JULY 8–13, 2012 ON THE CAMPUS OF BELMONT UNIVERSITY NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE JULY 14–19, 2013 ON THE CAMPUS OF BELMONT UNIVERSITY NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE Watauga Arts Academy a summer arts camp for high school students June 8 - 21, 2014 @ Austin PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY / Clarksville, Tenn | Art_Design, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Print- making, Sculpture | Dance_Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Take Choreography | Music_ Ensembles - Band, Choir, a Orchestra Classes /Lessons - Brass, Composition, break Classical Guitar, Percussion, Piano, String, Voice, from Woodwind|Theatre_ Performance - Acting, Dance summer! (Tap, Jazz, Musical Theatre), Voice Design/Tech - Costumes, Set, Lighting, Sound, Stage Management > www.wataugaartsacademy.org APSU does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. For inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies, [email protected]<x- msg://1987/[email protected]>. The Premier Summer Institute for Arts Education A Program of the Tennessee Department of Education Additional support for the Tennessee Arts Academy is provided by the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation, and Belmont University. WELCOME TO THE TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY From the Governor Dear Friends: On behalf of the great State of Tennessee, I am pleased to extend a warm welcome to the participants and guests of the 2013 Tennessee Arts Academy. This time offers you the opportunity to meet with friends and colleagues while making new acquaintances. I hope you share your ideas and learn new ones as you listen to speakers, participate in sessions, and interact with others in the field. If you have the chance, I hope you will take time to enjoy Nashville and all it has to offer. Again, welcome to Tennessee. Crissy and I send our best wishes. Warmest regards, Bill Haslam From the Tennessee Department of Education Welcome to the 2013 Tennessee Arts Academy. You are about to have an exciting and enriching professional development experience. You will meet new colleagues, benefit from the expertise of a gifted faculty, and renew your excitement for the arts as part of an integrated approach to education. We know that the arts have a vital role to play in students’ lives, and I hope all of you will leave refreshed and excited about unlocking the potential in all your students. Kevin Huffman Commissioner From Belmont University It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to Belmont University. We are honored to host the Tennessee Arts Academy on our campus, and I trust that our facilities will provide for enriching learning experiences for each of you. The Tennessee Arts Academy is an excellent venue for teachers of the arts to share the best practices and receive instruction from gifted faculty within a collegial community. I am confident that your students’ learning will be enhanced by the valuable techniques that you obtain as a participant. Again, thank you for allowing Belmont to host the Arts Academy. Sincerely, Robert C. Fisher President CONTENTS 4 FACULTY 7 CORE WORKSHOP SESSIONS 11 INTERLUDES 16 MUSINGS 17 PERFORMANCES 19 SPECIAL EVents 21 TAA HISTORY 22 ACADEMY AWARDS 24 ADMINIstratIVE COUNCIL AND Staff 25 ADVERTISERS FACULTY Linda Hall Anderson Nicole Brisco in roles ranging from Much Ado’s Beatrice to Arts Administration and Assessment Visual Art: Upper Middle/Secondary Shirley Valentine. She co-wrote and performed Linda Hall Anderson Nicole Brisco is the the one-woman show, TEA FOR THREE: Lady has served as a teacher, 2009 Texas Secondary Bird, Pat, & Betty (www.teaforthree.com), which administrator, and art Art Educator of the opened off Broadway in June 2013. activist in Nashville for Year and heads the Elaine Bromka’s faculty position has been over twenty-five years. visual arts department generously sponsored by SunTrust Bank. Her teaching experiences at Pleasant Grove High span all grade levels and School in Texarkana, David Christiana both public and private Texas. She serves as Visual Art: Upper Middle/Secondary schools. While serving as the art coordinator director of the secondary Western division of for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, she the Texas Art Education Association. Brisco David Christiana is a created curricula, developed relationships with has presented at national conferences and for professor at the University community arts venues, and sought resources many school districts and colloquia. She is the of Arizona and a New in support of Metro’s visual art specialists. contributing editor for high school level School York Times best-selling Anderson has received the Outstanding Arts Magazine and the Discovering Drawing illustrator of more than Teacher of Humanities award from Humanities textbook. She has also recently completed an twenty picture books for Tennessee and the Art Advocacy Award from innovative course for the state of Texas called international publishers the Tennessee Art Educators Association. Arts and Media Communication. Nicole is such as Scholastic; Farrar, She retired from Metropolitan Nashville known for her commitment to an art education Straus & Giroux; Simon and Schuster; Little, Public Schools and now serves as an adjunct philosophy that encourages the growth of Brown & Co., and the keystone trilogy of books instructor for Belmont University. creativity and artistry amongst students written by Gail Carson Levine for the Disney in high school. The work created by her art Fairies franchise. Recently, as artist in residence Douglas Beam students is nationally known and has received at the Museum of Northern Arizona, his work Music: Elementary/Lower Middle a 98 percent rating of “5” on the Advanced has taken a personal turn—its inspiration Placement Portfolio for the past fifteen years. inclined toward portraits of places and faces as Douglas Beam is a music landscapes. educator, singer, and composer who teaches Elaine Bromka Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary Pam Corcoran general music and Theatre: Elementary/Lower Middle conducts the children’s A Phi Beta Kappa at Smith choir at the American College in Northampton, Since 1983 Pam Corcoran Embassy School in New Massachusetts, Elaine has brought stories to life Delhi, India. He has been Bromka has been on the with her original, needle- assistant director and faculties of Smith and felted puppets. In addition accompanist for the Indianapolis Children’s New York University’s to building and performing Choir, where he worked with Henry Leck and Steinhardt School and shows, she conducts artist- Ruth Dwyer. He is a graduate of Anderson has taught one-day acting in-residence programs University in Indiana, where he was Presser workshops in more than ninety-five colleges. for all ages and abilities. Scholar and also completed his teacher training A professional actress for more than thirty For more than twenty-five years she has worked courses for certification in Orff Schulwerk. years, she has appeared in films (including for VSA Arts Wisconsin as a teaching artist, At the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Uncle Buck, in which she played the mom) and providing arts experiences to people of all ages Minnesota, he earned his master’s in music television (including The Sopranos, Sex & the with disabilities. Corcoran recently completed education and Kodály certification. Beam’s City, E.R., Providence, Dharma & Greg, Sisters, training in Universal Design Learning and choral works are published with Colla Voce and Law and Order). She portrayed the crazed currently serves on the Board of Trustees for and Hal Leonard Music. He is also a frequent Stella Lombard on Days of Our Lives, appeared Puppeteers of America. She is also a frequent contributor to the Orff Echo, the professional in Playing for Time with Vanessa Redgrave, and guest artist with Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre journal of the American Orff Schulwerk won an Emmy award for her role in Catch a and teaches puppetry workshops for regional Association. Rainbow. Equally active on stage, Bromka has and national puppet festivals. performed on and off Broadway and has had leads in more than twenty regional theaters, 4 FACULTY Dru Davison enthusiasts worldwide. Her teaching skills Margaret Jansen Arts Administration and Assessment include working directly with art educators and Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary Dru Davison is an arts their students; clay artists and studio owners A Linklater Designated administrator for Shelby through state conferences; and presenting Voice Teacher since 1998, County Schools and professional development workshops for clay Margaret Jansen currently serves as consultant for associations nationwide. serves as voice and text both the United States coach for the Colorado Department of Education Peggy Flores Shakespeare Festival, and the Tennessee Visual Art: Elementary/Lower Middle where she most recently Department of Education. Peggy Flores has taught coached Tina Packer’s His other positions and appointments include middle-school art in “Women of Will.” She reviewer for the National Coalition for Core Arts Southern California for has worked extensively Standards, co-chair for the Tennessee Council more than twenty years. with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, of Visual and Performing Arts Supervisors, She developed a multi- Massachusetts, as well as with actors in New York and chair-elect of the National Association of year art curriculum City. She has also been on the faculties of New Music Education’s National Council of Music for her school and also York University’s Experimental Theatre