July 8–13, 2018 On the Campus of Belmont University CECA:(sēēk-ăh)-pr The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University
“CECA sponsors 80-100 special events in the various art forms, bringing both emerging and prominent artists from around the nation to Clarksville each year to pres- ent concerts and lectures, work directly with students in master classes and workshops, and introduce innovative ways of making and exploring art.”
“Since 1985, CECA has been providing students, the Clarksville Community, and the Southeast region with engaging experiences in the creation, presentation, study, and research of significant and distinctive works of art.”
apsu.edu/ceca The Premier Summer Teacher Training Institute for K–12 Arts Education
The Tennessee Arts Academy is a project of the Tennessee Department of Education and is funded under a grant contract with the State of Tennessee. Major corporate, organizational, and individual funding support for the Tennessee Arts Academy is generously provided by:
Significant sponsorship, scholarship, and event support is generously provided by the Belmont University Department of Art; Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee; Dorothy Gillespie Foundation; Solie Fott; Bobby Jean Frost; Gibson Foundation; Kem Hinton; KHS America; Sara Savell; Lee Stites; Tennessee Book Company; The Big Payback; Theatrical Rights Worldwide; and Adolph Thornton Jr., aka Young Dolph. Welcome
From the Tennessee Department of Education
Dear Educators,
Welcome to the 2018 Tennessee Arts Academy! How fortunate you are to be a part of this enriching and challenging professional learning experience. I hope your presence this week 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, to share with and learn from colleagues across the state, and to strengthen your instructional practices around an integrated arts program.
I am also excited to announce the launch of our new initiative, Tennessee: State of the Arts. This program was developed as a public-private partnership between the Country Music Association (CMA) Foundation and the State of Tennessee. This initiative seeks to leverage Tennessee’s rich history in the arts by launching a statewide program focused on expanding students’ access to high-quality music and arts education. To support this work we are adding to our staff an arts program director who will be charged with overseeing this initiative and providing support to arts educators across the state.
As you know, research shows that the experiences of expansive arts education programs have a significant impact on student outcomes. Through the new Tennessee: State of the Arts initiative, school districts will be able to apply for three-year grants to enhance their arts and music education programs beginning in the 2018-19 school year. We know that arts education is critically 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 meaningful, and that you will take full advantage of this collaborative learning opportunity. Thank you for all that you do to support Tennessee students!
Best,
Candice McQueen Commissioner of Education Welcome
From the Governor of Tennessee
Dear Friends,
On behalf of the great State of Tennessee, it is my honor to welcome participants and guests to the 2018 Tennessee Arts Academy. I congratulate you on your decision to attend this outstanding professional development institute and hope you have lasting memories of this occasion for many years to come.
As you gather together again this year, I am sure you will enjoy interacting with colleagues as you 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 and regards for an exciting and enriching event.
Warmest regards,
Bill Haslam
From the President of Belmont University
Welcome to Belmont University!
We wish to congratulate the Tennessee Arts Academy on its many successful years of developing and encouraging teachers of the arts. We are honored to partner with the Tennessee Department of Education and the Tennessee Arts Academy in this vital work.
Belmont is very pleased to host the Tennessee Arts Academy, and we hope your experience is enhanced by our campus environment and facilities. We trust that your time here will be inspirational and productive as you share best practices and learn from gifted instructors.
Sincerely,
Robert C. Fisher President Contents
5 Faculty 32 Academy Awards 9 Core Workshop Sessions 34 Administrative Council and Staff 14 Interludes 37 Advertisers 24 Musings 68 Closing Credits 26 Performances 28 Special Events 31 TAA History Faculty
Kate Church Dru Davison districts around the state. Donahue also sings Visual Art: Upper Middle/Secondary Arts Leadership and Administration lead in the Chisholm Trail Chorus of Sweet For more than twenty Dru Davison is an arts Adelines International, a women’s barbershop years, Kate Church administrator for the organization. has been combining Shelby County Schools the line and form of and currently serves as a Victoria Englehart sculpture with the subject matter expert for Visual Art: Upper playful animation of the Tennessee Department Middle/Secondary puppetry—a combination of Education’s Fine Arts Victoria Englehart she first stumbled Standards Training project. holds degrees in into while working with the renowned He has held several professional appointments holistic education and international children’s puppetry company with the National Association for Music art education and is a the Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia. Church Education, including chair of the association’s National Board-certified has also spent time in Mexico, where she has Council of Music Leaders, President’s Cabinet, kindergarten to twelfth worked in multiple disciplines, including life and Professional Development Committee. grade art teacher. She recently retired from drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, Davison has been a consultant for the United thirty years of teaching in Florida’s Broward and painting. She created figures for P’lovers States Department of Education and the County Schools. During her career, she has stores throughout the Maritimes, where she Tennessee Department of Education as well taught elementary through high school first began to sell her work. Later she worked as the Insight Education Group. He has taught students in Ohio, Massachusetts, and Florida, as with Cirque du Soleil, who sold her original music to students in kindergarten through well as college students at Kent State University figures and reproductions at their retail twelfth grade, was an adjunct jazz instructor at in Ohio and Broward College in Florida. She shops and shows around the world. Church Arkansas State University, and was a teaching has illustrated nine children’s books—the most currently spends considerable time traveling fellow in music education at the University of recent being one she also wrote called Whose and teaching. In her classes, she openly shares North Texas. He has been a member of the Bill Shoes? She has received numerous grants and the techniques she uses to make her signature and Melinda Gates College Readiness Advisory awards including Project Help Teacher of the work, as well as the methods she has developed Council and is a former national fellow for the Year and Metro PCS Teacher of the Year. She over the years. Hope Street Group. was also one of three finalists for Broward County Arts Teacher of the Year. Recently, Michael Culloton Sheila Donahue she was named delegate for the International Music: Upper Middle/Secondary Music: Elementary/Lower Middle Women’s Leadership Association. She currently Michael Culloton is Sheila Donahue is a retired Texas music teaches at Studio Spade where she continues an assistant professor educator. During the to help students build their own paths thru of music at Concordia final ten years of her art education. She is passionate about art and College in Moorhead, thirty-four-year career, continues to guide and encourage students to Minnesota, where he she served as director develop and empower themselves by creating conducts the Concordia of fine arts for Killeen their own personal processes. Chapel Choir, Kantorei, Independent School and Cantabile; mentors District in Killeen, David L. Gamble music education students; teaches church Texas, a district she also Visual Art: Elementary/Lower Middle music courses; and advises the student chapter served as a teacher and an administrator for David L. Gamble has spent of the American Choral Directors Association. twenty-nine years. Donahue has experience more than four decades Along with his duties at Concordia College, teaching elementary music, middle school balancing art and business Culloton is artistic director and conductor band, and middle school choir. Donahue in the ceramic industry. He of the Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists and is also a published composer and arranger has developed products, also conducts the Trinity Lutheran Church of choral music for young choirs. Her work written many articles, and Cathedral Choir. He earned a doctorate is published by both Carl Fischer Music designed and conducted in musical arts from North Dakota State Publishing and Alliance Music Publishing. She marketing campaigns, University, where he studied with Jo Ann Miller has taught instructional pedagogy courses while continuously making clay art and teaching and Michael Weber. He has been recognized for teachers of students in kindergarten to students. David and his wife Tracy share a as the Minnesota American Choral Directors eighth grade throughout the state of Texas home and studio in a converted 1886 Indiana Association Young Conductor of the Year and and at James Madison University in Virginia. church, which was recently featured in an article has also received the VocalEssence Creative In her retirement, she continues to provide in Ceramics Monthly. Gamble has conducted Programming Award from that organization. In professional education classes for school hundreds of workshops in Canada and the 2009, he was a featured conductor in Never Stop United States and has helped organize and Singing, a documentary about the history of participate in five clay symposiums in Eastern choral music in Minnesota.
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Europe. He has recently presented workshops Hilliard received the prestigious Mississippi for the CMA Foundation at the state and federal in Alaska, Finland, and at both Arrowmont and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in the levels, which includes working with more than Penland craft schools. His artwork has been seen Classical Music Division. He is frequently a dozen community partners. Additionally, in gallery shows, exhibitions, and numerous commissioned to compose works, including Kerns oversees the CMA’s collegiate program publications. With degrees in both education and one for the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta and called CMA EDU. The program currently has the fine arts, Gamble is adding an educational a score for the documentary film The Texas twenty-five collegiate chapters nationwide and focus in his work with the retail stores Skutt Rangers. In 2008, he was commissioned by aims to educate students on the music business Kilns and Pottery Wheels. He considers his the Library of Congress to compose a work in by giving them opportunities to work alongside current ceramic work as sketches and paintings celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of industry professionals while developing their that happen to be on clay with glazes being used Abraham Lincoln. business acumen. like paint. Karen Howard Noah Martin Tracy Gamble Music: Elementary/Lower Middle Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary Visual Art: Elementary/Lower Middle Karen Howard is an Noah Martin is a teaching Tracy Gamble has been assistant professor of artist, director, and teaching, designing, music at the University theatre maker based in producing, and selling clay of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Austin, Texas. His work for thirty years. She has Minnesota. She received with youth and adults is worked as an actor, singer, degrees from the Hartt focused on collaborative and dancer for many School at the University theatre-making processes years and has been a of Hartford, Connecticut, and creating new work that member of Actors’ Equity and from the University of Washington. builds community and fosters meaningful social since 1984. She has also worked in theatre, Howard taught elementary music for twenty dialogue. Martin is the director of teen programs commercials, industrials, and films in Chicago years in Connecticut and Washington. She has at Creative Action and the artistic director of and the Midwest. Gamble combined clay and extensive training in global vocal, instrumental, Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble—a theatre in The Pottery Fairy Tale, a one-act play and dance traditions from many music program that brings together teens from around performed at the potters’ wheel in elementary cultures including Bulgaria, Cuba, Ghana, Austin to create and tour original shows about schools, theatres, children’s museums, and at Tahiti, and Tanzania. Through national and violence prevention and healthy relationships. special events. For the last twenty years, she has international workshops, she has helped He hails from the Pacific Northwest, where he been teaching workshops as well as consulting music teachers around the world to make was a founder and co-artistic director of the on commercial glazes around the world meaningful connections with the music and Working Theatre Collective in Portland, Oregon. with the American Art Clay Company, Inc. dance of diverse cultures and to create learning He has created and directed dozens of original (AMACO). She has also written many articles experiences that promote and celebrate equity. shows with people of all ages in Austin, Portland, and been featured in advertisements for Her research interests and publications include Seattle, and San Francisco, including an annual AMACO in Pottery Making Illustrated, Ceramics works on world music cultures, hip-hop in bicycle pageant seen by hundreds of pedaling Monthly, and Arts & Activities. music education, and global dance traditions. audience members. Martin holds a degree in theatre education from Western Washington Quincy Hilliard Tiffany Kerns University and a masters degree in drama and Music: Upper Middle/Secondary Arts Leadership and Administration theatre for youth and communities from the Quincy Hilliard is Tiffany Kerns is the University of Texas at Austin. composer-in-residence executive director of and the Heymann the Country Music Don Masse Endowed Professor of Association Foundation, Visual Art: Elementary/Lower Middle Music at the University the charitable arm of Don Masse has taught of Louisiana in Lafayette. the Country Music at Zamorano Fine Arts For many years, he has Association (CMA). Academy, a very large and been recognized by the In her role, Kerns is diverse public elementary American Society of Composers, Authors, responsible for developing strategic community school in San Diego, and Publishers for the unusually frequent relationships on behalf of the CMA Foundation. since 2001. He is firmly performance of his compositions. Hilliard She oversees all charitable investments for the committed to introducing is regularly invited to conduct, demonstrate CMA Foundation, which totals $21 million his students to the work effective techniques, and adjudicate festivals to date and includes more than sixty grant of contemporary artists from a variety of throughout the world. His compositions recipients nationwide. Kerns works with each backgrounds and creative fields of expertise. for wind band are published by a variety of organization to provide strategic planning, He does so because students become better well-known publishers and have included compliance, project management, and engaged with visual art content and design many publications for band students. In 2014, community impact. She also oversees efforts challenges when they can see these elements
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being used by artists working in today’s world. many subjects and curricula in a number of Mark Price Masse is actively involved in art education locations, including universities, public schools, Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary communities at the local, state, and national museums, and other community settings. Her Mark Price’s twenty-year levels, where he has presented many sessions ultimate goal as an educator is to empower professional career addressing contemporary art and collaboration. students to use their knowledge to engage includes credits in He is a contributing editor for Arts & Activities, with their communities and the greater world both originating and where his “Alive and Kicking” series runs through teaching and service. As the executive performing roles in ten on a regular basis. Masse also celebrates the collaborative creator of the Kids Arts Festival Broadway shows, as work of his school community on his blog of Tennessee, she is dedicated to community well as appearances on shinebritezamorano.com. arts-based service in the Nashville area. The television, in film, and on Kids Arts Festival of Tennessee is the first arts concert stages. His extensive background has Mary McAvoy festival in the state of Tennessee that is fully provided him with a methodology for helping Theatre: Elementary/Lower Middle designed for children and youth. As a result students secure their own Broadway, film, and Mary McAvoy is an of grants she has secured, the annual event television credits. Many of his students have assistant professor of remains free to attendees and has grown in been accepted into the country’s best graduate theatre education and scope each year. Recently, in its third year, programs. Pulling from a variety of sources, theatre for youth in the attendance reached more than six thousand. including Viewpoints, Meisner, and sense School of Film, Dance, memory, Price works with both internal and and Theatre at Arizona Jeff M. Poulin external approaches to help stimulate State University. She heads Arts Leadership and Administration process-oriented results that are not just the theatre education Jeff M. Poulin joined the sustainable, but exciting. He is the co-founder teacher certification program and teaches arts education team at and creator of Base Camp, a coaching intensive both undergraduate and graduate theatre- Americans for the Arts for creatives with life coach Di Ana Pisarri. for-youth courses. Previously, McAvoy was an in 2013. In this position, He is also a qualified independent Vedic elementary drama specialist in the Charlotte- he works to empower Meditation teacher. Teaching credits include Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina. She local, state, and federal full-time and part-time faculty positions at the is active in the American Alliance for Theatre supporters of arts New York Film Academy and the Performing and Education (most recently serving as education so they can Arts Project. Price has conducted workshops at its director of research and scholarship), become effective advocates of policies that the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, the American Society for Theatre Research, support equal access to arts education. During Heifetz Institute, Ithaca College, Texas State and the International Theatre for Young his tenure with Americans for the Arts, Poulin University, and Wake Forest University. Audiences Research Network. She is the co- has trained more than ten thousand people author of Drama and Education: Performance in all fifty states. Additional accomplishments Julie Scott Methodologies for Teaching and Learning and include playing a key role in the publication of Music: Elementary/Lower Middle co-editor of Youth and Performance: Perceptions the 2014 National Core Arts Standards, acting Julie Scott is professor of the Contemporary Child. as a leader in the creative youth development of practice and co-chair movement, and being a founding board of music education at Meaghan Brady Nelson member of the Innovation Collaborative. Before Southern Methodist Trio Track: Visual Art Sessions joining the Americans for the Arts, Poulin was a University (SMU) in Meaghan Brady Nelson chief advisor on the implementation of the first Dallas, Texas, where is an assistant professor national Arts in Education Charter under the she teaches courses in of art education. She direction of the ministers of arts and education elementary and choral has been with Middle in the Republic of Ireland. He often speaks at music education. Before teaching at the Tennessee State University many universities and nonprofit organizations. college level, she taught elementary music and since 2013 and is choir in Texas schools for more than twenty excited to be joining years. During that time, five of her elementary the department of art groups—three Orff ensembles and two at Belmont University in the fall of 2018. Her choirs—were invited to perform for the Texas research and service center around the ways Music Educators Convention. Over the past collaborative art making and critical visual twenty-five years, Scott has taught summer literacy can inspire social consciousness and Orff-Schulwerk courses to adults at eight responsibility, as well as the ways her work is universities and has presented more than two influenced by her multilayered identity as a hundred conference sessions and workshops ‘Mothering-ArtAdemic.’ Her work has been throughout the United States. In addition, she published both nationally and internationally. has presented at international conferences During the past eighteen years, she has taught in Australia, China, Greece, Italy, Scotland,
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and Thailand. Scott is a past president of implemented teacher training and professional the American Orff-Schulwerk Association development for a network of more than one and founder and director of SMU’s music hundred schools across the country. He is educators workshops. certified to teach dance from pre-kindergarten through high school and has taught both dance Lauren Smith and third grade in public school settings in Theatre: Elementary/Lower Middle North Carolina and New York. As an artist, Lauren Smith is the Warner has choreographed and performed in learning director at Triad more than one hundred productions nationally. Stage in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is James Wells currently building an Arts Leadership and Administration education department James Wells is the from the ground up— Innovative Teaching creating infrastructure and Learning Manager State University. He has published more than for programming that includes arts integration with Crayola. In this role, twenty music education journal articles and residencies, arts-based professional learning he works with school has edited two books with Oxford University workshops for teachers, audience engagement districts to help them Press. West is a frequent presenter at state, activities related to the company’s mainstage build their creative national, and international music education season, and theatre camps and classes for capacities through conferences on the topics of pre-service music young people. As part of this position, she also leadership and arts integration training. teacher education, popular music education, serves as the statewide coordinator for the Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Wells taught and beginning band pedagogy. He currently Poetry Out Loud competition. She has worked middle school visual art before transitioning to serves on the editorial review boards of Music as a teaching artist, professional development work with the Culture and Heritage Museums Educators Journal and the Journal of Music facilitator, and stage manager at Metro Theater in South Carolina, where he designed and Teacher Education. He is also the reviews editor Company in St. Louis, Missouri; Great River presented programs in science, visual art, for the Journal of Popular Music Education. Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota; and history. He then accepted a position with and Drama for Schools and the Paramount the Tennessee Arts Commission in Nashville, Brad Willcuts Theatre in Austin, Texas. She has also been where he served as arts education projects Theatre: Upper Middle/Secondary a guest lecturer at the University of South coordinator. Later, he returned to Memphis, Brad Willcuts is a Australia, focusing on drama-based instruction where he served as the visual arts instructional professional director, and Shakespeare. Currently, she is one member advisor for Shelby County Schools. Most choreographer, and fight of a three-director team for Bored with recently, Wells was selected as a 2017 fellow and movement director, Strangers, a site-specific, traveling museum of the School for Art Leaders through the as well as an assistant theatre piece that offers various entry points National Art Education Association. He has professor of musical theatre into experiencing visual art. participated on many boards and committees and choreography at to advance arts education including the Michigan State University. Kevin S. Warner Tennessee standards revision committee and His work as a choreographer, movement Theatre: Elementary/Lower Middle the Partnership for 21st Century Learning director, and stage director has been seen on Kevin S. Warner is chair of Policy committee. Broadway and in numerous regional theatres, the department of theatre including Washington’s Arena Stage and the and dance at Appalachian Chad West Virginia Repertory Theatre. At Michigan State, State University in Boone, Music: Upper Middle/Secondary he has directed and choreographed American North Carolina, where Chad West is associate Idiot, Urinetown, Grease, A Grand Night for Singing, he was recently awarded professor and chair of and See Rock City. As a performer, Willcuts has a William C. Friday music education at Ithaca worked across the United States and in England Fellowship for Human College in Ithaca, New as a singer, dancer and actor. In these capacities, Relations. Previously, at the State University York. Before his position he has performed with Bette Midler, Marvin of New York at Brockport, he served as chair at the college, he served Hamlisch, Christina Aguilera, Emily Skinner, of the department of dance, as director of the as a public school band the international touring group the Twelve Irish Interdisciplinary Arts for Children Program, director for eight years, Tenors, and others. His most recent creative and as director of the Hunter Institute on as associate conductor of the Atlanta Wind work was for the national tour of the Broadway Young Children. From 2004 to 2008, Warner Symphony, and as a trumpeter for Princess musical Amazing Grace. He is a member of was program director for North Carolina’s Cruise Lines. He has degrees from the University Actor’s Equity and holds a Certificate of Figure A+ Schools Program, where he designed and of Michigan, University of Georgia, and Arizona Proficiency through Estill Voice International.
8 Core Workshop Sessions: Music
Elementary/Lower Middle Music Every day, participants will attend each of the classes listed below.
Sing, Move, Play, Evaluate! Instructor: Sheila Donahue When music classes are large and class rotations infrequent, allocating precious instructional minutes for assessing essential skills can be challenging. In this session, participants will learn new songs and games that are both pedagogically sound and a lot of fun for both teachers and students. They will also leave the session knowing how to use these new songs and games to develop assessment tools.
Matters of Diversity and Equity in Music Education Instructor: Karen Howard There is simultaneously a growing desire as well as confusion among music teachers who Upper Middle/ Methods, Strategies, and Materials for look for music and pedagogical strategies that Secondary Music Creating Successful Middle and High engage with the numerous heritages of their School Band Programs students and the larger global community. In Participants will follow either the vocal or Instructor: Quincy Hilliard this session, participants will explore a variety instrumental track and attend two of the The information provided in this workshop is three classes listed below each day. of world music cultures as well as pedagogical designed to give middle and high school band considerations. Attention will be given to topics directors a framework that will guide them Awaken the Choral Artistry sitting at the crossroads of music education through the successful development of middle Instructor: Michael Culloton and ethnomusicology including performance and high school band programs. Topics will practices, authenticity, and context. Strategies So a music educator is a choral music include classroom management, breathing, tone for creating equity in the music classroom teacher and a choral artist? Yes, absolutely! production, intonation, embouchure development, will also be presented. By awakening their artistic selves, teachers balance, and technique. These topics will aid in end up encouraging their students to do the producing strong individual musicians as well as Improvisation: Carpe Diem! same. This inevitably makes the rehearsal and an outstanding sounding band. Instructor: Julie Scott performance process more meaningful and enjoyable. In these sessions, participants will Carl Orff wrote, “It is not the playing from Popular Music Pedagogy for the work together to fine-tune the artistic side of notation but the free making of music in Traditional Music Educator the teaching equation by exploring ideas about improvisation that is meant and demanded, for Instructor: Chad West relevant programming, conducting reminders which the printed examples give information Does the thought of teaching popular music cause and refinements, and discovering ways to and stimulus.” In these hands-on sessions, anxiety? These sessions are designed for the “non- improve intonation with creative and enjoyable participants will learn pieces for singing, body rockers” who are curious about teaching popular exercises. There will be a focus on how to percussion, unpitched percussion, and Orff music. Participants will learn simple techniques musically empower young singers, as well as instruments—all of which will serve as models for teaching guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, and many other interesting and important topics. for improvisation. Materials will be presented appropriate vocal styles and will acquire the in order of difficulty and will include folk resources needed to immediately begin leading a songs and selections by Carl Orff and Gunild popular music ensemble. Keetman. Participants should arrive prepared to imagine, create, and improvise!
9 Core Workshop Sessions: Theatre
Elementary/Lower science curricula in order to deepen student Upper Middle/ engagement with the content. Teachers will gain Middle Theatre practical, ready-to-use strategies and resources Secondary Theatre that support students’ comprehension Focus Areas: Arts Integration, Creative Every day, participants will attend each of Drama, and Movement and retention of complex vocabulary and the classes listed below. understanding of cycles in nature, as well as Every day, participants will attend each of their critical thinking and collaborative skills. Capturing Students’ Imaginations: the classes listed below. This session is designed for classroom teachers Devising Tools and Techniques to and includes approaches applicable for gifted Create Original Work Doing with Drama: Creative and special education teachers, librarians, and Instructor: Noah Martin Dramatics, Literacy, and Expeditionary arts specialists. Around the country youth are speaking out on Learning issues they care about. Learn theatrical devising Instructor: Mary McAvoy Making Movement Meaningful: techniques that engage youth in meaningful In a series of engaging, practical workshops, Creative Movement Meets Social dialogue around issues that will spark the participants will develop strategies for Studies and Language Arts in the creation of vital new work. In this workshop, enlivening their literacy curricula using Elementary Classroom participants will use a mix of improvisation, student-empowering experiential drama Instructor: Kevin S. Warner storytelling, and movement exercises to create methods. Building on the principle that people This session will explore the role of creative characters, embody ideas, and explore different learn by doing, these sessions will focus both movement in elementary education, along with perspectives. The week will culminate with the on bringing narratives to life and providing simple strategies for using it in the classroom. The sharing of an in-process devised work. learners opportunities to imagine, reinvent, curricular integration of movement with social and experiment within them. studies and language arts will be highlighted Unexpected Alchemy: Cultivating Truth to illustrate the power of dance for promoting a and Spontaneity in Performance Dramatic Investigation: Using the Arts deeper understanding of both content and process Instructor: Mark Price as Tools to Spark Science Learning skills as outlined in the Tennessee Academic This workshop focuses on cultivating more Instructor: Lauren Smith Standards. No prior dance experience is required truth and spontaneity in performance. During This experiential workshop invites participants to participate in this workshop. these sessions, participants will employ tools to explore ways to integrate art forms— to access more creative play and break down including drama, visual art, and music—into the five key elements that are necessary for good storytelling. They will also use tools for resiliency that will deepen authenticity in performance and help artists stay in the game.
Shaping the Stage: A Musical Theatre Choreography Intensive Instructor: Brad Willcuts This activity-based workshop will explore new and exciting ways of using musical theatre choreography to illuminate and embolden the stories being conveyed on stage. Participants will be given five simple compositional and directorial techniques with which to experiment. Ideas for improving the musical theatre director’s choreography toolbox will include objective-based dance compositions, hooking the theme, and stage-shape surprises, among others. No previous dance experience is required.
10 Core Workshop Sessions: Visual Art
printmaking materials. Emphasis will also be placed on how teachers can use the elements of choice and constraints in these lessons to encourage students to develop their creative voices. Digital plans that connect the workshop activities to the National Visual Arts Standards will be provided.
Upper Middle/ Secondary Visual Art Participants will attend each workshop listed below for two consecutive days and a summary workshop for both sessions on Friday morning.
Building Sculptural Character Instructor: Kate Church This hands-on workshop will offer art educators an opportunity to understand how to sculpt with polymer clay, cloth, and wire. The class will introduce participants to this low-cost process and teach them how to build sculptural figures with these simple materials. Materials source lists and in-depth notes for creating lesson plans will be provided.
Impression Obsession, or Printmaking Elementary/Lower will make use of sprig molds, textured rollers, and the Question “What if …?” texture molds, and the best possible tools: their Instructor: Victoria Englehart Middle VISUAL ART hands. The focus of the workshop will be on Participants will attend each workshop constructing and decorating. Because of time This interactive workshop for middle and high listed below for two consecutive days and constraints, all projects won’t be fired. However, school art educators offers an opportunity to a summary workshop for both sessions on David Gamble will share the basics and tips on explore printmaking strategies while asking Friday morning. loading, firing, and testing in electric kilns. the question “What if …?” Participants will work with pencil, colored pencil, ink, acrylic Gambles Clay Adventures A Contemporary Focus paint, precision craft knives, and printmaking Instructors: David and Tracy Gamble Instructor: Don Masse materials. Techniques will be based on creating and making stamped compositions, weavings, In this session, participants will create clay This interactive workshop will give elementary overprints, frottages, stenciling, cards, and wall masks, sushi plates, and an image transfer and middle school art educators the opportunity hangings. Lesson plans will be provided for project. They will also explore brush making. to explore a wide variety of contemporary each activity. Most projects will start with images and a art-inspired lessons that can be used to foster demonstration and go from there. Participants student engagement and collaboration in the art room. Participants will work with chalk pastels, collage, colored pencils, digital art, paint, and
11 Core Workshop Sessions: Arts Leadership
Arts Leadership and Administration
Finding Your Advocacy Voice: Policy Literacy to Advance Arts Education Seminar Instructor: Jeff M. Poulin In this session, master facilitator Jeff Poulin will help participants learn about the most effective The goal of the Arts Leadership and Seminars and strategies to be a voice for arts education in the Administration track (ALAA) is to inspire community, state, and nation. He will provide and empower participants to support Webinars immediately applicable strategies as well as and advance arts education. The ALAA All participants will engage in special policy briefings to ensure participants gain the track is designed to connect teachers, seminars and interactive webinars most up-to-date knowledge on the status of school and district leaders, program throughout the week. arts education in America. directors, and others who are interested in active arts education leadership. Creating and Sustaining Building Creative Leadership Teams Purposeful Networks Webinar Instructor: James Wells Daily Core Classes Seminar Instructor: Tiffany Kerns How can schools increase their creative In this session, participants will be challenged capacities? In this session, participants will Instructors: Dru Davison and to think about the best ways to leverage their explore this question. They will hear about the Amanda Galbraith existing and potential professional networks to current work Crayola is doing in schools to Participants will engage in practical and bring about positive results for arts education. build creative leadership, advocate to school thought-provoking sessions that connect Participants will engage in thoughtful and leaders about the importance of art education, contemporary arts research and trends to strategic organizational planning discussions. and design relevant professional development targeted arts initiatives at multiple levels within Tiffany Kerns will give an overview of the work for teachers. This session will inspire schools, districts, and beyond. Content will she does with the CMA Foundation, as well participants to examine ways that the goals be explored through field experiences that as the current work that the CMA Foundation for art education in Tennessee are related to include visits to content sessions throughout the is doing to impact music and arts education and informing the landscape of art education Academy to observe from the perspective of an around the country. across the country. arts leader. Numerous interactive discussions and webinars with state and national leaders are also part of the innovative curriculum.
12 Core Workshop Sessions: Trio Track
Theatre/Arts Integration: Trio Track Upper Middle/ (Grades K–3) Doing with Drama: Creative Dramatics, Secondary Trio Literacy, and Expeditionary Learning Track Instructor: Mary McAvoy Every day, participants will attend each In a series of engaging, practical workshops, of the classes listed below. participants will develop strategies for enlivening their literacy curricula using Music: Trio Track student-empowering experiential drama Popular Music Pedagogy for the methods. Building on the principle that people Traditional Music Educator learn by doing, these sessions will focus both Instructor: Chad West on bringing narratives to life and providing Does the thought of teaching popular music cause learners opportunities to imagine, reinvent, anxiety? These sessions are designed for the “non- and experiment within them. rockers” who are curious about teaching popular music. Participants will learn simple techniques Theatre/Arts Integration: Trio Track for teaching guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, and (Grades 4–6) appropriate vocal styles, and will acquire the Dramatic Investigation: Using the Arts as resources needed to immediately begin leading a Tools to Spark Science Learning popular music ensemble. Instructor: Lauren Smith
Trio Track provides participants This experiential workshop invites participants Theatre: Trio Track who are enrolled in this track a daily to explore ways to integrate art forms— Capturing Students’ Imaginations: multidisciplinary experience in three including drama, visual art, and music—into Devising Tools and Techniques to Create distinct arts areas. Each day Trio Track science curricula in order to deepen student Original Work participants will attend a pre-designated engagement with the content. Teachers will gain Instructor: Noah Martin class in music, theatre, and visual art. practical, ready-to-use strategies and resources Find and tap into the power of your youthful Participants will attend the same core that support students’ comprehension voice, and learn to create vital new work with class in each content area for the entire and retention of complex vocabulary and students! In this workshop, participants will week, allowing complete immersion in understanding of cycles in nature, as well as use a mix of improvisation, storytelling, and one topic for each arts discipline. their critical thinking and collaborative skills. movement exercises to create characters, This session is designed for classroom teachers embody ideas, and explore different Elementary/Lower and includes approaches applicable for gifted perspectives. The week will culminate with the and special education teachers, librarians, and sharing of an in-process devised work. Middle Trio Track arts specialists. Visual Art: Trio Track Every day, participants will attend each Visual Art: Trio Track Exploring the Big Idea of Identity through of the classes listed below. Exploring the Big Idea of Identity through Critical Visual Literacy and Contemporary Critical Visual Literacy and Contemporary Music: Trio Track Art Making Art Making Sing, Move, Play, Evaluate! Instructor: Meaghan Brady Nelson Instructor: Meaghan Brady Nelson Instructor: Sheila Donahue These sessions will explore the topic of critical These sessions will explore the topic of critical When music classes are large and class visual literacy and how people’s identities are visual literacy and how people’s identities are rotations infrequent, allocating precious influenced by visual culture. Participants will influenced by visual culture. Participants will instructional minutes for assessing essential experiment with ways they can use art making experiment with ways they can use art making skills can be challenging. In this session, in the classroom to help their students discover in the classroom to help their students discover participants will learn new songs and games the role images play in identity formation. the role images play in identity formation. that are both pedagogically sound as well as The goal of such activities is to challenge The goal of such activities is to challenge a lot of fun for both teachers and students. and prepare students to question how they and prepare students to question how they They will also leave the session knowing how encounter and understand the images and encounter and understand the images and to use these new songs and games to develop visual cultures that influence and surround visual cultures that influence and surround assessment tools. them. No previous art experience is necessary them. No previous art experience is necessary to attend this session. The activities shared in to attend this session. The activities shared in this session will be appropriate for use with this session will be appropriate for use with students in seventh through twelfth grade. students in kindergarten through sixth grade.
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Interludes provide all Academy participants Lisa Benton, a TAA and Belmont University Practical Classroom Applications of with the opportunity to receive cross- alumnus, currently serves as choral director at the Revised Music Standards disciplinary training. Multiple workshops Heritage Middle School in Williamson County. (Secondary) in each content area are open to everyone. During the past twenty years, she has taught Presenters: Dru Davison, All participants are expected to attend one middle school choral classes, guitar, piano, and Atticus Hensley, Chelsey Preiser, 45-minute interlude session each afternoon. general music. She is excited to host a TAA The interludes occur from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m., Roland Wilson Monday through Wednesday, and from 2:55 session that focuses on the unique world of (Wednesday) middle school voices. to 3:40 p.m. on Thursday. Session details After collaborating with arts educators, the and the day or days each interlude will take Tennessee State Board of Education has now Academy Chorale place are listed in the program book under released its newly revised Academic Standards Presenter: Michael Culloton the course title. Biographical information on for Fine Arts and Media Arts. These standards the instructors may be found either in the (Tuesday and Thursday) will be put in place during the 2018–2019 faculty section of the program book or in the Please come and join other participants as the descriptions below. academic year. The conceptual and structural Academy Chorale prepares a program of music shifts in the standards change what will be to be performed at the Academy luncheon expected of the artistic content made by on Friday. The Academy Chorale performs students in fine arts courses in the state. In this GENERAL INTEREST under the direction of Michael Culloton, the session, teachers and leaders will review and INTERLUDES Academy’s secondary choral instructor. compare the current and revised standards.
Balloons in the Classroom Presenter: Sam Cremeens (Thursday) In this interlude, Sam the Balloon Man (aka Sam Cremeens) will demonstrate the value of using balloons in the classroom, especially in the visual and performing arts. Discussion will include instruction on how to twist a balloon dog (we all have to start with the basics) and how to use balloons as a performing tool. With fifteen years’ experience as a balloon entertainer, Sam the Balloon Man is one of Nashville’s premier balloon artists. He performs at more than three hundred events every year and travels the world as a renowned instructor of balloon art. Sam the Balloon Man will also perform for the Arts Academy Vendor Fair on Thursday.
MUSIC RELATED INTERLUDES
Repertoire Sharing: Middle School Choir Grades 6–8 Presenter: Lisa Benton (Monday) In this interlude, middle school choral teachers are invited to participate in a short reading session. This time will also be a chance for educators from across the state to share their repertoire selections and teaching tips with each other.
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They will also participate in sample music classroom activities, which will give them the tools they need to start identifying practices that will support the revisions, as well as ideas for developing strategies to ensure they meet the new standards. Atticus Hensley is the band director for East and West Middle Schools in Tennessee’s Tullahoma City Schools District. Chelsey Preiser teaches general music and choir at West Middle School in Tullahoma, Tennessee. Roland Wilson is the choral arts director at Central High School in Memphis, Tennessee, and president of the West Tennessee Vocal Music Educators Association.
Practical Classroom Applications of the Revised Music Standards (Elementary) Presenters: Alexis Derryberry, Christy Summey has taught music for more than John D. Easley is the former director of bands at Melissa Dufrechou, Nikkie Parker- twenty years. For the last five years, she has been Union City High School, a position he held for Dunnewold, Christy Summey the music teacher at Grassland Elementary in thirty-one of his thirty-four years as a Tennessee (Wednesday) Brentwood, Tennessee, where she was named music educator. During his Union City tenure, After collaborating with arts educators, the teacher of the year in 2016. participation in the band program averaged Tennessee State Board of Education has now Alexis Derryberry is in her sixteenth year of 36 percent of the high school student body. released its newly revised Academic Standards teaching music in Tennessee’s Rutherford County Easley is now retired from education and currently for Fine Arts and Media Arts. These standards Schools and has been named the Tennessee serves as the Middle Tennessee educational will be put in place during the 2018–2019 Association of Middle Schools Team Teacher of representative for Amro Music. He is also a much academic year. The conceptual and structural the Year. She has also been the recipient of the sought-after clinician and adjudicator. shifts in the standards change what will be Tennessee Music Educators’ Outstanding Young expected of the artistic content made by Educator Award. students in fine arts courses in the state. In this Music Therapy Profession: session, teachers and leaders will review and Combining Science and Art compare the current and revised standards. Tell the Story with Drama and Dance Presenter: Sheila Donahue Presenter: Alejandra Ferrer They will also participate in sample music (Wednesday) (Monday) classroom activities, which will give them the This session will provide an introduction tools they need to start identifying practices This interlude will help teachers learn to build to the profession of music therapy as an that will support the revisions, as well as ideas movement and dramatic improvisation skills academic field of study. Topics to be discussed for developing strategies to ensure they meet that will encourage their students to develop will include goals in therapy, settings and the new standards. their interpretations of story songs in the elementary classroom. populations served, common music therapy Melissa Dufrechou is the director of fine arts in interventions, and research outcomes. Tennessee’s Williamson County Schools, where If You Sell It, They Will Come! Alejandra Ferrer is an assistant professor of she oversees the curriculum development of all of Presenter: John D. Easley music and coordinator of music therapy at the fine arts courses. As an educator, Dufrechou (Wednesday) Belmont University in Nashville. She is an taught strings, piano, general music, and choir in active member of the American Music Therapy Tennessee and Alabama. In this session, educators will learn strategies for marketing their band and orchestra Association and a regular presenter at regional Nikkie Parker-Dunnewold has taught Orff music programs to encourage more students to enroll. and national conferences on topics related to for eighteen years in the Shelby County Schools Noted band director John D. Easley will also medical music therapy, program development, in Memphis, Tennessee. She currently teaches offer tips on ways of keeping students in music and professional issues. Orff music at Robert R. Church Elementary programs once they are involved. School. In 2016, she was co-chair of the Shelby County Schools Orff Music All-city Concert.
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The Progressive Elementary a piano lab, and even an iPad lab purchased An Introduction to the Carillon Music Room with the help of the Bruning Foundation Grant. and its Music Presenters: Tony Hartman and Stewart is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State Presenter: Richard Shadinger Ryan Stewart University and recently obtained his masters of (Monday) education with a focus in educational leadership. (Monday) Participants will hear a brief program of He regularly composes original works for his This workshop will explore techniques for music played on Belmont’s forty-three bell students to perform in concerts. building a musically proficient general carillon. After the program, there will be an music program. opportunity to see the carillon as well as a The Four Cs and the Ph.D. to demonstration explaining how this unique and Tony Hartman is an educator, composer, and Becoming a Successful Teacher rare instrument is played. performer based in Middle Tennessee. In 2017, Presenter: Quincy Hilliard he was named District Teacher of the Year for (Monday) Richard Shadinger’s teaching career at Belmont Murfreesboro City Schools. Hartman earned his University spanned more than forty years—from This session will explore the traits that are bachelor degrees in music education and Spanish 1974 through May 2018, when he officially retired. essential to being a successful teacher. It’s not from Middle Tennessee State University. He is During his time at Belmont, he taught musicology, rocket science, but just plain old common thrilled to spend his days teaching kindergarten piano, and church music, and served as associate sense. These traits enable teachers to motivate to sixth grade general music, beginning band, dean for the School of Music. He recently their students and help them achieve success— and Steel de Boro—an after-school steel drum completed a book called Music on the Beautiful not only in the classroom, but long after the band. An avid composer, some of Hartman’s Mountain: A History of Music at Belmont. student is gone from the school. compositions have been published through Rowloff Productions. From the Beginning—This Time Singing Dances from Eastern with a Little More iPad and a Little Ryan Stewart is a general music specialist at Europe: Different Modes and Meters Less Trombone Scales Elementary School in Murfreesboro. His Presenter: Karen Howard Presenter: Chad West kindergarten through sixth grade students have (Wednesday) enjoyed numerous opportunities for learning (Monday) Explore the tradition of singing while and creating music with the help of Orff Technology could never replace music teachers, performing simple folk dances from the percussion instruments, guitars, Strumsticks, but it does offer them a much-needed partner. countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Serbia. This session will explore the ways music Participants will explore music in 7/8 and 9/8, educators are leveraging technologies to both common meters in the Balkan region of provide meaningful, democratic, and culturally Eastern Europe. Musical characteristics and relevant music experiences for students. instrumentation specific to particular regions Technology can be helpful especially in will be explored. instances where time, class size, and funds for traditional instruments are prohibitive. Singing for the Joy of Singing Presenter: Julie Scott Beyond the Method Book: (Monday) Developing Musicianship in Whether it’s at a place of worship, an all-school Performing Ensembles assembly, or a summer camp, all human Presenter: Chad West beings should be given opportunities to raise (Wednesday) their voices in song, solely for the pleasure of How many times have music teachers pleaded singing. These large-group choral settings, with students to subdivide, or wondered why where songs are usually taught by repetition or students can’t hear that missed accidental? While rote, provide excellent opportunities for people most students generally do a great job with of all ages to experience the wonderful sounds technique and notation, many are missing the of harmony. Participants should attend this internal musicianship components that make session prepared to sing rounds and part-songs high-level ensemble participation possible. that are accessible to all people—regardless of This session presents activities for developing musical background—and just for the joy of it! students’ tonal, rhythmic, and creative abilities while developing their instrumental technique and notation reading skills.
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This type of preparation is important for anyone who likes to plan ahead, as well as for those who only dream of it. Andy Bleiler is a passionate arts educator whose career has spanned thirty years as a teacher, designer, technician, director, and performer. He has been a professor at Tennessee State University and a teaching artist for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival. He has worked as scenic designer for Vanderbilt Opera Theatre, Blackbird Theatre, and Street Theatre. Bleiler is currently an assistant professor of theatre at Lipscomb University where he serves the theatre department as its scenic designer and technical theatre director.
Myth Making: Combining Science and Story THEATRE RELATED Nancy Beard teaches at Shady Grove Elementary Presenter: Cherri Coleman School in the Shelby County Schools district, (Tuesday) INTERLUDES where she works with students who are English Learn how your students can quickly write an language learners. Prior to this position, original myth that combines science, social Costuming: Seeing the Potential she taught Orff Music in the Memphis and studies, and English language arts skills in a in Secondhand Textiles Shelby County schools. She has also taught way that is both fun and effective. The presenter Presenter: Nicole Arnold band, chorus, and general music in Illinois will share a myth with participants. Then, (Tuesday and Thursday) and Kentucky. After having a wonderful they will write collaboratively and explore time attending the TAA drama sessions as a In this session, Nicole Arnold will demonstrate the various ways individual students might participant, Beard decided to change roles and ways of creating period and creative costumes complete this writing activity. This program join the Academy staff as a facilitator. from gently used treasures, while using is an excerpt from “The Tennessee Armillary limited or no sewing. The course will include Nancy Essary teaches second grade at Thurman Sundial: Science, Symbol, Art, and Identity,” a make-and-take component. Francis Arts Academy, a magnet school in commissioned for the governor’s residence Nicole Arnold is a special education and theatre Rutherford County where she integrates the arts by Tennessee First Lady Crissy Haslam. Each teacher at Nashville Christian School. She also into general classroom education. Essary has teacher will receive a printed copy of the full serves as the president and frequent director of enjoyed taking part in many of the Tennessee unit, with expansions and a field trip guide. productions for Cheatham County Community Arts Academy’s summer institutes as both a Theater. Arnold considers the Arts Academy participant and more recently as a facilitator. Sing Me a Story: Teaching Children to be one of her “happy places” and is excited with Special Needs to share her passion for costuming with fellow A Model Way to Design Your Presenter: Cherri Coleman participants. Next Show (Thursday) Presenter: Andy Bleiler Storysongs are masterpieces of brain science (Tuesday and Thursday) Theatre Curriculum Caring and that can give a voice to students with verbal Sharing: Kindergarten through Building a set model is the perfect way of challenges. Participants will discover ways Sixth Grade understanding the three-dimensional space that an arts integrated classroom can be truly Presenters: Nancy Beard and in which a live show takes place. Not only does inclusive as they sing and explore plot, sequence, Nancy Essary it help a designer plan the scenery, but also character, and a little bit of neural story science. (Thursday) helps them figure out where and how the set Each participant will receive a copy of the “Sing In this interlude, kindergarten through sixth pieces are stored when they are not onstage. Me a Story” lessons from the book Storytelling grade teachers are encouraged to come and Participants in this workshop will come away Strategies for Reaching and Teaching Children share their favorite classroom activities, with a better understanding of working in with Special Needs. The book itself will be teaching tips, and theatre lesson plans with scale, how to measure a theatre, how to use available for purchase at the session. other teachers from across the state. Theatre inexpensive materials for a model, and tricks facilitators Nancy Beard and Nancy Essary will that will make a model look more professional. lead the session.
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Cherri Coleman, of Fairy Godmother installing lighting for many new facilities in Julius Caesar: Entry Points for Productions, has been supporting the dreams of the city. Since 2002, he has represented major Middle and High School Students young artists and educators for more than thirty lighting manufacturers in Tennessee and helped (Grades 5–12) years. As a choreographer, storyteller, creativity theatres, schools, and other live performance Presenter: Denice Hicks coach, and curriculum writer, Coleman has facilities with their design and lighting needs. (Thursday) produced and directed more than 150 student- He can be contacted at [email protected] Participants will explore Shakespeare’s Julius led dance and storytelling performances, Tom Stotler has more than thirty-five years of Caesar (Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s winter interpreted art through story for Nashville’s Frist experience in the audio/video industry. He has offering for January 2019) to find scenes and Art Museum and coached young performers for held many professional industry positions— excerpts that will resonate with their students. careers on Broadway, in film, and in music. from being a touring sound engineer to a sales Denice Hicks is the executive artistic director and product manager for two Fortune 500 of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival. She has Lighting, AV, and Sound Forum: companies. For the past ten years, Stotler has been acting, editing, and directing professionally The Basics worked in the audio, video, and theatrical design since 1976, and she has produced more than fifty Presenters: Jeff Goetsch and build and integration business. In this role, he productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Tom Stotler provides audio, video, and lighting solutions for (Tuesday and Thursday) theatres, schools, and performing art centers in New Elementary and Middle School Participants in this session will explore a wide and around Tennessee. Scripts from TRW—Theatrical range of issues related to lighting, audiovisuals, Rights Worldwide! sound design, and equipment. The presenters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Presenter: Jim Hoare who have many years of technical theatre Young Players (Grades K–8) (Wednesday) experience, will field questions, display current Presenter: Denice Hicks equipment, and offer practical solutions (Tuesday) In this session, free perusal scripts will be distributed to all participants. Young@Part, to many of the common problems shared Participants will discuss and explore a one- the authorized edition of TRW’s Broadway by school theatre and musical directors. hour edit of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer musicals for middle schools and Younger@Part Participants should bring their ideas and Night’s Dream that is specifically designed for for elementary schools, will be introduced to concerns to this informative session and be students in kindergarten through eighth grade. participants. Licensing expert Jim Hoare will ready to join the conversation. During the session, Denice Hicks will also share describe the many advantages and possibilities Jeff Goetsch has thirty years of experience her experiences directing this show in several for producing a Young@Part show. Titles that in the lighting industry. In the beginning different venues. After the workshop, interested will be reviewed include The Addams Family, All of his career, he traveled across the country participants may request that the edited text be Shook Up, Curtains, Spamalot, and Miss Nelson with various road-touring shows. In 1992, he sent to them by email. is Missing, the Musical. During the workshop, moved to Nashville and began designing and questions and concerns about the theatrical licensing process will also be addressed.
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New High School Edition Scripts recipient of that organization’s Ruby Krider from TRW—Theatrical Teacher of the Year Award. Parker teaches at Rights Worldwide! Rossview High School in Clarksville, where she Presenter: Jim Hoare was named teacher of the year in 2015. (Thursday) Ready, Set, Yes! In this session, free perusal scripts will be Presenter: Noah Martin distributed to all participants. Approved (Monday and Wednesday) changes, creative casting suggestions (use more girls), low-tech production resources, In this fun, on-your-feet improv workshop, props, sets, SFX, accompaniment tracks, participants of all experience levels will learn and projections will be discussed. School how to launch into an improv scene without editions for Beehive (ten female soloists fear. The session will include practice with and expandable chorus), The Addams scene-building techniques, such as “strong Family, Spamalot, Ghost, Curtains, Ring of offers” and “playing through a character.” Fire, and We Will Rock You will be introduced. During the workshop, questions and concerns Experimental Drama for about the theatrical licensing process will also the Classroom be addressed. Presenter: Mary McAvoy (Monday and Wednesday) Jim Hoare, vice president of Theatrical Rights Worldwide, taught and directed theatre for Mary McAvoy will lead participants through thirty-one years. He has presented workshops a series of exercises that have been adapted throughout the United States and the United traveled to France, Germany, and Italy with his from performance art and experimental Kingdom. In 2011, he received the New York programs. Hull is artistic director of Nashville’s drama for use in kindergarten to twelfth-grade State Theatre Education Association’s Lifetime International Puppet Festivals as well as writer classrooms. These exercises, which will include Achievement Award. This is Hoare’s forty-first and director of Dollywood’s award-winning Ann Bogart and Tina Landau’s Viewpoints year in educational theatre. Imagination Library shows. method, will show participants how to develop strategies for engaging with complex grey- Power of the Puppet: History and Theatre Curriculum Caring area ideas. Embodied learning, techniques for Performance and Sharing: Seventh through bringing abstract concepts to life, and devising Presenter: Brian Hull Twelfth Grade new and interdisciplinary performances are (Tuesday) Presenters: Jennifer Keith and among the topics and approaches that will be explored. Ideas presented in this session are In this interlude, participants will join Brian Pollyanna Parker ones that can be adapted for a wide variety of Hull as he shares a brief history of world (Tuesday) subject areas and arts disciplines as well as for puppetry and discusses the power of performing Upper middle school and high school process and product focused lessons. with puppets. The workshop will include live participants are encouraged to share their examples, and participants will also have the favorite classroom activities, teaching tips, and De-excite to Ignite: Meditation opportunity to try a few puppets themselves. theatre lesson plans with other teachers from and Creativity across the state. Theatre facilitators Jennifer Presenter: Mark Price Power of the Puppet: Keith and Pollyanna Parker will lead the session. Making Puppets (Monday and Wednesday) Presenter: Brian Hull Jennifer Keith is the founder of the drama This is a practical exploration into the benefits (Thursday) program at Grassland Middle School in the of meditation and how it affects creativity—no Williamson County school system, where she crystals, yoga pants, or sage sticks required! In this interlude, Brian Hull will demonstrate also teaches. In 2014, she was named teacher In this session, participants will review some puppets that can be made by students. of the year by the faculty of Grassland for all of basic breathing and relaxation tools and Participants will also have the opportunity to her work both in and out of the classroom. Keith also discuss how to introduce a practice like explore their own puppet-making skills. is an avid traveler who regularly brings her meditation into the classroom. Brian Hull founded Wishing Chair Puppet global experiences back to her students and her Productions at the Nashville Public Library curriculum. in 1997 and has written, produced, and Pollyanna Parker was inducted into the performed in many original shows. He has Tennessee High School Speech and Drama League’s Hall of Fame in 2010 and is a past
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VISUAL ART RELATED INTERLUDES
Easy Multicolor Monotypes Presenter: Donna Anderson (Monday) This session will provide an introduction to multicolor monotype printing. A short introduction to the lesson will include examples of student images and explanations of how the prints were made. Participants will be given the supplies to create their own monotype print. Donna Anderson is a retired Knox County art Dynamic Staging These activities will help students of any age teacher who has taught in public schools for Presenter: Stephanie Shine learn how to bring their authentic experiences more than forty years. She is the author of the (Wednesday) to classic texts. high school textbook Experience Printmaking, which is part of the Studio Series from Davis In this session, participants will learn fun Breathe, Dance, Laugh: Folk Publications. Anderson continues to teach and adaptable techniques that will add depth, workshops for both students and teachers. specificity, and focus to staging while enhancing Dancing for Fun and Profit (!) Presenter: Kevin S. Warner the clarity of storytelling. Stephanie Shine, (Monday and Wednesday) Demystifying STEAM for K–12 longtime director and member of the Stage Art Educators Directors and Choreographers Society, will This session will guide participants through Presenter: Jeremy Blair lead participants through different staging several experiential activities, which will (Monday) possibilities, explore different audience demonstrate the powerful role that folk dance configurations, and even introduce tools that can have as a catalyst for affirmation, celebration, This session will present the philosophy of educators can use to help student actors come up and fun. All participants are welcome— STEAM education to kindergarten to twelfth with play-serving stage movements of their own! classroom educators, arts advocates, and arts grade visual art educators. Participants will enthusiasts alike. No prior dance experience is learn the origins and best practices of STEAM Stephanie Shine is the resident artist and required to come to this workshop. and will explore cross-curricular collaborations education director for the Tennessee Shakespeare and begin developing STEAM-based curricula Company in Memphis, where she created the A Brief Introduction to and new forms of assessment. A vital task nationally-acclaimed Romeo and Juliet Project. Estill Voice International during this session will be for participants to Prior to arriving in Memphis, she served as Presenter: Brad Willcuts discuss and define the new ideas they learn and the artistic director of the Seattle Shakespeare (Monday and Wednesday) to examine the fundamental role that visual Company. Her regional credits include multiple art plays in this powerful, interdisciplinary From Hammerstein to Hamilton, the Estill shows for Colorado Shakespeare Festival and education movement. Book-It Repertory Theatre, as well as the Voice method is an incredible tool for international touring Marilyn Monroe biopic, students of all ages who want to improve their Jeremy Blair is an assistant professor of art Marilyn: Forever Blonde. singing, their vocal health, and their overall education at Tennessee Tech University in understanding of vocal anatomy. Cookeville, Tennessee. Blair earned his doctorate Shaking Up Shakespeare degree at the University of North Texas and is Presenter: Lauren Smith Theatre Connections a former museum curator, applied media arts (Monday and Wednesday) Theatre Core Faculty educator, and kindergarten to twelfth grade (Tuesday and Thursday) visual arts teacher. In his teaching, research, This interlude will offer participants several and creative work, he regularly explores the Theatre instructors will be in their classrooms interactive strategies to help their students intersections of art and science. understand and analyze Shakespeare’s texts. to answer specific questions about their sessions and to provide one-on-one time with participants who desire additional information about theatre related issues or arts education concerns.
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tools they need to start identifying practices that will support the revisions, as well as ideas for developing strategies to ensure they meet the new standards. Since 2001, Carrie Bryant has been a visual art middle school teacher in the Metro Nashville Public Schools. In 2010, she was named the I. T. Creswell Art Magnet Teacher of the Year. Bryant is also a STEAM Innovator and a virtual-school art adjunct teacher. Allison Ross is the visual arts coordinator for the Metro Nashville Public Schools.
Papergami: Radial Paper Relief Sculptures Presenter: Lauren Cochran (Monday and Wednesday) This session will show participants how to create radial paper relief sculptures—called papergami—by using Origami-style paper- folding techniques. During the session, participants will create their own beautiful sculptures. A short introduction to the lesson will include a video of the four basic paper- folding techniques participants will use to Practical Classroom Applications of Ted Edinger has been teaching visual art at create the papergami works. Participants will the Revised Visual Art Standards Tulip Grove Elementary in the Metro Nashville be provided with the supplies to make their (Elementary) Public Schools since 2001. He is the creator of the own finished examples, which they can then Presenters: Molly Brown, Ted Edinger, popular blog artwithmre.com. take back to their classrooms. Amanda Galbraith, Gay Page Gay Page is in her ninth year as a visual art (Tuesday) Lauren Cochran is an art educator with more teacher in Tennessee’s Clarksville-Montgomery than ten years of experience in public schools After collaborating with arts educators, the County School System. and nonprofit arts organizations in Alabama, Tennessee State Board of Education has now Georgia, and Tennessee. Cochran currently released its newly revised Academic Standards Practical Classroom Applications of serves at Liberty Elementary, a Title 1 school in for Fine Arts and Media Arts. These standards the Revised Visual Art Standards the Franklin Special School District, where she will be put in place during the 2018–2019 (Secondary) spends her days encouraging and guiding little academic year. The conceptual and structural Presenters: Carrie Bryant and artists to be their best and most creative selves. shifts in the standards change what will be Allison Ross expected of the artistic content made by (Tuesday) Microscopic Worlds students in fine arts courses in the state. In this After collaborating with arts educators, the Presenter: Jim Dodson session, teachers and leaders will review and Tennessee State Board of Education has now (Tuesday) compare the current and revised standards. released its newly revised Academic Standards They will also participate in sample visual art This workshop is designed for Visual Art for Fine Arts and Media Arts. These standards Recognition Day student attendees. classroom activities, which will give them the will be put in place during the 2018–2019 tools they need to start identifying practices academic year. The conceptual and structural Participants in this workshop will create that will support the revisions, as well as ideas shifts in the standards change what will be abstracted compositions that rely on imagery for developing strategies to ensure they meet expected of the artistic content made by found in the microscopic world. In the session, the new standards. students in fine arts courses in the state. In this images of viruses, bacteria, cells, strands of DNA, and other objects will be layered and Molly Brown teaches visual art at Hickory Ridge session, teachers and leaders will review and combined to bring together the fields of visual Elementary School in Memphis, Tennessee. She compare the current and revised standards. art and science. The lesson Jim Dodson will is currently the West Tennessee chair for the They will also participate in sample visual art share is one he has successfully used in his Tennessee Art Education Association. classroom activities, which will give them the
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own hometown as a true STEAM project. received a degree in photography and sculpture, David Reynolds is the art teacher at Moore Participants should bring their smart phones and a masters in art education from the Elementary School in Franklin, Tennessee, where to the workshop since they will use them to Memphis College of Art. he has served for six years. In addition to teaching, acquire the images for their compositions. Reynolds is a freelance graphic designer and Since 1987, Jim Dodson has been an art teacher Gentle Flow, Restorative Yoga video editor. This is his second year serving as a in the Oak Ridge school system. In 1998, he was Presenter: Rachel Motta facilitator for the Tennessee Arts Academy. recognized as the Tennessee Art Educator of the (Tuesday and Wednesday) Year, and in 1999, he was named the National In this session, participants will have the Solarized Photographs and Middle School Art Educator of the Year. Dodson opportunity to relax their bodies and minds Ray-o-Grams is a board member and past president of the and get their creative juices going with some Presenter: Christine Rogers Tennessee Art Education Association. He also gentle flow and restorative yoga. Rachel Motta (Monday and Wednesday) currently serves on the board of Dogwood Arts will lead a practice that includes easy yoga In this workshop, participants will learn in East Tennessee. poses along with some meditation to offer how to create solarized photographs and a bit of quiet during a very exciting week. ray-o-grams. Both types of prints are made Collage Animal Portraits Participants will need to bring their own mats. using experimental darkroom techniques. Presenter: Kathy McMillan Rachel Motta is an elementary art educator and No previous experience is necessary for this (Monday and continued certificated yoga instructor who specializes in hands-on session. on Wednesday) restorative yoga. Motta became a yoga instructor Christina Rogers is an assistant professor In this two-part interlude, participants will after researching yoga and mindfulness in the of photography at Belmont University. She create an animal collage portrait in a new and art classroom for her master’s degree at Boston has exhibited widely, both nationally and exciting way. The first session will include University. She regularly practices mindfulness internationally, including a two-person show at gluing marbled paper to a mat board and with her students at Cane Ridge Elementary and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, creating the eyes and nose of an animal using currently teaches restorative yoga at Gold’s Gym Chile, in the fall of 2012. Rogers has lectured Indian ink and oil pastels. The second session in Smryna, Tennessee. on her work at various institutions such as will focus on painting in the details with Vanderbilt University, Watkins College of Art, acrylic paint and Indian ink. This lesson can be Tie-dye Chitrakala Parishath in Bangalore, and the modified for all age groups. Presenter: David Reynolds Cooper Union in New York. Kathy McMillan has been teaching middle (Monday) school art for twelve years and previously taught Participants who wish to practice their tie-dye Art Therapy in Schools and elementary art for five years in the Tullahoma skills may bring their TAA apron to this Communities: Building Partnerships City Schools in Tennessee. In 2017, she taught enjoyable workshop and produce a unique and with Art Therapists an interlude at TAA. In 2016, she was named wearable work of art. Presenter: Paige Scheinberg Tennessee Art Education Association Middle (Wednesday) Level Art Educator of the Year. What is art therapy? Where does art therapy take place? How can educators, administrators, Basquiat Flower Vase: and parents create partnerships with art A Still-life Dichotomy therapists to meet the mental, emotional, and Presenter: Jorden Miernik-Walker behavioral needs of students in Tennessee? In (Monday and Wednesday) this session, a credentialed art therapist will This session will explore the parallels between address these frequently asked questions. She life dichotomies and the topics presented in will also present case examples about ways the works of artist Jean Michel Basquiat. This that art therapists have worked with schools is a hands-on collage project geared to open and communities across the state. Participants discussion and mixed media use. As stated will have the opportunity to ask questions in the title, this is a still-life project where about connecting with local art therapists observation meets emotion. and advocating for art therapy programs and services in their own schools. Jorden Miernik-Walker is a visual art instructor in the Shelby County School system in Memphis. This is her third year at Snowden Elementary and her twelfth year working in the arts. She
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Empty Bowls for Title 1 Presenter: Allison Swanner (Monday) This session will show teachers how to organize their own Title 1 elementary school Empty Bowls program. Participants will discuss the logistics of hand building bowls in their kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms, hear the story “Stone Soup,” and learn how to create an unforgettable community event. This twist on this Empty Bowls program is that it will allow students and families from low-income backgrounds to participate in giving back as well as benefiting from an inexpensive dinner. Allison Swanner is an elementary art teacher with ten years of experience teaching in East Tennessee. She is also the director of the Exceptional Artist Art Camp that hosts more than 130 elementary students each summer. Swanner connects art with her community When Art Crosses the Line: TAA Participant Visual Art through events such as Family Art Night, Empty Therapeutic Considerations from Lesson Plan Swap Bowls, a system-wide formal art show, and an Art Therapist Presenter: Kim Shamblin summer camps. Presenter: Paige Scheinberg (Wednesday) (Thursday) Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes This session is an opportunity for TAA Presenter: Christopher Taylor What do you do when you see student art participants to share their ideas, tips, and (Wednesday) that seems to express a personal need or a techniques with each other. Interested challenging emotion or experience? How do participants should bring twenty-five copies This session will give participants a way to help you talk to the student about their art? Should of their favorite lesson plan to swap with their teach students the concept of building empathy you talk to parents, school administrators, and peers. Please also bring examples or pictures through art and interaction with their peers. counselors, as well as show them the art? In of completed projects to share during this time The session will begin with a brief introduction this session, a credentialed art therapist will period. This session will be a great opportunity to the artist Antonio Pacitti and the topic of explore therapeutic considerations and skills to network and pick up new ideas. empathy. Then participants will begin a sketch for art educators. Participants will have the of their own altered shoe. Paper and colored Kim Shamblin, a facilitator for the Tennessee pencils will be provided. opportunity to ask questions about what to do Arts Academy for the past ten years, has been and how to know when student art expresses a teaching art to children for the past twenty-three Christopher Taylor is in his fourth year of therapeutic need. years. She teaches at Millington Elementary teaching art. He currently works at Richland Paige Scheinberg is a Memphis-based, registered School in Millington Tennessee and was named Elementary in the Shelby County Schools system art therapist who has worked with art therapy Tennessee Art Education Association Middle in Memphis, Tennessee. clients of all ages in community, medical, and Level Art Teacher of the Year in 2016. private settings, including the Memphis Brooks Visual Art Studio Connections Museum of Art and West Cancer Center. She Visual Art Faculty is also the governmental affairs committee co- (Tuesday and Thursday) chair and West Tennessee regional chair of the Visual art participants may use this time to Tennessee Art Therapy Association. continue working in the studio, talking with their instructors, or networking with fellow teachers about issues and concerns related to the arts and arts education.
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“Musings” is a time of thoughtful inspiration and introspection Jon Moody built into the heart of the busy Academy schedule each day. All Tuesday • July 10 • 1:20 PM participants assemble to think about the role of the arts in education and in life. At each Musings session, an individual who is significantly Jon Moody is an artist and athlete known for involved in the arts acts as a muse and leads the group in examining his innovative portraits and incredible taste. the richness and depth that the arts add to the lives of all people. Moody uses his abilities to provoke thought while aiming to break the myth that one is either an athlete or an artist. His emotionally Libby Larsen charged artwork brings awareness to social, Monday • July 9 • 1:20 PM economic, and world issues. Libby Larsen is one of America’s most A native of New Orleans, Moody comes from a prolific and most performed composers alive family of overachievers and is always striving today. During her career, she has created to positively influence others. His mother is a an impressive catalogue of more than five teacher, and his father is a NASA mechanical hundred works spanning virtually every engineer. Moody has had an interest in genre—from intimate vocal and chamber drawing and painting since he was young. During high school, he spent music to massive orchestral works and more half his time each day at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Also a than twelve operas. Her music has been gifted athlete, Moody eventually had to make a choice between his more praised for its dynamic, deeply inspired, and creative side and his love of sports. Realizing that his artwork gave him a vigorous contemporary American spirit. larger audience to express his thoughts and ideas, Moody chose to attend Constantly sought after for commissions and the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he received a bachelor of fine premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras worldwide, Larsen arts in visual effects and a master of arts in painting. While in college, he ran has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory. track, and today continues his interest in athletic pursuits. Larsen has been hailed by USA Today as “the only English-speaking Moody’s murals have generated great enthusiasm from many different composer since Benjamin Britten who matches great verse with fine admirers. His work has been featured in the White House, seen at NAACP music so intelligently and expressively,” and by Gramaphone as “a events, and has been purchased by many well-known individuals. In a composer who has made the art of symphonic writing very much her personal letter to Moody, Vice President Joe Biden thanked him for his ow n .” The Wall Street Journal has written that “Libby Larsen has come work as an artist and urged him to continue using his artistic abilities to up with a way to make contemporary opera both musically current and change the world for the better. Moody has created unique artwork for accessible to the average audience.” numerous celebrities, including Cardi B, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, and Larsen has received numerous awards and accolades, including a 1993 Anthony Anderson. Grammy as producer of the CD The Art of Arlene Augér, an acclaimed Moody’s work was chosen to recording that features Larsen’s work “Sonnets from the Portuguese.” Her appear on the sets of the hit opera Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus was selected as one of the eight shows Empire and Star. Pepsi best classical music events of 1990 by USA Today. She is the first woman included Moody in a commercial to serve as a resident composer with a major orchestra, and her many celebrating athletes and artists commissions and recordings are a testament to her fruitful collaborations and featured his artwork on with a long list of world-renowned artists. one of its Pepsi cans. Moody As a past holder of the Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Education at the currently appears on Bravo’s Library of Congress in 2003–2004, a Lifetime Achievement Award from reality show Southern Charm, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Peabody award, Larsen New Orleans. His goal is to is a vigorous, articulate champion of the music and musicians of our time. inspire everyone—not just other In 1973, she and Stephen Paulus co-founded the Minnesota Composers athletes—to become global Forum—now called the American Composers Forum—which has been an ambassadors for change. invaluable advocate for composers during a difficult, transitional time for the American arts. Consistently sought-after as a leader in the generation of millennium thinkers, Larsen’s music and ideas have reenergized the concert music tradition and the composer’s role in it. The appearance of Libby Larsen is made possible by a generous gift from Country Music Association Foundation.
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Tony Walton Laura Osnes Wednesday • July 11 • 1:20 PM Thursday • July 12 • 1:50 PM Tony Walton is an award-winning The very talented Laura Osnes is one director, production designer, and of Broadway’s leading ladies. She costume designer for Broadway, Off- recently completed a starring run in Broadway, film, television, ballet, and the Tony Award winning Broadway opera. During his career, he has been musical Bandstand for which she honored with numerous accolades and received Drama Desk and Drama awards for his work. He has received League nominations. sixteen Tony Award nominations for his For her title role as Cinderella in the Broadway sets or costumes, including Broadway production of Rodgers those created for Pippin, House of Blue Photo by Nathan Johnson and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Leaves, and Guys and Dolls, which all won Tony Awards. Among his twenty Osnes won the Drama Desk Award and received Tony, Outer Critics Circle, films, Mary Poppins, The Boy Friend, The Wiz, and Murder on the Orient Drama League, and Astaire nominations. She received another Tony Award Express earned him five Academy Award nominations. He won an Oscar for nomination for her leading role as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde, his work on Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz and an Emmy for Death of a Salesman. after creating the role at Asolo Repertory Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse. Two of his more recent projects include the Broadway set designs for Annie Additional roles she has played include Hope Harcourt in the Tony Award Get Your Gun and A Tale of Two Cities. winning revival of Anything Goes, Nellie Forbush in Lincoln Center Theater’s Walton was the production designer for Madison Square Garden’s A production of South Pacific, and Sandy in the most recent revival of Grease. Christmas Carol for ten years as well as for Julie Andrews’s 2003 revival Osnes has also performed in Crazy For You, The Blueprint Specials, of The Boy Friend. His graphic work includes a great many illustrations for The Threepenny Opera at the Atlantic Theater Company, and New York’s City books and magazines; caricatures for the publications Playbill, Theatre Arts, Center Encores! She has appeared in productions of The Band Wagon, Randy and Vogue; and posters for many Broadway, Off-Broadway, and West End Newman’s Faust, Pipe Dream, and The Sound of Music in concert at Carnegie shows. During the last twenty-two years, Walton has directed and designed Hall. She played in Carousel opposite Steven Pasquale at the Lyric Opera of theatre productions of Wilde, Shaw, Coward, and others for New York’s Irish Chicago, and in Broadway: Three Generations at the Kennedy Center. Rep, San Diego’s Old Globe, Sarasota’s Asolo Rep, East Hampton’s John Drew On television, she has been seen on the CBS series Elementary, Live From Theatre, and the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor. Lincoln Center: Bernstein On Broadway, and Sondheim: The Birthday As a producer, Walton has co-presented six plays or musicals in Concert. She also appeared in HBO’s documentary Six by Sondheim, the London—three of which were in association with the legendary Hal Prince. pilot The Miraculous Year, and in the Kennedy Center Honors salutes to His designs for opera have been seen at London’s Theatre Royal Covent Barbara Cook and Dustin Hoffman. Osnes’s many concerts and cabarets Garden, the Sadler’s Wells Opera Company, and throughout Europe and include performing with Michael Feinstein, the New York Philharmonic, America. His many ballet designs include the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s the New York Pops, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Boston Pops, the St. Louis Women, which was performed at the Lincoln Center for San Francisco Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra. She has the Performing Arts; the American Ballet Theatre’s Peter and the also appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Café Carlyle, 54 Below, Lincoln Center, Wolf and Sleeping Beauty, which were both performed at the Met; and many NJPAC, the Smith Center in Las Vegas, and the Minnesota Orchestra Hall. ballets for the San Francisco Ballet Company and other dance companies In addition to appearances on several cast recordings, Osnes has two solo throughout the United States. albums—Dream a Little Dream: Live at the Café Carlyle and If I Tell You: The Born in Walton-on-Thames, England, he has lived in New York City for more Songs of Maury Yeston. than fifty years with his wife, author Gen LeRoy Walton. The pair has two The appearance of Laura Osnes throughout the Academy week is made possible by a daughters and five grandchildren. In 1991, Tony Walton was elected to the generous gift from Pat and Thane Smith. Theatre Hall of Fame. The appearance of Tony Walton is made possible by a generous gift from Tennessee Book Company.
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works, Elevation: Paradise, in August 2015 and program. This work is an exploration of FALL the second, Free Souls, in July 2016. founder Rebekah Hampton Barger’s journey The ensemble’s television performances with severe scoliosis and chronic pain that include appearances on ABC’s Dancing with explores the intricate and often-complicated the Stars and an Emmy-winning show Time relationships people have with their bodies. for Three in Concert, which premiered on PBS. Founded in 2010 and based in Nashville, FALL In 2016, Tf3 traveled throughout Europe as a is a nonprofit contemporary dance company highlight act of the Night of the Proms tour. that moves on the ground, in the air, and all The performance of Time for Three is sponsored and the spaces in between, making work that made possible by generous gifts from Country Music is exciting, unexpected, and blurs the lines Association Foundation; Kem Hinton; Sara Savell, in between art and life, flying and falling. FALL’s memory of Las Savell; and Adolph Thornton Jr., aka mission is to present high-quality contemporary Young Dolph. and aerial dance that is accessible to all audiences through performances, community FALL outreach, and artist opportunities. FALL finds Three Dance Selections and creates places where anything is possible, Monday • July 9 • 11:30 AM where the stage and the audience are anywhere Time for Three and everywhere. String Trio Massey Performing Arts Center Sunday • July 8 • 4:00 PM FALL is a contemporary dance company using Massey Performing Arts Center all the tools at its disposal to create work that is The groundbreaking trio Time for Three (Tf3) entertaining and inspiring. The program for the transcends traditional classifications and Tennessee Arts Academy will include excerpts categories by incorporating elements of from several pieces of work that highlight classical, country western, gypsy, and jazz FALL’s unique blend of floor-based movement idioms in their work. The members—violinists that seamlessly makes its way off of the ground. Nicolas (Nick) Kendall and Charles Yang and Opening their program is a piece by the full double bassist Ranaan Meyer—bring their company from their most recent concert passion for improvisation, composing, and FALL. Stand. Learn. Fly. The piece draws arranging to their performances. inspiration from a quote by Stephen Sondheim on working with Leonard Bernstein: “I learned Tf3’s high-energy performances are free of a lot about courage. He was never afraid to conventional practices, drawing instead from make big mistakes. He was never afraid to fall The Carpetbag Theatre the members’ diverse musical backgrounds. off the top rung of the ladder, and I learned Between a Ballad and a Blues The trio also performs its own arrangements by implication that the worst thing you can do Wednesday • July 11 • 11:30 AM of traditional repertoire, with Ranaan Meyer is fall off a low rung. If you’re gonna make a Massey Performing Arts Center providing original compositions to complement mistake, make a huge one.” A solo and a quartet Between a Ballad and a Blues chronicles the life the group’s offerings. from A Bending of its Own Kind, which was and work of the African-American-Appalachian In 2014, Tf3 released its debut Universal commissioned by OZ Arts and premiered to a Renaissance man Howard “Louie Bluie” Music Classics album, Time for Three, which sold-out crowd in June 2017, will complete the Armstrong and his musical partners, Ted Bogan spent seven consecutive weeks in the top ten and Carl Martin. Together, the three men formed of Billboard Magazine’s classical crossover one of the most famous string-band groups in chart. The ensemble has also embarked on a the history of American music. As a group and major commissioning program to expand its as solo artists, Armstrong, Bogan, and Martin unique repertoire for symphony orchestras toured the globe sharing string-band music including Concerto 4-3 by Pulitzer Prize with the world and planting the seeds for other winning composer Jennifer Higdon; Travels in American music forms—including country Time for Three by Chris Brubeck; and Games and blues. The play centers on the character and Challenges by William Bolcom, which of Howard Armstrong and spans his seven- was commissioned by the Indianapolis decade musical career. Armstrong narrates Symphony. The group’s latest project, a three- the tale, which is augmented with stories and year residency with the Sun Valley Summer songs from Bogan and Martin. The excerpt that Symphony, includes commissions for three will be performed during TAA is designed for newPhoto works. by Nathan JohnsonTf3 premiered the first of these
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young audiences and features Bert Tanner as Astaire nominations. She received another Armstrong, music by Sean McCullough, and Tony Award nomination for her leading role stories by the playwright Linda Parris-Bailey. as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde, after Founded in 1969, the Carpetbag Theatre is a creating the role at Asolo Repertory Theatre Knoxville-based professional, multi-generational and La Jolla Playhouse. Additional roles she ensemble company dedicated to the production has played include Hope Harcourt in the Tony of new and original theatrical works. Carpetbag Award winning revival of Anything Goes, Theatre works in partnership with community Nellie Forbush in Lincoln Center Theater’s artists, activists, cultural workers, storytellers, production of South Pacific, and Sandy in and leaders. The company’s mission is to give the most recent revival of Grease. Osnes artistic voice to the issues and dreams of people has also performed in Crazy For You, The who have been silenced by racism, classism, Blueprint Specials, The Threepenny Opera at sexism, ageism, homophobia, and other forms the Atlantic Theater Company, and New of oppression. York’s City Center Encores! She has appeared in productions of The Band Wagon, Randy classical, Latin, and jazz, as well as popular The performance by The Carpetbag Theatre is made Newman’s Faust, Pipe Dream, and The Sound of possible by a generous gift from Pat and Thane Smith. styles. During the concert, Oliveira will be Music in concert at Carnegie Hall. She played joined by Nashville musicians Todd London on in Carousel opposite Steven Pasquale at the percussion and Roy Vogt on bass. Laura Osnes Lyric Opera of Chicago, and in Broadway: Three Dream A Little Dream Generations at the Kennedy Center. A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Oliveira has taught Wednesday • July 11 • 8:15 PM and performed in South America, Europe, and On television, she has been seen on the CBS Curb Event Center Arena across the United States. He has won awards series Elementary, Live From Lincoln Center: in competition both in Brazil and the United The very talented Laura Osnes is one Bernstein On Broadway, and Sondheim: States, including the Villa-Lobos Conservatory, of Broadway’s leading ladies. She The Birthday Concert. She also appeared in and has been awarded full scholarships to recently completed a starring run in HBO’s documentary Six by Sondheim, the attend prestigious international festivals the Tony Award winning Broadway pilot The Miraculous Year, and in the Kennedy including the Aspen Music Festival. In 2012, musical Bandstand for which she received Center Honors salutes to Barbara Cook and he formed the Oliveira-Willett Duo with oboist Drama Desk and Drama League nominations. Dustin Hoffman. Osnes’s many concerts and Dan Willett. Together, they have performed For her title role as Cinderella in the cabarets include performing with Michael and taught in Brazil, France, and across the Broadway production of Rodgers Feinstein, the New York Philharmonic, the New United States. The duo’s first recording, Two and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Osnes won York Pops, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Hemispheres, features original arrangements of the Drama Desk Award and received Tony, Boston Pops, the San Francisco Symphony, and works by American and Brazilian composers, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and the National Symphony Orchestra. She has also including works by Oliveira himself. Their appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Café Carlyle, 54 repertoire exemplifies the contrasts and Below, Lincoln Center, NJPAC, the Smith Center pairings that are intrinsic to the duo: two in Las Vegas, and the Minnesota Orchestra generations, two styles, two countries, two Hall. In addition to appearances on several cast cultures, and two hemispheres. Oliveira, who recordings, Osnes has two solo albums—Dream holds numerous academic degrees, recently a Little Dream: Live at the Café Carlyle and If I joined the guitar faculty at Belmont University, Tell You: The Songs of Maury Yeston. where he teaches applied guitar, group The appearance of Laura Osnes throughout the seminars, and coaching ensembles. Academy week is made possible by a generous gift The performance by Paulo Oliveira is made possible from Pat and Thane Smith. by a generous gift from Bobby Jean Frost, in memory of Donna Frost; the Lingner Gift Fund; and Lee Stites, Paulo Oliveira in memory of Marilee Kester Stites. Guitar Concert Thursday • July 12 • 11:20 AM Massey Performing Arts Center Paulo Oliveira is an active soloist, chamber musician, arranger, and educator who is equally at ease in the classical, jazz, and commercial worlds. Oliveira’s performance during the Academy will feature diverse musical genres—
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Overture Sunday Evening Opening Celebration & Reception Sunday • July 8 • 4:00 PM The Tennessee Arts Academy opening convocation, Overture, provides participants with the first of many dazzling performances, a preview of the week ahead, and an opportunity to meet faculty and fellow members of the Academy. The Academy kicks off its 2018 session with a performance by the groundbreaking and genre-defying string trio, Time for Three. Afterward, participants will be treated to an elegant buffet reception in the Curb Event Center Grand Atrium complemented by multiple entertainment Laura Petrovich-Cheney. options inside and out. Our artists for this Move Closer In, 2013. event include Duo Sudeste (in the MPAC Lobby Salvaged wood from prior to the opening session), Trevor Caddell Hurricane Sandy, 39 x 39 in. Quartet (in the Beaman Student Life Center lobby), Austin Filingo Duo (in the Curb Event Center Glass Lobby), David Arnold, caricature status. Our hearts break equally and painfully. through the organization and arrangement of artist (in the Curb Event Center Grand Atrium), The artist’s own story unfolded when her the chaos, reestablishing rubbish into a series and Rich Ripani Trio (in the Curb Event Center parents lost their home after Hurricane Sandy; of recognizable patterns. Grand Atrium). and subsequently, when her father lost his life About the Artist…. while repairing that home. With the debris from Sandy and other disasters, Petrovich- Laura Petrovich-Cheney is a sculptor whose TAA ART EXHIBITION Cheney decided to create quilt-inspired work mirrors the human experience: full of OPENING, ARTIST TALK, sculptures. American quilts have a long transformation, second chances, reinvention, and resilience. Petrovich-Cheney was born in history of offering comfort—a grandmother’s AND RECEPTION Philadelphia, raised in Haddonfield, New Jersey, Monday • July 9 • 4:30–6:30 PM handmade quilt, Civil War soldier quilts, the and currently lives in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Leu Art Gallery (Lila D. Bunch Library) AIDS quilts, Quilts of Honor—the list goes on. The artist embraces the memory that lives She earned a degree in fine arts and English in the aftermath. The imperfections of the literature at Dickinson College, a degree in Life in Patterns: material reveal an aesthetic promise found fashion design from Drexel University, and Works of Reclamation in the discarded remnants of daily life. Life in graduated Summa Cum Laude from Moore Patterns seeks to produce an element of refuge College of Art and Design with a degree in by Laura studio arts. Her works are in several public Petrovich-Cheney collections and have been shown in both solo May 21–September 7, 2018 and group exhibitions throughout the United Katrina. Sandy. Harvey. Irma. All the nameless, States. In 2013, Petrovich-Cheney launched a countless fires, tornadoes, and earthquakes. successful Kickstarter campaign for a residency to the Arctic Circle. In 2015, she was awarded a Artist Laura Petrovich-Cheney finds meaning residency grant to the Vermont Studio Center in these experienced devastations, as well as and has also received grants or awards from in the debris that litters the communities they many other organizations. Since 2009, she affect. Once organized neighborhoods become has kept a blog on her art practice and writes barely recognizable piles of rubble haphazardly reviews of art exhibitions in the tri-state area strewn during the chaos of disaster. These surrounding her home. When she is not teaching natural events show how we all suffer loss or making art, Petrovich-Cheney maintains regardless of our color, language, or economic several native flower gardens and a small orchard that sustains her colonies of honeybees.
Photograph of the artist by Dina Kantor
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Artist Talk with from the three grand divisions of the state. The students whose work will be featured have won Laura Petrovich-Cheney college scholarships for their achievements Monday • July 9 • 5:15 PM and have had their work exhibited in museums Leu Art Gallery throughout the state of Tennessee. Reception music provided by Michael Valeras, guitarist (Leu Art Gallery). Connections: Tennessee Life in Patterns: Works of Reclamation by Laura Art Education Association Petrovich-Cheney is co-sponsored by the Belmont University Department of Art and is made possible by Member Exhibition generous gifts from Belmont University Department June 25–August 10, 2018 of Art, Solie Fott, and the Tennessee Arts Academy Leu Center for the Visual Arts Foundation. Lobby Gallery The Tennessee Arts Academy is very proud to TAA ART EXHIBITION exhibit the work of practicing artist-teachers OPENINGS alongside the exemplary work created by their students. Connections: Tennessee Art Education AND RECEPTION Association Member Exhibition is a juried show Tuesday • July 10 • 5:00–7:00 PM featuring the work of kindergarten through higher Leu Center for the Visual Arts, education art educators from across Tennessee. Leu Art Gallery, Belmont Mansion, and GIG Museum Reception music provided by Todd London, (Lila D. Bunch Library) vibraphonist. Tennessee’s Best of the Best Student Art Exhibition Tennessee’s Best of and Connections: Tennessee Art Education Association Member Exhibition are co-sponsored by the Best Student the Tennessee Art Education Association. Art Exhibition Bill Shinn (retired art specialist, Karns High School, June 25–August 10, 2018 TAA ART CRAWL first place TAEA member exhibition). Fiddle-back Leu Center for the Visual Arts Tuesday • July 10 • 5:00 –7:00 PM Love Spoon, 2018. Wood carving, 18 x 7 in. Gallery 121 Leu Center for the Visual Arts, Leu Art The Tennessee Arts Academy is pleased to offer Gallery, Belmont Mansion, and GIG Museum (Lila D. Bunch Library) High Tea in the Mansion a student art exhibit as part of its summer Belmont Mansion enrichment experience. Tennessee’s Best of the Participants are invited to tour the Belmont As part of the TAA Art Crawl, participants are Best Student Art Exhibition is a collection of the Mansion and visit the following exhibits and invited on Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. for best pieces in various media by student artists museum during the TAA Art Crawl. a tour of the historic Belmont Mansion. The Amy Zhou (11th grade event features Susan Ramsay playing hammered student, Neeley Studio, dulcimer. Light refreshments will be served. instructor Elaine Neeley). Jeanna’s Tree, 2017. Gallery of Iconic Painting, 12 x 18 in. Guitars Museum Lila D. Bunch Library, First Floor Participants are invited to the new Gallery of Iconic Guitars Museum as part of the TAA Art Crawl. Life in Patterns: Works of Reclamation by Laura Petrovich-Cheney Leu Art Gallery
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Tennessee’s Best of Mark Norris, in recognition of his exemplary Cremeens, and juggling acts by MaxZine support of the arts and education throughout Weinstein. Treats to be served include corn the Best Student his career. After dinner, the Distinguished dogs, pretzels, popcorn, fudge, and popsicles. Art Exhibition Service Award will be presented to Oscar, Leu Center for the Visual Arts Emmy, and Tony Award-winning scenic and Alumni Day and Gallery 121 costume designer, Tony Walton, in recognition of his extraordinary talent and artistry. Ice Cream Social Connections: Tennessee The evening will conclude with a special Thursday • July 12 • 5:15 PM performance featuring Broadway musical All TAA Alumni Association members are Art Education Association theatre star Laura Osnes, accompanied by invited to the Academy to attend the day’s Member Exhibition music director and pianist Fred Lassen. activities. At 5:15 p.m. the Tennessee Arts Leu Center for the Visual Arts Bravo! The Tennessee Arts Academy Awards Banquet is Academy Foundation sponsors its annual Ice Lobby Gallery generously sponsored by a gift from Belmont University. Cream Social. Alumni Association members, and all participants who donate to or win a The appearance of Laura Osnes and Fred Lassen STUDENT AND TEACHER is made possible by a generous gift from Pat and bid in the Tennessee Arts Academy Silent or Thane Smith. Online Auctions receive a special invitation ARTIST RECOGNITION to attend this yummy event in the Beaman CEREMONY AND Student Life Center. The Derek Pell Duo will offer TAA Arts Vendor Fair, RECEPTION entertainment for the occasion. Tuesday • July 10 • 6:00 PM Artist Market, and Refreshments for this event have been generously Leu Center for the Visual Arts Carnival provided by Tommie Pardue, in memory of Thursday • July 12 Donna Frost. Visitors’ Day 11:45 AM–1:45 PM Wednesday • July 11 Academy participants and all interested arts Finale 8:00 AM–5:00 PM teachers across the state are invited to attend Friday • July 13 • 11:30 AM Wednesday is the official TAA Visitors’ Day. Arts the TAA Arts Vendor Fair on Thursday in The Academy activities conclude with the organization directors, college and university the Curb Event Center Grand Atrium. The Academy Finale Luncheon in the Curb Event professors, political dignitaries, Tennessee Arts Arts Vendor Fair includes display booths Center Arena at 11:30 a.m. on Friday. This event Academy Foundation Board members, local from leading music, theatre, and visual art brings together the diverse experiences of the school system officials, Tennessee Department vendors, as well as arts-related organizations. Academy week and reinforces the importance of Education administrators, and many others Participants will enjoy learning about the of arts education in classrooms across America. from across the state are invited to be guests many resources, products, and perks offered Accordionist Jeff Lisenby will perform during of the Academy. Some visitors may wish to by the exhibitors. Concurrent with the Vendor the meal. Each year after the luncheon, the participate in the classes, and all are invited to Fair, the TAA Artist Market features art, crafts Academy honors one Tennessean for achievement sit in on any of the day’s activities. and jewelry sold by talented Academy artist- in the arts. The 2018 honoree is Linda Wilson educators. The TAA Carnival helps enliven Miller, longtime speech and drama teacher from Bravo! The Tennessee the entire proceedings with tuneful music by Paris, Tennessee. Miller will receive the Joe W. the Derek Pell duo, balloon artistry by Sam Giles Lifetime Achievement Award. Following Arts Academy Awards the conclusion of lunch, the Academy Chorale, Banquet and Performance conducted by Michael Culloton and composed of Wednesday • July 11 • 6:30 PM Academy participants, will be featured in the final On Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., participants will performance for the 2018 session. As the week’s gather for the Academy Bravo Awards Banquet activities come to a joyous conclusion, TAA Project and Performance in the Curb Event Center Director Madeline Bridges and TAA Managing Arena. This night is designed to honor and Director Frank Bluestein will present the “Final reward the hard work and artistic talents of Coda.” This brief message is meant to inspire each Academy participant. The banquet will and challenge each person in attendance to use include an elegant full-course dinner. Music the knowledge and experience gained during the will be provided by Jeff Lisenby on piano. Academy week to make a difference in their own To begin the evening, the Lamar Alexander lives and in the lives of the students they teach. Founder’s Award of Distinction will be The Finale Luncheon is generously sponsored presented to Tennessee Senate Majority Leader by a gift from Pinnacle Financial Partners.
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Outstanding Service to the Arts and to the Teachers of Tennessee
With the release of “A Nation at Risk” in April During the summers of 1985 and 1986, pilot personnel, who were interested in working with 1983, Americans faced a decade of increasing programs were introduced in all three grand the state to develop the new entity, the Tennessee interest in education reform. In Tennessee that divisions of the state. Teachers flocked to the Arts Academy. Cynthia Curtis, then professor of emphasis took the form of Governor Lamar free weeklong events in which nationally known music education at Belmont and recently retired Alexander’s Better Schools Program, through arts educators came to Tennessee and, using the dean of the College of Visual and Performing which new tax dollars and expanded state new arts frameworks as their guide, provided Arts, was selected as the Academy’s first dean. programs were instituted. stimulating and intensive training for teachers of The rest, as they say, is history. The Academy For the first time, the Tennessee Department art and music. began with workshops in music and art and in of Education began to play an active role in From the beginning, a conscious decision was 1988 was expanded to include theatre. Several promoting the importance of the arts as an made that the Tennessee Arts Academy would years later, the Academy added classes in school integral part of the education of all students. be the top-of-the-line program in professional administration, which eventually evolved When a panel of prominent arts educators was development for teachers of the arts. Each year into the arts leadership and administration convened to establish priorities, they included the faculty, performers, and speakers have track. The multidisciplinary trio track and the importance of creating ways to train teachers been chosen by applying stringent standards of the recently initiated arts integration, creative in the effective use of new state curriculum personal and professional excellence, thereby drama, and movement classes have all helped frameworks in the arts. ensuring that Tennessee’s teachers will not only to broaden and strengthen the Academy’s In 1984, Joe Giles was appointed to the newly acquire knowledge, but will be inspired and curricular offerings. The first musers were created position of Director of Arts Education renewed in their efforts to fulfill the mission of invited to the Academy in the early 1990s. Many for the State of Tennessee. Using the style of educating the complete child. innovative ideas and events were incorporated ancient Greek learning centers as his model, After two years of remarkable success and in into the daily schedule, including the Academy Giles conceived of the idea of using the funds order to maximize the use of state funding, it Chorale; the TAA professional, teacher, and appropriated by the state to create a unique, was decided to institutionalize the summer student art exhibitions; vendor fair; artist modern-day “Academy” that would help raise program. The campus of Belmont University market; and Academy Awards, all of which teaching standards among the arts educators was chosen as a permanent home because of are now program mainstays. In the late 1990s, across Tennessee. its central location, its aesthetic beauty, and its the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation was created to help financially support TAA. Arts Academy America was established in 2002, giving arts teachers from outside Tennessee the opportunity to become full participants in the Academy experience. After thirty-two years and much scrutiny and refining, the Tennessee Arts Academy continues as the longest running, premier summer program in America for K–12 teacher training in music, visual art, and theatre. Since its inception, the Academy has trained more than seven thousand teachers and administrators. As of today, more than three million students have been positively impacted by teachers who have attended the Tennessee Arts Academy. More significantly, the lasting benefit of the Academy endures and multiplies for years to come.
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Linda Wilson Miller Promise, which provides tuition-free Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award education to graduating high school Finale Luncheon seniors. He has also been instrumental Curb Event Center in providing annual funding for the Friday • July 13 • 11:30 AM Tennessee Arts Academy and in preserving and supporting Tennessee’s specialty During her forty-nine-year career in speech license plate program, which provides and theatre, Linda Wilson Miller has helped millions of dollars to the arts, including thousands of students develop the confidence arts education. As a member of the General and ability to communicate well. Her Assembly’s arts caucus, he created the teaching years took place at Henry County state’s Gift-A-Tag Program to boost sales of High School, in Paris, Tennessee. Miller was specialty plates. hired when the school opened in 1969, after being recommended by her predecessor and Norris is a lifetime member of the Tennessee Parent Teacher Association legendary high school speech teacher Ruby and has twice been named its Legislator of the Year. He has pioneered Krider. “ ‘Miss Ruby’ was my mentor and funding for programs addressing adverse childhood experiences, my inspiration,” says Miller. “Her energy and including the ACE Awareness Foundation and the University of passion for speech and theatre education are Tennessee’s Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth. He has unequalled, as is the number of students she impacted over her years of championed the cause of juvenile justice reform for many years. He teaching.” Miller quickly established herself in her own right as one of sponsored the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018 and also enacted the most outstanding speech and theatre teachers in the country. She has changes to prevent the incarceration of juveniles in solitary confinement. coached thirty-two students to nineteen national speech tournaments, Norris is a graduate of the University of Denver College of Law and has and in 1974, led her former student, Cherry Jones, the Tony and Emmy practiced law in Tennessee since 1980. He is special counsel with the law award winning actress, to a second place national finish in the Original firm of Adams and Reese LLP. This year, he was nominated by President Oratory competition of the National Forensic League. Trump to serve as a federal judge in the United States District Court for Miller retired from the classroom in 2014, but she continues to coach the twenty-two county Western District of Tennessee. When he’s not Henry County High’s forensic team and one-act play competition cast. tending to the peoples’ business, he tends to his cattle at home on his Miller is a longtime member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an honorary society family farm in Shelby County. He and his wife, Chris, live there with four for key women teachers. She also serves her community on the board of generations of family, including their two grandchildren—Field and directors of the Paris-Henry County Arts Council. In 1996, she was named Louise, ages six and almost four. the state educator of the year by the Tennessee High School Speech and Drama League; in 2001, she was inducted into their Hall of Fame. Miller Tony Walton has attended the Tennessee Arts Academy for at least fifteen summers. Distinguished Service Award She credits the Academy for giving her wonderful ideas she was able to Bravo Awards Banquet and Performance take back and use in the classroom. “I am so grateful to have literally Curb Event Center spent my life in school,” she says. “It’s such an exciting and challenging Wednesday • July 11 • 6:30 PM place to be, and if I had the chance, I would do it all over again.” Miller is Tony Walton is an award-winning married to Bob Miller and has one son, Chad, a daughter-in-law, Sabrena, director, production designer, and and four grandchildren. costume designer for Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, television, ballet, Tennessee Senate Majority Leader and opera. During his career, he Mark Norris has been honored with numerous Lamar Alexander Founder’s Award of Distinction accolades and awards for his work. Bravo Awards Banquet and Performance He has received sixteen Tony Award Curb Event Center nominations for his Broadway sets Wednesday • July 11 • 6:30 PM or costumes, including those created for Pippin, House of Blue Leaves, and Guys and Dolls, which all won Tony Mark Norris is a consistent and tireless advocate for arts and education. Awards. Among his twenty films, Mary Poppins, The Boy Friend, The He is completing his eighteenth year in the Tennessee Senate and is the Wiz, and Murder on the Orient Express earned him five Academy Award longest serving senate majority leader in Tennessee history. He has been nominations. He won an Oscar for his work on Bob Fosse’s All That the primary sponsor of the state’s budget for eight consecutive years, Jazz and an Emmy for Death of a Salesman. Two of his more recent during which state funding for kindergarten to twelfth grade education projects include the Broadway set designs for Annie Get Your Gun and A has increased by $1 billion. He was the primary sponsor of Tennessee Tale of Two Cities.
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Walton was the production designer for Madison Square Garden’s A Arts Leadership Award of Excellence is presented to an individual or group Christmas Carol for ten years as well as for Julie Andrews’s 2003 who has achieved a unique milestone in the arts that deserves recognition and honor. revival of The Boy Friend. His graphic work includes a great many illustrations for books and magazines; caricatures for the Distinguished Service Award is presented to an American whose work publications Playbill, Theatre Arts, and Vogue; and posters for many stands as a monument to the importance of the arts in the lives of all people. Broadway, Off-Broadway, and West End shows. During the last twenty- Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award is conferred upon a Tennessee two years, Walton has directed and designed theatre productions of teacher, whose life’s work is widely acknowledged to have positively influenced the Wilde, Shaw, Coward, and others for New York’s Irish Rep, San Diego’s role of the arts in education, thereby benefiting the students of Tennessee’s schools. Old Globe, Sarasota’s Asolo Rep, East Hampton’s John Drew Theatre, and the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor. Lamar Alexander Founder’s Award of Distinction is presented to an individual whose meritorious accomplishments in the fields of education and the arts As a producer, Walton has co-presented six plays or musicals in have profoundly impacted American culture and life. London—three of which were in association with the legendary Hal Prince. His designs for opera have been seen at London’s Theatre Royal Lorin Hollander Award is given to a Tennessean whose influence has benefited Covent Garden, the Sadler’s Wells Opera Company, and throughout arts education in general and/or the Tennessee Arts Academy in particular. This award Europe and America. His many ballet designs include the Dance Theatre is named in honor of internationally renowned concert pianist Lorin Hollander, a of Harlem’s St. Louis Women, which was performed at the Lincoln Center special friend of the Academy. for the Performing Arts; the American Ballet Theatre’s Peter and the Partner in the Arts Award honors an individual or business whose generosity Wolf and Sleeping Beauty, which were both performed at the Met; and and support have contributed in sustained and significant ways to the success of the many ballets for the San Francisco Ballet Company and other dance Tennessee Arts Academy’s mission. companies throughout the United States. Spirit of Tennessee Award recognizes an individual or group whose work Born in Walton-on-Thames, England, he has lived in New York City for exemplifies the highest standards of artistic endeavor and brings positive recognition more than fifty years with his wife, author Gen LeRoy Walton. The pair to the place of the arts in the lives of Tennesseans. has two daughters and five grandchildren. In 1991, Tony Walton was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame.
Distinguished Service Award Joe W. Giles Lifetime Lorin Hollander Award Lamar Alexander Founder’s Award 1994 Charles Strouse, Broadway composer Achievement Award 1994 Cavit Cheshier, education executive of Distinction 1995 Charles Fowler, arts educator, writer, 1995 Joseph Edward Hodges, Crossville 1995 Steven Cohen, state senator 2013 Senator Lamar Alexander, and advocate 1996 Freda Kenner, Bells 1996 Nellie McNeil, teacher and advocate United States senator 1996 Jerome Lawrence, playwright 1996 Sue Blass, Jackson 1997 Tom L. Naylor, music educator 2014 Douglas Henry, Tennessee 1997 Lorin Hollander, concert pianist 1997 Elizabeth Rike, Knoxville and administrator state senator and philosopher 1997 Celia Bachelder, Kingsport 1998 T. Earl Hinton, music educator 2017 Bill Haslam, Tennessee Governor 2000 Scott Ellis, 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 Arts Leadership Award of Excellence 2001 Sheldon Harnick, Broadway composer 1999 Patricia Brown, Knoxville 2001 Solie Fott, music educator 2013 E. Frank Bluestein, Germantown 2001 Tina Packer, Shakespeare actor and director 2000 Robert Pletcher, Nashville 2008 Jeanette Crosswhite, arts education 2015 Music Makes Us, Nashville 2003 Bob McGrath, singer and host of 2000 Kathy Hawk, Kingsport administrator 2016 Belmont University, Nashville 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 Partner in the Arts Award 2005 Dean Pitchford, songwriter, lyricist, (awarded posthumously) educators and arts advocates 2008 Steve Spiegel, president of screenwriter, and director 2004 Marilyn duBrisk, Greeneville Theatrical Rights Worldwide 2006 Andre Thomas, choral conductor 2004 Bobby Jean Frost, Nashville Spirit of Tennessee Award 2007 Joe DiPietro, Broadway playwright 2005 Nancy Boone-Allsbrook, 2000 Wilma Dykeman, writer and lyricist Murfreesboro 2001 Jim Crabtree, theatre director 2008 Henry Krieger, Broadway composer 2005 Sally Crain Jager, Cookeville and writer 2011 Marvin Hamlisch, composer and pianist 2006 Michael Combs, Knoxville 2002 Alice Swanson, arts education 2012 Richard M. Sherman, composer and lyricist 2006 Jean R. Thomas, Chattanooga administrator and advocate 2013 Marc Cherry, Hollywood writer 2006 Mitchell Van Metre, Knoxville 2003 George Mabry, choral conductor and producer 2007 David Logan, Johnson City 2006 Dolph Smith, visual artist 2014 Rupert Holmes, Broadway playwright, 2010 James R. Holcomb, Memphis 2009 George S. Clinton, Hollywood film composer, and lyricist 2011 Flowerree W. (Galetovic) McDonough, composer 2015 Richard Maltby, Jr., director, lyricist, Knoxville 2009 Jackie Nichols, theatre administrator producer, and writer 2011 Joe W. Giles, Nashville 2009 Michael Stern, symphony conductor 2016 Audrey Flack, painter and sculptor 2012 Richard Mitchell, Knoxville 2010 Cherry Jones, Broadway actress 2016 Andrew Lippa, composer, lyricist, performer, 2013 Carol Crittenden, Nashville 2015 Charles Brindley, visual artist and writer 2014 Fred Patterson, Knoxville 2016 Doc Severinsen, musician and bandleader 2015 Gregg Coats, Memphis 2017 Christopher Durang, playwright 2016 Ted Rose, Lebanon 2017 Margaret Campbelle-Holman, Nashville 33 Administrative Council & Staff
Madeline Bridges Saturday Night starring blues legend Joyce Amanda Galbraith Project Director Cobb. In 2013, Bluestein was inducted into the Arts Leadership and Administration Madeline Bridges is Educational Theatre Association’s Hall of Fame Amanda Galbraith is an art professor of music in the in Minneapolis. educator with the Bartlett School of Music at Belmont City Schools in Tennessee. University, where she Connie Marley In 2017–2018, she was teaches music education Music Director an educator fellow with and serves as director of Connie Marley is retired the State Collaborative on the Nashville Children’s after teaching twenty Reforming Education, a Choir program. Her years at Freedom Middle Tennessee-based nonprofit degrees include a B.M. in piano performance School in Franklin, education research institution. Her students from Shorter College in Rome, Georgia; an Tennessee. During her have consistently received recognition and M. Mus. Ed. from George Peabody College of successful tenure at awards, and many have gone on to successfully Education at Vanderbilt University; and an the school, her choirs pursue further studies in the arts. Galbraith Ed.D. in music education from the University of consistently won superior ratings at local and has served on the Tennessee Department of Alabama. Bridges has taught music and music state choral festivals. Each year, her students Education’s subject matter expert committee, education in classrooms from kindergarten were well represented in honor choirs at the two standards revision committees, a textbook through the graduate level and is past president local, regional, and national levels as well. and instructional materials advisory panel, of both the Tennessee Music Educators Prior to her time in Franklin, Marley held and numerous curriculum development teams. Association and the International Board of teaching positions in Georgia, Texas and She’s received the Tennessee Art Education Directors of Choristers Guild. She is a member the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. Association’s West Tennessee Art Educator of the of the Tennessee Music Education Association Marley is also a past president of the Middle Year award two times—in 2011 and 2013. She Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Lifetime Tennessee Vocal Association and has served currently serves as secretary of the Bartlett Arts Achievement Award from the Tennessee the organization in several other capacities. Council and is a frequent presenter at local, state, Chapter of American Choral Directors Currently, she is an active member of the and national conferences. Association. For fifteen years, Bridges served American Choral Directors Association and as associate dean for academic studies of the also sings with the Nashville Chamber Singers. Susan Ramsay Belmont School of Music. Production Director Libby Lynch Before her retirement in E. Frank Bluestein Visual Art Director May of 2008, Susan Ramsay Managing Director/ Libby Lynch is the upper was a music specialist at Theatre Director school visual art instructor Franklin Elementary School E. Frank Bluestein is and art department chair in the Franklin Special the 1996-1997 Disney at University School Schools District and was National Performing of Jackson in Jackson, named Teacher of the Year Arts Teacher of the Year Tennessee. She started her for that system. She has and the 1994 Tennessee career in art education with received National Board Certification in Music Teacher of the Year. USA the Shelby County School and holds degrees from Peabody College and Today named Bluestein as one of the top forty System after receiving degrees from Union Middle Tennessee State University. Ramsay is teachers in the United States in 1998. Until University, the University of Memphis, and the past president of the Middle Tennessee Orff- his recent retirement, he served as chairman Memphis College of Art. She became a member Schulwerk Association and the Middle Tennessee of the Germantown High School Fine Arts of the Tennessee Art Education Association Elementary Music Educators Association and has Department and as executive producer for the in 1991 and has served in various leadership served as regional representative on the National school’s three-million-dollar, Emmy Award- positions in the organization in an effort to Board of Trustees for AOSA. She has presented winning television studio. Bluestein is a past ensure that as many children as possible have at Orff and Kodaly national conferences and for winner of the American Theatre Association’s access to quality art instruction. In 2004, she was the National Association for Music Education John C. Barner Award and has served as an arts named Educator of the Year by the Tennessee Art (NAfME). She serves as an adjunct professor at advisory panelist for numerous organizations, Education Association and Sponsor of the Year several colleges and universities and maintains an including the National Endowment for the Arts by the National Art Honor Society. In addition active schedule of performances as a storyteller and the Tennessee Arts Commission. He spent to her educational and leadership roles, Lynch is and as a musician. several years as director of shows at Opryland, also a jewelry designer who explores a variety of USA, and most recently wrote and directed media and regularly exhibits her work in shows the national touring production of Beale Street and competitions throughout the nation.
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Founder and Dean Emeritus with First Baptist Nashville’s sanctuary orchestra, marketing communications professional, Laura Joe W. Giles teaches private bassoon lessons in her spare time, has worked for Harvard Law School, Mass General Joe Giles is founder of the and enjoys performing duets with her daughter Cancer Center, and Trinity Church in the City of Tennessee Arts Academy Sammy, who is a harpist. Hart also enjoys teaching Boston. Currently, in addition to her work with and former director of the the arts to her son Scotty. the TAA, she runs a small graphic and web design Arts Education Program of studio from her home. the Tennessee Department Laura Webb of Education. He received TAA Support Specialist Mary Godwin his bachelor’s and Born and raised in Texas, Bookkeeper master’s degrees in music Laura Webb relocated to Mary Godwin earned education from Austin Peay State University Nashville from Boston a bachelor’s degree in and has done additional study at Peabody to continue pursuing her psychology from Oklahoma College, Middle Tennessee State University, and passions for singing and State University and a Fisk University. Mr. Giles is past president of the design. A graduate of the master’s degree in guidance Southern Division of the National Association University of North counseling from The Ohio for Music Education (NAfME) and of the Texas and the Boston State University. She has National Council of State Supervisors of Music. Conservatory, Webb has worked primarily as a lived in Nashville since 1973, He taught music in Metropolitan Nashville classical soloist, choral artist, and worship leader. when her husband Paul joined the music faculty Public Schools for twenty-two years, has taken She has performed with the Boston Symphony of Belmont University. Godwin was employed choral groups on concert tours in Europe, Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, full time at Belmont from 1997 until 2013. and has received gold and silver medals in where she made her solo debut in 2016 under the Prior to 1997, she worked for the Metropolitan international music festivals. baton of Andris Nelsons. She is currently the alto Nashville Public Schools, United Methodist section leader and soloist at the West End United Communications, and Vanderbilt University. TAA Office Staff Methodist Church in Nashville. As a designer and Melody Hart Office Manager Melody Hart earned a bachelor of music degree in bassoon performance from Ball State University in Indiana. After graduation she moved to Nashville and worked for Badger-Bogle, Architects as executive assistant and bookkeeper from 1993 to 1998. She then began working with her husband, photographer Scott Schrecker, as office manager and bookkeeper. Hart also played bassoon for the Belmont University orchestra for several years and currently subs for them and other Nashville area orchestras on occasion. She plays bassoon
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TAA 2018 Support Staff Patricia Hudson TAA Facilitators Assistant Vendor Fair Coordinator Elaine Bailey-Fryd Carrie Kimbrough Music Special Events Coordinator Visitors’ Day Coordinator David Chambers Kami Lunsford Gina Miller Chell Parkins Travel Coordinator Jerry Monds Dance and Movement Consultant Jerome Souther Pollyanna Parker David Shamberger Chris Strelecki Communications Coordinator Guest Performer Liaison Kerry Vaughn Amanda Paramore Susan Hearn Visual Art Social Media, Inventory, and Silent Auction Coordinator Evelyn Baskerville App Coordinator Carrie Bryant Gail Merritt Congdon, Dianne Evans, David Reynolds Charles Businaro Patricia Hudson Kim Shamblin Visual Enhancement Coordinator Office Volunteers and Ambassadors Ken Snyder Seth Poston Susan Hearn, Lexie Hearn, Equipment Coordinator William Hearn, Ava Zeliadt, Theatre Nancy Beard Andrea Hittle Christian Zeliadt Nancy Essary Transportation Coordinator Office Aides Jennifer Keith David Bridges Rusty King Key McKinney Transportation Assistant MPAC Liaison Pollyanna Parker Bill Marley, Tyler Stehno Kelli Davis, Kelly Field, Arts Leadership and VIP Coordinators Jessyca Christopher, Matt Hamilton, Administration Nathan Babian Jim Raver, John Wharton Atticus Hensley Belmont Event Services Webmaster Trio Track Daniel Rosseli, David Friedrichs Scott Schrecker Paula Medlin Belmont Residence Life TAA Photographer TAA Administration Special thanks to Katie Mitchell for her Tommy Gotsch Dianne Evans, Patricia Hudson TAA Assistant Photographer assistance in coordinating the TAA visual art exhibitions. Tennessee Arts Academy Will Berger Foundation Board of Directors Academy Accompanist Multiple events throughout the Academy week Jim Dodson, Patricia Hudson TAA Program Book have been made possible by the generosity of VARD Coordinators the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Board Ron Watson of Directors: Stephen Coleman (President), Joey Allison Whitmore Graphic Designer Stage Manager Beckford, Chuck Blackburn, Cavit Cheshier, Ruby Scott Schrecker Fenton, Solie Fott, Bobby Jean Frost, Charlsie Charles Sanchez Photographer Hand, Brandon Herrenbruck, Jim Holcomb, House Manager Dan Lawson, Jean Litterer, Al Mance, Flowerree Lori Anne Parker-Danley, W. McDonough, Diana K. Poe, Sara Savell, Bill Sandra Partridge Susan Ramsay Shinn, Pat Smith, Thane Smith, J. Tabor Stamper, Performance Programs Editors Hope Stringer, Bennett Tarleton, Jeanette Watkins, April Simpkins Melody Hart, Gail Merritt Congdon, William H. Watkins, Jr., and Talmage Watts. Hospitality Mary Godwin, Patricia Hudson, The Wednesday morning TAA breakfast is Stephen Coleman Linda Norfleet generously sponsored by the Tennessee Arts Awards Coordinator Proofreaders Academy Foundation Board of Directors. Carrie Kimbrough Douglas Printing, Inc. Newsletter Publisher Printer Dianne Evans Frank Bluestein Vendor Fair Coordinator Production Coordinator
36 TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION The Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established to aid and assist in the growth and expansion of the Tennessee Arts Academy and Arts Academy America. The TAAF Board of Directors shares in the belief that educators trained at the Tennessee Arts Academy are better equipped and motivated to serve their students, significantly raise achievement levels, and effect positive and lasting change in classrooms throughout the state.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Board of Directors meets regularly to plan and implement programs designed to financially support the activities of the Academy. Board of Directors Honorary Board Members Advisory Council Kem Hinton, FAIA Stephen Coleman Charlsie Hand Bill Shinn Stephanie J. Block Aaron Lazar Richard Sherman President Brandon Herrenbruck Patricia Smith Christine Brewer David Leong Linda Solomon Board Emeritus James R. Holcomb Thane Smith Chris Brubeck Andrew Lippa Steve Spiegel Tommie Pardue Joey Beckford Dan Lawson, Ph.D J. Tabor Stamper George S. Clinton Rebecca Luker Susan Stauter Fran Rogers Chuck Blackburn Jean Litterer, Ph.D Hope Stringer Jason Danieley Richard Maltby, Jr. Michael Stern Executive Director Cavit Cheshier, Ed.D Al Mance Bennett Tarleton Joe DiPietro Marin Mazzie Charles Strouse E. Frank Bluestein Ruby Fenton Flowerree W. McDonough Jeanette Watkins Audrey Flack Dean Pitchford Jourdan Urbach Executive Assistant Solie Fott, Ph.D Diana K. Poe William H. Watkins, Jr., CPA Giancarlo Guerrero Jay Russell Jane Walters Melody Hart Bobby Jean Frost Sara Savell Talmage Watts Rupert Holmes Odessa Settles Cherry Jones Doc Severinsen Bookkeeper Mary Godwin
TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY 2017–2018 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 Connie & Bill Marley Evelyn Baskerville Sarah F. Allen Donna Alexander Catherine Gilreath Rachel Motta Gerald Jerome Souther Stephanie Bastin Jean Anderson Melanie Anderson Mary Godwin Bobbi Negron Christine Bock Nicki Belsante Nicole Arnold Sheila Harrison Cheryl Nelson Salutatorian Joshua Bolling Lisa Benton Tina Atkinson Melody Hart Nikkie Parker-Dunnewold Madeline Bridges Suzanne Binkley MeHaley Babich Atticus Hensley Barry Petty Stephen & Marion Coleman Cavit Cheshier David Chambers Susie Bagwell Angela Hix Amanda Pigg Dru Davison Gail Merritt Congdon Angela Cook Nancy Beard Jussara Horton Jennikae Reid Paula Medlin Dianne T. Evans Earl Delong Kim Bohn Amber Hughes Kimberly Shamblin Ron Meers Kathy Ficker Barbara Frantz Febrienne Box Angelica Jackson Beth Ann Smith Talmage Watts BJ Frost Emily Howard Denise Bragg Matthew Johnson Ken Snyder Amanda Galbraith Nancy Jolley Paige Burchell Sandra Kandros Nicole Stimmel Patricia A. Hudson Lynn Jung Carol Byrnes Jennifer Keith Kathy Timblin Terri King Tim Koly Clay Canada Gene La Loggia Michelle Tripp Janet Laws Tammy Marks Ellen Carnes Erin Laming Kirie Walz Libby Lynch Jerry Monds Charlene Cook Sara Layne Cheryl Ward Richard Mayne Mary Margaret Moore Mary Crider Kimberly Lundin Julie R. Watson Flowerree W. McDonough Kat Morgan Emily Dickens Kami Lunsford Stephen Watson Linda Wilson Miller Karen Mueller Jim Dodson Rachel McGee Jeni West Carol Poston Janis Nunnally Sybil Dotson Key McKinney Roland Wilson Susan Ramsay Keaghlan Sheridan Jennifer Fields Jill Mitchell Bill & Suzanne Shinn Anne Snider Beth Geno LaRita Mitchell Wendy Skinner Nela Swiney Ron & Linda Sklar
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