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From the Governor of Tennessee Dear Educators, On behalf of the great State of Tennessee, it is my honor to welcome you to the 2019 Tennessee Arts Academy. We are so fortunate as a state to have a nationally recognized program for professional development in arts education. As you gather together again this year, I am sure you will enjoy interacting with colleagues as you further develop your abilities to instruct students in music, theatre, and the visual arts. The people of our state are known around the world for their creative talents. Your participation in TAA will help build upon this legacy and advance the next generation of Tennessee artists. Thank you for all that you do to inspire creativity and a love for the arts in our students. Maria and I send our best wishes for an exciting and enriching event. Warmest regards,

Bill Lee From the Tennessee Department of Education Arts educators and administrators, Welcome to the 2019 Tennessee Arts Academy! This is a wonderful opportunity to engage in a challenging and enriching professional learning experience. I hope your time at the Academy will allow for reflection and professional growth. The Academy provides a collaborative approach to strengthen your own instructional practices, which is critical to the continued growth of our students and teachers. I believe arts education is an essential component of a well-rounded education and promotes whole-child development by providing many students with a connection to school, a safe environment to explore creativity and take risks, and the opportunity to develop crucial soft skills essential to postsecondary readiness. Thank you for all you do for Tennessee students. Sincerely,

Penny Schwinn, Ph.D. Commissioner of Education From the President of Belmont University Welcome to Belmont University! We wish to congratulate the Tennessee Arts Academy on its many successful years of developing and encouraging teachers of the arts. We are honored to partner with the Tennessee Department of Education and the Tennessee Arts Academy in this vital work. Belmont is very pleased to host the Tennessee Arts Academy, and we hope your experience is enhanced by our campus environment and facilities. We trust that your time here will be inspirational and productive as you share best practices and learn from gifted instructors. Sincerely,

Robert C. Fisher President 2 Contents

4 Faculty 8 Core Workshop Sessions 13 Interludes 23 Musings 25 Performances 27 Special Events 30 Academy Awards 32 Administrative Council & Staff 35 TAA History 36 Advertisers 68 Closing Credits Faculty

Lauralee Chambers Bethany Corey-Ekin Bill and Melinda Gates College Readiness Visual Art: Elementary/Lower Middle Theatre/Arts Integration: Advisory Council, and is a national fellow alum Lauralee Chambers is Elementary/Lower Middle for the Hope Street Group. currently completing Bethany Corey-Ekin has her twenty-fifth year as worked nationally and Anthony DeQuattro a kindergarten through internationally as an Music: Upper Middle/Secondary fifth grade art educator in actress, director, educator, Anthony DeQuattro the Mt. Pleasant School and teaching artist. She is currently principal District in Westchester, primarily identifies as a percussionist with the New York. Chambers teaching artist, placing Greater Bridgeport believes that children are born to create, equal value on both her Symphony and is an express, and find both comfort and challenge educational and artistic work, with her practice instructor at Quinnipiac in the arts. Her goal is to ensure that children firmly rooted in theory and scholarship. Corey- University, Southern know there are many different ways to be an Ekin works as a specialist for the Creative State artist and that the world needs their creative Learning Initiative in the Austin Independent University, and the University of Bridgeport. thinking. She has a passion for collecting School District, serves as a part-time assistant He has traveled to and studied in Bali, Ghana, ideas everywhere and putting things together professor of theatre at Southwestern University, Puerto Rico, and Taiwan and has studied with in unique ways—in her own art making as and is the Director of Pollyanna Theatre performers from Brazil, Cuba, and South India. well as with her students. Chambers has been Company’s early childhood program Play and In addition to music, he has studied folkloric instrumental in integrating the arts across the Play. Much of her educational work focuses dance from England, Ghana, and Latin America. curriculum and developing unique programs on the use of arts-based instruction in early In 2007, DeQuattro was named Connecticut’s such as Avenues to Artists, Artists to Authors, childhood and elementary classrooms and outstanding secondary school music educator. Discovery Days, Summer Voyage, and Unified includes doing curriculum development, In 2009, he was selected as the chairman of Arts. In 2011, she was the recipient of the in-class residencies, and teacher training for a the music department at the Regional Center Artsonia Leadership Award. wide variety of organizations. She received her for the Arts. Since his appointment, the music master of fine arts degree from the University department has grown from serving eighteen Josh Chenard of Texas at Austin, where the majority of her music majors to serving eighty music majors. Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary research involved the use of drama and theatre He is a contributing author to Cengage Josh Chenard is a director for children younger than six. Publication’s Listening to Music. and educator who hails from Portland, Maine. Dru Davison Sarah Fairfield His directing credits Arts Leadership and Administration Music: Elementary/Lower Middle include the Dru Davison is an arts Sarah Fairfield teaches premiere of Lord of the administrator for Shelby elementary general Flies for Henley Street County Schools in music in the Iowa City Theatre, the Memphis and has recently Community School premiere of Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hates served as project chair District, where she also Mothers at the Athenaeum Theatre, and Eugene for the Tennessee State serves as a curriculum O’Neill’s tragic Desire Under the Elms at the Board of Education’s coordinator and an Firehouse Theatre. A certified teacher of the revised fine arts instructional design Michael Chekhov Technique and an associate standards. Additionally, Davison has served strategist for the district. In these roles, she teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, Chenard as a consultant for the U.S. Department of coaches new educators and provides curricular has led classes and workshops all over the Education Reform Support Network and for support for the general music department. country, including at Berea College, Dean the Insight Education Group. He has been a While pursuing her education degree, she College, Indiana University South Bend, the contractor with the Tennessee Department of maintained an active performing career, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Education and is past chair of the NAfME singing in the University of Iowa Theater, Festival, the Southeastern Theatre Conference, Council of Music Program Leaders. During Kantorei, and the Iowa City Chamber Singers. and the University of Southern Maine. He is his time as chair, he oversaw the revisions of She now sings with the Vocal Artists of Iowa. a proud member of the Stage Director and Opportunity-to-Learn Standards for music Fairfield attended Orff certification courses Choreographer’s Society and a member of the instruction. In addition to his time working at St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota; the San Directors Lab, where he led an in kindergarten through twelfth grade public Francisco Orff School; and the Orff Institute experimental staging of the Costa Rican folk education, he has served as an adjunct jazz in Salzburg. She is an active member of the tale “La Segua.” instructor at Arkansas State University, was American Orff-Schulwerk Association, serving a teaching fellow in music education at the as its national conference chair in 2018 and as a University of North Texas, has served on the past member on the board of trustees.

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Zachary Fine the program director for the Indiana University Nichole Hahn Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary Children’s Choir, where he conducts the Visual Art: Elementary/Lower Middle Zachary Fine is an actor, Allegro Choir. He is also a past president of the Nichole Hahn has been writer, director, and Organization of American Kodály Educators. a visual arts teacher teacher. His Broadway for seventeen years credits include China Tamara Goldbogen and is known to her Doll with Al Pacino, and Theatre/Arts Integration: online friends as Nic his Off-Broadway credits Elementary/Lower Middle Hahn. She has taught include work with the Tamara Goldbogen is the students of all ages— Acting Company, the Beverley Taylor Sorenson from preschoolers to Mint Theater, Pearl, Red Bull, Fiasco, Theatre Endowed Chair for adult learners. Hahn received a degree from for a New Audience, and New York Classical Arts Learning and the the University of Wisconsin-Stout and then Theatre. He directed the Spanish language director of the award- continued her education at the University premiere of El Bien Del Pais (Our Country’s winning Arts Learning of St. Mary’s in Minnesota. She has been a Good) at Teatro Helenico in Mexico City and Collaborative at Weber part of the Art of Education team, working Tony nominee Bryce Pinkham’s Between State University in Ogden, as an online instructor as well as filming and the Moon and Me at Birdland in New York Utah. She oversees a statewide arts integration sharing presentations on their website. She has City. Other directorial assignments include program and teaches in the College of Arts and been a member of the National Art Education productions at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Humanities, the College of Education, and the Association since she was a university student Festival, Key West Theater, and Thin Air honors program at the university. Goldbogen’s and recently was honored with the Minnesota Shakespeare Festival. He was commissioned interdisciplinary research and teaching focus Art Educator of the Year 2018 Award. Hahn has by Playmakers Rep to write Bewilderness for on the transformative possibility of the arts in a blog called MiniMatisse.blogspot.com, which presentation at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare education. She regularly presents workshops at has connected her with educators from around Festival. He apprenticed with Christopher Bayes national and international conferences for arts, the world. Using social media sites such as and trained at École du Phillippe Gaulier, the education, and research. She has also published Twitter and Instagram, she has celebrated and Circus Center in San Francisco, and Spymonkey many articles about her work. As part of the shared her classroom happenings as well as her with Aitor Basauri. He has degrees from the ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts own creative endeavors. University of Tennessee and Oberlin College. Festival, she presented at the International Additionally, Fine teaches clown and games Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network Harry Hearne at New York University and regularly holds in Australia, Poland, South Africa, and Sweden. Visual Art: Upper Middle/Secondary workshops around the world. In 2017, she received the Distinguished Fellows Harry Hearne has been Outstanding Presentation Award from the a full time potter since Brent Gault International Society for Exploring Teaching 1990 and currently works Music: Elementary/Lower Middle and Learning. out of his own Turning Brent Gault is professor Point Clay Studio. A fifth of music education at generation Floridian, he the Indiana University received a master’s degree Jacobs School of Music. He in social work before specializes in elementary accepting a potter internship in Murfreesboro, general music education, Tennessee. Hearne taught for five years at the early childhood music Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts and education, and Kodály- has conducted workshops at various colleges inspired pedagogy. He also has training in and universities, as well as the John C. Campbell both the Orff and Dalcroze approaches to Folk School and Arrowmont School of Arts music education. During his career, Gault has and Crafts. He also teaches Raku kiln building served as a presenter and guest lecturer for workshops and has built Raku kilns for various colleges and music education organizations schools and organizations. Hearne’s work in the , Brazil, Canada, China, focuses primarily on Raku firing techniques Greece, Ireland, Poland, and Scotland. He is the using classical forms and multiple glaze layers co-editor with Carlos Abril of Teaching General and incorporating stained glass. He is a member Music and the author of Listen Up! Fostering of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and shows Musicianship Through Active Listening. In his work regionally and nationally. Harry is also addition to his duties with the music education a member of the Brasstown Morris Dancers, in department at the university, Gault serves as Brasstown, North Carolina.

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Julie Hearne Chauntee’ Schuler Irving Visual Art: Upper Middle/Secondary Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary West Virginia native Chauntee’ Schuler Irving Julie Hearne started her is a professional actor clay career as a studio and educator. Her many assistant for workshops Broadway, professional in throwing, Raku firing, theatre, and television and Raku kiln building production credits at Arrowmont School of include The Lion King, Arts and Crafts and the The Producers, Applause, John C. Campbell Folk School. She joined the Smokey Joes’ Café, Crumbs from the Table Turning Point Clay Studio full time in 2008. of Joy, As the World Turns, and numerous With a background in systems management, national commercials. Irving has trained she uses her skills to manage the behind- and worked with the Actors’ Studio Drama the-scenes operation of the pottery business, School, the Barrow Group Theater Company, manage websites, host an Airbnb guest suite, Alvin Ailey, and the Virginia Governor’s and raise chickens. She feels fortunate to live School for the Performing Arts. She has in a community where food is a craft and table been appointed as a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar of the program Rehabilitation through the fellowship a norm. Hearne’s clay work focuses and Welsh Scholar. She was nominated for Arts. His textbook Real-Life Public Speaking: on garden sculptures and image transfer a Barrymore Award for Best Actress in her Great Presentations as Theatre, is used by techniques. She enjoys remodeling houses and role as Deena Jones in . Irving college students throughout the country. In the teaches weekly throwing classes in her studio. has taught theatre workshops and partnered professional arena, Leong has coached movement She is also a member of the Brasstown Morris with Camp Broadway, On and Off Broadway, or choreographed the fights for twenty-one Dancers, in Brasstown, North Carolina. the Salvation Army, the African Children’s Broadway and West End plays and musicals. Choir, the Christian Youth Theater, as well Timothy J. Holtan as many schools, performing arts centers, Alan C. McClung Music: Upper Middle/Secondary and organizations around the United States. Music: Upper Middle/Secondary Colonel Timothy J. Holtan Most recently, she taught acting and audition In 2017, Alan McClung retired in 2017 as the technique at Virginia Commonwealth moved to the rank of senior military musician University. Irving is a proud member of associate professor in the Department of the Actor’s Equity Union and the Screen Actors emeritus at the University Defense. Col. Holtan’s Guild–American Federation of Television and of North Texas. While final command was as Radio Artists. teaching there, he the 10th Leader and conducted the Concert Commander of The David S. Leong Choir, supervised United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own.” He Arts Leadership and Administration student teachers, and taught graduate and holds the distinction of being the only officer David Leong’s academic undergraduate courses in secondary choral to command all three of the Army’s premier and professional music education and undergraduate courses bands, which include the U.S. Army Field career spans more in choral conducting. In addition to six Band and the U.S. Military Academy Band at than three decades in European concert tours, his choirs have West Point. Holtan has presented concerts and higher education and performed numerous invited concerts for clinics in all fifty states, Canada, Japan, the professional theatre. state and regional music conferences. He has U.S. Virgin Islands and across Europe. Holtan’s In 1996, he became conducted state and regional honor choirs and ensembles have been seen on many nationally the chair and producer has served as guest conductor for the award televised broadcasts and diverse stages such of the theatre department at Virginia winning Landesjungenchor from Koblenz, as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, DAR Commonwealth University (VCU). Leong Germany. In addition to publications in a Constitution Hall, Mormon Tabernacle, used his expertise in the integrated arts to variety of professional journals, he is the author Myerson Symphony Center, and Meyerhoff co-create the VCU School of Medicine Empathy of Movable Tonic: A Sequenced Sight-Singing Symphony Hall, as well as for the 2017 Project, which now houses the nationally Method, a GIA publication. He currently serves Presidential Inaugural Concert at the Lincoln recognized Center for Standardized Patient as owner and managing editor of Cambiata Memorial. Holtan also led the West Point Band Training Program and the VCU School of Press, a small publishing company committed in the Emmy-nominated Marina at West Point Business Creative Communication Center. to quality music for the changing voice. public television production that has reached More recently, he has used his theatre skills more than 180 million viewers. to teach conflict resolution to inmates as part

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Robert B. Morrison book, Interdisciplinary Learning through Dance: Cliff Tierney Arts Leadership and Administration 101 Moventures. In 2018, the National Dance Trio Track: Visual Art Sessions Education Organization awarded Overby with Robert Morrison is Cliff Tierney is associate its Lifetime Achievement Award. founder and CEO of professor of art at Quadrant Research, Lipscomb University in David Row the nation’s leading Nashville, Tennessee, Music: Elementary/Lower Middle arts education research where he has taught for organization. During his A Nebraska native and eighteen years. Before career, he has created a Midwesterner at heart, teaching full time, he was deep body of research David Row now lives and an illustrator and designer and policy work and is recognized as a teaches in the Cherokee at The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville pioneer in statewide arts education status and County School District and The Times-Union newspaper in condition research. He served as the managing outside of , Jacksonville. He has taught for Lipscomb’s LIFE partner for the groundbreaking . He holds a Program at the Riverbend Maximum Security Arts Education Census Project, completing master’s degree in music Facility and the Tennessee Prison for Women, the first statewide census for arts education education, has completed three levels and where he was the art director for their annual in every school building. This work has been a master course in Orff Schulwerk training, literary journal Chiaroscuro. Tierney has co-led hailed as a model for statewide arts education and has extensive experience with critical travel classes to the Big Bend National Park research and has impacted many other states. thinking in the arts. Row loves teaching music and the Olympic Peninsula in Morrison’s advocacy work has earned him to children. When he’s not teaching, he likes to state, in addition to leading art experiences in an EMMY, a Peabody Award, the New Jersey connect and learn with other music educators France and Italy. He is a member of the College Governor’s Award for Arts Education, and around the country. He’s an active clinician Art Association, Southeastern Art Conference, an honorary doctorate degree from the State and has presented workshops at local, district, and FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and University of New York, Potsdam in 2002. and state conventions across the country. On Education). His work has been shown both He was also honored with the Motherland his blog, MakeMomentsMatter.org, he shares regionally and nationally in commercial and Award—the highest honor from the American ideas about classroom content, management, university galleries. Red Cross—for developing the nationwide lesson plans, and critical thinking. His newest public service campaign that aired in support adventures can be viewed by looking in Spotify Kelsey Viola Wiskirchen of the organization following the attacks of or Apple Podcasts for Make Moments Matter: A Visual Art: Upper Middle/Secondary September 11, 2001, in . Music Education Podcast! Kelsey Viola Wiskirchen is a full-time studio Lynnette Young Overby Mackie V. Spradley artist and educator living Theatre/Arts Integration: Arts Leadership and Administration in St. Louis, . Elementary/Lower Middle Mackie Spradley is She received degrees Lynnette Young Overby president-elect of the with a concentration is an author, editor, and National Association for in fibers from Truman professor of theatre and Music Education, one of State University and dance at the University the largest arts education from State University. She has taught of Delaware. Her first organizations in the textiles to all age groups—from children to classroom position was world. She is currently college students and adults—and has focused teaching dance and an adjunct professor much of her teaching in community programs. physical education in the of education in the College of Education at Wiskirchen currently operates Viola Textile Washington, DC, public schools. Her research the University of North Texas, where she Studio, a textile education center that provides interests are in the areas of mental imagery, teaches graduate-level courses in teacher community education in textiles and offers arts education, and interdisciplinary learning. education and administration. She is also professional development workshops for art In 2018, she served as artistic director of an the curriculum program coordinator for the educators in the St. Louis region. She spent two arts-based research project that culminated academic curriculum standards and student years in Tennessee as an Artist-in-Residence at in the production of Women of Consequence: support division at the Texas Education Agency. the Appalachian Center for Craft. Continuing Ambitious, Ancillary and Anonymous. Overby Spradley’s teaching experience includes to learn and to teach others has become central is a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist and has more than twenty-five years as a classroom to her life as an artist, and these experiences provided professional development in arts teacher. She is a published author with continually crossover into her studio practice. integration for hundreds of teachers. She primary research interests in critical discourse served as one of ten dance educators who analysis, educator preparation, and culturally developed the National Coalition for Core responsive teaching. Her work focuses on Arts Standards. With co-authors, Beth Post issues related to equity in education and and Diane Newman, Overby published the improving teacher effectiveness.

7 Core Workshop Sessions: Music

Elementary/Lower The Art of Possibility approach to understanding and expressing Middle Music Instructor: David Row rhythms with the body. Using drumming One of the most powerful teaching tools is the and dancing traditions from Brazil, Cuba, Every day, participants will attend each of capacity to see potential and possibility in every and Ghana, Anthony DeQuattro will guide the classes listed below. lesson. In this workshop, participants will take participants through many enjoyable well-known folk songs and look at them from techniques that are designed to teach rhythms Cultivating Wildflowers: all angles to explore the many ways they could through movement. Music Making with Children be used to create lessons. The teachers who Instructor: Sarah Fairfield attend will walk away with songs, games, and Nurturing the Master Teacher For music educators, it is important to create lesson ideas that they can immediately put to Instructor: Timothy J. Holtan natural learning environments in which use in their classrooms, as well as the skills and Join Timothy Holtan for a deep dive into children feel free to develop their knowledge, questions they can use to help them adapt other the logistics of rehearsal planning, time skills, and understanding of music. In these lessons to fit their needs. management, programming concepts, sessions, participants will examine teaching sequencing, student engagement, and processes and approaches that use music Upper Middle/ maintaining rehearsal energy flow. The sessions making experiences to cultivate children’s will also include two days of conducting creative thinking skills, playfulness, and social- Secondary Music workshops with the 129th Army National emotional growth. Participants will follow either the vocal or Guard Band, in which participants will have the instrumental track and attend two of the chance to rehearse with the ensemble. A Vibrant Musical Landscape: Active three classes listed below each day. The 129th Army Band of the Tennessee Army Approaches to Fostering Musicianship National Guard has a long and distinguished Rhythmic Development through Instructor: Brent Gault history serving Tennessee and the United States Drumming and Dance Finding active ways to engage students in in peacetime and during armed conflict. The Instructor: Anthony DeQuattro meaningful music-learning experiences is band has performed for presidents, world’s crucial to the success of any general music Rhythms are usually taught by counting fairs, and overseas, and was called to active setting. In this session, attendees will explore and putting the foundation of the rhythm in duty during Operation Desert Storm. The group and participate in learning activities that are the brain. But for a rhythm to be performed has been the official band for the Tennessee designed to use singing and moving to deepen accurately, its foundation must be felt in the governor’s inaugural since 1937 and is currently students’ conceptual understanding of music, body. These sessions will provide a hands-on led by Chief Warrant Officer Billy Stepp and and to help them develop their musical artistry. Acting First Sergeant Tim Keyser.

Delivering Excellence in the Choral Music Classroom Instructor: Alan McClung To create a successful comprehensive choral music classroom, the music educator first needs to define and build a positive learning environment, and then must be willing to continually identify and refine their instructional tools. To that end, these sessions will focus on the following topics: choral program design, emotional intelligence, classroom management, creativity, music selection, group voice instruction, pitch and rhythm sight-singing development, learning assessment, musicality, and conducting gesture.

Special thanks to Country Music Association Foundation for their generous funding support for members of the 2019 TAA music faculty.

8 Core Workshop Sessions: Theatre

Upper Middle/ Secondary Theatre Every day, participants will attend each of the classes listed below.

Analyzing and Synthesizing: The Director’s Process Instructor: Josh Chenard In this workshop, participants will create theatrical compositions with an emphasis on vision, story, and personal point of view. A variety of stylistic approaches—from Michael Chekhov’s imagination-based improvisation and Bertolt Brecht’s epic staging to the Tectonic Theatre Project’s revelatory Moment Work— will be used to explore diverse directing experiments and methods.

Tripping Into Your Talent: Clowning For All Elementary/Lower integrating a variety of art forms, including Instructor: Zachary Fine visual art, puppetry, drama, and music, with In this engaging workshop, participants will join Middle Theatre other core content areas such as language arts in a series of guided exercises that are designed and math. No arts experience is needed to Focus Areas: Arts Integration, Creative to uncover what makes them uniquely funny, enjoy and benefit from this class. Drama, and Movement ridiculous, courageous, and sublime. Exercises will be geared toward fostering spontaneity and Movement Stories: Linking Dance with Every day, participants will attend each of playfulness and widening the scope of each the classes listed below. Science and Social Studies Content person’s imagination and creativity, while at the Instructor: Lynnette Young Overby same time pursuing a structured understanding Activating Literacy Learning These workshops will explore strategies for of how comedy works. The muscles of generosity through Drama turning science and social studies content into and play that make a great clown are transferable Instructor: Bethany Corey-Ekin stories that can be embodied and remembered. to all forms of acting and performance. Drama is a powerful tool for improving student For example, the story of the rainforest literacy. Through demonstration and hands-on introduces students to the parts of the Know Thy Selfie: Self-taping for the participatory training, this workshop will offer rainforest, the animals who reside in the forest, Acting Classroom and Beyond educators practical techniques for using drama and the importance of preserving the forest. Instructor: Chauntee’ Schuler Irving in their classrooms to develop literacy skills— During the sessions, participants will go from This rigorous and fast-paced course will help including reading and narrative comprehension, experiencing various models to creating their teachers equip young actors with the vital skill character analysis, and creative writing. own movement stories. of self-taping. The practical and pedagogical exploration will include an examination of Arts Integration: Creative Learning the current industry uses and standards for Across the Curriculum self-tapes, an exploration of potential tools for Instructor: Tamara Goldbogen integration into the acting curriculum, and This workshop will offer practical techniques hands-on production training that will enable for integrating the arts across the curriculum. students to produce effective self-tapes for Through active participation in hands-on the theatre, television, and film world within activities, teachers will explore strategies for the academic classroom. This accessible curriculum can be used with students of various ages and resources.

Special thanks to Tennessee Arts Commission for their generous funding support for members of the 2019 TAA arts integration faculty.

9 Core Workshop Sessions: Visual Art

arts teachers of all levels will be able to apply be applied to glazed clay and then re-fired for the ideas inspired by these sessions in their permanent design. Ample time will be given for classrooms and art studios. Many of these ideas hands-on experience with Raku firing and an will be applicable in both traditional, teacher-led introduction to glaze management. and choice-based classroom settings. Print and Bind Instructor: Kelsey Viola Wiskirchen Upper Middle/ This workshop will be an exciting blend Secondary of cyanotype photographic printing and bookmaking. Also known as sun prints or Visual Art blue prints, cyanotypes are made by directly Participants will attend each workshop exposing prepared print surfaces to the sun. listed below for two consecutive days and This means they can be created without using a summary workshop for both sessions on any photo equipment. Students can make Friday morning. images on both fabric and paper with a wide range of objects such as leaves, lace, stones, Throwing, Building, and Transferring stencils, and photo negatives. In this workshop, Images, with an Introduction to Raku participants will learn about cyanotype Instructor: Julie Hearne and printing: from how to use photo-chemistry to Harry Hearne prepare the print surface to creative ways of This workshop will enhance the ability of tinting and toning prints to achieve variation Elementary/Lower participants to teach wheel-throwing and on the traditional cyan blue. The prints that hand-building in the classroom. Image transfer participants create will be incorporated into the Middle VISUAL ART techniques and drawings made in class will pages and covers of handmade artist books. Participants will attend each workshop listed below for two consecutive days and a summary workshop for both sessions on Friday morning.

Creating with Unity and Variety Instructor: Lauralee Chambers In this workshop, art educators will learn new ways of using the central design principles of unity and variety to create art lessons with strong visual impact. Participants will use various media—including alcohol ink, tempera sticks, tissue paper, and watercolor— as they engage in creative play, fine motor skill development, and mixed media exploration.

The Connect Effect Instructor: Nichole Hahn Art is the bridge that connects. It connects artists to themselves, artists to each other, and artists to the world. This interactive workshop will focus on the role of connection (the “connect effect”) that art plays in schools and communities. Throughout the week, participants will explore drawing, painting, fibers, printmaking, and digital arts. Visual

10 Core Workshop Sessions: Arts Leadership Arts Leadership and Administration

The goal of the Arts Leadership and Administration track (ALAA) is to inspire and empower participants to support and advance arts education. The ALAA track is designed to connect teachers, school and district leaders, program directors, and others who are interested in active arts education leadership.

Daily Core Classes

Instructors: Dru Davison and Amanda Galbraith Participants will engage in practical and thought-provoking sessions that connect contemporary arts research and trends to targeted arts initiatives at multiple levels within schools, districts, and beyond. Content will be explored through field experiences that include visits to content sessions throughout the Seminars and Data for Progress Academy to observe from the perspective of an Seminar Instructor: arts leader. Numerous interactive discussions Webinars Robert B. Morrison and webinars with state and national leaders are Participants in this session will learn about the also part of the innovative curriculum. All participants will engage in special seminars and interactive webinars exciting work happening across the nation to throughout the week. measure and expand arts access for all students. Participants will be challenged to consider the How the Arts Can Enhance and connections between targeted data collection, Create Your Brand and Attract advocacy, and program accountability. Opportunities for Funding Seminar Instructor: David S. Leong Paradigm Shifts in Music and Arts Leadership Beyond creative power, emotion, and beauty, Webinar Instructor: the arts are transformative and for some, Mackie V. Spradley even life-saving. In this unique webinar conversation, theatre educator and Broadway This session will provide participants with veteran David Leong will share his experience the opportunity to reflect on how to use their integrating theatre into the fields of medicine, personal experiences, education, and passion nursing, healthcare, and business as a way to as a framework for their music and arts enhance their brands and create additional leadership efforts. opportunities for funding.

11 Core Workshop Sessions: Trio Track

Trio Track provides participants Theatre/Arts Integration: Trio Track who are enrolled in this track a daily (Grades 4-6) multidisciplinary experience in three Activating Literacy Learning distinct arts areas. Each day Trio through Drama Track participants will attend a pre- Instructor: Bethany Corey-Ekin designated class in music, theatre, and Drama is a powerful tool for improving student visual art. Participants will attend the literacy. Through demonstration and hands-on same core class in each content area participatory training, this workshop will offer for the entire week, allowing complete educators practical techniques for using drama immersion in one topic for each arts in their classroom to develop literacy skills— discipline. including reading and narrative comprehension, character analysis, and creative writing.

ELEMENTARY/LOWER Visual Art: Trio Track MIDDLE TRIO TRACK Art and Math: A Marriage of Geometry and Proportion Instructor: Cliff Tierney Every day, participants will attend each These sessions will introduce ways of using of the classes listed below. Theatre: Trio Track geometry and mathematical principles in art Tripping Into Your Talent: classes to teach young students with ease. Each Music: Trio Track Clowning For All project will apply these principles in enjoyable The Art of Possibility Instructor: Zachary Fine and interactive applications. Instructor: David Row In this engaging workshop, participants will join One of the most powerful teaching tools is the in a series of guided exercises that are designed capacity to see potential and possibility in every to uncover what makes them uniquely funny, lesson. In this workshop, participants will take UPPER MIDDLE/ ridiculous, courageous, and sublime. Exercises well-known folk songs and look at them from SECONDARY TRIO will be geared toward fostering spontaneity and all angles to explore the many ways they could TRACK playfulness and widening the scope of each be used to create lessons. The teachers who person’s imagination and creativity, while at the attend will walk away with songs, games, and same time pursuing a structured understanding lesson ideas that they can immediately put to Every day, participants will attend each of how comedy works. The muscles of generosity use in their classrooms, as well as the skills and of the classes listed below. and play that make a great clown are transferable questions they can use to help them adapt other to all forms of acting and performance. lessons to fit their needs. Music: Trio Track Rhythmic Development through Visual Art: Trio Track Theatre/Arts Integration: Trio Track Drumming and Dance Color Speaks (Grades K-3) Instructor: Anthony DeQuattro Instructor: Cliff Tierney Arts Integration: Creative Learning Rhythms are usually taught by counting These sessions will introduce several Across the Curriculum and putting the foundation of the rhythm in intermediate practices that show how artists Instructor: Tamara Goldbogen the brain. But for a rhythm to be performed use color to explore and express different This workshop will offer practical techniques accurately, its foundation must be felt in the intellectual and emotional ideas. Each for integrating the arts across the curriculum. body. These sessions will provide a hands-on project will apply principles that will allow Through active participation in hands-on approach to understanding and expressing participants to use color to explore their activities, teachers will explore strategies for rhythms with the body. Using drumming innate self-expression and creativity. integrating a variety of art forms, including and dancing traditions from Brazil, Cuba, visual art, puppetry, drama, and music, with and Ghana, Anthony DeQuattro will guide Special thanks to Tennessee Arts Commission for other core content areas such as language arts participants through many enjoyable their generous funding support for members of the and math. No arts experience is needed to techniques that are designed to teach rhythms 2019 TAA trio track faculty. enjoy and benefit from this class. through movement.

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Interludes provide all Academy participants ARTS LEADERSHIP information that will help them successfully with the opportunity to receive cross– fulfill a variety of fundraising plans for their disciplinary training. Multiple workshops AND ADMINISTRATION schools, districts, and nonprofit organizations. in each content area are open to everyone. RELATED INTERLUDES An overview of the basics of grant writing and All participants are expected to attend one community campaigns will be shared. 45-minute interlude session each afternoon. The interludes occur from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m., Charting the Course for Jeff Smith serves the Metropolitan Nashville Monday through Wednesday, and from 2:55 Arts Education in Tennessee Public Schools as director of visual and to 3:40 p.m. on Thursday. Session details Presenter: Todd Shipley performing arts, where he is proud to support and the day or days each interlude will take (Tuesday) the work of almost four hundred arts educators place are listed in the program book under It is essential for all students to receive a well- in providing equitable access to programs the course title. Biographical information on of excellence to more than eighty thousand the instructors may be found either in the rounded education that includes robust and students. Prior to joining the district, he served faculty section of the program book or in the meaningful instruction in the arts. Toward as the director of arts for Duval County Public descriptions below. this end, Tennessee adopted new academic standards for fine arts in 2018, new provisions Schools in Florida. GENERAL INTEREST benefiting arts education within the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, and launched the MUSIC RELATED INTERLUDES Tennessee: State of the Arts Initiative. This session will explore these new developments in INTERLUDES Balloons in the Classroom instruction, policy, and advocacy. Presenter: Sam Cremeens Getting the Ball Rolling: A Guide for Todd Shipley is the director of arts education the Choral Ensemble (Thursday) and program director of State of the Arts for Presenter: Jeffery Ames the Tennessee Department of Education. He In this interlude, Sam the Balloon Man (aka (Monday) Sam Cremeens) will demonstrate the value of remains active in professional arts organizations using balloons in the classroom, especially in throughout the state and is a member of the State Are you or your choristers bored with the same the visual and performing arts. Discussion will Education Agency Directors of Arts Education. old warm-ups? In this interlude, participants include instruction on how to twist a balloon will experience how bodily movement and play dog (we all have to start with the basics) and Show Me the Money! can enhance a warm-up routine. Participants how to use balloons as a performance tool. The Basics of Fundraising and will leave the session energized and with Community Engagement sharper minds that are ready to tackle just With sixteen years’ experience as a balloon Presenter: Jeff Smith about anything! entertainer, Sam the Balloon Man is one of (Wednesday) Nashville’s premier balloon artists. He performs Jeffery Ames is professor of music and director at more than 300 events every year and travels This highly engaging presentation is based on of choral activities at Belmont University. His the world as a renowned instructor of balloon numerous successful efforts to raise small and prior posts include positions at Texas’s Baylor art. Sam the Balloon Man will also perform for large sums of money for visual and performing University and Florida’s Lincoln and Edgewater the Arts Academy Vendor Fair on Thursday. arts programs. Participants will receive a list High Schools. Ames enjoys teaching music, of grants, funding sources, and other valuable but more importantly, he enjoys building a Relax with Breath and community of singers into a family of singers. Gentle Movement Presenter: Sarah Davis (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Sarah Davis will help participants discover ways to relax and reduce stress. Each class will focus on different breathing techniques, meditation styles, and gentle movement. Sarah Davis is the director of public relations for Belmont University’s College of Music and Performing Arts. She is also a certified yoga instructor.

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How Technology Can Support Making Friends and Creative Movement in the Building Programs Music Classroom Presenter: Terry Jolley Presenter: Rita Black (Wednesday) (Monday) This interlude will give participants the In this session, attendees will participate in chance to share their ideas for how to build learning that creatively uses movement and the types of relationships between schools and technology to explore music concepts such as communities that lead to strong foundations texture, form, dynamics, tempo, expression, for arts programs. and reflection. Texture in music will be Terry Jolley’s professional journey has allowed demonstrated visually through the use of props him to work at all educational levels from and materials. Attendees will also work in pairs elementary through college. He has also served and small and large groups to explore other in, and provided arrangements for, multiple music concepts. community performing groups. Rita Black teaches music at Glendale Spanish Immersion School in the Metro Nashville Public theatre, and visual art of some world cultures Academy Chorale Schools. She has taught music for twenty-four to gain a better understanding of the joys and Presenter: Alan McClung years, in both Oklahoma and Tennessee. In 2017, struggles of communities around the globe. (Tuesday and Thursday) Black was one of only ten music educators in the Please come and join other participants as the United States to receive the Yale Distinguished Artfully Adding Ukulele Academy Chorale prepares a program of music Music Educator Award. She continues to mentor to the Classroom to be performed at the Academy luncheon on university student teachers and present at local Presenter: Sarah Fairfield Friday. The Academy Chorale performs under and national conferences. (Wednesday) the direction of Alan McClung, the Academy’s secondary choral instructor. Songwriting Projects that For those who wonder if they can play the Students Love ukulele or teach it to their students, this session will convince them that it is possible! Put Barbershop to Work Presenter: Christopher Blackmon for Your School Program (Monday) Participants will learn the basics of playing this versatile instrument and develop artful Presenter: Donny Rose This session will focus on how to introduce techniques for adding ukulele instruction to the (Monday) commercial songwriting to music students. general music classroom. In this workshop, participants will learn how Web resources will be used to create barbershop singing can help in the classroom memorable songwriting activities that students Engaged Music Listening by strengthening students’ abilities to sight will never forget. Presenter: Brent Gault read, improving their aural skills, and giving Christopher Blackmon has been a music teacher (Wednesday) confidence to shy singers. Barbershop singing with Metro Nashville Public Schools since 2009. Listening is the primary way we experience is a great way to recruit and earn money for He has a passion for igniting hope, cultivating music. In this session, participants will explore school programs. It can also give students the character, teaching musical-language literacy, ways to heighten the listening experience by chance to travel to amazing school festivals in and integrating technology and problem solving creating active representations of musical ideas one-of-a-kind venues. into the curriculum. He has produced several and making interdisciplinary connections with Before joining the Barbershop Harmony Society original children’s musicals and recordings, selected musical examples. staff as director of music education, Donny Rose and is a three-time winner of the CMA Music taught high school band and orchestra in Seattle, Teachers of Excellence Award. Why We Teach the Arts Washington, for thirty years. Presenter: Timothy J. Holtan The Arts as a Reflection of Culture (Monday) Presenter: Anthony DeQuattro (Monday and Wednesday) What motivates people to teach the arts? Are connections truly being made with students, For centuries people have expressed themselves and what do those connections look like? In this through the arts. In this presentation, interlude, Timothy Holtan will discuss these participants will examine the music, dance, questions and more.

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Community Folk Dance Folk Music and Movement and theatre lesson plans with other teachers Presenter: David Row Presenter: Teresa West from across the state. Theatre facilitators Nancy (Wednesday) (Monday) Beard and Nancy Essary will lead the session. Swing your partner, right hand star, do-si-do, Please come and join the fun as the presenter Nancy Beard teaches at Shady Grove Elementary and promenade home! In this session, David shares three multicultural folk songs and School in the Shelby County school district, Row will share some quick and easy strategies companion dances. Favorite performance where she works with students who are English to get kids dancing and moving freely. ideas for incorporating these into a folk dance language learners. Prior to this position, she Participants will explore several different folk program will be presented. taught Orff Music in the Memphis and Shelby County schools. She has also taught band, dance favorites and discuss tips and tricks for Teresa West teaches general music at Walnut chorus, and general music in Illinois and creating successful lessons. Grove Elementary School in Williamson County Kentucky. Beard serves on the Academy staff as and has worked there for more than twenty-five a drama facilitator. Healthy Barbershop Singing years. West is a past president for the Middle is Healthy Choral Singing Tennessee Chapter of the American Orff- Nancy Essary is a second-grade teacher with Presenter: Steve Scott Schulwerk Association and has completed three the Rutherford County school district, where (Wednesday) levels of Orff-Schulwerk training. she integrates the arts into general classroom In the vocal and choral worlds, barbershop education. Essary has attended the Arts Academy singing is not always embraced as for numerous years and currently serves as a enthusiastically as other vocal styles. In this THEATRE AND DANCE facilitator with the elementary drama staff. session, Steve Scott, voice teacher for the Barbershop Harmony Society, will present the RELATED INTERLUDES Connecting Theatre idea that healthy barbershop singing is healthy to the Classroom choral singing. He will show how barbershop Theatre Curriculum Caring and Presenter: Catherine Birdsong singing can be beneficial to the sound of a Sharing: Kindergarten through (Tuesday) Sixth Grade traditional ensemble. Live demonstrations will This workshop will give educators various Presenters: Nancy Beard and also be available. learning strategies and student activities that Nancy Essary Steve Scott is a singing health specialist and the they can use in their classrooms to explore (Tuesday) director of online education for the Barbershop themes and topics from the musical Tuck Harmony Society. In this interlude, kindergarten through sixth Everlasting, which was produced this past grade teachers will be encouraged to share season at the Nashville Children’s Theatre. their favorite classroom activities, teaching tips, Activities will draw on Tennessee Standards and Social and Emotional Learning themes. Tuck Everlasting will be featured during TAA’s Wednesday midday performance session. Catherine Birdsong graduated from Belmont University with a degree in musical theatre. After graduation, she worked as a director, choreographer, and music director with the Youth Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. She is currently a teaching artist for Nashville Children’s Theatre (NCT), where she also serves as the education booking manager for school field trips. Last season she played the part of Ariel in NCT’s production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. In August, she will be a cast member in the company’s production of The Itsy Bitsy Spider.

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Trash to Treasure: Making Stage Nic Dugger from TNDV Television in Nashville is and characters that have spanned time and Props out of Found Objects the incoming 2019 to 2020 Nashville/Midsouth culture. Using breath, movement, voice, and Presenter: Sarah Bolek NATAS President and student awards chairman. imagination, participants in this interlude (Tuesday and Thursday) Aaron Gant from Warner Chappell Production will explore several archetypes that enhance character development, deepen the connection In this interlude, participants will use found Music in Nashville is the Nashville/Midsouth between text and action, and heighten intuition. objects to make stage props. The session will NATAS governor. begin with a brief presentation about the Clifton Hunt from NewsChannel 5 Network Dramatic Definitions creative ways different methods and materials in Nashville is the current president of the Presenter: Bethany Corey-Ekin can be transformed for use in the theatre. It will Nashville/Midsouth NATAS chapter and is a (Monday and Wednesday) conclude with everyone making a simple prop national trustee of the organization. out of cardboard and other found objects. Bethany Corey-Ekin will demonstrate how actor tools can be used to help students Sarah Bolek is a freelance theatre artist based Acting with Archetypes connect with content. Participants will learn in the Nashville area. Her primary areas of Presenter: Josh Chenard how to use the tools of body, voice, mind, and expertise are props and puppets. She regularly (Monday and Wednesday) imagination to construct and deconstruct works with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Ever-present in classic mythology, literature, definitions and build vocabulary skills. Verge Theater Company, the Theater Bug, and psychology, art, and even personal thoughts other local theatre companies. and memories, archetypes exist as energies Regional and National High Schools Student Television Production Awards Presenters: Geneva Brignolo, Nic Dugger, Aaron Gant, and Clifton Hunt (Thursday) Members of the Nashville/Midsouth chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) will talk about regional and national student television award programs and opportunities. Attendees will learn the rules for participation and watch examples of recent winning videos. The award contests are a great way to get students involved in television production activities and to gain recognition for them and their schools. Geneva Brignolo is the executive director of the Nashville/Midsouth NATAS chapter.

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Behind the Headlines: Tips for equipment, and offer practical solutions describe the many advantages and possibilities Creating a Successful Student-run to many of the common problems shared for producing a Young@Part show. Titles TV Newscast by school theatre and musical directors. that will be reviewed include The Addams Presenter: Jennifer Duck Participants should bring their ideas and Family, All Shook Up, Spamalot, Miss Nelson (Tuesday) concerns to this informative session and be is Missing, The Wind in the Willows, We Will ready to join the conversation. Rock You, and How I Became a Pirate. During Visual storytelling continues to be the the workshop, questions and concerns about dominant preference for news viewers across Jeff Goetsch has thirty years of experience the theatrical licensing process will also be the country. Social media also plays a vital role in the lighting industry. In the beginning addressed. in the future of moving images and sound. of his career, he traveled across the country With this in mind, Jennifer Duck, a seasoned with various road-touring shows. In 1992, he New High School Edition Scripts network TV news producer and Belmont moved to Nashville and began designing and from TRW—Theatrical University media studies instructor, will go installing lighting for many new facilities in Rights Worldwide! behind the headlines to explain what it takes the city. Since 2002, he has represented major Presenter: Jim Hoare to create content that keeps audiences engaged. lighting manufacturers in Tennessee and helped (Thursday) She will also offer tips that educators can use theatres, schools, and other live performance to encourage students to make use of the latest facilities with their design and lighting needs. In this session, free perusal scripts will be media innovations in their work. He can be contacted at [email protected]. distributed to all participants. Approved changes, creative casting suggestions (the Jennifer Duck is a national Emmy Award Tom Stotler has more than thirty-five years of importance of using more girls), low-tech winning producer and adjunct professor at experience in the audio/video industry. He has production resources, props, sets, SFX, Belmont University who currently works behind held many professional industry positions— accompaniment tracks, and projections the scenes on CNN’s show Anderson Cooper 360. from being a touring sound engineer to a will be discussed. School editions for All She has also worked as a producer for Katie sales and product manager for two Fortune Shook Up, Bright Star, Beehive, The Addams Couric as well as the Oprah Winfrey Network. 500 companies. For the past ten years, Stotler Family, Spamalot, Ring of Fire, and We Will Rock Duck is on the board of the Nashville/Midsouth has worked in the audio, video, and theatrical You will be introduced. During the workshop, chapter of the National Academy of Television design-build and integration business. In this questions and concerns about the theatrical Arts and Sciences. role, he provides audio, video, and lighting solutions for theatres, schools, and performing licensing process will also be addressed. Rehearsing Shakespeare’s Fools art centers in and around Tennessee. Jim Hoare is the executive vice president for Presenter: Zachary Fine Theatrical Rights Worldwide and the author (Monday and Wednesday) Sensory Playwriting of Your High School Improv Show Playbook. Presenter: Tamara Goldbogen This is his forty-third year in educational theatre. This session will present a mock audition (Monday and Wednesday) He has presented workshops throughout the scenario to uncover the fun and ridiculous United States and the United Kingdom. In 2011, world of Shakespeare’s fools. Participants Join Tamara Goldbogen for a playwriting he received the New York State Theatre Education will use text and comedic characters from workshop that will explore enjoyable and Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Shakespeare’s plays to explore the audition effective ways to get students writing. process. The skills that will be explored include Participants will dive into playwriting with Fitting in the Fitz identifying ways of playing with verse and all their senses engaged. Hands-on Presenter: Chauntee’ Schuler Irving prose when portraying different types of fools activities will inspire them to approach (Monday and Wednesday) and clowns, as well as understanding how to writing in new ways. make a positive impression at an audition. In this session, Chauntee’ Irving will teach an New Elementary and Middle School abbreviated introduction to Fitzmaurice voice Lighting, AV, and Sound Forum: Scripts from TRW—Theatrical work techniques. The interlude will include The Basics Rights Worldwide! forty-five minutes of floor work and targeted Presenters: Jeff Goetsch and Presenter: Jim Hoare exercises that are designed to quickly and Tom Stotler (Wednesday) succinctly integrate the body, breath, voice, and (Tuesday and Thursday) In this session, free perusal scripts will be sound in the acting classroom. Participants should come prepared to work on the floor Participants in this session will explore a wide distributed to all participants. Both and dressed in comfortable clothes that allow range of issues related to lighting, audiovisuals, Young@Part, the authorized edition of TRW’s them to move freely. Bringing a mat is also sound design, and equipment. The presenters, Broadway musicals for middle schools and recommended, but can be provided if needed. who have many years of technical theatre Younger@Part for elementary schools, will be experience, will field questions, display current discussed. Licensing expert Jim Hoare will

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Theatre Curriculum Caring and Award. Parker teaches at Rossview High School their students. These same exercises will also Sharing: Seventh through in Clarksville, where she was named teacher of help students make bold choices, which will Twelfth Grade the year in 2015. lead to more energized and unique storytelling Presenters: Jennifer Keith and techniques that can be used for dramatizations Pollyanna Parker Improvisation: Exploring Character and stage productions. This will be an (Thursday) Status through Play interactive session that is ideally suited for Presenter: Shawn Knight elementary and middle school instructors. In this interlude, upper middle school and high (Tuesday) school participants will be encouraged to share Shawn Knight is a professional Equity actor in their favorite classroom activities, teaching tips, Participants will be introduced to Nashville and a lecturer at Belmont University. and theatre lesson plans with other teachers improvisation exercises and games that will He teaches theatre to artists of all ages—from from across the state. Theatre facilitators help them develop their ideas about exploring pre-school children to adults. Knight has also Jennifer Keith and Pollyanna Parker will lead character status with students in order to create written a series of ten one-person shows about the session. clearer, more precise character relationships on famous American composers. stage. This will be an interactive session that Jennifer Keith is the founder of the drama is ideally suited for middle school and high 72 Steps: The Artistic Process program at Grassland Middle School in the school instructors. Presenters: Kathryn Linsley and Williamson County school system, where she Briona Richardson also teaches. In 2014, she was named teacher Improvisation: Exploring Character (Monday) of the year by the faculty of Grassland. Keith is Creation through Play an avid traveler who regularly brings her global During this workshop, two members of the Presenter: Shawn Knight experiences back to her students and Nashville Ballet company will discuss the (Thursday) her curriculum. artistic process they used to create a work In this interlude, participants will be that depicts a historical event. They will also Pollyanna Parker was inducted into the Tennessee introduced to improvisation exercises and illustrate how dancers, choreographers, and High School Speech and Drama League’s Hall games that will help them develop their ideas composers must collaborate to give a work a of Fame in 2010 and is a past recipient of that about approaching character creation with genuine voice. organization’s Ruby Krider Teacher of the Year

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Kathryn Linsley is a retired soloist with Ballet West, Power of the Puppet will hear examples of folk tales that have where she danced for ten seasons. She is currently Presenter: Morgan Matens frightening elements, hear suggestions for how academy principal at the Nashville Ballet. (Tuesday and Thursday) to choose and tell such stories, and talk about the guidelines for sharing these types of stories Briona Richardson is the community engagement In this interlude, participants will join Morgan in the classroom. manager at Nashville Ballet. She has a degree in Matens from the Nashville Public Library’s dance education from The Ohio State University. puppet troupe as she shares a brief history Theatre Connections of world puppetry and talks about the power Theatre Core Faculty Shakespeare as a Contact Sport of performing with puppets. The workshop (Tuesday and Thursday) Presenter: Carmen-maria Mandley will include live examples and the chance for (Wednesday) everyone to try a few puppets and ask questions. Theatre instructors will be in their classrooms to answer specific questions about their sessions Jump! Roll! Slide! This wildly physical approach Morgan Matens is the lead builder for Wishing and to provide one-on-one time with participants to Shakespeare’s texts will foster excitement Chair Productions, the Nashville Public Library’s who desire additional information about theatre for Shakespeare’s words and help participants puppet troupe. She performs shows in area related issues or arts education concerns. make personal connections with his world schools with the library’s Puppet Truck and also and characters. The session is great for the designs and creates new puppets for their shows. beginning Shakespeare lover as well as veteran performers and teachers. The approach is a Dancing a Legacy VISUAL ART RELATED perfect fit for high school students who are Presenter: Lynnette Young Overby INTERLUDES engaging Shakespeare’s texts for the first time. (Monday and Wednesday) This workshop will provide teachers with the Art for a Cause On With My Speech tools they need to lead a movement experience Presenters: Christan Allen and Presenter: Carmen-maria Mandley that focuses on a personal history: the legacy of Karen Strachan (Thursday) women in the lives of their students. Working (Wednesday) Explore wild and whirling words! This session individually and in small groups, participants You’re never too young to have a voice! This will show that Shakespeare is much more will use choreography to express a variety of interactive workshop will explore ways poetry, passion, and wit than just tights, character traits. to address social justice issues in the art kissing, and funny accents. This revealing play classroom. Participants will create three shop will inspire participants to learn about Audience Participation Stories different projects that can be adapted for Shakespeare’s language, his relationships, his Presenter: Susan Ramsay elementary through high school students. textual secrets, and his writerly voice. The (Tuesday) These projects will explore a variety of ways approach is designed to get students of all ages This interlude will showcase stories in which to advocate for a cause: personal pendants, (elementary through high school) to engage the audience can sing, move, or chant and collaborative monoprint quilts, and canvassing with Shakespeare for the first time. become an integral part of the narrative. with handmade relief prints. Carmen-maria Mandley is an actor and director Several stories will be shared, which will allow Christan Allen and Karen Strachan work for the Tennessee Shakespeare Company in participants to see and hear different examples together in the education department for Memphis where she serves as its education of this genre or add to their own repertoire of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, where they and outreach manager. She has taught, acted, participatory storytelling. work to unite art and horticulture in new and directed for numerous theatres across the and accessible ways for all learners. Allen is country including the Orlando Shakespeare Haunted Storytelling the outreach coordinator and sees more than Theatre in Florida and the Portland Stage in Presenter: Susan Ramsay twenty thousand students annually through the Maine. Mandley trained at Shakespeare and (Thursday) Dixon’s long-standing program, Art to Grow. Company and at the Dell’Arte International Many children and adults enjoy listening to Strachan is the youth programs coordinator. In School of Physical Theatre. She is a published stories that are frightening. Stories that involve her role, she develops and facilitates innovative poet and a produced playwright. a protagonist in a scary situation can still onsite programming through field trips and have a positive theme overall, and they can professional development opportunities. even help listeners face their fears in a safe environment. In this interlude, participants

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AP Portfolio Updates Microscopic Worlds Presenter: Melanie Anderson Presenter: Jim Dodson (Wednesday) (Tuesday) Starting this coming school year, the AP This workshop is designed for Visual Art portfolio requirements in visual art are being Recognition Day student attendees. renamed and redesigned. Future portfolios Participants in this workshop will create will have two sections: sustained investigation abstracted compositions that rely on imagery and selected works. Students will now have found in the microscopic world. In the session, fewer required works to submit which will images of viruses, bacteria, cells, strands of give them more time to focus on in-depth, DNA, and other objects will be layered and inquiry-based art and design making. In this combined to bring together the fields of visual interlude, Melanie Anderson will talk about the art and science. The lesson Jim Dodson will redesigned AP course and exam. She will also share is one he has successfully used in his share a detailed framework that aligns with own hometown as a true STEAM project. updated scoring rubrics. Participants should bring their smart phones Melanie Anderson is an art educator at Arlington to the workshop since they will use them to High School in Tennessee where she teaches AP acquire the images for their compositions. Studio Art, Senior Studio, and Art 2. She began her Since 1987, Jim Dodson has been an art teacher career as a graphic designer and was the director in the Oak Ridge school system. In 1998, he was of advertising for Catherine’s Stores Corporation recognized as the Tennessee Art Educator of the for many years before finding her true calling as work together to brainstorm and design their Year, and in 1999, he was named the National an art educator and working artist. own gamified elements. The overall aim of Middle School Art Educator of the Year. Dodson the interlude is to show teachers how to use is a board member and past president of the Writing about Art the participatory and community-building Tennessee Art Education Association. He also Presenter: Susan Bee nature of games to develop new instructional currently serves on the board of Dogwood Arts in (Tuesday) strategies in the art classroom. East Tennessee. This session will show teachers how to organize Jeremy Blair is an assistant professor of art an Empty Bowls program that is specifically education at Tennessee Technological University Project Demonstration: designed for Title I Elementary Schools. The in Cookeville, Tennessee. The Clay Lady Way participants will learn about hand-building Presenter: Danielle McDaniel bowls with kindergarten through fifth grade Social-emotional Learning (Thursday) students, the story of “Stone Soup,” and how in the Art Room During this workshop, Danielle McDaniel, the to create an unforgettable community event. Presenter: Lauren Cochran Clay Lady will demonstrate more than twenty- This twist on Empty Bowls allows students (Wednesday) five projects that are appropriate for most ages, and families from low-income backgrounds to This talk and “mini make and take” will present most classroom set-ups, and most curriculums. participate in giving back while also enjoying experiences and resources that have been used an inexpensive Stone Soup dinner. Danielle McDaniel, the Clay Lady, has dedicated to turn the art classroom into a place of social- her life to the transformative power of art by emotional learning for students. The presenter, Guess Who? Gamifying Art History teaching clay to hundreds of thousands of children who is a trainer for the Tennessee Department for the Art Classroom and encouraging art teachers to teach clay in their of Education’s Strong Brains initiative, will Presenter: Jeremy Blair classrooms. She created the Clay Lady’s Campus, share research-based concepts with the group (Wednesday) an art community in Nashville, Tennessee, which and show art educators how easy and natural works with more than five hundred students and This session will share innovative approaches it is to make social-emotional learning part of artists each week. on how to use games to teach art history visual arts teaching. to students of all ages. Participants will Lauren Cochran is an art educator at Liberty review strategies from popular board games Elementary School in the Franklin Special Schools and explore ways that these games can be District located in Williamson County. She has reinterpreted to teach the history of art. The taught in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee and group will first play art history-inspired has also worked outside of the school setting Guess Who? and Cranium. Then they will teaching art education for various nonprofits.

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Developing Motif: Using Basquiat as from her home state of New Jersey and is Art Therapy in Schools and Inspiration for Altered Monotypes working to further embrace authentic, choice- Communities: Building Partnerships Presenter: Emily McEneely based art education in traditional environments. with Art Therapists (Monday) Presenter: Rachel Murphy Norman Collaborative Experiments Educators in this session will learn how to (Thursday) with Gelli Printing teach a lesson appropriate for fifth to eighth What is art therapy? Where does art therapy Presenter: Meaghan Brady Nelson grade students on developing personal symbols take place? How can educators, administrators, (Monday and Tuesday) and using expressive line in a monotype and parents create partnerships with art artwork inspired by Jean-Michelle Basquiat. This session will begin with a basic therapists to meet the mental, emotional, and During the interlude, participants will explore demonstration on making inexpensive gelatin behavioral needs of students in Tennessee? In printmaking and ways of using additional plates and using them to create gelli prints. this session, a credentialed art therapist will layers to expand their work. A lesson outline After that, participants will collaboratively address these frequently asked questions and and a list of resources needed to teach the explore the process of gelli printmaking. present case examples that show ways that lesson will also be shared. Meaghan Brady Nelson is an assistant professor of art therapists have worked with schools and Emily McEneely has been an elementary public art and the art education coordinator at Belmont communities across the state. Participants school art educator for more than ten years. University. She keeps an active studio practice and will have the opportunity to ask questions McEneely has recently relocated to Tennessee is inspired by collaborative artmaking. about connecting with local art therapists and advocating for art therapy programs and services in their own schools. Rachel Murphy Norman is a registered art therapist based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has worked in various settings across Middle Tennessee including inpatient behavioral health, outpatient community services, foster care, and kinship foster care. She currently serves as associate art therapy program director with MyCanvas Youth Community Arts and as an art therapist and support group coordinator with Family and Children’s Service.

Get to Know TAEA Presenter: Janis Stivers Nunnally (Monday) This session will provide an opportunity for all Tennessee art educators to talk to board members of the Tennessee Arts Educators Association (TAEA). After a short presentation, board members will answer questions. Participants will also learn how to apply for the presentation of a SuperSession at the TAEA state conference, which will be held on October 24–26, 2019, at Watkins College of Art in Nashville, Tennessee. Janis Stivers Nunnally is the current past president of TAEA and the state conference chair. She is a middle school art educator at Upperman Middle School in Baxter, Tennessee. Nunnally is also in the current NAEA School for Art Leaders class and a member of the SE NAEA Art leadership.

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The Impact of Visual Arts in This interlude will be presented as a one-class Alternative School Settings project that teachers can take back to their Presenter: Ednita Prentiss classrooms. Lesson plans tied to national visual (Monday) arts standards will be provided. This interactive workshop will offer unique Libby Scanlan is an art educator at Glendale ways to keep students engaged from start Elementary in Nashville, Tennessee. Scanlan to finish while keeping classroom behaviors earned a degree in metalsmithing from the under control. In this session, participants will Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, create a group grid drawing, a book using large Tennessee. She brings her love of craft to this sheets of drawing paper, and a carry portfolio. interlude with a fiber arts lesson. Participants will work in marker or color pencil and produce a finished example to take back to Creating Color Patterns with Clay their classrooms. Presenter: Kim Shamblin (Monday and continued Ednita Prentiss is an artist, entrepreneur, and on Wednesday) educator from Mississippi. Prentiss is a visual arts educator in Memphis, Tennessee, and the This is a two-part interlude. Participants owner of Artistic Motif T-shirt and Accessory will be provided with knowledge of ceramic Company, which is located in north Mississippi. techniques for all levels and shown how The Arrowhead Magazine located in Clinton, to make connections across disciplines. Mississippi, has published several pieces Participants will create agateware (also for the art program as well. The session will of her artwork. called nerikomi or neriage in Japanese). This discuss how to organize, schedule, and promote technique creates a marbled effect in clay by FAN events. Participants will also have the time Tie Dye using layers of clay to create patterns or designs to share their own fundraising tips and tricks. Presenter: David Reynolds in blocks that can then be sliced or thrown to Allison Swanner is an elementary art teacher (Monday) make vessels, plates, and many other objects. with ten years of experience in East Tennessee. Participants will have the opportunity to Kim Shamblin has been teaching elementary She is also the director of the Exceptional Artist experiment with tie dye and walk away with a and middle school in the Millington area Art Camp that hosts more than two hundred dyed creation of their own. for twenty-four years. Shamblin is currently students each summer. Swanner connects art teaching art at Millington Elementary School For the last seven years, David Reynolds has with her community through events such as and has been a TAA facilitator for the past been an art educator in Williamson County. He Family Art Night, Empty Bowls, a system-wide eleven years. In 2016, she was named Tennessee is currently the art teacher at Moore Elementary formal art show, and summer camps. Art Education Association Middle Level Art School in Franklin, Tennessee. In addition to Teacher of the Year. teaching, David is a freelance graphic designer Visual Art Studio Connections Visual Art Core Faculty and video editor. This is his third year as a TAA No Money, No Problem (Tuesday and Thursday) visual art facilitator. Presenter: Allison Swanner Visual art participants may use this time to Exploring the Magic of Indigo: (Monday) continue working in the studio, talking with Shibori for the Elementary and In this session, participants will learn about their instructors, or networking with fellow Middle School Classroom fundraising through two different styles of teachers about issues and concerns related to Presenter: Libby Scanlan Family Art Night (FAN). The idea behind FAN the arts and arts education. (Wednesday) is to organize a community event for students and their families. At the event, each student This interactive workshop is a chance for or family member creates a meaningful work elementary and middle school art educators of art. This not only creates a memorable to explore the art of shibori. Participants will experience, but fosters a positive school climate learn a brief history of dying with indigo before and raises a significant amount of money folding, binding, and dying fabric.

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“Musings” is a time of thoughtful inspiration and introspection Peter H. Reynolds built into the heart of the busy Academy schedule each day. All Tuesday • July 16 • 1:20 PM participants assemble to think about the role of the arts in education and in life. At each Musings session, an individual who is significantly Creativity champion Peter H. Reynolds is involved in the arts acts as a muse and leads the group in examining a New York Times best-selling author and the richness and depth that the arts add to the lives of all people. illustrator and founder of FableVision, an award-winning educational multi-media company co-located at the Boston Anton Armstrong Children’s Museum. Monday • July 15 • 1:20 PM Published in more than twenty-five Anton Armstrong, Tosdal Professor of languages, Reynold’s books—The Dot, Music at St. Olaf College, is the fourth conductor of the St. Olaf Choir, a position Ish, The Word Collector, Happy Dreamer, he has held since 1990. Prior to this and Say Something, among many others— current appointment, Armstrong served inspire children and “grown-up children” on the faculty of Calvin College and led with his messages about authentic the Calvin College Alumni Choir, the learning, creativity, bravery, empathy, and Grand Rapids Symphony Chorus, and the courageous self-expression. St. Cecilia Youth Chorale. He is editor of a Reynolds was born in 1961 in Canada. He graduated from the multicultural choral series for Earthsongs Massachusetts College of Art and Fitchburg State College where he received Publications and co-editor, with John the Communications Student of the Year Award in 1983, the Alumni Ferguson, of the revised St. Olaf Choral Recognition Award in 1999, and was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters in Series for Augsburg Fortress Publishers. In June 1998, he began his tenure 2007 for his “substantial contributions to education and the arts.” as founding conductor of the Oregon Bach Festival Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy. His book The Dot won a number of awards, including the Oppenheim Platinum Toy Award, Borders Books’ Original Voices 2003 Award, and During the 2018–19 season Armstrong served as a member of the Choral the Christopher Medal, as well as the American Library Association’s Jury for the First Tokyo International Choir Competition in Japan and for the Busan International Choral Festival in Busan, the Republic of Korea. 2005 Carnegie Medal of Excellence for the book’s animated adaptation. Armstrong has led choral festivals at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, Reynolds also created the award-winning animated short films The Blue ; at Carnegie Hall in New York City; at Davies Symphony Hall Shoe and Living Forever, as well as the film adaptations of his books The in San Francisco, California; and at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Dot and Ish, along with several others. Costa Mesa, California. During the spring of 2019, Armstrong led the St. Reynolds illustrated the best sellers I am Yoga, I am Peace, I am Human (a New Olaf Choir on a concert tour of Norway. Since 1990, Anton Armstrong has York Times number one best-selling picture book), the soon to be released I served as artistic director of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, which currently Am Love (release date September 28, 2019) by Susan Verde, and Someday by features nearly six hundred student musicians from five St. Olaf Choral Alison McGhee. His illustrations can also be seen in The Water Princess with ensembles and the St. Olaf Orchestra. The festival itself is one of the oldest Susan Verde and the Judy Moody series by Megan McDonald. He collaborated musical celebrations of Christmas in the United States. During his career, with his twin brother Paul on the books Going Places and Full STEAM Ahead, a Armstrong has been the recipient of numerous awards. In March 2007, three-book chapter series for young readers. Armstrong became the first recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the American Boychoir School, and in October 2009, he received the Reynolds lives in Dedham, Massachusetts, where he founded The Blue Distinguished Alumni Award from Michigan State University. In June 2013, Bunny, a family-owned and operated children’s book, toy, creativity Armstrong received the Saltzman Award from the Oregon Bach Festival. store and coffee shop. Much of his spare time is spent giving back to the In the fall of 2014, the St. Olaf Choir and Armstrong received a Regional community—revitalizing the businesses and landscape in his beloved Emmy for the Public Broadcasting Station’s television program Christmas in Dedham Square, supporting schools, caring for homeless children, Norway with the St. Olaf Choir. promoting literacy and learning, and inspiring all of us to use our gifts to The appearance of Anton Armstrong is made possible by a generous gift from Country make the journey a meaningful one. Music Association Foundation. To that end, Reynolds and his brother Paul launched the Reynolds Center for Teaching, Learning, and Creativity (also known as the Reynolds Center for TLC). The center is a not-for-profit organization that encourages creativity and innovation in teaching and learning. The appearance of Peter H. Reynolds is made possible by a generous gift from Pinnacle Financial Partners.

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Jeff Calhoun Alton Fitzgerald White Wednesday • July 17 • 1:20 PM Thursday • July 18 • 1:50 PM Jeff Calhoun is an award-winning Alton Fitzgerald White captivates choreographer, dancer, director, and audiences whenever he performs. The producer. His work has been seen in triple talented singer, actor, and dancer countless venues from Broadway to has starred in six Broadway shows. London and in theatres across America. He made his Broadway debut as John Calhoun began his career as one of in Miss Saigon, where his performance the seven brothers in the Broadway of the anthem “Bui Doi” brought nightly production of Seven Brides for Seven ovations. White then moved on to major Brothers. He then went on to replace roles in both the hit rock-opera The Who’s Tommy and the Leiber and Stoller Tommy Tune in the Broadway Photo by Dennis Johnston Photography production of My One and Only starring musical revue, Smokey Joe’s Café. His Twiggy and the legendary Charles “Honi” Coles. His Broadway directing starring portrayal of Coalhouse Walker Jr. in : The Musical was a debut was Tommy Tune Tonite! at the Gershwin Theater. Calhoun’s milestone in White’s career. His time in the role, which began with the pre- collaboration with Tune led to the 1991 Tony Award for Best Choreography Broadway original company in Toronto opposite six-time Tony Award winner for the Will Rogers . As a dancer in the film version ofThe Best Little Audra McDonald, continued during the critically acclaimed North American Whorehouse in Texas, Calhoun met Dolly Parton. Just this year, he worked tour, and ultimately led him to Broadway, opposite Tony award winner with her again when he directed her show 9 to 5: The Musical on London’s . White’s next major move took him on the road to originate the role West End as well as on its U.S. and U.K. tours. of Mufasa in the first national tour of Disney’s The Lion King. After just over a year of touring, he joined the Broadway company, where he played the role of Calhoun’s Broadway experience is extensive. He directed the hit Disney Mufasa for a record-breaking five and a half years. In 2007, White performed musical, Newsies, which was nominated for eight , including the role of Mister in Oprah Winfrey’s production of Alice Walker’s novel for best musical and best director. His revival of Frank Wildhorn and The Color Purple opposite American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino. Leslie Bricusse’s Jekyll and Hyde played the Marriott Marquis Theatre following its U.S. National Tour. Also in collaboration with Wildhorn, White’s many television appearances include episodes of Law and Calhoun directed and choreographed the Broadway production of Bonnie Order, Madam Secretary, Bull, and the recently released Fox network and Clyde. Calhoun’s numerous other Broadway credits include his roles as television special Rent Live. He has featured roles in four upcoming films producer, director, and choreographer of Brooklyn: The Musical; director and including The Goldfinch, in which he plays opposite actress Nicole Kidman. choreographer of the 1994 Broadway Grease revival; co-choreographer with White has performed in concerts around the world and has become an in- of the Broadway Tony Award winning revival of Annie Get demand motivational and keynote speaker. His CD, Disney My Way!, is filled Your Gun; and the musical staging for the Tony Award winning Broadway with wonderfully reimagined Disney classics. In his recently released musical Grey Gardens. inspirational biography, My Pride: Mastering Life’s Daily Performance, His additional projects across the United States include work at the Old White shares his secrets to Globe Theatre in San Diego, where he directed the critically acclaimed fulfillment and joy in work and life. production of Emma: A Musical Romantic Comedy, based on the Jane Austen novel, and co-directed Himself and Nora with Joe Hardy. Calhoun The appearance of Alton Fitzgerald also directed the world premiere production and tours of Disney’s High White throughout the Academy week is made possible by a generous gift from School Musical: On Stage! and Disney’s High School Musical 2: On Stage! For Pat and Thane Smith. the North Hollywood, California-based Deaf West Theatre, he directed and choreographed at the Mark Taper Forum and the company’s Tony Award winning production of . Calhoun is currently an associate artist at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. He also serves on the board of directors for Covenant House International, a nonprofit organization helping homeless youth in thirty-one cities across six countries. The appearance of Jeff Calhoun is made possible by a generous gift from Tennessee Book Company.

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Consort is active in commissioning new works About Nashville Ballet as well as arrangements of popular classical Nashville Ballet is the largest professional music. The Presidio Brass has released four ballet company in Tennessee, presenting recordings. Their latest recording, Pictures of a a diverse repertoire of classical ballet and New Beginning, includes commissions of new contemporary works by noted choreographers. music by Craig Phillips, John Hirten, and Jon Nashville Ballet and their second company, Naples and features an arrangement of the NB2 (a pre-professional training company), orchestral favorite “Pictures at an Exhibition” annually provide more than seventy thousand by the group’s tubist, Scott Sutherland. arts experiences to adults and children The Presidio Brass performance is made possible by through season performances and community generous gifts from KHS America; Country Music engagement programming. Curriculum-based Association Foundation; and Sara Savell, in memory programs bring dance education to community of Las Savell. centers, colleges, public libraries, and public Presidio Brass schools across the state. Brass Quintet Sunday • July 14 • 4:00 PM Nashville Ballet Nashville Ballet’s performance of 72 Steps is made Massey Performing Arts Center 72 Steps possible by a generous gift from Adolph Thornton Jr., Monday • July 15 • 11:30 AM aka Young Dolph. Since forming in 2006, Presidio Brass has Massey Performing Arts Center rocketed to success as the face of a bold new generation in brass entertainment. Commissioned by the League of Women Voters By combining a brass quintet with piano, of Nashville and their Perfect 36 Supporters, 72 percussion instruments, and fresh, original Steps explores themes of basic human rights, arrangements, the ensemble’s unique civic responsibility, and the ongoing battle for sound has become their trademark. In their a more equitable society through the lens of hit touring show of Hollywood’s greatest the suffrage movement. With choreography hits, Sounds of the Cinema, the five young men and direction by Gina Patterson and music of the group combine film music with a good by Jordan Brooke Hamlin, 72 Steps takes dose of the wit and humor they’ve become an empowering and celebratory look at the known for. Hailing from San Diego, California, ratification of the 19th Amendment and the Presidio Brass has performed and provided vital role Tennessee played in its passage. The educational outreach in more than forty work transports audiences to the early 1900s states, conducted master classes at many of as opposing groups frantically battle in favor and against the amendment in the Tennessee America’s finest colleges and universities, and Photo by Michael Scott Evans has been featured on National Public Radio. legislature’s vote. The League of Women Voters Each member of the ensemble began his music of Nashville is a non-partisan, volunteer career by joining their school’s band program. organization that promotes the informed and Nashville Children’s Inspired by the dedication of their school music active participation of citizens in government. Theatre teachers, Presidio Brass came together with the Tuck Everlasting primary mission to promote music education Wednesday • July 17 • 11:30 AM and music appreciation in youngsters. For this Massey Performing Arts Center very reason, performances are often coupled Nashville Children’s Theatre’s Tuck with a master class or a school program Everlasting is a Theatre for Young Audiences for which the quintet volunteers their time. world premiere adaptation. The musical is Members of the ensemble have performed with based on the novel by Natalie Babbit, with major symphony orchestras, including the Los music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen, Angeles Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, and book by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle. Pacific Symphony, and San Diego Symphony, After adventuring beyond her white picket and have shared the stage with commercial fence, “good girl” Winnie Foster meets the and pop artists including Natalie Cole, Quincy energetic teenager Jesse Tuck, who leads her Jones, and Stevie Wonder. In addition to on an unexpected, magical journey. Soon she performing as a brass quintet, Presidio Brass is faced with an extraordinary question: If you performs regularly as a part of Millennia could choose to live forever, would you? This Consort, one of the nation’s premiere brass, heartfelt Broadway musical is full of soaring organ, and percussion ensembles. Millennia melodies and mischief.

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About Nashville Children’s Theatre With the goal of fostering cultural curiosity in children, Nashville Children’s Theatre (NCT) provides transformational theatrical experiences to more than eighty thousand audience members each year. Their productions reflect an evolving community, instill profound empathy, and foster personal discovery. Founded in 1931, NCT continues to be the oldest professional equity children’s theatre in the nation and the largest theatre company in Middle Tennessee. Ranked as one of the top five children’s theatres in the country by Time Magazine, NCT productions, according to theatre critic Jeffrey Ellis, are “remarkable led him to Broadway, opposite Tony award around the world. As chamber musicians, … proving that the company continues to set winner LaChanze. White’s next major move Sympatico members Susan Powell, Joe Krygier, the standard to which others may aspire … the took him on the road to originate the role of Scott Herring, Chris Norton, and Juan Mendoza region’s flagship professional theatre company.” Mufasa in the first national tour of Disney’s The have recorded and toured internationally The performance of Tuck Everlasting by Nashville Lion King. After just over a year of touring, he and across the United States with Pendulum Children’s Theatre is made possible by a generous gift joined the Broadway company, where he played Duo, Shiraz Trio, Alias Chamber Ensemble, from Pat and Thane Smith. the role of Mufasa for a record-breaking five Rosewind Duo, the Bob Becker Ensemble, and a half years. In 2007, White performed the and the Jack Daniel’s Silver Cornet Band. role of Mister in Oprah Winfrey’s production of As symphonic percussionists, their list of Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple opposite credits includes core or auxiliary membership American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino. in the Alabama Symphony, Chicago Civic White’s many television appearances include Orchestra, Eastern Philharmonic, Nashville episodes of Law and Order, Madam Secretary, Symphony, New Orleans Symphony, and Bull, and the recently released Fox network Rochester Philharmonic. As Sympatico, television special Rent Live. He has featured they have performed at several Percussive roles in four upcoming films including The Arts Society events and as part of various Goldfinch, in which he plays opposite actress community, festival, and university concert Photo by Dennis Johnston Photography Nicole Kidman. White has performed in series. Collectively, their collegiate teaching concerts around the world and has become experience exceeds seventy years; Powell and Alton Fitzgerald White an in-demand motivational and keynote Krygier teach at the Ohio State University, Broadway My Way speaker. His CD, Disney My Way!, is filled with Herring teaches at University of , Wednesday • July 17 • 8:15 PM wonderfully reimagined Disney classics. In his Norton at Belmont University, and Mendoza Curb Event Center Arena recently released inspirational biography, My at McMurry in Abilene, Texas. Sympatico’s diverse and eclectic repertoire includes Alton Fitzgerald White captivates audiences Pride: Mastering Life’s Daily Performance, White rudimental drumming, ragtime xylophone, pop whenever he performs. The triple talented shares his secrets to fulfillment and joy in work transcriptions, and wonderfully uncategorized singer, actor, and dancer has starred in six and life. original compositions that embrace global Broadway shows. He made his Broadway The appearance of Alton Fitzgerald White throughout streams of contemporary musical styles. debut as John in Miss Saigon, where his the Academy week is made possible by a generous gift Enthusiastic audiences have said that performance of the anthem “Bui Doi” brought from Pat and Thane Smith. Sympatico concerts are “beyond imagination” nightly ovations. White then moved on to and “absolutely engaging!” major roles in both the hit rock-opera The Sympatico Percussion Who’s Tommy and the Leiber and Stoller The performance by Sympatico Percussion Quintet is musical revue, Smokey Joe’s Café. His starring Quintet made possible by a generous gift from Bobby Jean Frost, portrayal of Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime: Percussion Ensemble in memory of Donna Frost; the Lingner Gift Fund; and Lee Stites, in memory of Marilee Kester Stites. The Musical was a milestone in White’s career. Thursday • July 18 • 11:20 AM His time in the role, which began with the Massey Performing Arts Center pre-Broadway original company in Toronto Sympatico Percussion Quintet offers listeners opposite six-time Tony Award winner Audra a dynamic program made of entertainment McDonald, continued during the critically and intrigue, virtuosity and poignancy, and acclaimed North American tour, and ultimately appealing melodies and vibrant rhythms from

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Overture The blend of remade and remembered is so strong that viewers may even recognize Sunday Evening Opening images in these canvases; this is because they Celebration & Reception are familiar by association. Bee’s works are Sunday • July 14 • 4:00 PM both homage and confrontation: they are in The Tennessee Arts Academy opening dialogue with, and borrow motifs from, Edvard convocation, Overture, provides participants Munch, Henri Matisse, Marsden Hartley, with the first of many dazzling performances, a Chaim Soutine, Casper David Friedrich, and preview of the week ahead, and an opportunity to other visionaries of the romantic and the meet faculty and fellow members of the Academy. sublime. Susan Bee’s compositions also speak The Academy kicks off its 2019 session with a vividly across their range of references, which performance by the unique and cutting-edge include movie stills and canonical paintings, ensemble, Presidio Brass. Afterward, participants pop culture images of fantasy and diary, and reportage and wide-screen drama. Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, Susan will be treated to an elegant buffet reception in the Howe, and Jerome Rothenberg. Bee is the Curb Event Center Grand Atrium complemented About the Artist…. coeditor with Mira Schor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: by multiple entertainment options inside and out. Susan Bee is an artist living in Brooklyn, New An Anthology of Artist’s Writings, Theory, and Our artists for this event include Duo Sudeste (in York. During her career, her work has been Criticism and the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G the MPAC Lobby prior to the opening session), exhibited widely. Her exhibitions include Online. Both her artist’s book archive and the Max Dvorin Trio (in the Beaman Student Life eight solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery, as well as M/E/A/N/I/N/G Archive are at the Beinecke Center upper lobby), Austin Filingo Duo (in the solo shows at Southfirst Gallery and Accola Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale Curb Event Center Glass Lobby), David Arnold, Griefen Gallery in New York. She has also had University. Bee’s artwork is part of many caricature artist (in the Curb Event Center Grand solo shows at Columbia University, Kenyon public and private collections including the Atrium), and Rich Ripani Trio (in the Curb Event College, the New York Public Library, and Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Getty Center Grand Atrium). Virginia Lust Gallery. Her work has been Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and included in numerous group shows as well. the Victoria & Albert Museum. Her work has TAA ART EXHIBITION Bee has published sixteen artist’s books. been reviewed in Art in America, The New York OPENING, ARTIST TALK These include collaborations with the poets Times, The New Yorker, and the Huffington Post AND RECEPTION Susan Bee. Monday • July 15 • 4:30–6:30 PM My Blue Heaven, 2018. Leu Art Gallery (Lila D. Bunch Library) Oil, enamel, and sand on linen, 30 x 24 in. My Blue Heaven by Susan Bee May 20–September 6, 2019 Artist Susan Bee is a painter of scenes and screens. She borrows vignettes from life and creates dramatic images that are inspired by peak moments of imagined narratives. She is interested in the emotional forces that pulse through her canvases. Sometimes, they are represented as idyllic reveries of seashore and waves—such as the depiction of a small boat on the water suggesting a romantic image of the self and psyche tossed by the Fates. At other times, they may take the form of a colorful still life of fruits and flowers. The richness of Bee’s imagery—an eclectic potpourri of collaged and appropriated figures and forms— combines iconography that is both invented and observed.

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among others. In 2014, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. She has also been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. Bee has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Visual Arts, and the Pratt Institute. Artist Talk with Susan Bee Monday • July 15 • 5:15 PM Leu Art Gallery Jim Dodson (Jefferson Middle Reception music provided by Michael Valeras, School art teacher, first place guitarist (Leu Art Gallery). TAEA member exhibition). Cotton Sunrise, 2019. My Blue Heaven by Susan Bee is co-sponsored by the Photograph, 17 x 21 in. Belmont University Department of Art and is made possible by generous gifts from Belmont University Department of Art, Solie Fott, and the Tennessee Arts Connections: Tennessee TAA ART CRAWL Academy Foundation. Art Education Association Tuesday • July 16 • 5:00 –7:00 PM Member Exhibition Participants are invited to tour the Belmont TAA ART EXHIBITION June 24–August 9, 2019 Mansion and visit the following exhibits and OPENINGS Leu Center for the Visual Arts museums during the TAA Art Crawl. AND RECEPTION Lobby Gallery Tuesday • July 16 • 5:00–7:00 PM The Tennessee Arts Academy is very proud to High Tea in the Mansion exhibit the work of practicing artist-teachers Belmont Mansion Tennessee’s Best of alongside the exemplary work created by their As part of the TAA Art Crawl, participants students. Connections: Tennessee Art Education are invited on Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. the Best Student Art Association Member Exhibition is a juried show for a tour of the historic Belmont Mansion. Exhibition featuring the work of kindergarten through The event features Susan Ramsay playing June 24–August 9, 2019 higher education art educators from across hammered dulcimer. Light refreshments will Leu Center for the Visual Arts Tennessee. be served. Gallery 121 Reception music provided by Todd London, The Tennessee Arts Academy is pleased to offer vibraphonist. Frederick Hart Studio a student art exhibit as part of its summer Tennessee’s Best of the Best Student Art Exhibition Museum and the enrichment experience. Tennessee’s Best of the and Connections: Tennessee Art Education Best Student Art Exhibition is a collection of the Association Member Exhibition are co-sponsored by Gallery of Iconic Guitars best pieces in various media by student artists the Tennessee Art Education Association. Museum from the three grand divisions of the state. The Lila D. Bunch Library, First Floor students whose work will be featured have won Participants are invited to the new Frederick college scholarships for their achievements Hart Studio Museum and the Gallery of Iconic and have had their work exhibited in museums Guitars Museum as part of the TAA Art Crawl. throughout the state of Tennessee. My Blue Heaven Tai Williams (12th grade student, Arlington High School, instructor Melanie Anderson). by Susan Bee Tribulation, 2018. Drawing, 12 x 15 in. Leu Art Gallery (Lila D. Bunch Library)

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Tennessee’s Best of Arts Academy Foundation Board members entire proceedings with tuneful music by the Jeanette and Bill Watkins, in recognition of Derek Pell duo and balloon artistry by Sam the Best Student Art their exemplary support and service to arts and Cremeens. Corn dogs, pretzels, popcorn, fudge, Exhibition education causes. The elegant dinner will then popsicles, and other treats will be served. Leu Center for the Visual Arts be served with music provided by Jeff Lisenby Gallery 121 on piano. After dinner, the Distinguished Alumni Day and Service Award will be presented to the award- Ice Cream Social Connections: Tennessee winning director and choreographer Jeff Calhoun, in recognition of his extraordinary Thursday • July 18 • 5:15 PM Art Education Association talent and artistry. The evening will conclude All TAA Alumni Association members are Member Exhibition with a special performance featuring Broadway invited to the Academy to attend the day’s Leu Center for the Visual Arts musical theatre star Alton Fitzgerald White, activities. At 5:15 p.m. the Tennessee Arts Lobby Gallery accompanied by music director and pianist Academy Foundation sponsors its annual Ice Doyle Newmyer. Cream Social. Alumni Association members, STUDENT AND TEACHER Bravo! The Tennessee Arts Academy Awards Banquet is and all participants who donate to or win a generously sponsored by a gift from Belmont University. bid in the Tennessee Arts Academy Silent or ARTIST RECOGNITION Online Auctions receive a special invitation The appearance of Alton Fitzgerald White and Doyle CEREMONY AND Newmyer is made possible by a generous gift from Pat to attend this yummy event in the Beaman RECEPTION and Thane Smith. Student Life Center. The Derek Pell Duo will offer Tuesday • July 16 • 6:00 PM entertainment for the occasion. Leu Center for the Visual Arts TAA Arts Vendor Fair, Alumni Day and the Ice Cream Social are generously Artist Market, and sponsored by the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Visitors’ Day Board. Refreshments are generously provided by Carnival Brenda and Frank Bluestein and Marion and Stephen Wednesday • July 17 Coleman, in honor of Madeline Bridges for her many 8:00 AM–5:00 PM Thursday • July 18 11:45 AM–1:45 PM years of dedicated service to TAA. Wednesday is the official TAA Visitors’ Day. Arts organization directors, college and university Academy participants and all interested arts teachers across the state are invited to attend Finale professors, political dignitaries, Tennessee Arts Friday • July 19 • 11:30 AM Academy Foundation Board members, local the TAA Arts Vendor Fair on Thursday in the school system officials, Tennessee Department Curb Event Center Grand Atrium. The Arts The Academy activities conclude with the of Education administrators, and many others Vendor Fair includes display booths from Academy Finale Luncheon in the Curb Event from across the state are invited to be guests leading music, theatre, and visual art Center Arena at 11:30 a.m. on Friday. This event of the Academy. Some visitors may wish to vendors, as well as arts-related organizations. brings together the diverse experiences of the participate in the classes, and all are invited to Participants will enjoy learning about the Academy week and reinforces the importance sit in on any of the day’s activities. many resources, products, and perks offered of arts education in classrooms across America. by the exhibitors. Concurrent with the Vendor Accordionist Jeff Lisenby will perform during the Fair, the TAA Artist Market features art, crafts meal. Each year after the luncheon, the Academy Bravo! The Tennessee and jewelry sold by talented Academy artist- honors one Tennessean for achievement in the Arts Academy Awards educators. The TAA Carnival helps enliven the arts. The 2019 honoree is Donna Anderson, Banquet and Performance longtime visual art teacher from Knoxville, Wednesday • July 17 • 6:30 PM Tennessee. Anderson will receive the Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award. Following On Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., participants will the conclusion of lunch, the Academy Chorale, gather for the Academy Bravo Awards Banquet conducted by Alan McClung and composed of and Performance in the Curb Event Center Academy participants, will be featured in the final Arena. This night is designed to honor and performance for the 2019 session. As the week’s reward the hard work and artistic talents activities come to a joyous conclusion, TAA Project of each Academy participant. To begin the Director Madeline Bridges and TAA Managing festivities, the Barbershop Harmony Society Director Frank Bluestein will present the “Final will entertain guests as they arrive in the Curb Coda.” This brief message is meant to inspire Event Center Grand Atrium. Once everyone has and challenge each person in attendance to use been seated in the Curb Event Center Arena, the the knowledge and experience gained during the first order of business will be the presentation Academy week to make a difference in their own of the Lorin Hollander Award to Tennessee lives and in the lives of the students they teach.

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Donna Anderson the film version ofThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Calhoun met Dolly Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award Parton. Just this year, he worked with her again when he directed her show 9 Finale Luncheon to 5: The Musical on London’s West End as well as on its U.S. and U.K. tours. Curb Event Center Calhoun’s Broadway experience is extensive. He directed the hit Disney Friday • July 19 • 11:30 AM musical, Newsies, which was nominated for eight Tony Awards, including Donna Anderson is a much admired and devoted for best musical and best director. His revival of Frank Wildhorn and visual art educator from Knoxville, Tennessee. Leslie Bricusse’s Jekyll and Hyde played the Marriott Marquis Theatre During her forty-year teaching career in the Knox following its U.S. National Tour. Also in collaboration with Wildhorn, County Schools, she won numerous awards and Calhoun directed and choreographed the Broadway production of Bonnie honors and held many leadership roles in state, and Clyde. Calhoun’s numerous other Broadway credits include his regional, and national art education professional roles as producer, director, and choreographer of Brooklyn: The Musical; organizations. Her first teaching assignment was director and choreographer of the 1994 Broadway Grease revival; at Beardsley Junior High, followed by subsequent co-choreographer with Graciela Daniele of the Broadway Tony Award positions at both South-Young and South-Doyle high winning revival of Annie Get Your Gun; and the musical staging for the schools. She retired from teaching in 2015 from Hardin Valley Academy. As Tony Award winning Broadway musical Grey Gardens. an educator, Anderson taught a wide range of courses in drawing, painting, His additional projects across the United States include work at the Old printmaking, photography, and AP Art. She was named the South Doyle Globe Theatre in San Diego, where he directed the critically acclaimed Teacher of the Year three times and received the Knox County Teacher of the production of Emma: A Musical Romantic Comedy, based on the Jane Year award in 1997. She served as president of the Tennessee Art Education Austen novel, and co-directed Himself and Nora with Joe Hardy. Calhoun Association (TAEA) and was a recipient of the organization’s Tennessee also directed the world premiere production and tours of Disney’s High Distinguished Service within the Profession award. TAEA also presented School Musical: On Stage! and Disney’s High School Musical 2: On Stage! For her with the Tennessee Secondary Art Educator of the Year award on more the North Hollywood, California-based Deaf West Theatre, he directed and than one occasion, and in 2003, they named her Tennessee Art Educator of choreographed Pippin at the Mark Taper Forum and the company’s Tony the Year. In 2005, Anderson received the Liz Whorley Bradley Professional Award winning production of Big River. Growth Award from Delta Kappa Gamma International. Calhoun is currently an associate artist at Ford’s Theatre in Washington A frequent National Art Education Association (NAEA) conference D.C. He also serves on the board of directors for Covenant House presenter, Anderson served as the organization’s southeastern regional International, a nonprofit organization helping homeless youth in thirty- director from 2005 to 2007. In 2008, she was named the NAEA National one cities across six countries. Secondary Division Art Educator of the Year. As a professional artist, her work has been seen in many exhibitions, including TAEA’s members art Jeanette and Bill Watkins exhibition Connections; the Downtown Gallery’s ArtSource, for which Lorin Hollander Award she won best of show; and TVA’s You Gotta Have Art and Diversity. As a Bravo Awards Banquet and Performance Fulbright Scholar, she did research and work in Japan, Egypt, and Israel in Curb Event Center 1999 and 2000. She is the author of Experience Printmaking, which is part of Wednesday • July 17 • 6:30 PM a studio series produced for high school students by Davis Publications. Jeanette and Bill Watkins have given a lifetime of Jeff Calhoun service to their community Distinguished Service Award of Germantown, Memphis, Bravo Awards Banquet and Performance and to the state of Tennessee. Curb Event Center Their volunteer work has Wednesday • July 17 • 6:30 PM focused on education and the Jeff Calhoun is an award-winning choreographer, arts. A native of Missouri, Bill dancer, director, and producer. His work has been Watkins began his career in seen in countless venues from Broadway to London public accounting with a large Memphis firm. He then served as controller and in theatres across America. for the sixth largest industrial security firm in the United States. In Calhoun began his career as one of the seven 1971, he co-founded the public accounting firm Watkins Uiberall, PLLC. brothers in the Broadway production of Seven Watkins is a graduate of the University of Memphis College of Business, Brides for Seven Brothers. He then went on to which has named the auditorium in its Fogelman College of Business replace Tommy Tune in the Broadway production and Economics in his honor. He is a member and former president of the of My One and Only starring Twiggy and the legendary Charles “Honi” Germantown Performing Arts Center, where he currently serves on the Coles. His Broadway directing debut was Tommy Tune Tonite! at the board of directors. For twelve years, he served on the Tennessee Board Gershwin Theater. Calhoun’s collaboration with Tune led to the 1991 Tony of Regents; during that time, he was chair of the audit committee and Award for Best Choreography for the Will Rogers Follies. As a dancer in for two years also served as vice chair of the board. Watkins is a member

30 2019 Academy Awards of the Economic Club of Memphis and has also served on the board of Arts Leadership Award of Excellence is presented to an individual or group the Boy Scouts of America, who awarded him their Silver Beaver Award. who has achieved a unique milestone in the arts that deserves recognition and honor. He is a member of the University of Memphis Fogelman College of Business Executive Committee, and in 2012, he received the University Distinguished Service Award is presented to an American whose work of Memphis Distinguished Alumni Award. Watkins is the current TAA stands as a monument to the importance of the arts in the lives of all people. Foundation vice president. Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred upon a Tennessee Jeanette Watkins is a former high school teacher and graduate of the teacher, whose life’s work is widely acknowledged to have positively influenced the University of Memphis. She is a member of the Germantown Garden role of the arts in education, thereby benefiting the students of Tennessee’s schools. Club, the New Neighbors Organization, and the Salvation Army. She was Lamar Alexander Founder’s Award of Distinction is presented to an appointed to the Shelby County Film and Television Commission by individual whose meritorious accomplishments in the fields of education and the arts Shelby County mayor Mark Luttrell. Watkins has served the Germantown have profoundly impacted American culture and life. Performing Arts Center as its Gala chair, and she is a past president of the Josephine Circle. While a member of the East Memphis Rotary Club, Lorin Hollander Award is given to a Tennessean whose influence has she received the Paul Harris Fellowship Award. Watkins currently holds benefited arts education in general and/or the Tennessee Arts Academy in particular. the office of treasurer for the Germantown Museum. She has served the This award is named in honor of internationally renowned concert pianist Lorin Shelby County Republican Women’s Club in several capacities, including Hollander, a special friend of the Academy. holding the office of president for three years. Watkins is the current Partner in the Arts Award honors an individual or business whose generosity co-chair of the TAA Foundation fundraising committee. and support have contributed in sustained and significant ways to the success of the The Watkins are active members of Christ United Methodist Church in Tennessee Arts Academy’s mission. Memphis. They have two children, Cynthia Renee Watkins and William Spirit of Tennessee Award recognizes an individual or group whose work H. “Trey” Watkins III; a daughter-in-law, Sarah Sutton Watkins; and three exemplifies the highest standards of artistic endeavor and brings positive recognition grandchildren. In their free time, the Watkins enjoy spending time with to the place of the arts in the lives of Tennesseans. their children and grandchildren, relaxing at their lake home, and boating.

Distinguished Service Award Joe W. Giles Lifetime Lorin Hollander Award Lamar Alexander Founder’s Award 1994 Charles Strouse, Broadway composer Achievement Award 1994 Cavit Cheshier, education executive of Distinction 1995 Charles Fowler, arts educator, writer, 1995 Joseph Edward Hodges, Crossville 1995 Steven Cohen, state senator 2013 Senator Lamar Alexander, and advocate 1996 Freda Kenner, Bells 1996 Nellie McNeil, teacher and advocate United States senator 1996 Jerome Lawrence, playwright 1996 Sue Blass, Jackson 1997 Tom L. Naylor, music educator 2014 Douglas Henry, Tennessee 1997 Lorin Hollander, concert pianist 1997 Elizabeth Rike, Knoxville and administrator state senator and philosopher 1997 Celia Bachelder, Kingsport 1998 T. Earl Hinton, music educator 2017 Bill Haslam, Tennessee Governor 2000 Scott Ellis, director 1998 James Charles Mills, Johnson City 1999 Jane Walters, educator and arts advocate 2018 Mark Norris, Tennessee Senate 2000 Mary Costa, opera singer 1998 Gene Crain, Memphis 2000 Martha McCrory, music educator Majority Leader 2001 Sheldon Harnick, Broadway composer 1999 Patricia Brown, Knoxville 2001 Solie Fott, music educator 2001 Tina Packer, Shakespeare actor and director 2000 Robert Pletcher, Nashville 2008 Jeanette Crosswhite, arts education Arts Leadership Award of Excellence 2003 Bob McGrath, singer and host of 2000 Kathy Hawk, Kingsport administrator 2013 E. Frank Bluestein, Germantown Sesame Street 2001 Tommie Pardue, Memphis 2013 Pat and Thane Smith, arts advocates 2015 Music Makes Us, Nashville 2005 John Simon, author and arts critic 2001 Tully Daniel, Memphis 2014 Cindy Freeman and Michael Meise, music 2016 Belmont University, Nashville 2005 Dean Pitchford, songwriter, lyricist, (awarded posthumously) educators and arts advocates screenwriter, and director 2004 Marilyn duBrisk, Greeneville Partner in the Arts Award 2006 Andre Thomas, choral conductor 2004 Bobby Jean Frost, Nashville Spirit of Tennessee Award 2008 Steve Spiegel, president of 2007 Joe DiPietro, Broadway playwright 2005 Nancy Boone-Allsbrook, 2000 Wilma Dykeman, writer Theatrical Rights Worldwide and lyricist Murfreesboro 2001 Jim Crabtree, theatre director 2008 Henry Krieger, Broadway composer 2005 Sally Crain Jager, Cookeville and writer 2011 Marvin Hamlisch, composer and pianist 2006 Michael Combs, Knoxville 2002 Alice Swanson, arts education 2012 Richard M. Sherman, composer and lyricist 2006 Jean R. Thomas, Chattanooga administrator and advocate 2013 Marc Cherry, Hollywood writer 2006 Mitchell Van Metre, Knoxville 2003 George Mabry, choral conductor and producer 2007 David Logan, Johnson City 2006 Dolph Smith, visual artist 2014 Rupert Holmes, Broadway playwright, 2010 James R. Holcomb, Memphis 2009 George S. Clinton, Hollywood film composer, and lyricist 2011 Flowerree W. (Galetovic) McDonough, composer 2015 Richard Maltby Jr., director, lyricist, Knoxville 2009 Jackie Nichols, theatre administrator producer, and writer 2011 Joe W. Giles, Nashville 2009 Michael Stern, symphony conductor 2016 Audrey Flack, painter and sculptor 2012 Richard Mitchell, Knoxville 2010 Cherry Jones, Broadway actress 2016 Andrew Lippa, composer, lyricist, performer, 2013 Carol Crittenden, Nashville 2015 Charles Brindley, visual artist and writer 2014 Fred Patterson, Knoxville 2016 Doc Severinsen, musician and bandleader 2015 Gregg Coats, Memphis 2017 Christopher Durang, playwright 2016 Ted Rose, Lebanon 2018 Tony Walton, scenic and costume designer 2017 Margaret Campbelle-Holman, Nashville 2018 Linda Wilson Miller,

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Madeline Bridges Saturday Night starring blues legend Joyce Amanda Galbraith Project Director Cobb. In 2013, Bluestein was inducted into the Arts Leadership and Administration Madeline Bridges is Educational Theatre Association’s Hall of Fame Amanda Galbraith is an art professor of music in the in Minneapolis. educator with the Bartlett School of Music at Belmont City Schools in Tennessee. University, where she Connie Marley In 2017–2018, she was teaches music education. Music Director an educator fellow with Her degrees include a B.M. Connie Marley is retired the State Collaborative on in piano performance from after teaching twenty Reforming Education, a Shorter College in Rome, years at Freedom Middle Tennessee-based nonprofit Georgia; an M. Mus. Ed. from George Peabody School in Franklin, education research institution. Her students College of Education at Vanderbilt University; Tennessee. During her have consistently received recognition and and an Ed.D. in music education from the successful tenure at awards, and many have gone on to successfully University of Alabama. Bridges has taught the school, her choirs pursue further studies in the arts. Galbraith music and music education in classrooms from consistently won superior has served on the Tennessee Department of kindergarten through the graduate level and ratings at local and state choral festivals. Education’s subject matter expert committee, is past president of both the Tennessee Music Each year, her students were well represented two standards revision committees, a textbook Educators Association and the International in honor choirs at the local, regional, and and instructional materials advisory panel, Board of Directors of Choristers Guild. She is national levels as well. Prior to her time in and numerous curriculum development teams. a member of the Tennessee Music Education Franklin, Marley held teaching positions in She’s received the Tennessee Art Education Association Hall of Fame and a recipient of Georgia, Texas and the Metropolitan Nashville Association’s West Tennessee Art Educator of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Public Schools. Marley is also a past president the Year award two times—in 2011 and 2013. Tennessee Chapter of American Choral Directors of the Middle Tennessee Vocal Association In 2019 Galbraith was named the Tennessee Art Association. Bridges recently retired after having and has served the organization in several Education Association Art Educator of the Year. served for 29 years as Program Director of the other capacities. Currently, she is an active She is a frequent presenter at local, state, and Nashville Children’s Choir. For fifteen years, member of the American Choral Directors national conferences. Bridges served as associate dean for academic Association and also sings with the Nashville studies of the Belmont School of Music. Chamber Singers. Susan Ramsay Production Director E. Frank Bluestein Libby Lynch Before her retirement in Managing Director/Theatre Director Visual Art Director May of 2008, Susan Ramsay E. Frank Bluestein is Libby Lynch is the upper was a music specialist at the 1996-1997 Disney school visual art instructor Franklin Elementary School National Performing and art department chair in the Franklin Special Arts Teacher of the Year at University School Schools District and was and the 1994 Tennessee of Jackson in Jackson, named Teacher of the Year Teacher of the Year. USA Tennessee. She started her for that system. She has Today named Bluestein career in art education with received National Board Certification in Music as one of the top forty the Shelby County School and holds degrees from Peabody College and teachers in the United States in 1998. Up until System after receiving degrees from Union Middle Tennessee State University. Ramsay is his recent retirement, he served as chairman University, the University of Memphis, and the past president of the Middle Tennessee Orff- of the Germantown High School Fine Arts Memphis College of Art. She became a member Schulwerk Association and the Middle Tennessee Department and as executive producer for the of the Tennessee Art Education Association Elementary Music Educators Association and has school’s three-million-dollar, Emmy Award in 1991 and has served in various leadership served as regional representative on the National winning television studio. Bluestein is a past positions in the organization in an effort to Board of Trustees for AOSA. She has presented winner of the American Theatre Association’s ensure that as many children as possible have at Orff and Kodaly national conferences and for John C. Barner Award and has served as an arts access to quality art instruction. In 2004, she was the National Association for Music Education advisory panelist for numerous organizations, named Educator of the Year by the Tennessee Art (NAfME). She serves as an adjunct professor at including the National Endowment for the Arts Education Association and Sponsor of the Year several colleges and universities and maintains an and the Tennessee Arts Commission. He spent by the National Art Honor Society. In addition active schedule of performances as a storyteller several years as director of shows at Opryland, to her educational and leadership roles, Lynch is and as a musician. USA, and most recently wrote and directed also a jewelry designer who explores a variety of the national touring production of Beale Street media and regularly exhibits her work in shows and competitions throughout the nation.

32 Administrative Council & Staff

Founder and Dean Emeritus TAA Office Staff Katie Proctor Joe W. Giles TAA Office Support Specialist Joe Giles is founder of the Melody Hart 2019 marks Katie Proctor’s Tennessee Arts Academy Office Manager first year working in multiple and former director of the Melody Hart earned a roles at Belmont University. Arts Education Program of bachelor of music degree Beyond her duties with the the Tennessee Department in bassoon performance Tennessee Arts Academy, of Education. He received from Ball State University Proctor is an adjunct his bachelor’s and in Indiana. After graduation professor at Belmont, where master’s degrees in music she moved to Nashville and she currently teaches film education from Austin Peay State University worked for Badger-Bogle, production and set management. Additionally, she and has done additional study at Peabody Architects as executive serves as a department consultant revising scripts College, Middle Tennessee State University, and assistant and bookkeeper from 1993 to 1998. and advising students throughout the production Fisk University. Mr. Giles is past president of the She then began working with her husband, process. Born and raised in Tennessee, Proctor Southern Division of the National Association photographer Scott Schrecker, as office manager relocated to Nashville from Knoxville to attend for Music Education (NAfME) and of the and bookkeeper. Hart also played bassoon for the Belmont and later put her minor in business National Council of State Supervisors of Music. Belmont University orchestra for several years administration to work at Southeast Building He taught music in Metropolitan Nashville and currently subs for them and other Nashville Solutions in Oak Ridge. In her spare time, Proctor Public Schools for twenty-two years, has taken area orchestras on occasion. She plays bassoon enjoys screenwriting and volunteering. choral groups on concert tours in Europe, with First Baptist Nashville’s sanctuary orchestra, and has received gold and silver medals in teaches private bassoon lessons in her spare time, Mary Godwin international music festivals. and enjoys performing duets with her daughter Bookkeeper Sammy, who is a harpist. Hart also enjoys teaching Mary Godwin earned the arts to her son Scotty. a bachelor degree in psychology from Oklahoma State University and a master degree in guidance counseling from The Ohio State University. She has lived in Nashville since 1973, when her husband Paul joined the music faculty of Belmont University. Godwin was employed full time at Belmont from 1997 until 2013. Prior to 1997, she worked for the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, United Methodist Communications, and Vanderbilt University.

33 Administrative Council & Staff

TAA Year-Round Margaret Pond Melody Hart, Linda Norfleet, Hospitality Katie Proctor Support Staff Proofreaders Stephen Coleman Tara Woods Awards Coordinator Douglas Printing, Inc. Social Media, Inventory and App Printer Dianne Evans Coordinator Vendor Fair Coordinator Frank Bluestein Nathan Babian Production Coordinator Patricia Hudson Webmaster Assistant Vendor Fair Coordinator Gina Miller Carrie Kimbrough TAA Facilitators Travel Coordinator Visitors’ Day Coordinator Music Patricia Hudson Newsletter Coordinator David Chambers, Kami Lunsford, Office Volunteer Jim Dodson, Patricia Hudson Jerry Monds, Jerome Souther, Scott Schrecker VARD Coordinators Chris Strelecki, Kerry Vaughn TAA Photographer JoLyn Burks Visual Art Chell Parkins Guest Performer Liaison Janet Laws, Virginia Nix, Dance and Movement Consultant David Reynolds, Kim Shamblin, Tommy Gotsch Ken Snyder TAA Assistant Photographer 2019 TAA Summer Susan Hearn Theatre Silent Auction Coordinator Nancy Beard, Nancy Essary, Support Staff Jennifer Keith, Key McKinney, Dianne Evans, Patricia Hudson, Pollyanna Parker Elaine Bailey-Fryd Susie Stamper Special Events Coordinator Office Volunteers and Ambassadors Arts Leadership and Administration Pollyanna Parker Wydell Croom, Susan Hearn, Atticus Hensley Communications and Lexie Hearn, Sammy Schrecker, Housing Coordinator Ava Zeliadt, Christian Zeliadt Trio Track Charles Businaro Office Aides Paula Medlin Visual Enhancement Coordinator Rusty King TAA Administration Seth Poston MPAC Liaison Dianne Evans, Caroline Hensley, Equipment Coordinator Keith Chapman, Dan Bruni, Patricia Hudson Andrea Hittle Jessyca Christopher, Jim Raver, Tennessee Arts Academy Transportation Coordinator Matt , John Wharton Foundation Board of Directors Randy Stevens Belmont Event Services Multiple events throughout the Academy week Transportation Assistant Danny Roselli, Shelby Tice have been made possible by the generosity of the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Board Bill Marley, Daniel Poston, Belmont Residence Life of Directors: Stephen Coleman (President), Joey Andy Poston Special thanks to Katie Mitchell for her Beckford, Chuck Blackburn, Cavit Cheshier, Rena VIP Coordinators assistance in coordinating the TAA visual C. Ellzy, Ruby Fenton, Solie Fott, Bobby Jean Will Berger art exhibitions. Frost, Charlsie Hand, Brandon Herrenbruck, Jim Academy Accompanist Holcomb, Jean Litterer, Flowerree W. McDonough, Allison Whitmore TAA Program Book Diana K. Poe, Sara Savell, Bill Shinn, Pat Smith, Stage Manager Thane Smith, J. Tabor Stamper, Hope Stringer, Ron Watson Bennett Tarleton, Jeanette Watkins,William H. Charles Sanchez Graphic Designer Watkins Jr., and Talmage Watts. House Manager Scott Schrecker The Wednesday morning TAA breakfast is McKenzie Garey Photographer generously sponsored by the Tennessee Arts Assistant House Manager Academy Foundation Board of Directors. Lori Anne Parker-Danley, Sandra Partridge Susan Ramsay Performance Programs Editors

34 Tennessee Arts Academy History

Outstanding Service to the Arts and to the Teachers of Tennessee

personnel, who were interested in working with the state to develop the new entity, the Tennessee Arts Academy. Cynthia Curtis, then professor of music education at Belmont and recently retired dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was selected as the Academy’s first dean. The rest, as they say, is history. The Academy began with workshops in music and art and in 1988 was expanded to include theatre. Several years later, the Academy added classes in school administration, which eventually evolved into the arts leadership and administration track. The multidisciplinary trio track and the recently initiated arts integration, creative drama, and movement classes have all helped to broaden and strengthen the Academy’s curricular offerings. The first musers were invited to the Academy in the early 1990s. Many innovative ideas and events were incorporated into the daily schedule, including the Academy With the release of “A Nation at Risk” in April During the summers of 1985 and 1986, pilot Chorale; the TAA professional, teacher, and 1983, Americans faced a decade of increasing programs were introduced in all three grand student art exhibitions; vendor fair; artist interest in education reform. In Tennessee that divisions of the state. Teachers flocked to the market; and Academy Awards, all of which emphasis took the form of Governor Lamar free weeklong events in which nationally known are now program mainstays. In the late 1990s, Alexander’s Better Schools Program, through arts educators came to Tennessee and, using the the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation was which new tax dollars and expanded state new arts frameworks as their guide, provided created to help financially support TAA. Arts programs were instituted. stimulating and intensive training for teachers of Academy America was established in 2002, For the first time, the Tennessee Department art and music. giving arts teachers from outside Tennessee the of Education began to play an active role in From the beginning, a conscious decision was opportunity to become full participants in the promoting the importance of the arts as an made that the Tennessee Arts Academy would Academy experience. integral part of the education of all students. be the top-of-the-line program in professional After thirty-three years and much scrutiny and When a panel of prominent arts educators was development for teachers of the arts. Each year refining, the Tennessee Arts Academy continues as convened to establish priorities, they included the faculty, performers, and speakers have the longest running, premier summer program in the importance of creating ways to train teachers been chosen by applying stringent standards of America for kindergarten through twelfth grade in the effective use of new state curriculum personal and professional excellence, thereby teacher training in music, visual art, and theatre. frameworks in the arts. ensuring that Tennessee’s teachers will not only Since its inception, the Academy has trained more In 1984, Joe Giles was appointed to the newly acquire knowledge, but will be inspired and than seven thousand teachers and administrators. created position of Director of Arts Education renewed in their efforts to fulfill the mission of As of today, more than three million students for the State of Tennessee. Using the style of educating the complete child. have been positively impacted by teachers who ancient Greek learning centers as his model, After two years of remarkable success and in have attended the Tennessee Arts Academy. More Giles conceived of the idea of using the funds order to maximize the use of state funding, it significantly, the lasting benefit of the Academy appropriated by the state to create a unique, was decided to institutionalize the summer endures and multiplies for years to come. modern-day “Academy” that would help raise program. The campus of Belmont University teaching standards among the arts educators was chosen as a permanent home because of across Tennessee. its central location, its aesthetic beauty, and its

35 TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION The Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established to aid and assist in the growth and expansion of the Tennessee Arts Academy and Arts Academy America. The TAAF Board of Directors shares in the belief that educators trained at the Tennessee Arts Academy are better equipped and motivated to serve their students, significantly raise achievement levels, and effect positive and lasting change in classrooms throughout the state.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Board of Directors meets regularly to plan and implement programs designed to financially support the activities of the Academy. Board of Directors Honorary Board Members Advisory Council Kem Hinton, FAIA Stephen Coleman Bobby Jean Frost Patricia Smith Stephanie J. Block Cherry Jones Doc Severinsen Dan Lawson, Ph.D President Charlsie Hand Thane Smith Christine Brewer Aaron Lazar Richard Sherman Brandon Herrenbruck J. Tabor Stamper Chris Brubeck David Leong Linda Solomon Board Emeritus Joey Beckford James R. Holcomb Hope Stringer George S. Clinton Andrew Lippa Steve Spiegel Tommie Pardue Chuck Blackburn Jean Litterer, Ph.D Bennett Tarleton Jason Danieley Rebecca Luker Susan Stauter Executive Director Cavit Cheshier, Ed.D Flowerree W. McDonough Jeanette Watkins Joe DiPietro Richard Maltby Jr. Michael Stern E. Frank Bluestein Rena C. Ellzy, Ed.D Diana K. Poe William H. Watkins Jr., CPA Audrey Flack Dean Pitchford Charles Strouse Executive Assistant Ruby Fenton Sara Savell Talmage Watts Giancarlo Guerrero Jay Russell Jourdan Urbach Melody Hart Solie Fott, Ph.D Bill Shinn Rupert Holmes Odessa Settles Jane Walters Bookkeeper Mary Godwin

TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY 2018–2019 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The TAA Alumni Association is open to all graduates and supporters of the Tennessee Arts Academy and includes a variety of member benefits.

Valedictorian Summa Cum Laude Magna Cum Laude Cum Laude Gerald Jerome Souther Suzanne Binkley Nancy Beard Donna Alexander Penelope Cochran Sandra Kandros Amanda Pigg Christine Bock Donna Browning Tina Amelunke Malika Collins Jennifer Keith Micheala Poindexter Salutatorian Joshua Bolling David Chambers Allison Archie Charlene Cook Lisa Kosier Chelsey Preiser Madeline Bridges Earl Delong Alicia Archuleta Amanda Cramer Gene La Loggia Katharine Ray Stephen & Marion Coleman Clay Canada Barbara Johnson Mary Armstrong Kiera Crite Erin Laming Beth Sandidge Dru Davison Cavit Cheshier Nancy Jolley Tina Atkinson Karen Dean Abbey Logan Kim Shamblin Paula Medlin Gail Merritt Congdon Lynn Jung MeHaley Babich Zandrea Diggs Karen Luellen Ken Snyder Ron Meers Angela Cook Timothy Koly Rachel Baldwin Sarah Dill Kami Lunsford Wincle Sterling Talmage Watts Dianne T. Evans Brad Mitchell Deanna Baxter Jim Dodson Lea Marshall Nicole Stimmel BJ Frost Janis Nunnally Lisa Benton Marci Drury Kay Mattingly Dawn Sutton Amanda Galbraith Geri Passaro-Floyd Lee Bergman Nancy Essary Pamela McCoy Brenda Swinson Joe W. Giles Tara Polson Jo Jo Bills Rose Freeman Emily McEneely Darlene Tanner Anita Hicks Anna Schnadelbach Matthew Bimstein Mary Godwin Key McKinney Karen Joy Thomas Jim Holcomb Anne Snider Christopher Blackmon Margaret Hall Stella McKnight Annette Tipton Patricia A. Hudson Sonya Solomon Kim Bohn Danyelle Harris Kathy McMillan Michelle Tripp Terri King Christopher Taylor Febrienne Box Sheila Harrison David Meade Sandi Walden Janet Laws Kathy Timblin Denise Bragg Melody Hart Kimberley Minor Cate Walter Libby Lynch Jeni West Becky Brandt Atticus Hensley Jill Mitchell Denise Warf Connie Marley Roland Wilson Carrie Brooks Whitney Herrington Mary Margaret Moore Stephen Watson Flowerree W. McDonough Ann Wolfe Lexi Buglio Kami Horton Katie Morgan-Harper Niambi D. Webster Linda Wilson Miller Michelle Cantrell Emily Howard Kelly Orr Kimberly Witz Jerry Monds Ellen Carnes Elizabeth Ingrish Gay Page Lori Wortman Tommie Pardue Lauren Chambers Cassandra Irwin Eliza"Beth" Perthel Lori Ann Wright Susan Ramsay Nicole Church Angie Jackson Rebecca Phelps Bill Shinn Suzanne Shinn Wendy Skinner Ron & Linda Sklar

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DOWNTOWN Museum admission or museum membership required for program admittance unless otherwise noted. Program passes required for select programs. See box office for details.

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October 10-27, 2019 GRADES 3-8 TICKETS By Marisela Treviño Orta Students: $10 Based on the novel Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez Directed by Crystal Manich Chaperones: $17 when When Mari’s family is hired to help save Tyler’s family’s farm from reserved by the school foreclosure, both young people are forced to confront the complex- ities of immigration and citizenship. All tickets purchased outside of the reservation November 14–December 29, 2019 GRADES PREK-3 are $25 for adults and Book and Lyrics by Marcy Heisler, Music by Zina Goldrich $19 for youth. From the book Auntie Claus by Elise Primavera

There’s something mysterioso about Sophie Kringle’s glamorous Subsidy and Grant great aunt. Determined to get to the bottom of Auntie Claus’ eccen- options are available tric ways, Sophie embarks on an adventure that leads straight to the heart of the holidays.

January 16–February 3, 2020 GRADES 5-8 SHOWTIMES By Wendy Lement Performances are generally Tuesday-Friday While the Civil War rages on outside the walls of the hospital, a nurse has discovered that injured Private Lyons Wakeman is actually at 10 am and 11:45 am Sarah Wakeman, a woman! Should the hospital registry be changed to prove that women can fight in battle? Or should it stay intact so 10 am performances Sarah can receive her earned pension and her family avoid shame? fill up quickly.

February 20–March 15, 2020 GRADES 2-8 Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser Additional Lyrics and Book by Timothy Allen McDonald EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT Based on the real life of Hans Christian Andersen, this world pre- NCT provides miere musical follows Hans’ journey from poor storyteller to becom- ing one of the most celebrated writers of all time. Show Guides with Curricular Connections and SEL Themes. April 9–May 17, 2020 GRADES PREK-3 Based on the Pete the Cat series of books by Kimberly and James Dean Ask about Pre- or Post- Music by Will Aronson, Book and Lyrics by Sarah Hammond show workshops.

When Jimmy Biddle draws a blank in art class, Pete is the perfect friend to help him out. Together, they set out on a mission to help NashvilleCT.org Jimmy conquer 2nd grade art—all the way to Paris and back!

Middle Tennessee’s Largest Professional Theatre See these and many other exhibitions this year at the Frist Art Museum.

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection May 24–September 2, 2019 Organized by the Vergel Foundation and MondoMostre in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL)

Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s June 21–September 29, 2019 Organized by The Museum of Art and The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists September 27, 2019–January 12, 2020 Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Eric Carle’s Picture Books: Celebrating 50 Years of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” October 18, 2019–February 23, 2020 Organized by The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA

Supported in part by 919 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203 For a complete list of programs and exhibitions, visit FristArtMuseum.org.

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