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

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From the Governor Dear Friends: On behalf of the great State of Tennessee, I am pleased to extend a warm welcome to the participants and guests of the 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,

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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 Wing Program Leaders. Davison has taught music to implemented an annual and The Actor’s Studio Drama School. Jansen students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, student chalk festival. As a mentor teacher, Flores lives in Boulder, Colorado, and is passionate was an adjunct jazz instructor at Arkansas provided district elementary and middle- about health, vitality, and the freedom of human State University, and served as a teaching school teachers with methods to integrate expression. Through her company “Luminous fellow in music education for the University art into their academic classes. She has also Touch,” she designs personalized sessions for her of North Texas. He currently serves on the Bill conducted a mask-making session at the San clients that incorporate voice practice, bodywork, and Melinda Gates College Readiness Advisory Diego Art Museum for area teachers. Flores has and health coaching. Council and is an advisor and former national been a presenter for a variety of art education fellow for the Hope Street Group. conferences throughout California and in Carol Krueger Chicago, New York City, and Phoenix. She has Music: Upper Middle/Secondary Denise Ertler also made twenty-six art instructional films on a Carol Krueger is director of Visual Art: Elementary/Lower Middle variety of subjects. choral activities at Emporia Denise Ertler has been State University in Kansas. professionally involved Mary Hopper As a clinician and guest in the ceramics industry Music: Upper Middle/Secondary conductor, Krueger has for more than thirty-five Mary Hopper is professor conducted festivals and years. As a studio owner, of choral music and honor choirs in Alabama, retailer, and professional director of performance Florida, Georgia, Kansas, potter she has a diverse studies at the Wheaton Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, background in clay design College Conservatory North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, and glaze techniques. After deciding to go back of Music in Wheaton, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. to school in 1996, she graduated with a degree Illinois. Her current She has also presented sessions at the national in graphic design with the goal of working responsibilities include conventions of the American Choral Directors in both areas. Today she is based in Orlando, teaching choral methods and conducting the Association and the Organization of American Florida, and travels throughout the country as Men’s Glee Club and the Women’s Chorale. Both Kodály Educators, as well as at numerous state a professional development coordinator and choirs have performed at numerous state and and regional conventions throughout the United instructor for Mayco Colors, a leading producer national conferences and enjoyed national States. She is the author of Progressive Sight of quality ceramic products for ceramic and international tours. Hopper is the national Singing, published by Oxford University Press. president-elect designate of the American Choral Directors Association. Her honors include Wheaton College’s Senior Teaching Achievement Award and the Distinguished Service to Alma Mater Award.

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Trish Lindberg Education. Palmer has served as senior author Jill Trinka Theatre: Elementary/Lower Middle of multiple music textbook series published by Music: Elementary/Lower Middle Artistic director and co- Silver Burdett/Scott Foresman. Her extensive Jill Trinka is well known producer Trish Lindberg travels and teaching experiences are evident in by children, parents, is also a professor of the global perspective she brings to her work. and music educators as education and coordinator a dynamic, winsome, of the master’s program Mary Schneider and energetic teacher in integrated arts at Music: Upper Middle/Secondary and performer. Her Plymouth State University Mary Schneider is performances bring in Plymouth, New associate professor of new life to the musical Hampshire. She is co-founder of the award- music and director of and cultural treasures of American folk music winning Educational Theatre Collaborative bands at Eastern Michigan as she accompanies herself on the autoharp, and founder and artistic director of the University. She conducts the banjo, dulcimer, and guitar. She has made four Kearsarge Arts Theatre. Lindberg also co- wind symphony, teaches recordings of folksongs, singing games, and founded the professional theatre company both undergraduate play parties for kids of all ages and has three Theatre Integrating Guidance, Education, and and graduate courses in collaborative recordings with John Feierabend. Responsibility (TIGER). The group’s original conducting and music education, and oversees Her latest publication is a DVD entitled musical productions address social issues that and guides all aspects of the university’s Jill Trinka: The Bass Hall Children’s Concerts contemporary children face in school. She has comprehensive band program. Active both (Ft. Worth, TX). She is a past president of the won numerous recognitions including the nationally and internationally as an adjudicator, Organization of American Kodály Educators and Governor’s Arts and Education Award presented clinician, and guest conductor, Schneider is a received its Outstanding Educator Award in 2003. by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts strong advocate for new wind music. In addition in 1999, the Youth Theatre Director of the Year to being a contributing author for the series Gustave Weltsek Award from the American Alliance for Theatre Teaching Music through Performance in Band, she Theatre: Elementary/Lower Middle and Education in 2003, the New Hampshire has engaged in extensive research and writing and Gustave Weltsek has Professor of the Year award given by the Carnegie given numerous presentations on Pulitzer Prize- performed and written for Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching winning composer John Corigliano’s Symphony and with young people in and the Council for Advancement and Support No. 3 for large wind ensemble, “Circus Maximus.” a wide variety of socially of Education in 2004, and the New Hampshire relevant educational Excellence in Education Award from the New David Emerson Toney theatre productions and Hampshire Department of Education in 2007. Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary classes. He is the founding David Toney is currently director of the First Coast Mary Palmer assistant professor of Children’s Theatre Company in Jacksonville, Music: Elementary/Lower Middle acting and directing at Florida, which specializes in multicultural and Mary Palmer is president Theatre VCU at Virginia cross-cultural children’s theatre performances. of Mary Palmer & Commonwealth University. He runs the Indiana University Educational Associates, LLC, a Toney’s playwriting credits Theatre Licensing Program, whose outreach consulting group in include the plays Kingdom, includes creative dramatics classes for education and the arts The Soul Collector, and young children and after-school programs at that helps schools and The Last of Midnight; and community theatres and local Boys and Girls community organizations the musicals Elysian Fields, Coming Home, and Clubs. Weltsek is a member of the American transform their The Snowy Day. His film and television writing Alliance for Education board, for which he is practices through the arts. Palmer has taught credits include staff writer for Fox’s In Living the current Chair of Research and Scholarship. in colleges, universities, pre-kindergarten Color, screenwriter for New Line Cinema’s House He is also part of the twelve-person committee through grade twelve schools, and community Party III, and head writer and story editor for that is writing the new United States National settings throughout the United States and on ESPN, Jumbo Pictures, and Sony Wonder. For Standards for Drama and Theatre Education. five continents. Her leadership roles include his screenplay Sticks and Stones, Toney was presidencies in the Music Educators National named co-winner of the 1995 Script to Screen Conference and the Florida Alliance for Arts screenplay competition, which is sponsored by the Independent Feature Project and Writers Guild of America.

6 CORE WORKSHOP SESSIONS MUSIC

Elementary Music interpretation in folk song performance. Building Literacy and Discussions will focus on the characteristics Musicianship Skills Participants will attend each of the following of folk song performance style in relation to I nstructor: Carol Krueger three classes every day. rhythmic interpretation and attitudes in vocal Singers and instrumentalists are often musically performance as derived from traditional singers. illiterate when they enter the secondary The Creative Verbs We will also explore how the difficulties inherent I nstructor: Douglas Beam ensemble setting. This can be a challenge in rhythmically notating folk songs leads to for directors, who are not always sure how to Arranging, composing, and improvising are problems in rhythmic interpretation, as well as develop basic skills in older students. Working fundamental skills in any comprehensive the implications these rhythmic problems have from the premise that we learn musical skills in music education program. In this session, when drawing from oral traditions to teach the same order in which we learn language skills, participants will explore these skills through musical literacy. participants will explore a method of teaching music making and reflection, and the ways they music that stresses the act of listening and can be fostered in the context of a sequential, imitating patterns before reading (translating spiral curriculum, including the development of SECONDary Music notation into sound) and writing (translating embedded assessments and essential questions. Participants will attend two of the following sound into notation). The pedagogy also Additionally, participants will hone their own classes each day. includes a sequence of instruction that results in abilities as composers and arrangers of music a strong link between sound and notation. for children as they learn to incorporate a diverse Choral Music for the Whole Person I nstructor: Mary Hopper repertoire of musical material in the classroom. Inspired Music Making in Rehearsal By providing opportunities for musical and I nstructor: Mary Schneider Arts Integration at the Core personal growth, conductors are engaged in I nstructor: Mary Palmer shaping the lives of the young people they Are your ensemble rehearsals focused on “fixing things” or creating aesthetic experiences? How Successful arts integration is built on a direct. Choices of repertoire, conducting do your students view this? Discover rehearsal foundation of strong arts instruction. When technique, vocal technique, and leadership strategies that will infuse musical depth and this two-way street is in sync, the total school style all contribute to the development of young feeling into your daily band rehearsals and engage is strengthened. In these sessions, participants singers. Participants in these sessions will your students’ imagination and creativity in the will experience successful, classroom-tested, explore a variety of ways to discover and develop process. Achieving the goals of music educators research-based strategies for using the power repertoire as part of their choral curriculum. also depends on programming appropriate of the arts to enhance overall student and Participants will also gain hands-on practice repertoire of artistic merit. Academy sessions will teacher engagement and learning. The strong in vocal development, conducting gesture, and explore both of these critical topics and devote links between the arts and Common Core State musical problem solving. time to refining conducting technique to deepen Standards will also be explored. Participants will nonverbal communication and provide more leave these sessions feeling empowered to act as opportunities for expressive music making. catalysts for change.

How to Make Folk Songs Come Alive in Your Classroom and Use Them to Teach Music Literacy Skills I nstructor: Jill Trinka Children are naturally drawn to folk songs, and most elementary music teachers use the music of oral tradition in their instructional plans. However, since the study of this music is usually not part of undergraduate music education programs, teachers often perform the music of oral tradition according to the standards and values associated with the music of written tradition. In these sessions, the instructor and participants will perform repertoire from oral tradition to illustrate the basic principles of rhythmic

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Elementary Theatre SECONDARy Participants will attend each of the following Theatre three classes every day. Participants will attend each of the Confidence, Capability, and following three classes every day. Community: The Results of Puppets in the Classroom Expanding your Toolkit I nstructor: Pam Corcoran I nstructor: Elaine Bromka Participants in this session will explore a variety Participants in this session will explore of puppetry styles that will build confidence, fresh ways to keep students engaged expand capability, and increase the overall sense will work together to explore a multitude of by experiencing a smorgasbord of of community in the classroom. In addition to arts-integration techniques and skills that will acting approaches. With individual coaching, construction techniques, the class will also cover enhance creativity, imagination, and innovation. class members will learn how to find trigger the use of puppets for learning, performing, and moments that allow for complete “presence.” play, with an emphasis on including children Creative Dramatics and the Material will be provided, but memorized with special needs. Gift of Play material is also most welcome. In an additional I nstructor: Gustave Weltsek on-camera session, participants will explore nuances of intention and body language. ARTS Alive! Bringing the Power of This hands-on creative dramatics workshop the Arts into Your Classroom will introduce a wide range of exciting and I nstructor: Trish Lindberg Speake the Speech I Pray You: inventive strategies that teachers can use with A Vocal Approach to Shakespeare This workshop will show you the effectiveness their students. The sessions will cover finger play, and Beyond of arts integration by sharing ways that drama, improvisational games, storybook theatre, and I nstructor: Margaret Jansen music, movement, and visual arts can be process drama. Insight will be provided about combined to promote literacy skills in the how to assess and evaluate these strategies so In an effort to keep the voice alive, participants classroom. Throughout the week, participants they align with curricula. Be prepared to have will focus on awakening and releasing fun and create! their own vibrations in order to express Shakespeare’s language as a whole-body process. The workshop will explore the emotions, sounds, structure, words, and language forms of Shakespeare’s text, allowing the voice to be integral to the creative process of this verbal art form.

Playwriting “I Did it Myself”: A Ten-minute Play Festival I nstructor: David Emerson Toney After learning the structure and components of playwriting, participants will participate in brainstorming exercises to develop an over- arching personal theme for a final end-of-class festival. As the week progresses, work will be read aloud and rewritten as each play warrants. Participating both as actors and playwrights, participants will end the week with a small festival of ten-minute plays.

8 CORE WORKSHOP SESSIONS VISUAL ART

Elementary Exploring Multiple Media art and use creative idea generation as a Experiences to Create Great foundation for exceptional student art practices. Visual Art Classroom Lessons Using contemporary art, literature, and mind Participants will attend each workshop for I nstructor: Peggy Flores mapping, participants will develop engaging two consecutive days and a summary session strategies to guide students as well as strengthen These fun-filled, hands-on sessions will explore for both workshops on Friday morning. their own personal art practices. Using mixed basic art elements and principles by using a media, participants will develop art that variety of media to create art ideas and projects Clay and Glaze Techniques inspires ideas in both 2D and 3D art programs. for elementary and middle school classroom I nstructor: Denise Ertler They will return to their classrooms with art use. Participants will sculpt with foil and paper; samples, innovative lesson plans, PowerPoint This interactive, hands-on workshop is create paper molas, drawings, and paintings; and presentations, and strategies for creating dedicated to clay and glaze techniques that explore still-life composition techniques. Paint, exceptional student work. focus on teaching texture and design in the papers, pencil, and crayon will be used to explore classroom. The first session will be spent patterns and textures. Simple classroom and Portrait² and Castle-ness designing and constructing multiple one-of-a- supply management strategies will be shared. kind “no fail” clay projects. Focus will be on the I nstructor: David Christiana way clay works in the classroom and will include David Christiana will lead participants in two demonstrations and suggestions. An assortment workshops during the Academy week. The of stamps and molds will be available. The SECONDary primary objective of the Portrait² workshop is to second day integrates fired glaze applications Visual Art decode and re-purpose an image by translating to both clay and bisque. Stencils, textures, and Participants will attend each workshop for the language of a photograph into individually specialized mediums will be used. The workshop two consecutive days and a summary session expressive, yet harmonious, voices. This will sessions will end with a discussion on firing for both workshops on Friday morning. be accomplished by exploding (visually, not procedures, firing process, and maintenance. literally) a photographic portrait and assembling Innovations in Idea Building the pieces together as a team. The Castle-ness and Art Generation workshop challenges participants to extrapolate I nstructor: Nicole Brisco the essence of something, such as a castle, This interactive workshop will give without resorting to cliché or overtly literal participants the opportunity to explore the translations. The premise is that when people are practice of “idea” in art making. Participants genuinely personal in their explanations, instead will learn how to approach concept-based of trying to please everybody, they are more likely to connect with their audience.

9 CORE WORKSHOP SESSIONS Arts Administration and Assessment

K–12 components of the recently implemented ways artifacts are collected using purposeful Tennessee fine arts assessment portfolio. sampling and the way these artifacts are then I nstructors: Dru Davison Davison will share information with evaluated by a peer review process. Panels of and Linda Hall Anderson participants regarding teacher-constructed teachers in different fields of the arts who have Facilitator: Amanda Galbraith student growth artifacts in the areas of completed the portfolio process will share their Perform, Create, Respond, and Connect. This knowledge with participants. Each afternoon, The Arts Administration and Assessment new system, once officially adopted by local veteran Academy instructor Linda Hall track is designed for school administrators, districts, gives arts teachers a valuable Anderson will join Davison. Together, they will arts supervisors, and arts teachers. Dru alternative for the student growth portion of explore a variety of topics with participants, Davison, assisted by Amanda Galbraith, will their overall yearly evaluation. Participants including Common Core and the arts, effective lead sessions that concentrate on various will receive additional information about the assessment strategies, and arts advocacy. Additional panels and breakout sessions on numerous related topics will be offered. Arts Administration and Assessment participants are expected to attend all interludes, performances, musings, and special events. TASL credit will be offered for administrators who attend these sessions.

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Interludes provide all Academy participants with the opportunity to receive cross-disciplinary training. Multiple workshops in each content area are open to everyone. All participants are expected to attend one 45-minute interlude session each afternoon. The interludes will be held from 2:25 to 3:10 p.m. each day, Monday through Thursday. Session details and the day or days each interlude will take place are listed in the program book under the course title. Biographical information on the instructors may be found either in the faculty section of the program book or in the descriptions below.

GENERAL INTEREST INTERLUDES

The Tennessee Fine Arts Growth Measures System I nstructors: Dru Davison and Stephen Coleman (Tuesday and Wednesday) In partnership with the Tennessee Department Participants will take away new skills designed of Education, the Tennessee First to the Top to make the job of advocate easier and more announcement of the concert dates and themes Fine Arts Growth Measures Committee, and effective. for the 2013–14 Nashville Symphony Young Memphis City Schools, a system was developed Leigh Patton is Metro Nashville Arts Commission’s People’s Concerts. and implemented using student growth in the Community Arts Manager. Molly Pratt is a Blair Bodine is the director of education and arts as a key variable. Dru Davison, Stephen consultant for Tennesseans for the Arts. community engagement at the Nashville Coleman, and participating teachers will provide Symphony. She came to Nashville from an overview of information regarding teacher- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she worked constructed student growth evidence collection MUSIC RELATED for a music education non-profit called in the areas of Perform, Create, Respond, and INTERLUDES LiveConnections.org. Connect. Additional information will be shared that will demonstrate the way evidence is A Tapestry of Sound and Movement Barbershop Harmony collected using purposeful sampling and then I nstructor: Douglas Beam I nstructor: James Estes evaluated by a peer review process. (Wednesday) (Monday) Stephen Coleman is associate professor of The tapestries of India are colorful and Help grow your library of male a cappella music and director of instrumental ensembles geometrically brilliant. Using these cloth art literature by attending a reading session at Cumberland University. He currently serves pieces as inspiration, participants will create a sponsored by the International Barbershop as president of the Tennessee Arts Academy sound-and-movement piece that inspires the Harmony Society, which is headquartered here Foundation. imagination and directs attention toward the in Nashville. Participants will sing through about Dru Davison’s biography may be found in the unknown. ten arrangements that are accessible for young faculty section of this program book. men and take away a demo CD of every song to Nashville Symphony provide them with models of the style, inflection, The Five W’s Of Advocacy Classroom Connections and characteristics of the barbershop genre. Who, What, When, Where, and Why I nstructor: Blair Bodine James Estes joined the society staff as Student I nstructors: Leigh Patton and (Wednesday) Activities Coordinator in June 2006. In this Molly Pratt In this workshop, participants will learn about position, he is the liaison to the Society’s Youth (Monday) the Nashville Symphony’s free educational In Harmony Committee and also coordinates Leigh Patton and Molly Pratt will present a resources. Whether it’s in the classroom, online, the Collegiate Barbershop Quartet Contest and compelling message about why advocating or at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, a International Youth Barbershop Chorus Festival. for the arts is essential work for everyone. host of programs are available for teachers and students. Attendees will receive sample lesson plans, information about field trips, and the

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A Band and Choral Director’s Graham Hepburn has a passion for igniting a love of lateral dominance. Understanding and Introduction to the Guitar of music in the hearts and minds of young kids. determining the dominance profiles of students I nstructor: Chip Henderson He has served as an elementary music teacher in offers a way for instructors to overcome learning (Monday) both Illinois and his home country of England, is and performance barriers. During two sessions, an accomplished musician, and is the heart and workshop participants will delve into dominance This workshop will cover how to start and energetic force behind the Quaver character. factors and how they influence the way students maintain a guitar curriculum that targets late tick. (NOTE: This is a two-part workshop. elementary through high school students. Topics Academy Chorale Participants must attend both sessions.) to be discussed include instrument selection, I nstructor: Mary Hopper available method books for class and individual (Tuesday and Thursday) use, finding supplemental music for concerts Putting It All Together I nstructor: Mary Palmer and recitals, and assisting students who are Please come and join other participants as the (Wednesday) looking for instructors outside the classroom. Academy Chorale prepares a program of music to be performed at the Academy luncheon Step out of your comfort zone by engaging in an Chip Henderson is a professional guitarist and on Friday. The Academy Chorale is under art form different from your own. This interlude educator who teaches in the commercial guitar the direction of Mary Hopper, the Academy’s will focus on integrating the arts with each other program at Belmont University. In addition to his secondary choral music instructor. Love of and with other aspects of a school’s curriculum, teaching and performance schedule, Henderson is singing is the only prerequisite for this interlude. as well as life. Authentic arts integration can lead a freelance arranger for Hal Leonard Publishing Participants from any area of the Academy are us to new ways of thinking and doing, which and a regular contributor to the magazine Just welcome. may result in new ways of experiencing, learning, Jazz Guitar. Visit www.chiphendersonmusic.com and living. Let’s walk the “horizontal” together. for more information. What is a Dominance Profile? Quaver’s Class Play: Activities-based I nstructor: Carol Krueger Inner Hearing Songs and Games (Monday and continued on Song Literature for Children Wednesday) I nstructor: Susan Ramsay I nstructor: Graham Hepburn (Monday) (Monday) Scientists, educators, and psychologists have long suspected that there is a relationship between Are you able to hear music that is not physically Get your students out of their seats and singing, the side of the body a person favors for seeing, present—the “music inside your head?” This moving, and playing in class! Employing both hearing, touching, and moving, and the way that type of hearing, known as inner hearing, is an composed and open source, public domain person thinks, learns, works, plays, and relates important musical skill. It is often employed songs, this session incorporates folk, traditional, to others. This suggests that learning styles or in children’s repertoire where singers need to holiday, and patriotic literature. Solfege, rhythm, learning preferences and pitch activities; graphical scores; animated are directly influenced songs; dance and movement; and cross- by our bodily patterns curriculum activities will be shared.

12 INTERLUDE SESSIONS remain silent for portions of a song while The Magic of a Puppet Character continuing to sing inside. Participants in this Classroom Helper session will learn how to develop their inner I nstructor: Pam Corcoran hearing ability as they spend time enjoying (Monday and Wednesday) traditional songs and games from America and What teacher out there couldn’t use an world cultures. additional helper? This session will show how to use a moving-mouth puppet to enhance Shhh, Boom, Ding! one’s teaching style. Demonstrations will be I nstructor: Mary Schneider included and participants will experience (Monday and Wednesday) hands-on learning. Experience how conductors use space, weight, and speed to affect sound. Non-musicians and Theatre Curriculum Caring and experienced conductors alike can benefit from Sharing: Kindergarten through this session, which will explore how movement Sixth Grade and gestures can be used effectively to illicit a I nstructors: Scotti Harris and variety of sounds. Jennifer Keith (Thursday) Singing Games and Play Party Elementary and lower middle school Games for Everyone! participants are encouraged to share their I nstructor: Jill Trinka favorite classroom activities, teaching tips, and (Wednesday) theatre lesson plans with other teachers from Participants should dress comfortably and across the state. Theatre facilitators Scotti Harris uses the fine arts to organize open-mic nights, attend this session prepared to sing and move as and Jennifer Keith will lead the session. the spring play, a school-wide variety show, and popular children’s singing games and American Scotti Harris has worked with intellectually gifted Destination Imagination teams. play party games are explored. There will be students for twenty-five years. She currently a special focus on the physically symmetrical teaches literacy and information skills in the Editing Shakespeare for shapes and movement patterns that are inherent elementary library at Merrol Hyde Magnet School Young Players parts of these delightful games. in Hendersonville, Tennessee. I nstructor: Denice Hicks (Tuesday) Jennifer Keith created and designed the creative dramatics class at Grassland Middle School and Participants will discuss and explore age- THEATRE RELATED has recently completed ten years of teaching. She appropriate Shakespearean scenes, while INTERLUDES acquiring the tools and techniques that will help them bring the text to life. Body Maps I nstructor: Elaine Bromka Playing Shakespeare (Monday) I nstructor: Denice Hicks (Thursday) Elaine Bromka will guide participants in free- wheeling play as they doodle on their own body Participants will approach Shakespearean text outline drawn on paper. This soothing and using the techniques of theatre artists, including surprising exploration can open a door for inner text analysis, games, and improv. stories, hidden tension patterns, and private Denice Hicks is Executive Artistic Director of delights. The activity explores qualities that The Nashville Shakespeare Festival. She has been make each of us unique and can serve as a great acting and directing professionally since 1976. ice breaker for students. Self-Care for the Teacher Storytelling from the Headlines I nstructor: Margaret Jansen I nstructor: Elaine Bromka (Monday and Wednesday) (Wednesday) In this interlude, Margaret Jansen will encourage Elaine Bromka will serve as a guide to self-care by sharing a few restorative massage participants as they create a character and story therapy techniques that teachers can learn to use from actual newspaper human interest articles. on themselves. These techniques are designed to The outline of the story may be given, but each dissolve the tensions that are acquired through person decides how to tell it! habits of daily living and directly impact the voice.

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Sticks and Stones How to Use Gel and Gobos Theatre Connections I nstructor: Trish Lindberg I nstructor: Anne Willingham Theatre Core Faculty (Monday and Wednesday) (Tuesday) (Tuesday and Thursday) Bullying is a pervasive problem in many schools. Color and pattern can be used to create emotion, Theatre instructors will be in their classrooms Trish Lindberg will lead participants through an generate a mood, provide visual flavor, identify to answer specific questions about their sessions arts and literacy activity that can be used with a location, tell the time of day, and pinpoint the and to provide one-on-one time with participants students to address this social issue. season. And all of this can happen at a low cost who desire additional information about theatre to you! Come to this session to learn about the related issues or arts education concerns. Theatre Curriculum Caring and psychology of color and pattern and how to Sharing: Seventh through apply it to your theatrical productions. Twelfth Grade VISUAL ART RELATED I nstructor: Pollyanna Parker Types of Fixtures and (Tuesday) How to Use Them INTERLUDES I nstructor: Anne Willingham Upper middle school and high school (Thursday) Five Art Lessons In Forty-five participants are encouraged to share their favorite classroom activities, teaching tips, and Learn how to more effectively use the theatre Minutes: Exploring The Best theatre lesson plans with other teachers from lights you already have. In this session Projects From Cheekwood’s across the state. Theatre facilitator Pollyanna participants will specifically look at different Teacher Workshops Parker will lead the session. types of conventional and LED fixtures and I nstructor: Karen Kwarciak discuss how to use them to their greatest (Monday and Wednesday) Pollyanna Parker is a recent inductee into the advantage in a plot. Tennessee High School Speech and Drama Explore some favorite art lessons from the League’s Hall of Fame and is a past recipient of Anne Willingham is the director of educational teacher workshops held at Cheekwood over that organization’s Ruby Krider Teacher of the outreach at Bradfield Stage Lighting and the the past three years. Images, examples, and Year Award. Parker currently teaches at Rossview resident lighting designer for the Nashville lessons will be shared. Participants will High School in Clarksville. Shakespeare Festival. She has more than eighteen also learn about the exciting exhibition and years of experience in technical theatre and Memory and the Artist education. I nstructor: David Emerson Toney (Monday and Wednesday) We use memory to define ourselves. It’s how we know who we are at each passing moment. Through exercises and Active Character Memory technique, a complete and entire world can be created. Participants will learn how an actor, playwright, or any other type of artist can use this false memory with the same ease with which they might use their own true memories.

Creative Drama for Second Language Learning I nstructor: Gustave Weltsek (Monday and Wednesday) This hands-on session will introduce the theory and practice of creative drama and play to assist students as they learn second languages. Using simple, devised theatre strategies, participants will immerse themselves in the use of a new language by risking language experimentation and having fun.

14 INTERLUDE SESSIONS

Tree Weaving: A Weaving Project Iris Folding for Elementary and Middle I nstructor: Dianne Vaughn School Students (Monday) I nstructor: Cassie Stephens This session will introduce the craft of iris (Monday and continued on folding, a technique in which patterned strips Wednesday) of paper are overlapped from the outer edge In this two-part lesson, a new method inwards until they eventually meet to form a for teaching weaving will be introduced. spiral. The spiral resembles the iris of an eye or Participants will learn how to teach landscape a camera; this is how the technique got its name. painting to even the youngest of artists. The Clear a space in your classroom, because the paintings will be completed on plates. In the designing, folding, and creating are addictive, second session, each plate will be transformed and most of the materials used are free. into a loom onto which a tree will be woven. Dianne Vaughn taught visual art, advanced Attendees will be shown how to use a variety placement studio art, and special education for of media in their tree weaving, such as beads, thirty-seven years in Coffee County. Since retiring buttons, and whatever else they can imagine, to in 2006, Vaughn has traveled extensively. She is create a unique masterpiece that inspires and currently pursuing her doctorate in art history. educates their students. (NOTE: This is a two- professional development workshops planned part workshop. Participants must attend both The ABC’s of Teaching Art for Cheekwood’s 2013–14 season. sessions.) I nstructor: Ann Wolfe Karen Kwarciak joined the Cheekwood Education Cassie Stephens has taught art in Nashville and (Wednesday) and Public Programs Department in 2010 as the Franklin for the past fifteen years. She enjoys “The ABC’s of Teaching Art” is the chance for school and outreach coordinator. In this position using her art room as a teaching tool by creating participants to get a lot of ideas, lesson plans, she organizes all school and teacher programming; an encompassing environment. Recently her freebies, and stories from an “old” art teacher. including school tours, professional development Parisian-themed art room was featured in the art The presenter promises to entertain and share workshops, outreach, and the Mid-TN Scholastic educator’s magazine School Arts. ideas that participants can take away and use in Art Awards. their classrooms, including clay demos, examples of winning artwork, lesson The Many Applications of Texture plans, slideshow, and freebies. in your Art I nstructor: Kim Shamblin Ann Wolfe has been an art teacher in (Monday and continued on Shelby County for thirty years and was Wednesday) originally inspired by her East Tennessee elementary art teacher. Her students have Participants will learn how to create textures won numerous awards including national using Gesso on paper. The textured paper that is levels, Golden Keys, first place banners, and created becomes a painting surface, which can the Skutt Peep Hole contest. then be folded to create a book. The first day we will be making all the textures, and the second day we will be the painting the prepared textures. Visual Art Studio Connections These techniques are also used in art journaling, V isual Art Core Faculty so bring your journals with you! (NOTE: This is (Tuesday and Thursday) a two-part workshop. Participants must attend Visual art participants may choose both sessions.) this time to continue working in the Kim Shamblin is an elementary visual art studio, talking with their instructors, or specialist at E. A. Harrold Elementary in networking with fellow teachers about art- Shelby County, Tennessee. She has more than related issues and arts education concerns. seventeen years of experience teaching visual art and working with art educators in the Shelby County School System, through the Tennessee Art Education Association and the Tennessee Arts Academy.

15 MUSINGS

“Musings” is a time of thoughtful inspiration Eastman House Museum of Photography, the and introspection built into the heart of Museum of Modern Art, and the New Orleans the busy Academy schedule each day. All Museum of Art; and in solo exhibitions at the participants assemble to think about the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University, role of the arts in education and in life. At and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In 1991, he each Musings session, an individual who is was asked to organize and lead the fundraiser significantly involved in the arts acts as a Works of Heart benefiting the Child Advocacy muse and leads the group in examining the Center—a project that received as much of his richness and depth that the arts add to the passion as the art he creates. And in 2004, Riss lives of all people. was asked by True Story Pictures to participate in their acclaimed project, The Arts Interviews, Craig Jessop a series of in-depth, life story interviews with Monday • July 15 • 1:10 PM significant regional artists. Riss’s most recent Craig Jessop is professor project is a collection of photographs taken at Marin Mazzie and of music, head of the various hunting clubs throughout the Delta music and theatre arts region: First Shooting Light: A photographic Jason Danieley departments, and dean journal reveals the legacy and lure of hunting Thursday • July 18 • 1:10 PM of the Caine College of clubs in the Mississippi Flyway. Together and individually, “Broadway’s Golden the Arts at Utah State Couple,” Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, University. He is also Marc Cherry have been delighting audiences around the the music director of world with their glorious voices, moving Wednesday • July 17 • 1:10 PM the American Festival interpretations, and wonderful comic timing. Chorus and Orchestra. Marc Cherry is a Mazzie is a three-time Tony award nominee These appointments follow Jessop’s distinguished Hollywood writer and and multiple award winner for her recent tenure as music director of the world famous producer. He spent star turns on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He concurrently serves the early years of his London’s West End in Next To Normal, Kiss as the music director of the Carnegie Hall National childhood in Buena Me, Kate, the musical Carrie, Monty Python’s High School Choral Festival, sponsored by the Park, California, and Spamalot, Ragtime, Passion, Man of La Mancha, Weill Institute of Music at Carnegie Hall. Prior to also lived briefly in Into The Woods, Big River, and Kismet. Danieley his appointment with the Tabernacle Choir, Jessop Hong Kong and Iran. has received multiple awards and nominations was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force music Cherry excelled in for creating starring roles on Broadway and programs, where he served as director of the U.S. high school drama the West End in the Pulitzer prize-winning Air Force Singing Sergeants in Washington, D.C., classes and went on to major in theatre at Cal musical Next to Normal, as well as in the as commander and conductor of the Band of the State Fullerton. In the late 1980s, after winning musicals Curtains and The Full Monty. Danieley U.S. Air Forces in Europe at Ramstein, Germany, $15,000 on the Dick Clark game show $100,000 made his Broadway debut playing the title and as commander and conductor of the Air Pyramid, Cherry took his winnings and moved role in Candide and is a frequent guest of New Combat Command Heartland of America Band. to Hollywood to pursue a career in writing. York’s highly acclaimed City Center Encores! He lives in the peaceful setting of the Northern He began his career as a personal assistant to concert series. Together Mazzie and Danieley Utah Valley of Cache County with his wife RaNae. Dixie Carter on the set of Designing Women, are frequent guest artists with American and early success as a writer soon followed. Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Murray Riss Most notably, his writer and producer credits New York Philharmonic. Several of their concert include the beloved television classic The Golden appearances have been featured on television, Tuesday • July 16 • 1:10 PM Girls and its sequel, The Golden Palace. He also including their most recent special—featured Murray Riss has served as writer and executive producer on the on PBS’s Great Performances—Live at Lincoln been working in television comedies Some of My Best Friends, Center: A Tribute to Kander and Ebb. Between photography for most The Crew, and The Five Mrs. Buchanans. Cherry the two of them, Mazzie and Danieley have of his life and is one got his second big break in 2004 when ABC and received three Tony Award nominations, an of the most acclaimed Touchstone Television picked up his original Olivier Award nomination, a Drama Desk artists in the mid- Desperate Housewives script for production. nomination, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and south. He first moved During its eight-year run, the show won seven a Theatre World Award. to Memphis at the Emmys, three Golden Globes, thirty-three The appearances of Marin Mazzie and Jason request of Ted Rust to additional awards, and more than one hundred Danieley throughout the Academy week were establish a photography nominations. Currently, Cherry is creator and made possible by a generous gift from Pat and department at Memphis College of Art, where he executive producer of the highly anticipated new Thane Smith. has taught for almost twenty years. His work has drama Devious Maids, which will premiere on been shown in group exhibitions at the George Lifetime Television this summer.

16 PERFORMANCES

In 2011, Li performed for President Obama bull who only wants to smell the flowers in the at the White House in an evening honoring meadow, making him unfit for the bullfighting German chancellor Angela Merkel. He attends rings in Spain. Based on the classic book “The the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and studies Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf, Ferdinand piano at the New England Conservatory with the Bull premiered in 2007 with original Wha Kyung Byun. choreography by Nashville Ballet artistic George Li’s performance is generously sponsored director and CEO Paul Vasterling and music by Tennessee Book Company. by Mario DaSilva, adjunct instructor of music at the Belmont University School of Music. Since its founding in 1986, Nashville Ballet has Ferdinand the Bull grown to become the largest professional ballet Nashville Ballet company in Tennessee, presenting a varied Monday • July 15 • 11:30 AM repertoire of classical ballet and contemporary Massey Performing Arts Center works by noted choreographers. The Nashville With bright, colorful costumes inspired by Ballet promotes dance as an essential and cubist Pablo Picasso and designed by School inspiring element of the community through of Nashville Ballet instructor Eric Harris, wide-reaching and innovative educational Ferdinand the Bull tells the story of a peaceful dance programming for schools and community groups in Middle Tennessee.

Photo Credit: Christian Steiner George Li Pianist Sunday • July 14 • 4:30 PM Massey Performing Arts Center Praised by the Washington Post for combining “staggering technical prowess, a sense of command and depth of expression,” seventeen- year-old pianist George Li possesses brilliant virtuosity and effortless grace far beyond his South Pacific years. In 2012 alone, Li won the Gilmore Young Roxy Regional Theatre - Clarksville Artist Award and received the Tabor Foundation Wednesday • July 17 • 11:30 AM Piano Award at the Massey Performing Arts Center Verbier Academy. Highlights of his Set in an island paradise during World War II, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Tony Award- busy 2012–13 season winning musical South Pacific tells the sweeping include appearances as romantic story of two couples and how their soloist with the Boston happiness is threatened by the realities of war Philharmonic, the Boise and their own prejudices. These two parallel Philharmonic, the Chamber love stories are set against the backdrop of a Orchestra of the Triangle, Edmonton classic score featuring such songs as “Some and Stamford symphonies, the Enchanted Evening,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Pasadena Symphony and Pops, and Right Outta My Hair,” “This Nearly Was Mine,” the Norrkoping Orchestra in Sweden, and “There is Nothin’ Like a Dame.” Today’s as well as recitals at the Buffalo scenes from the full-length production are being Chamber Music Society, the Mansion at presented by Clarksville’s Roxy Regional Theatre, Strathmore, and the Morgan Library & Museum. a professional company that for the past thirty First Prize Winner in the 2010 Young Concert years has dedicated itself to producing theatre Artists International Auditions, Li’s highly that meets the highest artistic standards. In acclaimed New York debut at age sixteen opened addition to productions presented for adult and the 51st Young Concert Artists Series in the youth audiences, the Roxy Regional Theatre Peter Marino Concert at Merkin Concert Hall. introduces hundreds of children to the art of

17 PERFORMANCES performance through a summer drama camp and an acting workshop offered throughout the school year. South Pacific runs July 12 through August 17, 2013, at the Roxy in Clarksville.

Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley Broadway’s Golden Couple Present New York, New York! Wednesday • July 17 • 8:00 PM Curb Event Center Arena Together and individually, “Broadway’s Golden Couple,” Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, have been delighting audiences around the world with their glorious voices, moving interpretations, and wonderful comic timing. Mazzie is a three-time Tony award nominee and multiple award winner for her recent star turns on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Into The Woods, Big River, and Kismet. Danieley Gregg Bunn London’s West End in Next To Normal, Kiss has received multiple awards and nominations Organist Me, Kate, the musical Carrie, Monty Python’s for creating starring roles on Broadway and Thursday • July 18 • 11:30 AM the West End in the Pulitzer prize-winning Spamalot, Ragtime, Passion, Man of La Mancha, McAfee Concert Hall musical Next to Normal, as well as in the musicals Curtains and The Full Monty. Danieley Gregg Bunn is associate director of music and made his Broadway debut playing the title organist at Brentwood United Methodist Church role in Candide and is a frequent guest of New in Brentwood, Tennessee. A native of Forsyth, York’s highly acclaimed City Center Encores! Georgia, Bunn began his organ study at age 17. concert series. Together Mazzie and Danieley He is an active member of the American Guild of are frequent guest artists with American Organists and has won first place in the Atlanta, Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Georgia, chapter’s annual competition at both New York Philharmonic. Several of their concert the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has appearances have been featured on television, played solo organ concerts at notable churches including their most recent special—featured such as the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta on PBS’s Great Performances—Live at Lincoln and Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Center: A Tribute to Kander and Ebb. Between Texas. As an accompanist, Bunn has traveled the two of them, Mazzie and Danieley have with choirs nationally and internationally and received three Tony Award nominations, an performed in the Meyerson Symphony Center Olivier Award nomination, a Drama Desk in Dallas, Texas; the Schermerhorn Symphony nomination, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and Center in Nashville, Tennessee; the Cathedral of a Theatre World Award. Notre Dame in Paris, France; and Ely Cathedral The appearances of Marin Mazzie and Jason in Cambridge, England. Bunn has served Danieley throughout the Academy week were churches in Georgia, Indiana, and Texas and made possible by a generous gift from Pat and has taught on the faculties of Dallas Baptist Thane Smith. University, Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology, and Belmont University.

18 SPECIAL EVENTS

Sunday Evening Opening name Mellow Mountain Coalition. A native of Tennessee, Dobbins has spent most of his life Celebration & Reception in Memphis. He has taught in several colleges Sunday • July 14 • 6:30–8:00 PM and universities and has been the recipient of Following the Tennessee Arts Academy many fellowships, awards, and residencies from opening session and meetings on Sunday organizations including the Vermont Studio afternoon, participants are treated to an Center, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, and elegant buffet reception in the Neely Dining the Tennessee Arts Commission. Since 2001, Hall complemented by multiple entertainment Dobbins has worked at Rhodes College as options inside and out. Our artists for this event an instructor and the director of the Clough- include the 129th Army Jazz Band Combo (in the Hanson Gallery. MBC courtyard); David Arnold, caricature artist The River Beneath Us and Mellow Mountain (in the MBC courtyard); Liana Alpino, harpist Coalition are co-sponsored by the Belmont (in Neely Dining Hall); and Robert Thompson, University Department of Art. guitarist (in the MPAC lobby).

Tennessee’s Best of High Tea in the Mansion the Best Student Art Monday • July 15 • 5:00 PM Hamlett Dobbins. Untitled (Frilly Portrait), 2010. Acrylic on Exhibition Participants are invited on Monday afternoon paper, 30”x22”. Courtesy of David Lusk Gallery. July 1–August 28, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. for a tour of the historic Belmont Leu Center for the Visual Arts Mansion. The event features Susan Ramsay Gallery 121 playing hammered dulcimer. Light refreshments The River Beneath Us The Tennessee Arts Academy is pleased to offer will be served. by Hamlett Dobbins a student art exhibit as part of its summer July 1–August 29, 2013 enrichment experience. Tennessee’s Best of the Leu Art Gallery Best Student Art Exhibition is a collection of the TENNESSEE ARTS Mellow Mountain best pieces in various media by student artists ACADEMY EXHIBITIONS from the three grand divisions of the state. The Coalition students whose work will be featured have won AND EVENTS by Hamlett Dobbins and college scholarships for their achievements and have had their work exhibited in museums Opening Receptions and Tad Lauritzen Wright throughout the state of Tennessee. July 1–August 29, 2013 Art Crawl for Featured Leu Art Gallery Foyer Exhibitions Hamlett Dobbins paints about experiences, Tuesday • July 16 • 5:30–8:00 PM using the process to help focus and wrap himself Leu Art Gallery (Lila D. Bunch Library) in the moment. Each of his paintings is based and Leu Center for the Visual Arts on a specific experience with a particular friend Reception music provided by instrumentalists or family member—hence, the series of initials from the 129th Army National Guard Band that viewers will notice in the titles. By capturing and building the experience in paint, he begins to understand the qualities that determine why these moments in stories, movies, and real life are so moving. Dobbins Katie Hagen (11th grade, Arlington High School, began to collaborate with artist Tad instuctor Melanie Anderson). Abigail. Lauritzen in 2008. They exchanged notebooks, communicating in visual terms, while borrowing and building on the other’s images. This collection of drawings and paintings has been given the

Hamlett Dobbins. Untitled (for E.W.O./G.V.), 2012. Oil on canvas, 40”x45”. Courtesy of David Lusk Gallery. 19 SPECIAL EVENTS

Connections: Tennessee Alumni Day and Art Education Ice Cream Social Association Member Thursday • July 18 • 5:00 PM Exhibition All TAA Alumni Association members are July 1–August 28, 2013 invited to the Academy to attend the day’s Leu Center for the Visual Arts activities. At 5:00 p.m. the Tennessee Arts Lobby Gallery Academy Foundation sponsors its annual Ice Cream Social. Alumni Association members The Tennessee Arts Academy is very proud to and all participants who donate to or win a bid exhibit the work of practicing artists-teachers in the Tennessee Arts Academy Silent Auction alongside the exemplary work created by receive a special invitation to attend this their students. Connections: Tennessee Art yummy event in the Black and White Room Education Association Member Exhibition adjacent to Neely Dining Hall in the Massey is a juried show featuring the work of Business Center. Instrumentalists from the kindergarten through higher education art 129th Army National Guard Band will offer educators from across Tennessee. entertainment for the occasion. Tennessee’s Best of the Best Student Art Refreshments for this event have been generously Exhibition and Connections: Tennessee Art provided by Carol Crittenden. Education Association Member Exhibition are co-sponsored by the Tennessee Art Education Association with additional funding Jim Dodson (Oak Ridge Schools, 1st Place - 2013 TAEA Finale provided by SunTrust Bank and ORNL Federal member exhibition). Liz. Alabaster Stone Scupture. Friday • July 19 • 11:30 AM Credit Union. The Academy activities conclude with the Bravo! The Tennessee Academy Finale Luncheon in the Curb Event Student and Teacher Arts Academy Awards Center Arena at 11:30 a.m. on Friday. This event Artist Recognition brings together the diverse experiences of the Banquet Academy week and reinforces the importance Ceremony Wednesday • July 17 • 6:30 PM of arts education in classrooms across America. Tuesday • July 16 • 5:45 PM On Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., participants will Banjoist Marty Crum will perform during the Leu Center for the Visual Arts gather for the Academy Bravo Awards Banquet meal. Each year after the luncheon the Academy in the Curb Event Center Arena. This night is honors one Tennessean for achievement in Artist Talk with designed to honor and reward the hard work and the arts. The 2013 honoree is Carol Crittenden, Hamlett Dobbins artistic talents of all of the Academy participants. lifelong teacher, administrator, and musician. Tuesday • July 16 • 6:45 PM The banquet will include an elegant full-course Crittenden will receive the Joe W. Giles Lifetime Leu Art Gallery dinner. Music will be provided by Jeff Taylor Achievement Award. Following the presentation, on piano. After dinner, the Tennessee Arts the Academy Chorale, conducted by Mary Hopper Academy Founder’s Award of Distinction will be and composed of Academy participants, is V isitors’ Day presented to Senator Lamar Alexander in honor featured in performance. As the Academy ends Wednesday • July 17 of his groundbreaking accomplishments in the its yearly session, Joe Giles, TAA Founder and 8:00 AM–5:00 PM field of education in Tennessee and throughout Dean Emeritus, will offer his yearly “Thoughts for Wednesday is the official Visitors’ Day, the United States. Marc Cherry will receive the the Journey.” Giles’s message is meant to clearly when arts education supporters from the Distinguished Service Award in recognition inspire and challenge each person in attendance Tennessee Department of Education, arts of his outstanding talent as a television writer to live their calling to the fullest. agencies, colleges and universities, and local and producer. The Lorin Hollander Award will Multiple events throughout the Academy week school systems are invited to be guests of be presented to Pat and Thane Smith for their have been made possible by the generosity of the the Academy. Some visitors may wish to achievements in a wide range of educational, Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Board of participate in the classes, and all are invited community, philanthropic, and arts endeavors. Directors: Stephen Coleman (President), Cavit to sit in on any of the day’s activities. The evening will conclude with a special Cheshier, Dalen Farmer, Solie Fott, Bobby Jean performance featuring Broadway musical Frost, Morel Enoch Harvey, Kem Hinton, Jean theatre stars Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley. Litterer, Flowerree W. McDonough, Michael The appearances of Marin Mazzie and Jason Meise, Linda De Marco Miller, Tommie Pardue, Danieley and the sponsorship of the Bravo Diana K. Poe, Fran Rogers, James Rout, III, Pat Banquet were made possible by a generous gift Smith, Thane Smith, Jeanette Watkins, William H. from Pat and Thane Smith. Watkins, Jr., and Talmage Watts.

20 TAA HISTORY TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY Outstanding Service to the Arts and to the Teachers of Tennessee

With the release of “A Nation at Risk” in April to the free weeklong events in which nationally program. The campus of Belmont University 1983, Americans faced a decade of increasing known arts educators came to Tennessee and, was chosen as a permanent home because of interest in education reform. In Tennessee that using the new arts frameworks as their guide, its central location, its aesthetic beauty, and emphasis took the form of Governor Lamar provided stimulating and intensive training for its personnel, who were interested in working Alexander’s Better Schools Program, through teachers of art and music. with the state to develop the new entity, the which new tax dollars and expanded state From the beginning, a conscious decision Tennessee Arts Academy. Cynthia Curtis, then programs were instituted. was made that the Tennessee Arts Academy professor of music education at Belmont and For the first time, the Tennessee Department would be the top-of-the-line program in now the dean of the College of Visual and of Education began to play an active role in professional development for teachers of Performing Arts, was selected as the Academy’s promoting the importance of the arts as an the arts. Each year the faculty, performers, first dean. integral part of the education of all students. and speakers have been chosen by applying The rest, as they say, is history. The When a panel of prominent arts educators was stringent standards of personal and Academy began with workshops in music convened to establish priorities, they included professional excellence, thereby ensuring that and art and in 1988 was expanded to include the importance of creating ways to train teachers Tennessee’s teachers will not only acquire theatre. Several years later, the Academy in the effective use of new state curriculum knowledge, but will be inspired and renewed in added classes in school administration to its frameworks in the arts. their efforts to fulfill the mission of educating curriculum. The 2012 Academy included, for In 1984 Joe Giles was appointed to the newly the complete child. the first time, a separate track focusing on arts created position of Director of Arts Education After two years of remarkable success and evaluation. The first musers were invited to the for the State of Tennessee. Using the style of in order to maximize the use of state funding, Academy in the early 1990s. Many innovative ancient Greek learning centers as his model, it was decided to institutionalize the summer ideas and events were incorporated into Giles conceived of the idea of using the funds the daily schedule, including the appropriated by the state to create a unique, Academy Chorale, the TAA guest, modern-day “Academy” that would help raise teacher, and student art exhibitions, teaching standards among the arts educators and Academy Awards, all of which across Tennessee. are now program mainstays. In During the summers of 1985 and 1986, the late 1990s, the Tennessee Arts pilot programs were introduced in all three Academy Foundation was created to grand divisions of the state. Teachers flocked help financially support TAA. Arts Academy America was established in 2002, giving arts teachers from outside Tennessee the opportunity to become full participants in the Academy experience. After twenty-seven years and much scrutiny and refining, the Academy continues as the longest running, premier summer program in America for teacher training in music, the visual arts, and theatre. Since its inception, the Academy has trained more than five thousand teachers and administrators. As of today, the cumulative first-year student impact following Academy attendance exceeds two million students. More significantly, the lasting benefit of the Academy will endure and multiply for years to come.

21 2013 ACADEMY AWARDS

Senator Lamar Alexander P at and Thane Smith Tennessee Arts Academy Founder’s Lorin Hollander Award Award of Distinction Bravo Awards Banquet Bravo Awards Banquet July 17 • 6:30 PM July 17 • 6:30 PM Pat and Thane Smith have Born in Maryville, Lamar Alexander is the devoted their lives to a wide range son of a kindergarten teacher and an elementary of educational, community, and school principal. He is a seventh-generation philanthropic endeavors. Pat Tennessean and the only Tennessean ever has been active in community popularly elected both governor and United States service since she chaired the senator. He has been United States Education Secretary and University of fundraising committee to install the Dental Clinic in St. Jude Hospital in Tennessee president. When elected to the United States Senate in 2002, 1965. She was named the 19th Century Club’s Outstanding Member after Alexander had spent more adult years in the private sector than in public serving as chairman of the club’s sponsorship activities for the Germantown life. In 1972 he co-founded a Nashville law firm. In 1987 he and his wife and Charity Horse Show. Pat was named Shelby County School’s Teacher of the three others—including Bob Keeshan, television’s Captain Kangaroo— Year; in 1989 she was recognized as the Outstanding Career Ladder Evaluator founded Corporate Child Care, Inc. Three times between 2007 and 2012, his in Tennessee for Governor Alexander’s Master Teacher Program. She has colleagues elected Senator Alexander chairman of the Senate Republican served as president of the Germantown Performing Arts Guild, Germantown Conference—the third-ranking Republican position in the United States Arts Alliance, and the Germantown Garden Club and has been a member of Senate. He is the ranking senate Republican overseeing education, labor the board of directors of the Germantown Community Theater, Tennessee and health, as well as energy appropriations. In his campaign for governor, Shakespeare Company, and State, Deep South, and National Garden Clubs, Inc. Alexander walked one thousand miles across Tennessee in his now-famous She is often invited to arrange flowers for special occasions at the Tennessee red and black plaid shirt. Once elected, he helped Tennessee become the Executive Residence and to judge international flower shows. In 2012 Pat third largest auto producer, the state with the top-rated four-lane highway was named Germantown’s Outstanding Citizen and won the Leadership system, and the first state to pay teachers more for teaching well. He started Germantown Award for Volunteer Service. Thane has been recognized as a Tennessee’s Governor’s Schools for outstanding students. He is a classical Germantown Hometown Hero; in 2003 he was recipient of the Germantown and country pianist and the author of seven books, including Six Months Arts Alliance Patron of the Arts Medal for his contributions to the arts in Off, the story of his family’s life in Australia after he was governor. Lamar the community. He has been Scout Master of Troop 64 in Germantown for Alexander and Honey Buhler were married in 1969. They have four children forty-five years and has served on the staff at Philmont Training Center, the and six grandchildren. He is a Presbyterian elder. Boy Scout National Adult Training Facility at Cimarron, New Mexico. Thane is a founding board member and treasurer of the Germantown Association, a non-profit organization that oversees the annual Germantown Arts and Crafts Marc Cherry Festival. He is past president of the Shelby County Homebuilders Association Distinguished Service Award and past chairman of the Germantown Chamber of Commerce. Pat and Thane Bravo Awards Banquet both serve on the board of the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation. July 17 • 6:30 PM Marc Cherry is a Hollywood writer and producer. Carol Crittenden He spent the early years of his childhood in Buena Joe W. Giles Lifetime Park, California, and also lived briefly in Hong Achievement Award Kong and Iran. Cherry excelled in high school drama classes and went on to major in theatre Finale Luncheon at Cal State Fullerton. In the late 1980s, after winning $15,000 on the July 19 • 11:30 AM Dick Clark game show $100,000 Pyramid, Cherry took his winnings and Born in Shelbyville, Tennessee, Carol Crittenden moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in writing. He began his career as a began her teaching career as the choir director personal assistant to Dixie Carter on the set of Designing Women, and early and general music and English teacher at Bellevue success as a writer soon followed. Most notably, his writer and producer Junior and Senior High School in Metropolitan credits include the beloved television classic The Golden Girls and its sequel, Nashville Public Schools. In the fall of 1970 she started a pilot band program The Golden Palace. He also served as writer and executive producer on in the Hermitage and Old Hickory areas of Nashville, where she and instructor the television comedies Some of My Best Friends, The Crew, and The Five Lynn Morelock taught band in their school’s five feeder schools as well as DuPont Mrs. Buchanans. Cherry got his second big break in 2004 when ABC and High School. The bands received many awards and even made an appearance Touchstone Television picked up his original Desperate Housewives script at the International Music Festival in Mexico City. Crittenden has held various for production. During its eight-year run, the show won seven Emmys, positions with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, including program three Golden Globes, thirty-three additional awards, and more than one assistant in the Department of Music, Coordinator of Music, Coordinator of hundred nominations. Currently, Cherry is creator and executive producer Visual and Performing Arts, and then Coordinator of the Arts. Crittenden has of the highly anticipated new drama Devious Maids, which will premiere on served on the education committees of Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Lifetime Television this summer. Museum, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, The Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and Belmont University. She has been on the foundation board of directors for the Tennessee Arts Academy, the board of directors for the Nashville Institute for Visual Arts Education, and the advisory council for W. O. Smith Community Music School. 22 2013 ACADEMY AWARDS

The Distinguished Service Award is presented to an American whose work stands as a monument to the importance of the arts in the lives of all people.

The Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred upon a Tennessee teacher whose life’s work is widely acknowledged to have positively influenced the role of the arts in education, thereby benefiting the students of Tennessee’s schools.

The Lorin Hollander Award is given to a Tennessean whose influence has benefited arts education in general and/or the Tennessee Arts Academy in particular. This award is named in honor of internationally renowned concert pianist Lorin Hollander, a special friend of the Academy.

The Partner in the Arts Award honors an individual or business whose generosity and support have contributed in sustained and significant ways to the success of the Tennessee Arts Academy’s mission.

The Spirit of Tennessee Award recognizes an individual or group whose work exemplifies the highest standards of artistic endeavor and brings positive recognition to the place of the arts in the lives of Tennesseans.

The Tennessee Arts Academy Founder’s Award of Distinction is presented to an individual whose meritorious accomplishments in the fields of education and the arts have profoundly impacted American culture and life.

Distinguished Service Award Joe W. Giles Lifetime 2006 Michael Combs, Knoxville Partner in the Arts Award 1994 Charles Strouse, Broadway composer Achievement Award 2006 Jean R. Thomas, Chattanooga 2008 Steve Spiegel, president of 1995 Charles Fowler, arts educator, writer 1995 Joseph Edward Hodges, Crossville 2006 Mitchell Van Metre, Knoxville Theatrical Rights Worldwide and advocate 1996 Freda Kenner, Bells 2007 David Logan, Johnson City 1996 Jerome Lawrence, playwright 1996 Sue Blass, Jackson 2010 James R. Holcomb, Memphis Spirit of Tennessee Award 1997 Lorin Hollander, concert pianist 1997 Elizabeth Rike, Knoxville 2011 Flowerree W. (Galetovic) McDonough, 2000 Wilma Dykeman, writer and philosopher 1997 Celia Bachelder, Kingsport Knoxville 2001 Jim Crabtree, theatre director 2000 Scott Ellis, Broadway theatre director 1998 James Charles Mills, Johnson City 2011 Joe W. Giles, Nashville and writer 2000 Mary Costa, opera singer 1998 Gene Crain, Memphis 2012 Richard Mitchell, Knoxville 2002 Alice Swanson, arts education 2001 Sheldon Harnick, Broadway composer 1999 Patricia Brown, Knoxville administrator and advocate 2001 Tina Packer, Shakespeare actor and director 2000 Robert Pletcher, Nashville Lorin Hollander Award 2003 George Mabry, choral conductor 2003 Bob McGrath, singer and host of 2000 Kathy Hawk, Kingsport 1994 Cavit Cheshier, education executive 2006 Dolph Smith, visual artist Sesame Street 2001 Tommie Pardue, Memphis 1995 Steven Cohen, state senator 2009 George S. Clinton, Hollywood film 2005 John Simon, author and arts critic 2001 Tully Daniel, Memphis 1996 Nellie McNeil, teacher and advocate composer 2005 Dean Pitchford, songwriter, lyricist, (awarded posthumously) 1997 Tom L. Naylor, music educator 2009 Jackie Nichols, theatre administrator screenwriter, and director 2004 Marilyn duBrisk, Greeneville and administrator 2009 Michael Stern, symphony conductor 2006 Andre Thomas, choral conductor 2004 Bobby Jean Frost, Nashville 1998 T. Earl Hinton, music educator 2010 Cherry Jones, Broadway actress 2007 Joe DiPietro, Broadway playwright 2005 Nancy Boone-Allsbrook, 1999 Jane Walters, educator and arts advocate and lyricist Murfreesboro 2000 Martha McCrory, music educator 2008 Henry Krieger, Broadway composer 2005 Sally Crain Jager, Cookeville 2001 Solie Fott, music educator 2011 Marvin Hamlisch, composer and pianist 2008 Jeanette Crosswhite, arts education 2012 Richard M. Sherman, composer and lyricist administrator

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Madeline Bridges Connie Marley Susan Ramsay Project Director Music Director Production Director Madeline Bridges is Connie Marley currently Before her retirement in Associate Dean for teaches at Freedom May of 2008, Susan Ramsay Academic Studies, School Middle School in was a music specialist at of Music at Belmont Franklin, having formerly Franklin Elementary University, where she taught in Georgia, School in the Franklin teaches in the area of Texas, and Metropolitan Special Schools District and music education. Her Nashville Public Schools. was named Teacher of the degrees include a B.M. Her choirs at Freedom Year for that system. in piano performance from Shorter College in have consistently won superior ratings at local She has received National Board Certification in Rome, Georgia; an M. Mus. Ed. from George and state choral festivals. Her students are Music and holds degrees from Peabody College Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt well represented each year in various honor and Middle Tennessee State University. Ramsay University; and an Ed.D. in Music Education choirs at the local, regional, and national is past president of the Middle Tennessee Orff- from the University of Alabama. Bridges has levels. She is a past president of the Middle Schulwerk Association and the Middle Tennessee taught music and music education in classrooms Tennessee Vocal Association and has served Elementary Music Educators Association and has from kindergarten through the graduate level the organization in several other capacities. served as regional representative on the National and frequently serves as a guest conductor and Marley is an active member of the Tennessee Board of Trustees for AOSA. She has presented clinician throughout the United States in the Music Educators Association (TMEA), at Orff and Kodály national conferences and for areas of early childhood, elementary, middle the Music Educators National Conference MENC. She serves as an adjunct professor at school, and choral music education. She is past (MENC), and the American Choral Directors several colleges and universities and maintains an president of both the Tennessee Music Educators Association (ACDA). active schedule of performances as a storyteller Association and the Board of Directors of and as a musician. Choristers Guild International. Jim Dodson Visual Art Director Joe W. Giles E. Frank Bluestein Since 1987, Jim Dodson Dean Emeritus/Awards Coordinator Managing Director has been an art teacher Joe Giles is founder of the E. Frank Bluestein is in the Oak Ridge school Tennessee Arts Academy the 1996-1997 Disney system. In 1998, he and former director National Performing was recognized as the of the Arts Education Arts Teacher of the Year Tennessee Art Educator Program of the Tennessee and the 1994 Tennessee of the Year, which was Department of Education. Teacher of the Year. USA followed by an even He received his bachelor’s Today named Bluestein greater honor—being named National Middle and master’s degrees as one of the top forty School Art Educator of the Year—in 1999. in music education from Austin Peay State teachers in the United States in 1998. Until his More recently, he has led efforts to establish University and has done additional study retirement in May of this year, he served as student art exhibitions in East, Middle, and at Peabody College, Middle Tennessee State chairman of Germantown High School’s Fine West Tennessee at high-profile venues, such as University, and Fisk University. Giles is past Arts Department and as executive producer for the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Renaissance president of the Southern Division of the Music the school’s three-million-dollar, Emmy Award- Center in Dickson, and West Tennessee Regional Educators National Conference (MENC) and winning television studio. Bluestein is a past Art Center in Humboldt. Dodson secured more of the National Council of State Supervisors winner of the American Theatre Association’s than $5 million in scholarship awards for the of Music. He taught music in Metropolitan John C. Barner Award and has served as an arts students whose work was represented at these Nashville Public Schools for twenty-two years, advisory panelist for numerous organizations, exhibits. Among his many achievements, he has has taken choral groups on concert tours in including the National Endowment for the also been selected to participate in the Knoxville Europe, and has received gold and silver medals Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission. Leadership Education, Oak Ridge Leadership, in international music festivals. He spent several years as director of shows and East Tennessee Leadership programs. at Opryland, USA, and most recently wrote Currently, Dodson is a board member of the and directed the national touring production Tennessee Art Education Association and the of Beale Street Saturday Night starring blues incoming executive director for the Arts Council legend Joyce Cobb. This September Bluestein of Oak Ridge; he is past president for both of will be inducted into the Educational Theatre these Tennessee-based organizations. Association’s Hall of Fame in Minneapolis.

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TAA OFFICE STAFF Tim Doty TAA Facilitators Equipment Coordinator Andrea Hittle K eith Brown Transportation Coordinator David Chambers David Bridges Lynne Colvin Transportation Assistant Gail Merritt Congdon Nathan Babian Debbie Flynt Webmaster Amanda Galbraith Carol Poston Scotti Harris Melody Hart Joyce Carr Academy Accompanist Office Coordinator Office Assistant Jennifer Keith Allison Hearn Office Worker Terri King Libby Lynch TAA SUPPORT STAFF Ryan Payne Office Worker Key McKinney Elaine Bailey-Fryd Special Events Coordinator Scott Schrecker Paula Medlin TAA Photographer Gina Miller Pollyanna Parker Travel and Newsletter Coordinator Special thanks to Jessica Owings Kim Shamblin for her assistance in coordinating the Pollyanna Parker Ken Snyder TAA visual art exhibitions Communications Coordinator Jerome Souther Charles Businaro Cassie Stephens Visual Enhancement Coordinator

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