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. 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 A Program of the Tennessee Department of Education Additional support for the Tennessee Arts Academy is provided by the Tennessee Arts Commission, Belmont University, the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation, Gibson Foundation, Pinnacle Financial Partners, Pat and Thane Smith, SunTrust Foundation, Tennessee Book Company, the Wolfe Family Fund, and private donors. 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. 4 FACULTY 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