July 12–17, 2015

On the Campus of Belmont University Art Music Theatre & Dance Creative Writing Austin Peay’s Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts Tennessee’s only center devoted to research, creation and education in the arts. For more information about CECA, please visit www.apsu.edu/creativearts.

The Premier Summer Institute for Arts Education 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 2015 Tennessee Arts Academy. I hope that this very special event presents you with the opportunity to interact with colleagues and further develop your abilities to educate students in music, theatre, and the visual arts. The people of our state are known around the world for their creative talents. Your participation in TAA will help build upon this legacy and advance the next generation of Tennessee artists. Thank you for all that you do to inspire creativity and a love for the arts in our students. Crissy and I send our best wishes. Warmest regards,

Bill Haslam

From the Tennessee Department of Education Dear Educators: Welcome to the 2015 Tennessee Arts Academy! You are about to embark on an enriching and challenging professional learning experience that I hope will reenergize you around the important work of providing Tennessee’s students with a strong arts education. Over the course of the Academy, you will have the opportunity to network, share with, and learn from colleagues across the state, and to strengthen your instructional practices around an integrated arts program. The role of the arts in education is so important to ensuring our students complete their K–12 education experience as well-rounded and creative critical thinkers. I hope that you find your experience in the Academy to be both exciting and enriching, and that you will take full advantage of this collaborative learning opportunity. Thank you for all that you do! Best,

Candice McQueen 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 their 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 22 Special Events 8 CORE Workshop Sessions 24 Academy Awards 12 Interludes 26 Administrative Council and Staff 18 Musings 28 TAA HISTORY 20 Performances 29 Advertisers FACULTY

Carlos Abril around the world. His books include Stepping Edith Copley Music-Elementary/Lower Middle into Drama and Exploring Curriculum: Role Music-Upper Middle/Secondary Carlos Abril is associate Drama and Learning. Edith Copley is director of professor and director George Belliveau’s faculty position has been generously choral studies at Northern of undergraduate music sponsored by Pat and Thane Smith. Arizona University in education at the Frost Flagstaff, where she School of Music at the Sue Belliveau conducts the Shrine University of Miami. Theatre-Elementary/Lower Middle of the Ages Choir and Prior to this appointment, For the last two decades, teaches undergraduate he served as associate Sue Belliveau has worked and graduate courses professor and coordinator of music education with young learners in conducting and choral literature. She has at Northwestern University. Abril has presented of ages four to twelve successfully taught secondary choral music in music workshops for teachers around the in various elementary the Midwest and in Vienna, Austria. Copley has world, including in Argentina, Brazil, China, schools across Canada. received numerous honors, including the NAU Malaysia, and Spain. His music arrangements She has also collaborated School of Performing Arts Centennial Teacher and instructional materials are published by in numerous research of the Year Award, Arizona Music Educator World Music Press and appear in the Macmillan/ projects that study the integration of drama of the Year, and the Arizona American Choral McGraw-Hill textbook series Spotlight on and other arts with learning. Currently, Directors Association Outstanding Choral Music. Abril has been honored as the Miami- Belliveau teaches a Montessori class in Director Award. She has published a choral Dade Region Teacher of the Year and with the Vancouver, Canada, and frequently leads series with Santa Barbara Music Publications Cervantes Outstanding Teacher Award. Most drama-based workshops for teachers. She was and is in high demand as a clinician and recently, he was the recipient of the Provost’s a key contributor to the book Stepping into conductor in the United States. Copley has Research Award at the University of Miami. Drama and has published articles exploring conducted international festivals in Australia, the use of drama during the elementary years. China, England, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, George Belliveau These articles include “Shakespeare with Young the Netherlands, Tasmania, and Turkey. Theatre-Elementary/Lower Middle Learners” and “Teacher in (a) Role: Drama in George Belliveau is a the Elementary Classroom,” both published Dru Davison professor of theatre and in the book Drama and Theatre Education: Arts Leadership, Administration, drama education at the Canadian Perspectives. and Assessment University of British Dru Davison is an arts Columbia, Canada. Before Ann Talbott Brown administrator for Shelby teaching at the university, Arts Leadership, Administration, County Schools and a Belliveau spent seven and Assessment consultant for both the years teaching drama, Ann Talbott Brown United States Department English, and French at the kindergarten joined the Tennessee of Education and the through twelfth-grade level. While teaching, he Arts Commission as the Tennessee Department also worked professionally as an actor, director, director of Arts Education of Education. His other and playwright. Belliveau’s research interests in 2009. She oversees positions and appointments include chair of include Shakespeare; research-based theatre; all aspects of the Arts the National Association for Music Education’s drama and social justice; drama and L2 Education program, Council of Music Program Leaders, the National learning; and drama across the curriculum. His including seven grant Association for Music Education’s President’s current projects include working with teachers programs. She has served as a panelist or Cabinet and Professional Development in Dadaab, Kenya, at a refugee camp, creating reviewer for the National Endowment for the Committee, and revision team member for the theatre with military veterans as they transition Arts, National Arts and Humanities Youth National Opportunity to Learn Standards for to civilian life, and developing curriculum Program Awards, and Kentucky Arts Council. Music Education. Davison has taught music to on Shakespeare for young learners. He has Before joining the Commission, Brown was an students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, published more than fifty scholarly pieces orchestral musician and worked with several was an adjunct jazz instructor at Arkansas State and given many workshops and invited talks university arts programs in Illinois and Oregon. University, and served as a teaching fellow in She previously served as a licensed K–8 public music education for the University of North school music teacher and oboe instructor. Texas. He has served on the Bill and Melinda Gates College Readiness Advisory Council and is an advisor and former national fellow for the Hope Street Group.

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Katie Dawson Laurie Gatlin Marlene Johnson Theatre-Elementary/Lower Middle Visual Art-Upper Middle/Secondary Theatre-Upper Middle/Secondary Katie Dawson is assistant Laurie Gatlin is assistant Marlene Johnson is professor and director of professor of art education associate professor at the the Drama for Schools at California State University of Alabama program at the University University in Long in Birmingham. She is of Texas, Austin. She has Beach, California. She also an actor, professional facilitated multiyear, has extensive experience performance coach, and a district-wide arts teaching art at the middle certified instructor of the integration initiatives and high school levels. Alexander Technique. Her across the United States and in Australia. Her As a researcher and teacher, she is interested key research interest is the integration scholarship about the impact of the arts in in contemporary and historical theories of of voice and movement to serve “Dynamic education has appeared in numerous national art education, using reflective journals as a Presence” in the actor and in “Voices of the and international journals. She is co-author of tool in the classroom, working with special Archetypes.” She has studied extensively with The Reflexive Teaching Artist: Collective Wisdom needs students, a/r/t/ography, and other Patsy Rodenburg in London and New York from the Drama/Theatre Field. Dawson received forms of art-based research. Gatlin’s research, and with the Art of Breathing’s Jessica Wolf. the Creative Drama Award and the Winifred which she has presented at many state and She directs and acts for City Equity Theatre Ward Scholar Award from the American national conferences, is centered on classroom in Birmingham and has taught workshops in Alliance of Theatre and Education along with practice and the need for continued support Belgrade, Glasgow, London, Madrid, Mexico multiple teaching awards from her university. A for practicing art teachers. Her painting and City, Vancouver, and the United States. Johnson lifelong teacher and artist, Dawson has worked sculpture have been included in group shows at has vocal coached more than 130 shows at such professionally as an actor, educational television Woodburn & Westcott gallery and other venues venues as the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, personality, youth theatre director, classroom in Indianapolis, Indiana. Alliance Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, teacher, and museum theatre educator. and the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Doug Herbert Deborah Engbring Arts Leadership, Administration, Chad Larabee Visual Art-Upper Middle/Secondary and Assessment Theatre-Upper Middle/Secondary Deborah Engbring is a Doug Herbert is a Chad Larabee is the head clay artist whose work has special assistant and of performance at the been displayed in shows acting team leader for University at Albany in and galleries throughout Arts in Education in Albany, New York, and the Southwest. She has the Office of Innovation an independent stage extensive experience and Improvement at the director in New York City. teaching middle school art United States Department He directed the critically and has been a visual arts of Education. During his acclaimed Off-Broadway instructor at Verrado High School in Buckeye, eleven years with the department, Herbert’s production of Garson Kanin’s Dreyfus in Arizona, for the last three years. In addition responsibilities have included involvement Rehearsal and directed the London world- to teaching a full-time ceramics curriculum in both intra- and interagency programs. He premiere of Ain’t We Got Fun (the musical), at Verrado High, she has directed the Visual combines his outreach and policy-monitoring starring Siobhan McCarthy. Larabee’s Off- Arts Student Awards art show, which included tasks with management of the office’s twenty- Broadway credits include the world-premieres seventy-five mixed-media and portfolio pieces. five million dollar arts education grants of POPart: The Musical, Do Not Disturb, The show resulted in more than $20,000 in portfolio. You can follow Herbert’s posts on the Molineaux, and Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad student awards, which were donated by the Office of Innovation and Improvement’s blog Island. Select regional directing credits include Art Institute of Phoenix, local businesses, and site at www.ed.gov/edblogs/oii/. Big River, Assassins, Always ... Patsy Cline, Violet, individual artists. Engbring was recognized Clybourne Park, and Singin’ in the Rain. Larabee as the Arizona Art Educator of the Year by the recently directed and co-wrote the independent National Art Education Association in 2008, filmLife in Free Fall, which is slated for release the Arizona Art Educator of the Year in 2007, in the fall of 2015. He is a member of the the West Side Impact Educator of the Year in national theatrical union, the Stage Directors 2006, and Best of Show at Prescott Arizona Art and Choreographers Society. Festival in 2004.

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Laura Lohmann Kimberly McCord Jim McNeill Visual Art-Elementary/Lower Middle Music-Elementary/Lower Middle Visual Art-Elementary/Lower Middle Educator Laura Lohmann Kimberly McCord is Artist Jim McNeill is an has taught in the professor of music Arizona-based illustrator elementary art program education at Illinois State and animator. His clients at Lake Local Schools in University. Her books have included Popular Millbury, Ohio, for more include Chop Monster, Science, Macy’s, Metro than nineteen years. She Jr., a jazz improvisation Creative Graphics, and was named the 2007 North language tutor for the British-American West Ohio Art Educator elementary general Chamber of Commerce. of the Year, and also serves as co-chair of that music, and Together We Can Improvise, for McNeill’s artwork has been exhibited district’s Department of Art. Lohmann taught elementary music and creative drama. She has internationally in the Feria Internacional del undergraduate arts education courses at the held leadership positions with the International Mueble de Valencia exposition in Valencia, University of Toledo, where she served as a Association for Jazz Education, National Spain, and domestically in the Society of mentor to many art education student teachers. Association for Music Education, Illinois Music Illustrators 48th Annual Exhibition in New York She regularly presents at the National Art Educators Association, Connecticut Music City. He is also the animator and illustrator Education Association Conference, the Crayola Educators Association, and the International for Crystal Productions’ award-winning DVD Dreammaker’s Regional Show, and the Ohio Society for Music Education. McCord has and book series Dropping in On..., which now Art Education Association Conference. She also worked on jazz projects for the Smithsonian includes Puffer Learns about Ceramics, as authors the award-winning blog, Painted Paper, Institute, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the well as episodes and books on artists Henri which was selected as the Art of Education’s Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She Rousseau, Grant Wood, Andy Warhol, and 2014 top elementary blog. Lohmann is known co-directs an after-school jazz Orff group for Grandma Moses. In addition to Dropping in for her bold, brightly painted paper projects and students in fourth through eighth grade at the On..., McNeill has created the award-winning has been published in Arts and Activities and Illinois State University Metcalf Lab School. how-to video Tessellations: How to Create Them Meredith Corporation’s Family Fun magazine. and the book Tessellations: The History and Andrew McMasters Making of Symmetrical Designs. He is a frequent Richard Mayne Theatre-Upper Middle/Secondary speaker and workshop presenter at schools Music-Upper Middle/Secondary Andrew McMasters is the as well as at state and national art education Richard Mayne is a artistic director and co- conferences. professor of music and founder of Seattle’s Jet City the associate director of Improv, one of the largest Laurie Schell bands at the University improvisational theatre Arts Leadership, Administration, of Northern Colorado companies in the country. and Assessment in Greeley. Mayne He has degrees in theatre With more than twenty- completed his Ph.D. in from Temple University five years as a senior music education at Ohio and the University of Washington’s professional executive in the nonprofit State University, is an elected member of the actor training program. In addition to and education sectors, American Bandmasters Association, and has producing performances every weekend Laurie Schell has garnered served on the National Band Association’s and educational programs and outreach to a national reputation board of directors as second vice president. In underserved youth, McMasters facilitates for innovative, effective 2013, Mayne was inducted into the Colorado national and international workshops for CEOs leadership in arts and Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame. He on the topics of innovation, communication, culture and K–12 education. Schell is currently has served as an adjudicator, clinician, and and creativity. serving as the director of Music Makes Us, the conductor in Canada, China, Japan, Lebanon, public and private music education initiative and throughout the United States. During his in Metro Nashville Public Schools, which is time in Tokyo, he conducted the Musashino jointly supported by Mayor Karl Dean, music Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble. Among industry leaders, and the school district. Schell his many honors, Mayne was recently named has worked to foster arts and music education conductor of the Fort Collins Wind Symphony. through strategic alliances and partnerships, policy and advocacy campaigns, effective

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music, and vocal development. While in Texas, Ellen Winner she taught elementary music for both the Arts Leadership, Administration, Little Elm and McKinney Independent School and Assessment Districts. Svec has also presented pedagogical Ellen Winner is professor and research sessions for numerous symposia and chair of psychology and conferences. at Boston College and senior research associate Kimberly VanWeelden at Project Zero, an Music-Upper Middle/Secondary educational research Kimberly VanWeelden group at Harvard is professor of music Graduate School of education at Florida State Education. She also directs the Arts and University. Her research Mind Lab at Boston College, which focuses publications appear in on cognition in the arts in typical and gifted leading national and children. She is the author of more than 100 international journals articles and four books, including Invented in music education, Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts; The Point of music therapy, and choral music. She has Words: Children’s Understanding of Metaphor written about students with disabilities in and Irony; and Gifted Children: Myths and choral performing ensembles, secondary Realities, which has been translated into six general music classes, and older adult vocal languages and was the winner of the 1996–97 pedagogy techniques. She serves on the Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Book Award editorial board of Update: Applications for in Science. She is a fellow of the American governance and leadership, and by mobilizing Research in Music Education, is chair of the Psychological Association (Division 10) and constituencies for action. Previously, Schell was Music Teacher Education Special Research of the International Association of Empirical the executive director of the California Alliance Interest Group’s southern division, and is the Aesthetics. for Arts Education, a statewide arts education immediate past national chair for the Children policy and advocacy organization. with Exceptionalities Special Research Interest Jan Wolfe Group. VanWeelden is an active clinician at Theatre-Elementary/Lower Middle Christina Svec state, national, and international conventions Jan Wolfe is a National Music-Elementary/Lower Middle and has also conducted numerous choral Board Certified Teacher in Christina Svec is assistant festivals throughout the southern United States. literacy and language arts, professor of music as well as a professional education at Iowa State James Wells puppeteer on the Touring University. She holds Arts Leadership, Administration, Artist Roster and Arts in certificates in Kodály and Assessment Education Roster for the and Music Learning James Wells joined Arkansas Arts Council. As Theory and a master’s the Tennessee Arts a recent fellow for the Arkansas A+ program, in music education from Commission in January she is teaching how educators can integrate the Michigan State University. While completing 2014. He oversees arts arts into their curricula to fulfill Common Core her doctorate at the University of North Texas, education grants, provides State Standards. Although she taught in the she supervised student teachers in elementary technical assistance to classroom for more than twenty years, she has music, served as a research assistant for educators, artists and also worked in the public library to share her music education, and was assistant director nonprofit staff, and love of books and reading through puppetry. of the university’s early music program. Her manages arts education training and projects. She is on the Puppeteers of America Board dissertation was a meta-analysis of vocal Wells was the education programs manager of Trustees, serving as its secretary until the development and vocal achievement research for the Culture and Heritage Museums in Rock summer of 2015. in elementary-aged children. Her research Hill, South Carolina. He also previously served interests include quantitative research as a panelist for the National Endowment for methodology, early childhood and elementary the Arts. Before entering the nonprofit sector, James served as a licensed K–12 visual art educator in both Tennessee and South Carolina.

7 CORE WORKSHOP SESSIONS MUSIC

Elementary/LOWER MIDDLE Music Every day, participants will attend each of the classes listed below.

Roads to Creativity in the Music Classroom Instructor: Carlos Abril How can teachers best nurture and develop important mental faculties and behaviors in the elementary music classroom? Because the arts are ideal school subjects for developing the imaginations and creativity of children, this question is especially important. Participants in this session will consider this question through hands-on experiences with musical improvisation, composition, problem solving, movement, and performance. Ideas for developing a curriculum unit that focuses on creativity and assessing the creative output of as such, both improvisation and singing voice children will also be addressed. Instrumental Music: Pulling All the development can foster music literacy. In this Complexities Together for Harmony session, participants will discuss research, Instructor: Richard Mayne Improving on Improv! explore strategies, and engage in activities Teaching instrumental music is one of the Instructor: Kimberly McCord related to ways of immersing students in layers most complex, important, and demanding Creating music is one of the three artistic of learning. jobs in the public schools. It can also be a most processes in the new core arts standards rewarding career. In this session, participants for music, yet music teachers often feel UPPER MIDDLE/ will explore the many components of developing uncomfortable teaching improvisation. This and maintaining an inspiring and successful session will offer strategies for teaching SECONDARY Music music program. Academy sessions will address improvisation in general music classes for Participants will follow either the vocal or a vast array of critical topics—from honing kindergarten through eighth grade—including instrumental track and attend two of the conducting skills and selecting repertoire jazz, but not exclusively. In addition to singing, three classes listed below each day. to improving rehearsal techniques and participants will use Orff instruments, unpitched organizational strategies. percussion, and recorders in this session. The Joy of Continual Learning Instructor: Edith Copley Thinking Outside the Box: One Layer at a Time: Improvisation These Academy sessions will consider various Connecting with Secondary and Singing Voice Development aspects of choral rehearsal and conducting in General Music Students in a Kodály Classroom a new light. Effective vocal warm-ups will be Instructor: Kimberly VanWeelden Instructor: Christina Svec presented that will be helpful to singers of all Students in the middle and high school general An effective elementary music curriculum is ages. A list of “tried and true” choral concepts music classroom consider their connection constructed of skill development layered with designed to enhance daily rehearsals, rather to popular culture and technology to be an sequential instruction. While the outer layer than just teaching notes and rhythms, will be essential part of everyday life. Therefore, music may be perceived as simply children engaged shared. A session on seating placement based educators must think outside the box if they in music play, the inner layers do the work of on voice will help participants achieve better want to connect with secondary general music raising independent and musically literate intonation and optimal sound from their choral students. In this session, participants will discuss music makers. Improvisation helps students ensembles. Finally, the sessions will also devote ways to connect “school music” to “outside cultivate their independence; and singing helps time to fine-tune individual conducting gestures music.” Topics that will be covered include how students develop the voices they naturally have; that enhance breath preparation, connected tone to introduce games and technology-based quality, and expressivity. activities that involve listening, composing, and performing, while teaching fundamental music skills in a way that resonates with today’s middle and high school students.

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Elementary/LOWER taking a line for a walk.” Participants will make Unlocking the Creative Director: a puppet to walk through Klee’s world of color, Conceptualizing Musical Theatre MIDDLE THEATRE design, and shapes. The workshop will include Instructor: Chad Larabee how-to tips for integrating art into classroom Every day, participants will attend each of the Come to this workshop to learn about the classes listed below. curricula. practical tools you will need to develop your own conceptual approach to musical theatre. Stepping into Drama: Shakespeare UPPER MIDDLE/ Participants will be given the opportunity to and Young Learners reconceive popular musicals by developing Instructors: George Belliveau and SECONDARY THEATRE production approaches that are innovative, Sue Belliveau Every day, participants will attend each of the original, and specific to the needs of their This hands-on workshop will present a sequence classes listed below. students. Taking the process a step further, this of drama strategies that teachers can use to interactive course will also introduce teachers to introduce Shakespeare to elementary school Engaging Presence: The Second new ways of overcoming casting issues, technical students. Informed by research, these interactive Circle Work of Patsy Rodenburg and limitations, and other challenges associated activities are practices that have proven highly the Alexander Technique with launching a fully realized musical theatre effective for engaging children of diverse Instructor: Marlene Johnson production. abilities, cultures, and linguistic backgrounds. What does it mean to be present? What does it mean to engage with and respond to a partner Embrace the Unexpected: Drama-based Instruction: Tools to or to your environment? Is it possible to be The Lessons and Tools of Create, to Critically Engage, and to present, energized, and fully aware of your Improvisation for Curriculum Connect Across the Curriculum body while simultaneously responding to your Instructor: Andrew McMasters Instructor: Katie Dawson environment? What is the “it” in “She’s got it; but This experiential learning session will provide This hands-on workshop invites participants to he doesn’t”? What is this elusive quality, and participants with a basis for understanding the explore ways that schools and school districts are can it be developed or trained? Participants will tools and lessons of improvisation. Participants using drama strategies across the United States. investigate the First, Second, and Third Circle will create and practice a structure for long- Uses include the goals of improving student work of Patsy Rodenburg and the Kinesthetic form improvisation that is based on the engagement and motivation, as well as teacher Response of the Alexander Technique. This deconstruction of a topic or event and that can effectiveness in all subject content areas. workshop will give participants an experiential be used in any type of curriculum development. vocabulary of the components of “Presence.” Two Workshops in One—Creative Non-fiction: True Stories, Well Told with Puppets plus The World of Paul Klee and Puppetry Instructor: Jan Wolfe In part one of this two-part workshop, participants will explore the creative side of writing non-fiction by using the stages and elements of research writing to create a non- fiction puppet show and puppets in order to tell a true tale. Part two will focus on pre-World War II abstract artist Paul Klee, who said, “Drawing is

9 CORE WORKSHOP SESSIONS VISUAL ART

that can be easily modified and expanded to narrative writing to create a “narrative teapot.” create seemingly complex symmetrical patterns Each teapot will be inspired by a personal will be shared. Strategies for transforming experience, a moment in time, a fairy tale, fable, abstract patterns into recognizable figures and or nursery rhyme. Participants will create a shapes will be discussed, as well as methods functional teapot that has a handle, spout, and of transforming flat symmetrical patterns lid and is topped off with personal flair. Creating into dimensional images with positive and a narrative teapot is a challenging activity for negative space. Participants will receive detailed students with more experience, but the simple guides showing them how to create each kind of step-by-step process can be easily modified for tessellation that is demonstrated in the workshop. the novice as well. UPPER MIDDLE/ Making Sketchbooks Memorable Instructor: Laurie Gatlin SECONDARY Is it a struggle to get your students to develop VISUAL ART “the sketchbook habit?” In this workshop, Participants will attend each workshop for participants will examine ways of encouraging two consecutive days and a summary session their students to develop a sense of ownership of Elementary/LOWER for both workshops on Friday morning. this valuable artistic process—beginning with MIDDLE VISUAL ART binding a book, working in a variety of media, Participants will attend each workshop for Narrative Teapot and learning new techniques and approaches two consecutive days and a summary session Instructor: Deborah Engbring that will speak to high school students. The for both workshops on Friday morning. From the earliest cave paintings to contemporary first step in getting students sold on the process art, visual images have been used to of keeping a sketchbook is to present it with Travel the World of Art Using communicate events and tell stories about the enthusiasm; as such, one of the main goals of MAPP: Murals, Advocacy, and human experience. In this hands-on workshop, this workshop is to get you, the teacher, hooked Painted Paper participants will use the drape method of clay on the process too! Instructor: Laura Lohmann construction and the common core standards of This hands-on workshop will give participants the opportunity to create activities in a variety of media with a focus on painted paper. Participants will learn simple, yet process- oriented ways of helping students explore art materials while learning art history. Activities include creating painted paper as well as drawing, painting, mixed-media, murals, and three-dimensional design. Participants will return to their classrooms with lesson plans and new ideas for teaching painting and art history to their students.

Creating Symmetry with Tessellations Instructor: Jim McNeill In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create translation, rotation, and glide-reflection tessellations using an index card template. A simple step-by-step process

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Arts LEADERSHIP, ADMINISTRATION, AND ASSESSMENT

The focus of the Arts Leadership, and Improvement that support arts education relationship maps that will give them a better Administration, and Assessment track of from the pre-kindergarten through twelfth- understanding of their current professional the Tennessee Arts Academy is to empower grade level. These programs, projects, and relationships and also help them develop school administrators, arts leaders, and arts practices include competitive grants and intra- tactics for making desired improvements and teachers by giving them the necessary tools and interagency initiatives and efforts—such professional connections. for creating a whole-school arts advantage. as those clarifying the flexibility of federal Title I funds to include support for arts education for Is There a Relationship Between Daily Core Classes at-risk students. Visual Thinking in Geometry and the Instructors: Dru Davison and Visual Arts?: A Longitudinal Study of Amanda Galbraith Building a Support Network High School Students In these sessions, Dru Davison and Amanda Instructor: Laurie Schell Instructor: Ellen Winner Galbraith will explore a range of interrelated Are you looking to partner with community In this interactive webinar session, Harvard’s topics in arts leadership. Specific topics to be agencies? Collaborate with peers in other Project Zero lead researcher, Ellen Winner, addressed include advocacy, arts leadership departments? Or get the word out about your will report on a study investigating possible strategies, and the Tennessee Fine Arts Portfolio programs? Cultivating effective relationships connections between the kind of visual-spatial Growth Measures System. Participants will both inside and outside of your school and thinking required in drawing and the kind engage in interactive and hands-on sessions that district will help you achieve all of these goals. involved in geometric reasoning. connect contemporary arts research and trends In this session, participants will create visual to targeted arts initiatives at multiple levels including their schools, districts, and beyond. Participants will also work to develop additional resources for the Tennessee Fine Arts Portfolio Growth Measures System. SEMINARS AND WEBINARS All participants will engage in special seminars and interactive webinars throughout the week. Tennessee Arts Commission: Arts Education Grant Programs Instructors: Ann Talbott Brown and James Wells This session will provide an overview of Arts Education grant programs that provide opportunities for teachers, teaching artists, schools, and communities. United States Department of TRIO TRACK Education Office of Innovation Trio Track has been created for upper middle/secondary grade level teachers, providing and Improvement: Arts Education participants enrolled in this track a daily multidisciplinary experience in three distinct Grants and Initiatives arts areas. Each day, Trio Track participants will attend a predesignated class in music Instructor: Doug Herbert (Thinking Outside the Box), theatre (Embrace the Unexpected), and arts leadership. Participants will attend the same core class in each content area for the entire week, This webinar session will highlight the national which will enable them to be completely immersed in one topic for each arts discipline. programs and initiatives of the United States Like all TAA participants, teachers enrolled in the Trio Track will attend all Academy Department of Education’s Office of Innovation performances, musings, interludes, and special events.

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Interludes provide all Academy participants with the concerns to elected officials and candidates opportunity to receive cross-disciplinary training. during an election year? This interactive Multiple workshops in each content area are open session, presented by two board members to everyone. All participants are expected to attend of Tennesseans for the Arts, will explore one 45-minute interlude session each afternoon. The these questions, provide simple entry interludes will be held from 2:25 to 3:10 p.m., Monday points for arts advocacy, and assist through Wednesday, and from 2:20 to 3:05 p.m. on Thursday. Session details and the day or days each participants in developing a set of interlude will take place are listed in the program book brief, personal talking points that under the course title. Biographical information on the enable them to speak up for the arts. instructors may be found either in the faculty section Leigh Patton has ten years’ experience in of the program book or in the descriptions below. community arts program manager roles at the Metro Nashville Arts Commission and the Tennessee Arts Commission. GENERAL INTEREST Noah Spiegel is co-chair of the Nashville Arts Coalition and chief operating officer for the INTERLUDES Nashville Opera Association.

Dancing Spider Yoga! The Tennessee Fine Arts Portfolio (Appropriate for teachers Growth Measures System: K–4th grade) Overview Session Presenter: Ajeet Khalsa through interactive discussion. Specific topics Presenters: Amanda Galbraith and (Wednesday) will include reflection on the alignment between Atticus Hensley the portfolio and classroom practice, the teacher Children’s yoga brings together the creative, (Monday) feedback loop, and the anticipated transition to emotional, and rational aspects of the young In continued partnership with the Tennessee the newly released national arts standards. mind and body. When a child is in a relaxed Department of Education, the Tennessee and familiar setting with friendly activities Fine Arts Portfolio Growth Measures System that settle them into their own bodies, is now in its third year of implementation. MUSIC RELATED they tune into themselves and creativity In this session, Amanda Galbraith, Atticus happens naturally. In this somatic workshop, INTERLUDES Hensley, and participating teachers will participants will connect to their bodies provide an overview of information regarding through the simple rhymes and poses, non- teacher-constructed student growth evidence Who or What are We Advocating verbal signs, and easy singing meditations of collections in the areas of Perform, Create, for in Arts Education? Ajeet Khalsa’s Dancing Spider Yoga. Respond, and Connect. Information will be Presenter: Carlos Abril Ajeet Khalsa is best known for sharing yoga in shared about using purposeful sampling to (Wednesday) the classroom and leading dance-in-education collect evidence, the peer review process, and For years, arts education advocacy has been at residencies throughout the Southeast. As a master sample evidence collections. the forefront of arts educators’ collective efforts. teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, she also trains schools, teachers, and individuals Atticus Hensley is the Tullahoma City Schools Is advocacy so important? Who should be in Dancing Spider Yoga, her unique brand of district lead for implementation of the Fine Arts advocating and what should they be advocating children’s yoga. Portfolio Growth Measures System and a member for? This session will address these questions of the Tennessee Council of Visual and Performing and provide concrete ideas for action. Speaking Up for the Arts: Arts Supervisors. He has taught instrumental Everyday Advocacy music in Tullahoma since 1995. Up, Down, and All Around: Presenters: Leigh Patton and The Tennessee Fine Arts Portfolio Integrating the Arts to Teach Form Noah Spiegel Growth Measures System: in the Elementary Music Classroom (Wednesday) Teacher’s Voices Presenter: Janis Aston (Monday) As an educator, administrator, parent, or Presenters: Dru Davison and concerned citizen, the arts are important Amanda Galbraith In this interlude, you will use higher-level to you! Who is responsible for funding arts (Wednesday) thinking skills from Bloom’s Taxonomy to teach activities in your community? How can you the form of a fun piece, “Three Rides in the Park.” This session will focus on teacher feedback ensure that public policy and public funding Discover ways of having fun while addressing about the Tennessee Fine Arts Portfolio Growth support the arts and arts education? What pesky standards and assessments. This is a Measures System. Participants will help inform are the best ways to communicate your the future of the Growth Measures System

12 INTERLUDES fantastic lesson for teacher evaluation because Common Core standards. These lesson plans Music and Memory of the obvious use of differentiated learning explore music, visual arts, dance, theatre, Presenter: Deborah Ferris experiences. and storytelling as ways of interacting with, (Monday) articulating, and creating in response to music. Janis Aston enjoyed a thirty-year teaching Music and Memory is a personalized, career in the elementary music classrooms Kelley Bell is the education and community therapeutic music program that was created for of the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. engagement program manager at the Nashville elders and the infirm. Using inexpensive and Currently, she develops curriculum resources that Symphony. As program manager, Bell continues readily available technology, personalized music are available through her Teachers Pay Teachers to forge partnerships between the symphony playlists are created for participants and then online store. and local nonprofits, organizations, teachers, delivered to them through iPods. The result is and artists to create engaging programs for the often transformative. In this interlude, Deborah From Ballet to Beethoven: community. Ferris will talk about the various ways that An Introduction to the Nashville teachers and students can change lives by getting Symphony’s Programs and Academy Chorale involved with Music and Memory programs Teacher Resources Presenter: Edith Copley in their local communities. Testimonials and Presenter: Kelley Bell (Tuesday and Thursday) video clips of actual patient responses to their (Monday) Please come and join other participants as the personal music favorites will also be part of the The Nashville Symphony offers more than Academy Chorale prepares a program of music presentation, along with helpful resources. twenty-five free programs and initiatives to be performed at the Academy luncheon on As a regional director for Music and Memory, to the community. This presentation will Friday. The Academy Chorale performs under Deborah Ferris conducts motivational, introduce the spectrum of programs and the direction of Edith Copley, the Academy’s informative presentations and provides resources available to instructors, including secondary choral instructor. guidance for certification training and program downloadable lesson plans that align with implementation. Her experience with program resources, logistics, techniques, community engagement, and fundraising help to promote the sustainability and impact of the program.

Classroom Management and Teacher Feedback: A Positive Approach Presenter: Lesley Maxwell Mann (Wednesday) Through an exploration of teaching patterns and sequencing, participants in this session will discuss how to keep students engaged and feeling successful. With a focus on how teachers respond to social and academic student behavior, this interlude will consider strategies for maintaining a positive and productive classroom environment. Lesley Maxwell Mann is associate professor of choral music education at Belmont University. Her roles include coordinating the student teaching program, teaching courses in music education methods and behavior modification, and directing the women’s choir.

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Whose Program is it Anyway? Presenter: Richard Mayne (Monday and Wednesday) This interlude will examine proven strategies for gaining support for “The Program” by focusing on specific philosophies, priorities, and techniques for building support for the arts across school campuses. Participants will come away with a toolbox of strategies that will help them garner support for the arts programs in their schools.

Engaging Students with Disabilities through Musical Improvisation Presenter: Kimberly McCord (Wednesday) Music improvisation is one of the most effective ways of engaging students with severe disabilities. For example, call and response improvisation is a very effective way to keep students with autism focused. This session will offer activities and strategies for using music What to Say and When to Say It: THEATRE RELATED and movement improvisation with students who Communication in Folk Dancing might otherwise be difficult to reach. Instruction INTERLUDES Presenter: Christina Svec Music as a Vehicle for Social Change (Wednesday) Theatre Curriculum Caring and Presenter: Michele Phillips Sharing: Kindergarten through (Wednesday) Come sing, dance, and discover new ways Sixth Grade of integrating movement into your music Presenters: Nancy Beard and This session will focus on a new pedagogical classrooms! This session will provide a resource, The Sounds of Change, which is the Nancy Essary visual, aural, and kinesthetic experience for (Thursday) result of collaboration between the international teachers needing additional support, new organization Facing History and Ourselves and ideas, and reinforcement of what they already In this interlude, kindergarten through sixth the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. The know. Authentic video footage and audience grade teachers are encouraged to come and unit consists of four multimedia lessons built participation will clarify the ideas and methods share their favorite classroom activities, around songs from the Stax catalog. The lessons shared in the session. Specific dances will teaching tips, and theatre lesson plans with include activities that help teachers and students provide music, steps, and—most importantly— other teachers from across the state. Theatre analyze lyrics, explore the historical contexts in ideas about how to sequence and what to say facilitators Nancy Beard and Nancy Essary will which the songs were written, and grapple with that will enable teachers to make the most lead the session. questions about human behavior. efficient use of their classroom time. Nancy Beard is an Orff elementary music Michele Phillips is associate program director for specialist. Before teaching in the Memphis City Facing History and Ourselves, an international Special Education Law: Schools, Beard taught band, chorus, and general organization that engages students and Music Educators’ Rights and music in Illinois and throughout Kentucky. She currently teaches at Kate Bond Elementary in the encourages them to examine racism, prejudice, Responsibilities Presenter: Kimberly VanWeelden Shelby County Schools District. After having a and anti-Semitism in order to create a more wonderful time attending the drama sessions as (Monday and Wednesday) humane and informed citizenry. In her role, a participant, Beard decided to change roles and Phillips supervises a team of program associates, Almost forty years after the passage of PL join the Academy staff as a facilitator. supports and directs the program’s overall strategy, 94-142, music educators are still learning how Nancy Essary teaches second grade at Thurman identifies new areas of program growth and to include and successfully work with students Francis Arts Academy, a magnet school in delivery, and builds new partnerships. living with disabilities. This session will discuss Rutherford County where she integrates the arts the maxims and myths of special education law into general classroom education. In the past, with the goal of helping teachers and all their Essary has enjoyed taking part in many of the students succeed.

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Tennessee Arts Academy’s summer institutes. This their personal and collective intentions as they A Midsummer Night’s Dream for year, she is participating as a facilitator with the celebrate their pedagogical potential through a Young Players (Grades K–6) elementary drama staff. transformative series of activities. Presenter: Denice Hicks (Tuesday) Replenishing Yourself: Rekindle Building a Costume Wardrobe Participants will discuss and explore a one- Your Creativity Presenter: Billy Ditty hour edit of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Presenter: George Belliveau (Tuesday) (Monday and Wednesday) Dream that is specifically designed for students Creating a costume wardrobe from scratch in kindergarten through the eighth grade. George Belliveau will explore ways for teachers can be a daunting task. In this workshop, Hicks will also share her experiences directing to acknowledge, re-ignite, and foster creativity in participants will be given insider tips about this show in several different venues. Interested collecting basic costume pieces in multiples in their teaching. Through an interactive, engaging participants may request that the edited text be order to ensure design flexibility. process, participants will discuss concrete ways sent to them by email after the workshop. to stimulate imagination and creativity—in themselves as well as their students. Sketch to Stage Presenter: Billy Ditty King Lear: Entry Points for (Thursday) Middle and High School Students I’ve Only Got $1.50—So How Can I (Grades 5–12) Make a Set? How do you turn a design image into reality? Presenter: Denice Hicks Presenter: Andy Bleiler Costume designer Billy Ditty will lead (Thursday) (Tuesday and Thursday) participants through the basic process of taking a costume idea from conception to a Participants will explore Shakespeare’s King In this workshop, Andy Bleiler will describe how wearable garment. Lear (Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s winter creatively using inexpensive materials can help a offering for January 2016) to find scenes and Hailing from the coal country of eastern little go a long way. Participants will also discuss excerpts that will resonate with their students. Kentucky, Billy Ditty studied costume design ways of fostering stronger networks with other and theatre at Morehead State University. Denice Hicks is the executive artistic director of teachers to help them share more resources and Since then, he has sewn and performed his the Nashville Shakespeare Festival. She has been strategies with one another. way across the country. Ditty has worked on a acting, editing, and directing professionally since Andy Bleiler is a passionate arts educator, whose variety of film and musical theatre projects since 1976, and has more than fifty productions of career has spanned thirty years as a teacher, landing in Nashville. Currently, he is the draper Shakespeare’s plays to her credit. designer, technician, director, and performer. for the Nashville Ballet, where he also works as He served as a professor at Tennessee State a designer. Freeing the Voice: Four Habits that University, a teaching artist for the Nashville Lock the Voice Shakespeare Festival, and a scenic designer. Presenter: Marlene Johnson Bleiler currently serves as an adjunct theatre (Monday and Wednesday) professor, a scenic designer, and a technical Becoming aware of habits that constrict the director at Lipscomb University. voice is essential to inviting a free, open, clear, and resonant voice. Participants in this session Teaching From Your Core will take a look at some of the key ways that Presenter: Katie Dawson people use and constrict the freedom of their (Monday and Wednesday) voices. These habits include the pull back, the Katie Dawson will facilitate this push, the de-voice, and glottalization. session by using a creative, interactive process that will re-engage participants with their core beliefs about teaching. During the workshop, participants will feel the power of

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Theatre Curriculum Caring and Improvisation: Communication Jeff Goetsch is the president of Liberty Control Sharing: Seventh through and Status Company. He has worked thirty years in the Twelfth Grade Presenter: Andrew McMasters theatre production and live event industry. Presenters: Jennifer Keith and (Monday and Wednesday) Stephen Moss is a freelance lighting designer Pollyanna Parker In this interlude, Andrew McMasters will lead working in the live entertainment industry (Tuesday) participants through exercises that help raise and a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. He has worked in various Upper middle school and high school their awareness of the role that status plays in capacities with multiple theatre companies in participants are encouraged to share their communication. He will also focus on the ways and around the Nashville area. favorite classroom activities, teaching tips, and embracing the lessons of “yes, and” can be used theatre lesson plans with other teachers from to build consensus. Lessons and tools that can across the state. Theatre facilitators Jennifer Beyond the Scrim be used in any situation will be provided. Keith and Pollyanna Parker will lead the Presenter: Jan Wolfe session. (Monday and Wednesday) Lighting Design: Paint by Number Jennifer Keith has been teaching in the Presenter: Stephen Moss Jan Wolfe pushes beyond the scrim of the Williamson County school system for twelve (Tuesday) puppet stage to share ways of getting students years. She started the drama program at to actively participate in the art of puppetry A big part of lighting design is a numbers game. Grassland Middle School and has been running while increasing their love of reading. Through it ever since. In 2014, Keith was named teacher This session will explore how to use angle and the drama, language, storytelling, and fun of the year by the faculty of Grassland for her direction in lighting design as well as how to use of puppetry, students become an engaged, work in and out of the classroom. color variance to sculpt the playing space. Tips responsive audience who will want to keep and tricks for creating depth and dimension on Pollyanna Parker is a recent inductee into the reading, even after the puppet show is over. Tennessee High School Speech and Drama even the tiniest of stages will also be shared. League’s Hall of Fame and is a past recipient of Theatre Connections that organization’s Ruby Krider Teacher of the To LED, or Not to LED Theatre Core Faculty Year Award. Parker currently teaches at Rossview Presenters: Stephen Moss and (Tuesday and Thursday) High School in Clarksville. Jeff Goetsch (Thursday) Theatre instructors will be in their classrooms to answer specific questions about their Types of Musical Theatre Songs This interlude will examine the use of LED sessions and to provide one-on-one time Presenter: Chad Larabee lighting both in the theatrical and concert lighting with participants who desire additional (Monday) industries. The pros and cons of LED fixtures information about theatre related issues or In this session, Chad Larabee will lead versus conventional lighting will be discussed. arts education concerns. participants through the different types of New lighting technology and equipment will be musical theatre songs. Using a storytelling displayed for participants to examine. process, Larabee will also help participants uncover the purposes of these songs.

Analyzing the Song Presenter: Chad Larabee (Wednesday) In this session, participants will learn how to analyze lyrics and music to unlock the interpretive potential of musical theatre songs. Toward this same goal, they will also learn how to break songs into acting beats.

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Blake Long is in his ninth year of teaching at Three years ago she traveled to Japan as a Station Camp High School. Before his current part of the Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher position, he taught art at the college level for Program. Recently, her Parisian-themed thirteen years. Long was a professional illustrator art room was featured in the art educator’s before finding his true passion of passing on his magazine School Arts. When she’s not dressed knowledge of art to aspiring, young artists. In as King Tut or Mary Poppins to teach her 2012, the Governor’s School of the Arts named classes, she enjoys creating her own clothing him Visual Arts Teacher of the Year. and dreaming up new art lessons.

Coiled Baskets Accordion Fold Art History Presenter: Kim Shamblin Sculpture Books (Monday and Wednesday) Presenter: Libby Lynch Coiling is one type of basketry technique that (Monday and Wednesday) is used by Native Americans across North Libby Lynch will share a process that America. Coil baskets of different regions have incorporates writing and art history into various styles of construction—depending the visual arts curriculum. Participants will on the materials used in the coil and the type select a favorite artist, style, or time period VISUAL ART RELATED of stitch used to fasten or interlock the coils about which to write a story. They will then together. In this interlude, participants will be illustrate the story on accordion-folded pages, INTERLUDES using a paper coil with yarn to create a basic which will be inserted into a book. Finally, coiled basket using a hidden stitch. Participants book covers—which may be relief or three- Making Data-based Decisions in the will also be free to “get creative” and add dimensional—will be created by participants Visual Arts Classroom patterns to their baskets that are similar to out of clay. Numerous examples of finished Presenter: Heather Casteel those created by Native Americans. student works will be shared in this workshop, (Monday) Kim Shamblin is in her first year as visual arts along with digital handouts and presentations “Data-based Decisions” is a phrase we have all educator for Millington Middle School, having that accompany the project. heard. But can you use or even gather data in an previously taught at the elementary level for Educated at Union University, Memphis College art room? The answer is yes! This session will eighteen years. She received her degree in textile of Art, and the University of Memphis, Libby explain why art teachers should use data, how design from Edinboro University. She enjoys Lynch both actively teaches and participates in to gather data simply and quickly, and how data watching a good game of rugby, including being exhibits. She enjoys introducing her students to a is incorporated into teacher evaluations and the the team mom for the girls storm rugby team and multiplicity of materials and styles. Her own work, Fine Arts Portfolio. The workshop will consist playing for the women’s rugby team. which often reflects educational interests, tends to of lecture, discussion, and a hands-on activity. always include the textural elements of collage. Fiber Arts in the Art Room! Heather Casteel is the visual arts supervisor for Presenter: Cassie Stephens Visual Art Studio Connections Knox County Schools. She is currently working (Monday and continued on Visual Art Core Faculty on her doctorate in educational leadership and Wednesday) (Tuesday and Thursday) policy studies and researching effective art teacher practices and how they work with Tennessee’s In this two-day session, art teacher Cassie Visual art participants may choose this time TEAM evaluation system. Casteel is a national Stephens will share a series of short and to continue working in the studio, dialoguing and state presenter in art education and is a successful fiber arts projects that include needle with their instructors, or networking with practicing, exhibiting artist. felting, fabric painting, stitching, and more. fellow teachers about art related issues and arts Participants will learn these crafts and how to education concerns. A Collection of Successful High teach them to elementary school students. They School Advanced Art Lessons will also learn how Stephens used the results Presenter: Blake Long of these projects to create a mural emphasizing (Wednesday) kindness and love in her school. In this one-day session, Blake Long will share a Cassie Stephens has taught art in Nashville collection of lessons used in his classroom that and Franklin for the past sixteen years. She helps students prepare portfolios for college received her education at Indiana University admission and scholarship opportunities. These and completed her student teaching in Ireland. lessons are largely focused on the practices of painting, drawing, and mixed media.

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“Musings” is a time of thoughtful inspiration and introspection built exhibit, and teach art. Saftel’s work can be found in many museums, including into the heart of the busy Academy schedule each day. All participants the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the assemble to think about the role of the arts in education and in life. At Tennessee State Museum, the Hunter Museum of American Art, and the each Musings session, an individual who is significantly involved in the Huntsville Museum of Art, as well as in private and corporate collections. He arts acts as a muse and leads the group in examining the richness and currently divides his time between the Sequatchie Valley in East Tennessee, depth that the arts add to the lives of all people. Northern California, and Patzcuaro, Mexico. The presentation by Andrew Saftel is generously sponsored by Mignon Dunn Pinnacle Financial Partners. Monday • July 13 • 1:10 PM Mignon Dunn has sung leading Richard Maltby, Jr. mezzo-soprano roles in the most Wednesday • July 15 • 1:10 PM important opera houses in the Richard Maltby, Jr., is a director, producer, world, including the Royal Opera lyricist, book and screenplay writer, and Covent Garden in London, creative consultant, and all-round the Bellas Artes in Mexico City, La theatrical idea man. As an undergraduate Scala in Milan, the Bolshoi Theatre at Yale, Maltby collaborated with in Moscow, the Paris Opéra, and composer David Shire on two musicals. the Vienna Staatsoper. At New Their enduring partnership continued York’s Metropolitan Opera, Dunn after college, resulting in full scores for sang more than 650 performances multiple hit shows including Baby (book in a span of thirty-five years. Dunn is especially known for her portrayals of Photo by Joan Marcus by Sybille Pearson); Big (book by John dramatic Italian roles such as Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il Trovatore, Eboli Weidman); Closer Than Ever; Starting in Don Carlo, the Princess in Adriana Lecouvreur, and Santuzza in Cavalleria Here, Starting Now; and Take Flight (book by John Weidman). Many of their Rusticana. Her French repertoire includes Carmen, which she has sung more songs have been recorded by Barbra Streisand and other notable artists. In than four hundred times in four different languages. Dunn has performed 1978, Maltby conceived, wrote additional lyrics for, and directed the revue recitals throughout Europe and the United States and has sung with many inspired by Fats Waller’s life and music, Ain’t Misbehavin’. The show won major symphony orchestras. Her varied repertoire has featured the works of Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Direction. In 1999, Maltby achieved Mahler, Ravel, and Verdi. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Dunn was married to numerous honors for Fosse, a celebration of the life and work of choreographer the late conductor Kurt Klippstatter. She currently lives in New York City. Bob Fosse. The show received Best Musical awards from the Drama Desk, the Tonys, and the Outer Critics Circle. Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Fosse are the Andrew Saftel only two musical revues ever to win the Tony Award for Best Musical. Other Tuesday • July 14 • 1:10 PM notable achievements include Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance, for During his youth, Andrew which Maltby was adapter, co-lyricist, and director. He collaborated as lyricist Saftel worked as a sign painter with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg on Miss Saigon, which ran at a carnival and a printer at for nearly a decade and won both Tony and Drama Desk awards. Recent Experimental Workshop in San projects include directing The Story of My Life—both regionally and on Francisco, where he printed Broadway, as well as conceiving and directing Ring of Fire, The Johnny Cash editions of etchings, paper Musical Show. In 2007, he ventured into film with a screenplay forMiss Potter, sculptures, and woodcuts. In the starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. Maltby and Shire are currently mid-1980s, he moved to Knoxville, working together again on Waterfall, an epic new musical love story slated for Tennessee, set up a studio and a Broadway run. Maltby, who has five children, is notorious for contributing continued making paintings that devilish crossword puzzles to Harper’s Magazine. were created on wood panels and inspired by carved and stained woodblocks. About the same time, Saftel also began making mixed-media sculptures that were influenced by his work teaching art to children, Southern folk art, and the many self-taught artists in the region. By the early 1990s, Saftel’s successful exhibitions at galleries in Atlanta, Denver, Knoxville, and Nashville allowed him to focus solely on his studio work. He has had more than forty-five solo exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, prints, and collages in galleries and museums across the country. His work has taken him as far as Bangladesh, Israel, and Mexico to create,

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Aaron Lazar His Lincoln Center performance, Light in the Piazza, was seen on the PBS Thursday • July 16 • 1:15 PM broadcast Live From Lincoln Center. Lazar’s symphonic credits include Carousel with the Boston Pops, South Pacific at the Hollywood Bowl, Since his 2005 critically acclaimed multiple appearances with both the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and performance as Fabrizio Nacarelli in the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the Jerusalem the Tony award-winning hit Light in the Symphony Orchestra at Masada, and the English National Opera Piazza, Aaron Lazar has experienced Orchestra at the Coliseum in London’s West End. In addition to his film, a meteoric rise to fame. He recently television, and live performances, Lazar’s voice can be heard on numerous starred on Broadway opposite sixteen- Broadway cast albums and on dozens of television commercials in Canada time Grammy Award-winner Sting in and the United States. Sting’s epic new musical, The Last Ship. The appearance of Aaron Lazar throughout the Academy week is made Other Broadway credits include the first possible by a generous gift from Pat and Thane Smith. Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, the world premiere of Impressionism with Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen, Sir Trevor Nunn’s revival of Oklahoma!, the world premiere of A Tale of Two Cities, the first Broadway revival ofLes Miserables, the long-running hit The Phantom of the Opera, and the global phenomenon Mamma Mia! Lazar’s film and television credits include The Wolf of Wall Street (opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie), This is Where I Leave You (as Tina Fey’s workaholic husband Barry), J. Edgar (as Prosecutor Wilentz), Company (live with the New York Philharmonic), The Notorious Bettie Page, The Blacklist, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, The Following, A Gifted Man, Onion News Network, Ugly Betty, New Amsterdam, and All My Children.

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Takada devotes herself to educational outreach programs such as Midori & Friends in New Yor k Cit y. The performance by Naoko Takada is generously sponsored by Tennessee Book Company. Ballet Memphis The Darting Eyes and In Dreams Monday • July 13 • 11:30 AM Massey Performing Arts Center Founded in 1986 by Dorothy Gunther Pugh and recognized for its close ties to the region’s rich musical and literary heritage, Ballet Memphis is committed to being a classical dance company that truly reflects the contemporary world. The two pieces making up today’s performance are from the company’s Memphis Project and River Project series. The Darting Eyes, by Matthew Neenan, is inspired by what Neenan calls the “hauntingly beautiful images” of Mississippi River baptisms from across the eras. The dance’s Nashville Shakespeare Naoko Takada movement reflects a spiritual and physical Festival Marimba Concert journey. The cast includes Jared Brunson and Discovering Shakespeare Sunday • July 12 • 4:30 PM Virginia Pilgrim Ramey. In Dreams, by Trey Wednesday • July 15 • 11:30 AM Massey Performing Arts Center McIntyre, was created for Ballet Memphis and Massey Performing Arts Center Japanese-born, world-renowned marimba is one of the company’s most popular works. Established in 1988, the Nashville Shakespeare soloist and Yamaha performing artist Naoko Performed to the expressive voice of Roy Orbison, Festival’s mission is to educate and entertain Takada has toured the world, playing in such In Dreams is a sometimes dark, always passionate the Mid-south community through professional venues as Carnegie Hall, Conzart Haus in journey through six of the legendary artist’s most Shakespearean experiences. With its bold Berlin, Santory Hall in Tokyo, Kennedy Center popular songs. The cast includes Jared Brunson, productions and empowering participatory in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln Center in Steven McMahon, Julie Marie Niekrasz, programs, the group sets the standard of New York. Takada’s talent was apparent at age Olivia Powell, and Virginia Pilgrim Ramey. excellence in both educational outreach and eleven when she appeared as guest soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. She has since performed with numerous orchestras, including the China National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Houston Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic, and the Xalapa Symphony in Mexico. Following a concert at Kennedy Center, the Washington Post wrote “Naoko Takada plays a marimba, moving with speed, grace and extraordinary accuracy ... like a practitioner of some as-yet-undefined martial art, wielding two mallets in each hand and then plunging them down, with fierce exactitude, in the instrument’s solar plexus.” Along with her solo concert tours and master classes,

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20 Photo by Ari Denison PERFORMANCES the production of Shakespeare’s works. For the in Canada and the United States. She has served as Tennessee Arts Academy, four Festival actors associate concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony will perform an ensemble piece composed Orchestra, and she continues to record with the of multiple scenes from the Bard’s canon. Nashville String Machine, backing up country, Discovering Shakespeare takes a fun and pop, and rock artists and performing television energetic look at the way Shakespeare is and and movie scores. Small is assistant professor will always be relevant to the human race. It is of music and coordinator of strings at Belmont a highly accessible piece that is sure to delight University School of Music. She currently serves students of all ages. as artistic director for Belmont Camerata and for the multi-stylistic String Crossings Camp. Aaron Lazar World Fiddle is a string quintet that creates Look for Me in the Songs distinctive arrangements of world music—from Wednesday • July 15 • 8:15 PM Arabic to Celtic to modern pop. Formed in 2012 Curb Event Center Arena after meeting at Belmont University, the unique musical backgrounds of each member (Liana Broadway musical theatre star and film and Alpino, Megan Bilodeau, Lauren Conklin, Ben television actor Aaron Lazar will present his Johnson, and Emily Scalici) converge to create the much-praised one-man show, Look for Me West End. In addition to his film, television, singular sound that has become the signature of in the Songs, at this year’s TAA Bravo Awards World Fiddle. This sound has quickly launched Banquet. Since his 2005 critically acclaimed and live performances, Lazar’s voice can be their career, and they have performed at venues performance as Fabrizio Nacarelli in the Tony heard on numerous Broadway cast albums and on dozens of television commercials in Canada across the country. World Fiddle cares deeply award-winning hit Light in the Piazza, Lazar has experienced a meteoric rise to fame. and the United States. Follow him on Facebook about education, and many of their performances He recently starred on Broadway opposite by visiting AaronLazar.com; or follow him on are geared towards spreading awareness of world sixteen-time Grammy Award-winner Sting in Twitter @AaronLazar. styles and introducing children to alternative Sting’s epic new musical, The Last Ship. Other The appearance of Aaron Lazar throughout the playing techniques on stringed instruments. Broadway credits include the first Broadway Academy week is made possible by a generous gift revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night from Pat and Thane Smith. Music opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, the world premiere of Impressionism with Jeremy Irons and Joan Elisabeth Small and Allen, Sir Trevor Nunn’s revival of Oklahoma!, World Fiddle the world premiere of A Tale of Two Cities, the String Kaleidoscope first Broadway revival ofLes Miserables, the Thursday • July 16 • 11:20 AM long-running hit The Phantom of the Opera, McAfee Concert Hall and the global phenomenon Mamma Mia! Lazar’s film and television credits includeThe Violinist Elisabeth Small’s varied career includes Wolf of Wall Street (opposite Leonardo DiCaprio engagements as soloist with the Atlanta, Nashville, and Margot Robbie), This is Where I Leave You and National Symphony Orchestras; chamber (as Tina Fey’s workaholic husband Barry), music and recital performances; and broadcasts J. Edgar (as Prosecutor Wilentz), Company on regional television and on public radio stations (live with the New York Philharmonic), The Notorious Bettie Page, The Blacklist, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, The Following, A Gifted Man, Onion News Network, Ugly Betty, New Amsterdam, and All My Children. His Lincoln Center performance, Light in the Piazza, was seen on the PBS broadcast Live From Lincoln Center. Lazar’s symphonic credits include Carousel with the Boston Pops, South Pacific at the Hollywood Bowl, multiple appearances with both the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra at Masada, and the English National Opera Orchestra at the Coliseum in London’s

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Sunday Evening Opening Those of Us Still Living Celebration & Reception by Jim Arendt Sunday • July 12 • 4:30–8:00 PM June 1–July 31, 2015 The Tennessee Arts Academy opening session Leu Art Gallery (Overture) provides participants with the Reception music will be provided by Todd first of many dazzling performances (Naoko London, vibraphonist (Leu Center for the Takada, marimba soloist), a preview of the week Visual Arts) and Allison Kerr, guitarist ahead, and an opportunity to meet faculty and (Leu Art Gallery). fellow members of the Academy class of 2015. Jim Arendt is associate professor and gallery Before the opening session, the afternoon’s director at Coastal Carolina University in entertainment begins in the Massey Concert Conway, South Carolina. As an artist, Arendt Hall Lobby with the guitarists Duo Sudeste. uses narrative figure painting to explore shifting After all sessions and introductory meetings paradigms of labor and place. Influenced by are concluded, TAA hospitality will be on full the ways the rural and industrial landscapes display as participants are treated to an elegant of his childhood have been radically reshaped, Chessie Manard (11th Grade, Overton High School, buffet reception in the Curb Event Center the artist investigates how individual Instructor Amy Shamblin) Self-Portrait. Drawing Grand Atrium, complemented by multiple lives are affected by economic transitions. entertainment options. Artists for this event His compositions, which are constructed from include the Rich Ripani Trio; Austin Filingo, layered denim, connect form and content to Tennessee’s Best of guitarist and Trevor Caudell, flutist; David convey a sense of identity. Arnold, caricature artist; and the DaVinci the Best Student Art Recorder Group, Linda Friend, director. Arendt graduated from Kendall College of Art Exhibition and Design and received a master’s degree with June 30–August 14, 2015 a concentration in painting from the University Leu Center for the Visual Arts High Tea in the Mansion of South Carolina. He has studied art in England Gallery 121 and Spain and participated in residency Monday • July 15 • 5:00 PM The Tennessee Arts Academy is pleased to offer programs including The Fields Project in Illinois, a student art exhibit as part of its summer Participants are invited on Monday afternoon Arrowmont’s Tactility Forum, and the Penland enrichment experience. Tennessee’s Best of the at 5:00 p.m. for a tour of the historic Belmont School of Craft. Mansion. The event features Susan Ramsay Best Student Art Exhibition is a collection of the playing hammered dulcimer. Light refreshments Those of Us Still Living is co-sponsored by the best pieces in various media by student artists will be served. Belmont University Department of Art. from the three grand divisions of the state. The students whose work will be featured have won college scholarships for their achievements TENNESSEE ARTS and have had their work exhibited in museums throughout the state of Tennessee. ACADEMY EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS Connections: Tennessee Art Education Association Opening Receptions and Member Exhibition Art Crawl for Featured June 30–August 14, 2015 Exhibitions Leu Center for the Visual Arts Tuesday • July 14 • 5:30–8:00 PM Lobby Gallery Leu Art Gallery (Lila D. Bunch Library) The Tennessee Arts Academy is very proud to and Leu Center for the Visual Arts exhibit the work of practicing artists-teachers alongside the exemplary work created by their students. Connections: Tennessee Art Education Association Member Exhibition is a juried show featuring the work of Jim Arendt. Mackenzie. Denim, 30 x 15 in. kindergarten through higher education art educators from across Tennessee.

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the Academy. Some visitors may wish A special TAA Carnival will occur during an to participate in the classes, and all expanded Thursday afternoon break period are invited to sit in on any of the day’s from 3:05 p.m. to 3:40 p.m. Peanuts, popcorn, activities. popsicles, live music (the Derek Pell Duo), balloon artistry (Sam Cremeens), and juggling acts (TomFoolery) will enliven the afternoon. Bravo! The Tennessee Arts Academy Alumni Day and Awards Banquet Wednesday • July 15 • 6:30 PM Ice Cream Social Thursday • July 16 • 5:15 PM On Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., participants All TAA Alumni Association members are will gather for the Academy Bravo invited to the Academy to attend the day’s Awards Banquet and Performance activities. At 5:15 p.m., the Tennessee Arts in the Curb Event Center Arena. This Academy Foundation sponsors its annual Ice night is designed to honor and reward Cream Social. Alumni Association members Melanie Anderson (Arlington High School Art Teacher, First Place - the hard work and artistic talents of all of and all participants who donate to or win 2015 TAEA member exhibition). Say Chi-eeeez. Mixed Media. the Academy participants. The banquet will a bid in the Tennessee Arts Academy Silent include an elegant full-course dinner. Music Tennessee’s Best of the Best Student Art Auction receive a special invitation to attend will be provided by Jeff Lisenby on piano. After Exhibition and Connections: Tennessee Art this yummy event in the Beaman Student dinner, the Spirit of Tennessee Award will be Education Association Member Exhibition are Life Center. The Derek Pell Duo will offer presented to Charles Brindley for his talent and co-sponsored by the Tennessee Art Education entertainment for the occasion. achievements as a noted visual artist. Richard Association with additional support provided Maltby, Jr., will receive the Distinguished Service Alumni Day and the Ice Cream Social are by ORNL Federal Credit Union and SunTrust Award in recognition of his outstanding talent sponsored by the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation. as a director, producer, lyricist, and book and Foundation Board of Directors. Refreshments screenplay writer. The Arts Leadership Award have been generously provided by Carol Student and Teacher of Excellence will be presented to Music Makes Crittenden. Artist Recognition Us, the visionary Nashville Metro Schools Ceremony initiative that focuses on music literacy and student participation across every grade Finale Tuesday • July 14 • 5:45 PM Friday • July 17 • 11:30 AM Leu Center for the Visual Arts level. The evening will conclude with a special performance featuring Broadway musical theatre The Academy activities conclude with the Artist Talk with star Aaron Lazar, who will be accompanied on Academy Finale Luncheon in the Curb Event piano by Jesse Kissel. Center Arena at 11:30 a.m. on Friday. This event Jim Arendt brings together the diverse experiences of the The appearance of Aaron Lazar is made possible Tuesday • July 14 • 6:45 PM Academy week and reinforces the importance by a generous gift from Pat and Thane Smith. Leu Art Gallery of arts education in classrooms across America. Accordionist Jeff Lisenby will perform during the The three Tennessee Arts Academy art meal. Each year after the luncheon, the Academy exhibitions, art crawl, receptions, recognition TAA Carnival and honors one Tennessean for achievement in the ceremony, and artist talk are made possible by a Arts Vendor Fair arts. The 2015 honoree is Gregg Coats, lifelong generous gift from the Wolfe Family Fund. Thursday • July 16 Memphis visual arts administrator and teacher. 12:00 PM–6:00 PM Coats will receive the Joe W. Giles Lifetime Visitors’ Day Academy participants and all interested arts Achievement Award. Following the presentation, Wednesday • July 15 teachers across the state are invited to attend Joe Giles, TAA Founder and Dean Emeritus, will 8:00 AM–5:00 PM the TAA Arts Vendor Fair on Thursday in the offer his yearly “Thoughts for the Journey.” Giles’s Wednesday is the official TAA Visitors’ Day. Arts Beaman Student Life Center. The Arts Vendor message is meant to clearly inspire and challenge organization directors, college and university Fair will offer display booths from leading each person in attendance to live their calling to professors, political dignitaries, Tennessee Arts music, theatre, and visual art vendors, as well the fullest. As the week’s activities come to a joyous Academy Foundation Board members, local as arts-related organizations. Participants will conclusion, the Academy Chorale, conducted school system officials, Tennessee Department have several opportunities throughout the day by Edith Copley and composed of Academy of Education administrators, and many others to enjoy learning about the many resources, participants, is featured in the final performance from across the state are invited to be guests of products, and perks offered by the exhibitors. for the 2015 session.

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Charles Brindley Miss Saigon, which ran for nearly a decade and won both Tony and Drama Spirit of Tennessee Award Desk awards. Recent projects include directing The Story of My Life—both Bravo Awards Banquet and Performance regionally and on Broadway, as well as conceiving and directing Ring of July 15 • 6:30 PM Fire, The Johnny Cash Musical Show. In 2007, he ventured into film with a screenplay for Miss Potter, starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. Charles Brindley lives and works out of several Maltby and Shire are currently working together again on Waterfall, an Victorian structures in Adairville, Kentucky, epic new musical love story slated for a Broadway run. Maltby, who has a small community thirty-five miles north of five children, is notorious for contributing devilish crossword puzzles to Nashville, Tennessee. He has received gallery Harper’s Magazine. representation across the United States, including in the cities of Memphis, Nashville, New York City, Taos, and Washington, DC. His Music Makes Us work appears in private, public, and corporate Arts Leadership Award of Excellence collections throughout the United States and in Bravo Awards Banquet and Performance private collections internationally. Five touring July 15 • 6:30 PM exhibitions of Brindley’s works have travelled to museums and art centers in the Southeast and Midwest. Brindley’s A joint effort of Metro Nashville paintings and drawings depict a variety of symbol-laden subjects, Public Schools, Mayor Karl including giant deciduous trees, panoramic landscapes, prehistoric Dean, and music industry and ruins, rock formations, architecture and still lifes. His images are highly community leaders, the Music representational while containing multi-layered abstract elements. In Makes Us® initiative aspires addition to his artistic work, Brindley has taught his creative drawing to be a national model for and painting class to adults for more than thirty years. He is known music education. With a focus for embracing all levels of artistic development—from beginning to on music literacy and student advanced students. participation, Music Makes Us is strengthening traditional school music while adding a Richard Maltby, Jr. contemporary curriculum that Distinguished Service Award embraces new technologies Bravo Awards Banquet and Performance and reflects a diverse musical landscape. The vision of Music Makes Us is July 15 • 6:30 PM for all kindergarten through twelfth grade students in the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools to have access to high quality traditional and Richard Maltby, Jr., is a director, producer, contemporary music instruction that is standards-based and sequential, lyricist, book and screenplay writer, creative taught by highly qualified music educators, and enhanced by a network consultant, and all-round theatrical idea man. of music professionals and music industry and community-based As an undergraduate at Yale, Maltby collaborated organizations from the Nashville community and beyond. Since its launch with composer David Shire on two musicals. in 2012, the initiative has restored band at all thirty-three middle schools; Their enduring partnership continued after created new choral programs in ten schools; established forty-five new college, resulting in full scores for multiple classes in eighteen schools in mariachi, rock band, world percussion, hit shows including Baby (book by Sybille country/bluegrass, songwriting, and hip hop; and launched an online Pearson); Big (book by John Weidman); Closer hub to connect Nashville music professionals with teachers. Accepting the Than Ever; Starting Here, Starting Now; and Take award on behalf of Music Makes Us will be Dr. Jay Steele, chief academic Flight (book by John Weidman). Many of their officer at Metro Schools. songs have been recorded by Barbra Streisand and other notable artists. In 1978, Maltby conceived, wrote additional lyrics for, and directed the revue inspired by Fats Waller’s life and music, Ain’t Misbehavin’. The show won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Direction. In 1999, Maltby achieved numerous honors for Fosse, a celebration of the life and work of choreographer Bob Fosse. The show received Best Musical awards from the Drama Desk, the Tonys, and the Outer Critics Circle. Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Fosse are the only two musical revues ever to win the Tony Award for Best Musical. Other notable achievements include Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance, for which Maltby was adapter, co-lyricist, and director. He collaborated as lyricist with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg on

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Gregg Coats The Distinguished Service Award is presented to an American whose work Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award stands as a monument to the importance of the arts in the lives of all people. Finale Luncheon The Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred upon a Tennessee July 17 • 11:30 AM teacher whose life’s work is widely acknowledged to have positively influenced the Gregg Coats is currently the fine arts role of the arts in education, thereby benefiting the students of Tennessee’s schools. instructional advisor for Shelby County Schools. The Lamar Alexander Founder’s Award of Distinction is presented to an He is known throughout the arts community for individual whose meritorious accomplishments in the fields of education and the his unflagging commitment to exposing every arts have profoundly impacted American culture and life. student to the arts. Prior to his current role, Coats taught art in the classroom for thirty-one The Lorin Hollander Award is given to a Tennessean whose influence has years, including time at Whitehaven High School benefited arts education in general and/or the Tennessee Arts Academy in as chair of the art department. He was the first particular. This award is named in honor of internationally renowned concert pianist elementary art teacher for Memphis City Schools Lorin Hollander, a special friend of the Academy. while teaching at Lester Demonstration School. His accomplishments include the creation of a The Partner in the Arts Award honors an individual or business whose strong mentoring and professional development program for both new and generosity and support have contributed in sustained and significant ways to the experienced art teachers, as well as playing a key role in the development of success of the Tennessee Arts Academy’s mission. two programs that offer art opportunities to area students: Echoes of Truth, The Arts Leadership Award of Excellence is presented to an individual or a four-week summer work-study program for high-school students, and group who has achieved a unique milestone in the arts that deserves recognition the annual ArtsFest, which made its debut in 2010. Coats serves on advisory and honor. boards for numerous arts organizations. He is the recipient of the Tennessee Art Education Association’s Outstanding Administrator of the Year Award The Spirit of Tennessee Award recognizes an individual or group whose and the Broadway League’s 2010 Educator’s Apple Award in association with work exemplifies the highest standards of artistic endeavor and brings positive Orpheum Theatre. recognition to the place of the arts in the lives of Tennesseans.

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

25 ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL AND STAFF

Madeline Bridges Connie Marley Amanda Galbraith Project Director Music Director Arts Leadership, Administration, and Madeline Bridges is Connie Marley currently Assessment Director Associate Dean of teaches at Freedom Amanda Galbraith Academic Studies at Middle School in has enjoyed teaching Belmont University’s Franklin, having formerly elementary-level visual School of Music, where taught in Georgia, Texas, art in the Shelby County she teaches music and the Metropolitan area for more than ten education and serves as Nashville Public Schools. years. Her students have director of the Nashville Her choirs at Freedom consistently been honored Children’s Choir program. Her degrees include have consistently won superior ratings at local for their accomplishments, a B.M. in piano performance from Shorter and state choral festivals. Her students are and many have gone on to pursue further College in Rome, Georgia; an M. Mus. Ed. well represented each year in various honor studies in the arts at both the secondary and from George Peabody College of Education at choirs at the local, regional, and national collegiate levels. Galbraith is a member of the Vanderbilt University; and an Ed.D. in music levels. She is a past president of the Middle Tennessee Art Education Association and serves education from the University of Alabama. Tennessee Vocal Association and has served on the Tennessee Fine Arts Growth Measures Bridges has taught music and music education the organization in several other capacities. Committee—the group that developed and in classrooms from kindergarten through the Marley is an active member of the Tennessee refined the Tennessee fine arts portfolio graduate level and is past president of both the Music Educators Association, the National model. Additionally, she has worked on district Tennessee Music Educators Association and the Association for Music Education and the curriculum revision teams, a state standards International Board of Directors of Choristers American Choral Directors Association. She revision team, and has presented several Guild. She is a member of the Tennessee Music also sings with the Nashville Chamber Singers. workshops. Galbraith was honored as the TAEA Education Association Hall of Fame. In 2014, West Tennessee Art Educator of the Year in 2011 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award Jim Dodson and 2013. from the Tennessee Chapter of American Choral Visual Art Director Directors Association. Since 1987, Jim Dodson Susan Ramsay has been an art teacher Production Director E. Frank Bluestein in the Oak Ridge school Before her retirement in Managing Director system. In 1998 he May of 2008, Susan Ramsay E. Frank Bluestein is was recognized as the was a music specialist the 1996–1997 Disney Tennessee Art Educator at Franklin Elementary National Performing of the Year and in 1999 School in the Franklin Arts Teacher of the Year as the National Middle Special Schools District and the 1994 Tennessee School Art Educator of the Year. Dodson was and was named Teacher Teacher of the Year. USA appointed to the Humanities Tennessee Board of the Year for that system. Today named Bluestein by Governor Bill Haslam in 2015 and received She has received National Board Certification in as one of the top forty the Distinguished Educator Award from the Music and holds degrees from Peabody College teachers in the United States in 1998. Until Tennessee Education Association. He has led and Middle Tennessee State University. Ramsay his retirement in 2013, he served as chairman efforts to establish student art exhibitions in is past president of the Middle Tennessee Orff- of the Germantown High School Fine Arts East, Middle, and West Tennessee at high-profile Schulwerk Association and the Middle Tennessee Department and as executive producer for the venues. Over the years, Dodson secured more Elementary Music Educators Association and has school’s three-million-dollar, Emmy Award than $7 million in scholarship awards for the served as regional representative on the National winning television studio. Bluestein is a past students whose work was represented at these Board of Trustees for AOSA. She has presented winner of the American Theatre Association’s exhibits. He has been selected to participate in at Orff and Kodály national conferences and for John C. Barner Award and has served as an arts the Knoxville Leadership Education, Oak Ridge the National Association for Music Education advisory panelist for numerous organizations, Leadership, and East Tennessee Leadership (NAfME). She serves as an adjunct professor at including the National Endowment for the Arts programs. Currently, Dodson is a board several colleges and universities and maintains an and the Tennessee Arts Commission. He spent member and past president of the Tennessee Art active schedule of performances as a storyteller several years as director of shows at Opryland, Education Association and serves on the board and as a musician. USA, and most recently wrote and directed of Dogwood Arts in East Tennessee. the national touring production of Beale Street Saturday Night starring blues legend Joyce Cobb. In 2013, Bluestein was inducted into the Educational Theatre Association’s Hall of Fame in Minneapolis.

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Joe W. Giles Linda Norfleet TAA Facilitators Dean Emeritus/Awards Coordinator Office Assistant Joe Giles is founder Linda Norfleet was born Music of the Tennessee Arts and raised in Nashville, David Chambers Jerome Souther Academy and former where she was educated Kami Lunsford Kerry Vaughn director of the Arts in local parochial schools. Phillip Maybee Education Program of the After receiving her bachelor Visual Art Tennessee Department of of arts in English from Debbie Flynt Ken Snyder Education. He received his Vanderbilt University in Libby Lynch Cassie Stephens bachelor’s and master’s 1977, she began working Kim Shamblin degrees in music education from Austin Peay as a radio producer in news and public affairs State University and has done additional with the local public radio affiliate, WPLN-FM Theatre study at Peabody College, Middle Tennessee radio. Norfleet held subsequent positions with Nancy Beard Key McKinney State University, and Fisk University. Giles is Belle Meade Mansion; The Hermitage, home of Nancy Essary Pollyanna Parker past president of the Southern Division of President Andrew Jackson; Vanderbilt University; Jennifer Keith the National Association for Music Education and Vanderbilt University Medical Center Arts Leadership, Administration, (NAfME) and of the National Council of (VUMC). In 2011, Norfleet retired from her full- State Supervisors of Music. He taught music time position as editorial assistant for the Section and Assessment Atticus Hensley in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools for of Surgical Sciences at VUMC. twenty-two years, has taken choral groups Trio Track on concert tours in Europe, and has received Paula Medlin gold and silver medals in international music TAA 2015 festivals. Office Administration SUPPORT STAFF Gail Merritt Congdon Elaine Bailey-Fryd Terri King TAA OFFICE STAFF Special Events Coordinator Additional Support Personnel Gina Miller Joyce Carr – Graphics Advisor Melody Hart Travel, Newsletter, Vendor Fair, Sarah Brown – Belmont Facilities Liaison Office Coordinator and Grants Coordinator Rusty King – MPAC Liaison Melody Hart earned a Allison Whitmore – Stage Manager bachelor of music degree Pollyanna Parker Sandra Partridge – Programs in bassoon performance Communications Coordinator April Simpkins – Hospitality from Ball State University Hayley Creek Marlon Crow – VIP Coordinator in Indiana. After graduation Social Media and Inventory Assistant Susan Hearn – Office Worker she moved to Nashville and Charles Businaro Christopher Hearn, Elizabeth Hearn, worked for Badger-Bogle, Visual Enhancement Coordinator William Hearn, Robbie Weaver – Architects as executive Daniel Poston Office Aides assistant and bookkeeper from 1993 to 1998. Equipment Coordinator Tennessee Arts Academy She then began working with her husband, Andrea Hittle Foundation Board of Directors photographer Scott Schrecker, as office manager Transportation Coordinator and bookkeeper. Hart also played bassoon for the Multiple events throughout the Academy week Belmont University orchestra for several years David Bridges have been made possible by the generosity of the and currently subs for them and other Nashville Transportation Assistant Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Board of area orchestras on occasion. She plays bassoon Nathan Babian Directors: Stephen Coleman (President), Leslee with First Baptist Nashville’s sanctuary orchestra, Webmaster T. Alexander, Joey Beckford, Chuck Blackburn, teaches private bassoon lessons in her spare time, Carol Poston Cavit Cheshier, Ruby Fenton, Solie Fott, Bobby and enjoys performing duets with her daughter Academy Accompanist Jean Frost, Brandon Herrenbruck, Kem Hinton, Jean Litterer, Flowerree W. McDonough, Diana K. Sammy, who is a harpist. Hart also enjoys teaching Gail Merritt Congdon Poe, Sara Savell, Pat Smith, Thane Smith, J. Tabor the arts to her son Scotty. Office Volunteer Stamper, Jeanette Watkins, William H. Watkins, Jr., Scott Schrecker and Talmage Watts. TAA Photographer Special thanks to Katie Boatman for her The Wednesday morning TAA breakfast is assistance in coordinating the TAA visual generously sponsored by Joey Beckford, Ruby Fenton, art exhibitions. Flowerree McDonough, Pat Smith, Jeanette Watkins, and an anonymous donor.

27 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 1983, Americans faced a decade of increasing interest in education reform. In Tennessee that emphasis took the form of Governor Lamar Alexander’s Better Schools Program, through which new tax dollars and expanded state programs were instituted. For the first time, the Tennessee Department of Education began to play an active role in promoting the importance of the arts as an integral part of the education of all students. When a panel of prominent arts educators was convened to establish priorities, they included the importance of creating ways to train teachers in the effective use of new state curriculum frameworks in the arts. In 1984 Joe Giles was appointed to the newly created position of Director of Arts Education for the State of Tennessee. Using the style of ancient Greek learning centers as his model, Giles conceived of the idea of using the funds appropriated by the state to create a unique, After two years of remarkable success and in program mainstays. In the late 1990s, the modern-day “Academy” that would help raise order to maximize the use of state funding, it Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation was teaching standards among the arts educators was decided to institutionalize the summer created to help financially support TAA. Arts across Tennessee. program. The campus of Belmont University Academy America was established in 2002, was chosen as a permanent home because of giving arts teachers from outside Tennessee the During the summers of 1985 and 1986, pilot its central location, its aesthetic beauty, and its opportunity to become full participants in the programs were introduced in all three grand personnel, who were interested in working with Academy experience. divisions of the state. Teachers flocked to the state to develop the new entity, the Tennessee the free weeklong events in which nationally After twenty-nine years and much scrutiny and Arts Academy. Cynthia Curtis, then professor of known arts educators came to Tennessee and, refining, the Academy continues as the longest music education at Belmont and now the dean using the new arts frameworks as their guide, running, premier summer program in America of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was provided stimulating and intensive training for for teacher training in music, the visual arts, selected as the Academy’s first dean. teachers of art and music. and theatre. Since its inception, the Academy The rest, as they say, is history. The Academy has trained more than six thousand teachers From the beginning, a conscious decision was began with workshops in music and art and and administrators. As of today, the cumulative made that the Tennessee Arts Academy would in 1988 was expanded to include theatre. first-year student impact following Academy be the top-of-the-line program in professional Several years later, the Academy added classes attendance exceeds two million students. More development for teachers of the arts. Each year in school administration to its curriculum. significantly, the lasting benefit of the Academy the faculty, performers, and speakers have The 2012 Academy included, for the first time, will endure and multiply for years to come. been chosen by applying stringent standards of a separate track focusing on arts evaluation. personal and professional excellence, thereby The first musers were invited to the Academy ensuring that Tennessee’s teachers will not only in the early 1990s. Many innovative ideas acquire knowledge, but will be inspired and and events were incorporated into the daily renewed in their efforts to fulfill the mission of schedule, including the Academy Chorale, the educating the complete child. TAA guest, teacher, and student art exhibitions, and Academy Awards, all of which are now

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Italian Style: Fashion since 1945 June 5–September 7, 2015 Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection June 26–October 12, 2015 Organized by the Neue Galerie New York with additional loans from The Wolfsonian–Florida International University

Ink, Silk, and Gold: Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston October 9, 2015–January 10, 2016 Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Masterpiece Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti October 30, 2015–January 6, 2016 Organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William & Mary in Virginia in partnership with Fondazione Casa Buonarroti and Associazione Culturale Metamorfosi

Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art October 30, 2015–February 14, 2016 Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts

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At Lipscomb University’s new College of Entertainment & the Arts, students can grow from someone with a gift into an independent, artistic entrepreneur creating challenging and uplifting content for the marketplace.

Students can choose from bachelor’s or master’s degrees that can include:

• Theatre and cinematic arts • Fashion and design • Animation • Visual arts • Contemporary and classical music • Graphic design

They will learn from artists-in-residence like music producer/songwriter Charlie Peacock and writer/director Steve Taylor, both of whom have had successful careers producing creative, nationally recognized work for decades.

For more information, contact Dean Mike Fernandez at 615-966-5186, or at [email protected].

COLLEGE OF ENTERTAINMENT & THE ARTS

OZ Arts creates partnerships to deliver artistic opportunities and unique experiences to the greater Nashville community.

OZ SCHOOL DAYS: FAMILY DAY AT OZ: SCHOOL TOURS October 12, January 18, August 15, 2015, OZ & LEARNING February 15 and March Arts’ annual public EXPERIENCES: 28. A daylong program festival of indoor/ Family Day at OZ: August 15, 2015, OZ Arts’ annual publicOZ Arts has engages students outdoor arts activities festival of indoor/outdoor arts activities for families.opportunities Kids 12 for school aged 5 to 15 in visual for families. Kids 12 & & under FREE! groups to tour select art, theater, music and under FREE! installations. movement.

For more Education and Outreach opportunities please visit: ozartsnashville.org/education School Tours & Learning Experiences: OZ Arts has opportunities for school groups to tour select installations. Contact the Director of Art Education & Outreach, Lauren Cochran to inquire about opportunities for your students.

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TAEA Billboards Promote the Arts in Tennessee with Best in Show Winners

Each year the Tennessee Art Education Association promotes the importance of supporting the Arts in our schools by sponsoring three regional billboards in each grand division of the state of Tennessee. This program rewards the students whose art was selected as Best of Show in each region by reproducing their artwork for community viewing. Along with the photo, TAEA gives credit to the teacher and the school for all their effort in supporting and nurturing the winning student. The mission of the Tennessee Art Education Association is to advance quality visual arts education and to promote a cohesive professional community through advocacy, leadership, and professional development. By publicly acknowledging the accomplishments of both students and their teachers, TAEA is advocating a sequential K-12 visual arts program taught by highly qualified and licensed visual arts educators. This effectively communicates the importance of lifelong learning in the visual arts to our community and policy makers across Tennessee.

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FREE ADMISSION 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive Knoxville, TN 37916 865.525.6101 knoxart.org • [email protected] INTRODUCING THE NEW FAMILY OF BRANDS DISTRIBUTED BY Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge Honors the Titanic Musicians! Did you know the Titanic had 5 Steinway pianos on board? Visit our web site or join our facebook page.

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2200 8th Avenue South, Nashville E-mail: [email protected] TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION The Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established to aid and assist in the growth and expansion of the Tennessee Arts Academy and Arts Academy America. The TAAF Board of Directors shares in the belief that educators trained at the Tennessee Arts Academy are better equipped and motivated to serve their students, significantly raise achievement levels, and effect positive and lasting change in classrooms throughout the state.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Board of Directors meets regularly to plan and implement programs designed to financially support the activities of the Academy. Board of Directors Honorary Board Members Board Emeritus Mr. Stephen Coleman Dr. Jean Litterer Chris Brubeck Dean Pitchford Tommie Pardue President Mrs. Flowerree W. McDonough George S. Clinton Jay Russell Fran Rogers Ms. Diana K. Poe Jason Danieley Odessa Settles Ms. Leslee T. Alexander Mrs. Sara Savell Dean Deyo Richard Sherman Executive Director Mrs. Joey Beckford Mrs. Patricia Smith Joe DiPietro Linda Solomon E. Frank Bluestein Mr. Chuck Blackburn Mr. Thane Smith Giancarlo Guerrero Steve Spiegel Office Administrator Dr. Cavit Cheshier Mr. J. Tabor Stamper Rupert Holmes Susan Stauter Melody Hart Ms. Ruby Fenton Mrs. Jeanette Watkins Cherry Jones Michael Stern Dr. Solie Fott Mr. William H. Watkins, Jr. David Leong Charles Strouse Ms. Bobby Jean Frost Mr. Talmage Watts Rebecca Luker Jourdan Urbach Mr. Brandon Herrenbruck Marin Mazzie Jane Walters Kem Hinton, FAIA Bruce Opie TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY 2014–2015 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The TAA Alumni Association is open to all graduates and supporters of the Tennessee Arts Academy and includes a variety of member benefits.

Valedictorian Summa Cum Laude Magna Cum Laude Cum Laude Gerald Jerome Souther Stephanie Bastin Nicole Arnold Donna Alexander Gay Page Joshua Bolling Phyllis Ball Jean Anderson Tiana Page Salutatorian Madeline Bridges Francie Beard Karen Anderson Melody Poke Clay Canada Donna Browning Beth Bartchy-Smith Bonnie Ramsey Stephen & Marion Coleman Cavit Cheshier David Chambers Angela Beale Lisa Redditt Dru Davidson Gail Merritt Congdon Regina Crawley Lisa Benton Becky Reeves Ron Meers Dian Eddleman Karen Dean Regina Bivens Nan Satterfield Melissa Flanagan Earl Delong Christopher Broach Kim Shamblin Geri Passaro-Floyd Dianne T. Evans Jennifer Burton Julianna Smith Deborah Flynt Max Fulwider Patricia Casey-Ryan Yvonne Smith Bobby Jean Frost Amanda Galbraith Ashlee Davis Ken Snyder Barbara P. Gibson Diane Glueck Emily Dickens Nicole Stimmel Joe W. Giles Nancy Jolley Allison Egan Sheila Stubbs Jo Ann Hood Kathleen Lunceford Jenna Fergus Susan Stumne Betsy Huddleston Connie Marley Sheila Harrison Kathy Timblin Terri King Charlie Mason Stephen Haselroth Marissa Toothman Janet Laws Brad Mitchell Atticus Hensley Lise Triggs Jean Litterer Kimerlen Moore Lisa L. Hill Michelle Tripp Tammy Marks Carol Poston Virginia Hopkins Sonya Turner Flowerree W. McDonough Robyn Proffitt Tristessa Howard Cheryl Ward Paula Medlin Susan Ramsay Patricia Hudson Leah White Aaron Miller Julie Reinbold Watson Betty Julian Linda Wilson Miller Laura Rheinlander Sandra Kandros Nancy H. Miller Anne B. Snider Gina Kelley Gus & Melissa Miranda Kimberly Lundin Karen Mueller Key McKinney Janis Nunnally Debra Mendenhall Bill & Suzanne Shinn Jill Mitchell Linda Sklar Jeremiah Monds Kathleen Sullivan Doris Mullinix-King

For further information on Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation sponsorship, contribution, and membership opportunities, please e-mail us at [email protected], call the TAA office at 615-460-5451, or visit the TAA website at www.tennesseeartsacademy.org. Tax-deductible gifts may be sent to: Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation c/o Belmont University • 1900 Belmont Boulevard • Nashville, Tennessee 37212 On-line gifts can be made at http://www.tennesseeartsacademy.org/support-taa/taa_foundation.aspx Art Music Theatre & Dance Creative Writing Austin Peay’s Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts Tennessee’s only center devoted to research, creation and education in the arts. For more information about CECA, please visit www.apsu.edu/creativearts.

APSU is an AA/EEO employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic or national origin, sex, religion, age, disability status, and/or veteran status in its programs, and activities. http://www.apsu.edu/files/policy/5002.pdf CLOSING CREDITS The Tennessee Arts Academy gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following individuals, businesses, and organizations whose contributions have helped make the 2015 Academy possible. MAJOR FUNDING SUPPORT BREAK SPONSORS NEWSLETTER SPONSORS Tennessee Department of Education Belmont University College of Visual and Destination Imagination Tennessee Arts Commission Performing Arts Lipscomb University College of Entertainment Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Liberty Control Company and the Arts Belmont University Lipscomb University College of Entertainment Steinway Piano Gallery and the Arts Tennessee Shakespeare Company MAJOR SPONSORSHIP SUPPORT Phillips Entertainment Pinnacle Financial Partners Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University GOODS AND SERVICES Pat and Thane Smith Tennessee Educational Theatre Association Alliance Music Publications Tennessee Book Company Theatrical Rights Worldwide Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art Wolfe Family Fund Thomas Tours Carol Crittenden Freedom Intermediate School EVENT FUNDING SUPPORT ADVERTISERS Freedom Middle School Gibson Foundation Altman Lighting Company Frist Center for the Visual Arts SunTrust Foundation Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Grand Mesa Music Publishers ORNL Federal Credit Union Austin Peay State University – Center of Excellence GIA Publications BRAVO BANQUET for the Creative Arts Hinshaw Music CORPORATE TABLE SPONSORS CantoUSA Neil A. Kjos Music Company as of 6.19.15 Costume & Theatre Inventory Resources Mid-South Ceramic Supply Company Germantown Association Disney Performing Arts Nashville Symphony Mr. & Mrs. Stephen O. Hewlett Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. Jack Parnell Kem and Marilyn Hinton Frist Center for the Visual Arts Smith and Kraus Publishers KHS America, Inc. Kelly’s Piano Service Steinway Piano Gallery of Nashville Lipscomb University College of Entertainment KHS America, Inc. Tennessee Art Education Association Knoxville Museum of Art and the Arts TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY PROGRAM BOOK Pinnacle Financial Partners Lane Music Graphic Designer: Ron Watson Sara Savell Lipscomb University College of Entertainment Photographer: Scott Schrecker Pat and Thane Smith and the Arts Editors: Lori Anne Parker-Danley, Susan Ramsay Steinway Piano Gallery Memphis College of Art Proofreaders: Melody Hart, Linda Norfleet, Sodexo, Inc. & Affiliates Mid South Business Furniture, Inc. Gail Merritt Congdon Tennessee Book Company Orion Federal Credit Union Printer: Douglas Printing, Inc. Jeanette and Bill Watkins OZ Arts Nashville Steinway Piano Gallery Production Coordinator: Frank Bluestein ARTS VENDOR FAIR EXHIBITORS Tennessee Art Education Association as of 6.19.15 Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Tennessee Music Education Association Belmont University College of Visual Theatrical Rights Worldwide and Performing Arts Thomas Tours Destination Imagination Titanic Museum Attraction Frist Center for the Visual Arts Watkins College of Art, Design & Film KHS America, Inc. Liberty Control Company Lipscomb University College of Entertainment and the Arts Memphis College of Art Mid-South Ceramic Supply Company Nashville Symphony Norcostco OZ Arts Nashville Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University Steinway Piano Gallery Tennessee Art Education Association Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Thomas Tours Titanic Museum Attraction Watkins College of Art, Design & Film