse and leads the group in examining the to elementary school children. Solomon’s Marvin Hamlisch (Thursday only) richness and depth that the arts add to the “Pictures of Hope” photography project provided Thursday • July 14 lives of all people. 1:10 PM THEATRE-RELATED INTERLUDES Upper middle school and high school VISUAL ART-RELATED INTERLUDES cameras to children living in homeless shelters participants are encouraged to share their in America and was featured on CBS Evening Marvin Hamlisch’s Theatre Connections favorite classroom activities, teaching tips, and News and World News Tonight and in People music career is notable theatre lesson plans with other teachers from Visual Art Studio Connections Theatre Faculty Visual Art Faculty Eph Ehly Magazine and USA Today. Her most recent book, for its great versatility across the state. Theatre facilitator Pollyanna The Key: Celebrated People Unlock Their Secrets Theatre faculty members will be in their Monday • July 11 and substance. As a Parker will lead the session. Visual art participants may choose this time to Life, offers rare and exclusive insights from classrooms to answer specific questions about 1:10 PM composer, Hamlisch Pollyanna Parker is a past recipient of the to continue working in the studio, conversing some of the most famous people of our time. In their sessions and to provide one-on-one time A research article has won virtually every Tennessee High School Speech and Drama with their instructors, or networking with addition to gallery exhibitions, Solomon has the with any participant who may desire additional published in The major award possible: League’s Ruby Krider Teacher of the Year fellow teachers about art-related issues and arts distinction of having had the first one-woman information about theatre-related issues or arts education concerns. Choral Journal, the four Emmys, four Award. She currently teaches at Rossview High show in the history of the famed New York Friars education concerns. official publication of Grammys, three Golden School in Clarksville. Club. Her photos of the Academy Awards have the American Choral Globes, three Oscars, a been featured in one-woman exhibitions across Directors Association, Pulitzer Prize, and a Tony. For Broadway he has the country. In February of this year Solomon described Eph Ehly as “one of the most written the music for They’re Playing our Song, as was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall sought-after choral conductors/clinicians.” well as his groundbreaking show, A Chorus Line, of Fame. Ehly has conducted more than eighty all-state which received a Pulitzer Prize. He is the composer choirs and six hundred festival ensembles. As of many motion picture scores including his Oscar- a conductor, author, lecturer, and clinician he Robert Westenberg winning score and song for The Way We Were and has appeared in forty-eight states and in Brazil, Wednesday • July 13 his adaptation of Scott Joplin’s music for The Sting, Canada, Japan, and Mexico. After retiring from 1:10 PM for which he received his third Oscar. Hamlisch holds the position of principal pops conductor the Conservatory of Music at the University of After a lengthy Missouri in Kansas City, Missouri, after twenty- for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee performing career Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony seven years of service, Ehly has continued to that included work teach in major universities across the United and Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, San on and off Broadway, Diego Symphony, and Seattle Symphony. Hamlisch States. Ehly is the author of the popular book national tours, regional Hogey’s Journey: A Memoir by Eph Ehly and the believes in the power of music to bring people theatre, film, and together. “Music can make a difference. There is “first of its kind”Video Master Classes released television, Westenberg by the Hal Leonard Publishing Company. As a a global nature to music, which has the potential is now concentrating to bring all people together. Music is truly an past recipient of two faculty grants, Ehly has on teaching and studied advanced compositional techniques in international language, and I hope to contribute by directing. He is perhaps widening communication as much as I can.” choral music while visiting leading composers best remembered for his roles in the original and conductors in Austria, Denmark, England, Broadway casts of Into the Woods as the Wolf and Marvin Hamlisch’s appearance is generously France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Prince, for which he received a Tony nomination sponsored by Pat and Thane Smith and Switzerland, and the Soviet Union. Delores Kinsolving.
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Patinka Kopec and the Juilliard School’s Catherine through physical movement. Combining Studio Tenn in 2010 and 2011, during its first full Cho; he presently studies with Ani Kavafian at classical dance, drama, music, and visual art, season. Other shows included Hello, Dolly! and Yale University. His violin is an 1850 Vuillaume. this literary, historical, and social masterpiece A Christmas Carol. The mission of Studio Tenn is to combine a rich combination of talent from Karen Beluso - Accompanist offers viewers an in-depth opportunity to better understand and appreciate the experiences Nashville and Broadway to bring classic works Karen Beluso is a graduate of the Juilliard School penned by Anne in her diary. The dance is of drama and musical theatre to life in Middle who made her Carnegie Hall debut with the New performed by Nashville Ballet Company 2, Tennessee. The company also seeks to provide York Youth Symphony. She performs and tours Nashville Ballet’s pre-professional company. innovative educational programs designed to with violinist Jourdan Urbach and has appeared Founded in 1981 as a civic dance company, the entertain and inspire rising artists. Chad Young, on the nationally televised 2008 Hero Awards. Nashville Ballet became Middle Tennessee’s only in Nashville Parent Magazine recently wrote: Jourdan Urbach’s performance is generously professional ballet company in 1986. Nashville “No doubt, Studio Tenn’s existence in Nashville sponsored by Milton T. Schaeffer. Ballet presents a diverse repertoire of classical will raise the bar of excellence across town.” ballet and contemporary works by acclaimed Studio Tenn is a fully professional, nonprofit Anne Frank: The Diary choreographers, including original works by organization that proudly employs members of Artistic Director Paul Vasterling. Through the Actors’ Equity Association. of a Young Girl performances as well as education and outreach The Nashville Ballet programs, Nashville Ballet reaches more than Marvin Hamlisch Monday • July 11 70,000 adults and children annually. 11:30 AM Wednesday, July 13 8:30 PM Based on the book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, this unique work incorporates Marvin Hamlisch’s music career is notable for its
Jourdan Urbach contemporary movement to showcase the great versatility and substance. As a composer, Sunday • July 10 feelings and emotions that Anne, Margot, Hamlisch has won virtually every major award 4:30 PM and Peter experienced while hiding in their possible: four Emmys, four Grammys, three Only nineteen years old, Juilliard violin virtuoso secret annex apartment during World War II. Golden Globes, three Oscars, a Pulitzer Prize, have performed at local benefits including the and Yale University junior Jourdan Urbach has The ballet tells their story artistically while and a Tony. For Broadway he has written the Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie Nashville International Piano Competition already received international acclaim: for his creatively conveying emotions, establishing music for They’re Playing our Song, as well as and Steve Alan Hyman and the W. O. Smith Music School, and will also musical artistry, his sweeping contributions meaningful relationships, and connecting his groundbreaking show, A Chorus Line, which Thursday, • July 14 play together in an upcoming all-Gershwin to MS-focused neuroscience research, and his with the environment and circumstances received a Pulitzer Prize. He is the composer of 11:30 AM humanitarian and philanthropic endeavors. many motion picture scores including his Oscar- concert with the Delta Symphony Orchestra He is founder and director of Children Helping winning score and song for The Way We Were In addition to their own respective solo careers, in Greenville, Mississippi, in November of Children, a musical charity organization that and his adaptation of Scott Joplin’s music for pianists Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie and Steve Alan 2011. Shields-Wiltsie has performed concert raises funds through Concerts for a Cure. Funds The Sting, for which he received his third Oscar. Hyman have successfully formed a duo to great tours in Armenia, France, Germany, Mexico, raised go toward cutting edge neurological Hamlisch holds the position of principal pops acclaim. As a pair, these extraordinary musicians Russia, Switzerland, and the United States. research, pediatric hospital divisions with conductor for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, She frequently plays concertos with the Delta groundbreaking programs in music therapy, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony Orchestra, which is conducted by international medical organizations that target The Glass Menagerie Symphony and Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony her husband, Theodore Elliott Wiltsie. Pieces written and dedicated to Shields-Wiltsie include the eradication of neurological disease, especially Studio Tenn Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, and Seattle “Toccata” by Kenneth Haxton and “Prelude Après among children. To date, Urbach has raised more Wednesday • July 13 Symphony. He was the musical director and Sergei R.” by William Pursell. Hyman is associate than $4.7 million to fight neurological disease. 11:30 AM arranger of Barbra Streisand’s 1994 U.S. and Compared by New York critics to a “Young England concert tour as well as the television professor of clinical anesthesiology at Vanderbilt Studio Tenn, Nashville’s newest professional Paganini [with] buttery smooth playing and special, “Barbra Streisand: The Concert” for University School of Medicine. Musically, he theatre company, will perform scenes from The laser sharp technique,” Urbach’s concert career which he received two of his Emmys. Hamlisch has studied in Nashville with Shields-Wiltsie Glass Menagerie, a four-character memory play has included four sold-out performances at both is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and at Blair School of Music and Robert Marler at written by Tennessee Williams. The subjects and Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, two sold-out Queens College (where he earned a Bachelor Belmont University. He was the first winner in themes of the play are weighty and somewhat performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and of Arts degree). He believes in the power of the annual concerto and aria competition with timeless: it is about tough decisions people make musical collaborations with multi-platinum music to bring people together. “Music can the Philharmonic Orchestra in Marion, Indiana, for themselves that affect others adversely. Studio country music star Clay Walker and Emmy- make a difference. There is a global nature and will perform “Carnival of the Animals” with Tenn was founded in 2009 with an inaugural nominated composer Chris Caswell. Urbach to music, which has the potential to bring all that orchestra in 2012. production of Our Town. The Glass Menagerie composed and performed his first original film people together. Music is truly an international was one of three productions presented by score for the short filmElah & the Moon, which language, and I hope to contribute by widening was screened at both the Tribeca and Cannes Film communication as much as I can.” Festivals in 2010. Host Robert Sherman of WQXR’s Mr. Hamlisch’s performance is generously Young Artist Showcase called Urbach “the one to sponsored by Pat and Thane Smith and watch for the future … a brilliant and persuasive Delores Kinsolving. performer.” Urbach has studied privately with
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invited to be guests of the Academy. Some SUNDAY EVENING OPENING visitors may wish to participate in the classes FINALE Friday • July 15 being held, and all are invited to sit in on any of RECEPTION CELEBRATION 11:30 AM Sunday • July 10 the day’s activities. 6:30–8:00 PM The Academy activities conclude with the Academy Finale Luncheon in the Maddox Following the Tennessee Arts Academy opening BRAVO! THE TENNESSEE Grand Atrium in the Curb Event Center at 11:30 session and meetings on Sunday afternoon, a.m. This event brings together the diverse join us for an elegant buffet reception in the ARTS ACADEMY AWARDS experiences of the Academy week and reinforces Neely Dining Hall complemented by multiple BANQUET the importance of arts education in classrooms entertainment options inside and out. Our artists Wednesday • July 13 across America. Accordionist Jeff Taylor will for this event include the Nick Palmer Trio (in 7:00 PM perform during the meal. Each year after the the MBA courtyard); David Arnold, caricature Switzerland. A professor of art at Austin Peay On Wednesday at 7:00 p.m., participants will luncheon the Academy honors one Tennessean artist (in the Belmont Mansion gazebo); the State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, Black gather for the Academy Bravo Awards Banquet for achievement in the arts. Following the Michael Alvey Trio (in the Neely Dining Hall); is also a member of the new media performance in the Maddox Grand Atrium in the Curb Event presentation, the Academy Chorale, conducted and Robert Thompson, guitarist (in the MPAC duo Black and Jones. Center. This night is designed to honor and by Craig Arnold and composed of Academy lobby). reward the hard work and artistic talents participants, will perform. As the Academy ends Black Drawings is co-sponsored by the Belmont of all of the Academy participants. The its yearly session, Joe Giles, TAA founder and University Department of Art. HIGH TEA IN THE MANSION banquet will include an elegant full-course dean emeritus, will offer his yearly “Thoughts for dinner. Music will be provided by Jeff the Journey.” Giles’s message is meant to inspire Monday • July 11 Tennessee’s Best of the Best 5:00 PM Lisenby on piano. After dinner, two awards will and challenge each attendee to live his or her Student Art Exhibition be presented. The Tennessee Arts Academy calling to the fullest. On Monday afternoon at 5:00 p.m., participants June 20–August 26 Connections: Inaugural Distinguished Service Award will be presented are invited for a tour of the historic Belmont Leu Center for the Visual Arts Tennessee Art Education to Marvin Hamlisch, an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Mansion. The event features Susan Ramsay Gallery 121 Association Member Exhibition Pulitzer Prize, and Tony award winner. The playing hammered dulcimer. Light refreshments The Tennessee Arts Academy is pleased to offer June 20–August 26 Tennessee Arts Academy Lifetime Achievement will be served. a student art exhibit as part of its summer Leu Center for the Visual Arts Award will be presented to award-winning enrichment experience. Tennessee’s Best of the Lobby Gallery visual art educator and artist Flowerree Galetovic. The evening will conclude with a TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY Best Student Art Exhibition is a collection of the The Tennessee Arts Academy is very proud to special performance featuring Hamlisch. best pieces in various media by student artists exhibit the work of practicing artists-teachers EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS from the three grand divisions of the state. The Opening Reception and Art Crawl alongside the exemplary work created by their Marvin Hamlisch’s performance is generously students whose work will be featured have won Tuesday • July 12 students. Connections: Inaugural Tennessee Art sponsored by Pat and Thane Smith and Black Drawings by Kell Black college scholarships for their achievements 5:30–8:00 PM Education Association Member Exhibition is a Delores Kinsolving. July 1–September 15 and have had their work exhibited in museums Leu Art Gallery (Lila D. Bunch Library) juried show featuring the work of kindergarten Leu Art Gallery throughout the state of Tennessee. and Leu Center for the Visual Arts through higher education art educators from ALUMNI DAY AND Widely recognized Tennessee artist and across Tennessee. Reception music will be provided by Roseanna educator Kell Alexander Black presents Black Tennessee’s Best of the Best Student Art ICE CREAM SOCIAL Shafer on harp and Todd London on vibraphone. Drawings, an exploration of everyday objects Thursday • July 14 Exhibition and Connections: Inaugural and experience through dramatic black and 5:00 PM Student and Teacher Artist white drawings. In his work, Black blends Tennessee Art Education Association Member All TAA Alumni members are invited to the Recognition Ceremony elements of Baroque chiaroscuro and Hollywood Exhibition are co-sponsored by the Tennessee Art Education Association with additional funding Academy to attend the day’s activities. At 5:00 Tuesday • July 12 film noir. Exhibitions of his work include two provided by SunTrust Bank, Pilot Oil, and ORNL p.m. the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation 5:45 PM group shows at the Frist Center for Visual Arts Federal Credit Union. sponsors its annual Ice Cream Social. Alumni Leu Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville: The Art of Tennessee from 2003 to 2004 and Shades of Gray in 2008. His work has members and all participants who donate to the Tennessee Arts Academy Silent Auction receive Artist Talk with Kell Black also been exhibited across the United States and in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and a special invitation to attend this yummy event Tuesday • July 12 VISITORS’ DAY in the Black and White Room adjacent to Neely 6:30 PM Wednesday • July 13 Dining Hall in the Massey Business Center. Nick Lila D. Bunch Library 8:00 AM–5:00 PM Palmer on guitar and Melanie Parabek on violin Multimedia Classroom, 2nd Floor Wednesday is the official Visitors’ Day, when will offer entertainment for the occasion. arts education supporters from the Tennessee Department of Education, arts agencies, colleges and universities, and local school systems are
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Marvin Hamlisch Flowerree Galetovic Distinguished Service Award Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday Evening Banquet (July 13) Wednesday Evening Banquet (July 13) THE TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY Marvin Hamlisch’s music career is notable for its Flowerree Galetovic is an art instructor great versatility and substance. As a composer, at Bearden High School in Knox County, Hamlisch has won virtually every major award Tennessee, where she also serves as chair of Twenty-Five Years of Excellence and Outstanding Service to the Arts possible: four Emmys, four Grammys, three Golden the fine arts department. She is a member Globes, three Oscars, a Pulitzer Prize, and a Tony. of the National Art Education Association, and to the Teachers of Tennessee For Broadway he has written the music for They’re is a frequent presenter for its annual Playing our Song, as well as his groundbreaking show, A Chorus Line, which conference, has recently served as the president of the Tennessee With the release of “A Nation at Risk” in April 1983, Americans received a Pulitzer Prize. He is the composer of many motion picture scores Art Education Association, and was a member of the Tennessee faced a decade of increasing interest in education reform. In including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and Department of Education’s High School Art Standards Curriculum his adaptation of Scott Joplin’s music for The Sting, for which he received Revision Committee in 2009 and 2010. Galetovic has received Tennessee that emphasis took the form of Governor Lamar his third Oscar. Hamlisch holds the position of principal pops conductor many awards and accolades in honor of her teaching achievements. Alexander’s Better Schools Program, through which new tax dollars for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, She was named Knox County’s Secondary Teacher of the Year in and expanded state programs were instituted. Pasadena Symphony and Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, San Diego 2009 and was also Tennessee Teacher of the Year Finalist for the For the first time, the Tennessee Department of Education Symphony, and Seattle Symphony. He was the musical director and arranger 2009-2010 school year. Her artwork has been on view at numerous began to play an active role in promoting the importance of the arts of Barbra Streisand’s 1994 U.S. and England concert tour as well as the exhibitions across Tennessee, including shows at Maryville College, as an integral part of the education of all students. When a panel of television special, “Barbra Streisand: The Concert” for which he received two the Dogwood Arts Festival, the Memphis College of Art, and private prominent arts educators was convened to establish priorities, they of his Emmys. Hamlisch is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and galleries. She is the author of Stimulate: Using National Gallery included the importance of creating ways to train teachers in the Queens College (where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree). He believes in of Art Islamic Resources, a text written for the AP Central College effective use of new state curriculum frameworks in the arts. the power of music to bring people together. “Music can make a difference. Board, and was a contributing art educator for the book Experience In 1984 Joe Giles was appointed to the newly created position of There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people Printmaking through Davis Publications. Director of Arts Education for the state of Tennessee. Using the style together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute of ancient Greek learning centers as his model, Giles conceived of the by widening communication as much as I can.” idea of using the funds appropriated by the state to create a unique, Marvin Hamlisch’s appearance is generously sponsored by Pat and modern-day “Academy” that would help raise teaching standards Thane Smith and Delores Kinsolving. among the arts educators across Tennessee. During the summers of 1985 and 1986, pilot programs were introduced in all three grand divisions of the state. Teachers The rest, as they say, is history. The Academy began The Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred upon a Tennessee teacher whose life’s work is widely acknowledged to have positively influenced the role of the arts in flocked to the free weeklong events in which nationally known arts with workshops in music and art and in 1988 was expanded education, thereby benefiting the students of Tennessee’s schools. educators came to Tennessee and, using the new arts frameworks as to include theatre. Several years later, the Academy added The Lorin Hollander Award is given to a Tennessean whose influence has benefited arts education in general and/or the Tennessee Arts Academy in particular. This award is their guide, provided stimulating and intensive training for teachers classes in school administration to its curriculum. The first named in honor of internationally renowned concert pianist Lorin Hollander, a special friend of the Academy. of art and music. musers were invited to the Academy in the early 1990s. The Distinguished Service Award is presented to an American whose work stands as a monument to the importance of the arts in the lives of all people. From the beginning, a conscious decision was made that the Many innovative ideas and events were incorporated into the The Spirit of Tennessee Award recognizes an individual or group whose work exemplifies the highest standards of artistic endeavor and brings positive recognition to the Tennessee Arts Academy would be the top-of-the-line program in daily schedule, including the Academy Chorale, the TAA art place of the arts in the lives of Tennesseans. professional development for teachers of the arts. Each year the faculty, exhibition, and Academy Awards, all of which are now program The Partner in the Arts Award honors an individual or business whose generosity and support have contributed in sustained and significant ways to the success of the performances, and speakers have been chosen by applying stringent mainstays. In the late 1990s, the Tennessee Arts Academy Tennessee Arts Academy’s mission. standards of personal and professional excellence, thereby ensuring Foundation was created to help financially support TAA. PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS that Tennessee’s teachers will not only acquire knowledge, but will be Arts Academy America was established in 2002, giving arts inspired and renewed in their efforts to fulfill the mission of educating teachers from outside Tennessee the opportunity to become full Lifetime Achievement Award 2006 Michael Combs, Knoxville Distinguished Service Award Spirit of Tennessee Award 1995 Joseph Edward Hodges, Crossville 2006 Jean R. Thomas, Chattanooga 1994 Charles Strouse, Broadway composer 2000 Wilma Dykeman, writer the complete child. participants in the Academy experience. 1996 Freda Kenner, Bells 2006 Mitchell Van Metre, Knoxville 1995 Charles Fowler, arts educator, writer 2001 Jim Crabtree, theatre director After two years of remarkable success and in order to maximize After twenty-five years and much scrutiny and refining, the 1996 Sue Blass, Jackson 2007 David Logan, Johnson City and advocate and writer the use of state funding, it was decided to institutionalize the Academy continues as the longest running, premier summer 1997 Elizabeth Rike, Knoxville 2010 James R. Holcomb, Memphis 1996 Jerome Lawrence, playwright 2002 Alice Swanson, arts education summer program. The campus of Belmont University was chosen program in America for teacher training in music, the visual 1997 Celia Bachelder, Kingsport 1997 Lorin Hollander, concert pianist administrator and advocate 1998 James Charles Mills, Johnson City Lorin Hollander Award and philosopher 2003 George Mabry, choral conductor as a permanent home because of its central location, its aesthetic arts, and theatre. Since its inception, the Academy has trained 1998 Gene Crain, Memphis 1994 Cavit Cheshier, education executive 2000 Scott Ellis, Broadway theatre director 2006 Dolph Smith, visual artist beauty, and its personnel who were interested in working with the more than five thousand teachers and administrators. As 1999 Patricia Brown, Knoxville 1995 Steven Cohen, state senator 2000 Mary Costa, opera singer 2009 George S. Clinton, Hollywood film state to develop the new entity, the Tennessee Arts Academy. Cynthia of today, the cumulative first-year student impact following 2000 Robert Pletcher, Nashville 1996 Nellie McNeil, teacher and advocate 2001 Sheldon Harnick, Broadway composer composer 2000 Kathy Hawk, Kingsport 1997 Tom L. Naylor, music educator 2001 Tina Packer, Shakespeare actor and director 2009 Jackie Nichols, theatre administrator Curtis, then professor of music education at Belmont and now the Academy attendance exceeds two million students. More 2001 Tommie Pardue, Memphis and administrator 2003 Bob McGrath, singer and host of 2009 Michael Stern, symphony conductor dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was selected as significantly, the lasting benefit of the Academy will endure and 2001 Tully Daniel, Memphis 1998 T. Earl Hinton, music educator Sesame Street 2010 Cherry Jones, Broadway actress the Academy’s first dean. multiply for years to come. (awarded posthumously) 1999 Jane Walters, educator and arts advocate 2005 John Simon, author and arts critic 2004 Marilyn DuBrisk, Greeneville 2000 Martha McCrory, music educator 2005 Dean Pitchford, songwriter, lyricist, Partner in the Arts Award 2004 Bobby Jean Frost, Nashville 2001 Solie Fott, music educator screenwriter, and director 2008 Steve Spiegel, president of 2005 Nancy Boone-Allsbrook, 2008 Jeanette Crosswhite, arts education 2006 Andre Thomas, choral conductor Theatrical Rights Worldwide Murfreesboro administrator 2007 Joe Dipietro, Broadway playwright 2005 Sally Crain Jager, Cookeville and lyricist 21 2008 Henry Krieger, Broadway composer ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL AND STAFF ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL AND STAFF
Madeline Bridges Connie Marley the Renaissance Center in Dickson, and West Project Director Music Director Tennessee Regional Art Center in Humboldt. Madeline Bridges is Connie Marley currently Dodson secured over $1 million in scholarship Associate Dean for teaches at Freedom Middle awards for the students whose work was Academic Studies, School School in Franklin, having represented. He has been selected to participate of Music at Belmont formerly taught in Georgia, in the Knoxville Leadership Education and the University, where she Texas, and Metropolitan Oak Ridge Leadership programs. Dodson is a teaches in the area of Nashville Public Schools. current board member and has served as past music education. Her Her choirs at Freedom president of both the Tennessee Art Education degrees include a B.M. have consistently won Association and the Arts Council of Oak Ridge. in piano performance from Shorter College in superior ratings at local and state choral festivals. Rome, Georgia; an M. Mus. Ed. from George Her students are well represented each year in Linda Hall Anderson Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt various honor choirs at the local, regional, and School Administration Director University; and an Ed.D. in Music Education national levels. She is a past president of the Linda Hall Anderson from the University of Alabama. Bridges has Middle Tennessee Vocal Association and has has served as a teacher, taught music and music education in classrooms served the organization in several other capacities. administrator, and art from kindergarten through the graduate level Marley is an active member of the Tennessee activist in Nashville for and frequently serves as a guest conductor and Music Educators Association (TMEA), the Music the past twenty-five years. clinician throughout the United States in the Educators National Conference (MENC), and the Her teaching experiences areas of early childhood, elementary, middle American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). span all grade levels and school, and choral music education. She is past both public and private president of both the Tennessee Music Educators Jim Dodson schools. While serving as the Art Coordinator Susan Ramsay at Peabody College, Middle Tennessee State TAA SUPPORT STAFF Association and the Board of Directors of Visual Art Director for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, she Production Director University, and Fisk University. Giles is past Choristers Guild International. created curricula, developed relationships with Jim Dodson has been an Before her retirement in president of the Southern Division of the Music Nancy Cason community arts venues, and sought resources art teacher in the Oak May of 2008, Susan Ramsay Educators National Conference (MENC) and Art Exhibition Coordinator E. Frank Bluestein in support of Metro’s visual art specialists. Ridge school system for was a music specialist at of the National Council of State Supervisors Managing Director Anderson has received the Outstanding Elaine Bailey-Fryd twenty-two years and Franklin Elementary School of Music. He taught music in Metropolitan Teacher of Humanities award from Humanities Events Coordinator E. Frank Bluestein is was selected as the 1998 in the Franklin Special Nashville Public Schools for twenty-two years, Tennessee and the Art Advocacy Award from the 1996–1997 Disney Tennessee Art Educator Schools District and was has taken choral groups on concert tours in Pollyanna Parker the Tennessee Art Educators Association. She National Performing Arts of the Year and the 1999 named Teacher of the Year Europe, and has received gold and silver medals Communications Coordinator retired from Metropolitan Nashville Public Teacher of the Year and the National Middle School for that system. She has in international music festivals. Schools and now serves an adjunct instructor Tim Doty 1994 Tennessee Teacher Art Educator of the Year. More recently, he led received National Board Certification in Music for Belmont University. Equipment Coordinator of the Year. USA Today the efforts to establish student art exhibits in and holds degrees from Peabody College and TAA OFFICE STAFF named Bluestein as one East, Middle, and West Tennessee at high-profile Middle Tennessee State University. Ramsay is Andrea Hittle of the top forty teachers venues such as the Knoxville Museum of Art, past president of the Middle Tennessee Orff- Transportation Coordinator in the United States in 1998. He serves as Schulwerk Association and the Middle Tennessee David Bridges chairman of Germantown High School’s Fine Elementary Music Educators Association and has Transportation Assistant Arts Department and is founder and director of served as regional representative on the National the school’s theatre, the Poplar Pike Playhouse. Board of Trustees for AOSA. She has presented Charles Businaro Bluestein also serves as executive producer at Orff and Kodaly national conferences and for Visual Enhancement Coordinator for the school’s three-million-dollar, Emmy MENC. She serves as an adjunct professor at Carol Poston Award-winning television studio. He is a past several colleges and universities and maintains an Melody Hart Joyce Carr Accompanist winner of the American Theatre Association’s active schedule of performances as a storyteller Office Coordinator Office Assistant John C. Barner Award and has served as an arts and as a musician. Michael Krouskop advisory panelist for numerous organizations, TAA Photographer including the National Endowment for the Arts Joe W. Giles and the Tennessee Arts Commission. Bluestein Dean Emeritus/Awards Coordinator spent several years as director of shows at Joe Giles is founder of the Opryland, USA, and most recently wrote and Tennessee Arts Academy directed the national touring production of and former director Beale Street Saturday Night starring blues of the Arts Education legend Joyce Cobb. Program of the Tennessee Department of Education. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education from Austin Peay State University and has done additional study
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