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Instructors Denise Willingham Huewitt – Teen Artists Academy Director, Music Instructor Denise Willingham Huewitt, utist, is native of Atlanta, GA. Her musical abilities were ne-tuned at Oklahoma State University (MM) and Columbus State University (BM) with professors Jonathan Keeble and Natalie Kruger. Denise performs as a soloist and ute and harp duo within the region. Performing organizations have included the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, LaGrange Symphony Orchestra and the pit orchestra of the Springer Opera House. She has participated as a studio musician in the recordings of many albums with various artists. Her aliations with the National Flute Association, Georgia Music Educators Association and Mu Phi Epsilon Fraternity keep her professionally connected. Mrs. Huewitt is also dedicated to the development of competitive music students and adults. She has provided superior leadership as orchestra director for Fulton County Schools and Atlanta Public Schools. Denise also serves as a clinician and adjudicator for music competitions and schools in the Atlanta area. She is the Teen Artists Academy Director, Music Coordinator, founder of the SWAC Flute Choir and an instructor the Southwest Arts Center. Performances of Denise can be found by logging on to Youtube.com. Her most recent cd collaboration with vocalist, Thurgood Marshall Jones can be found on iTunes entitled State of the World. Dana Gray – Visual Arts Instructor A New York native, Dana is a conceptual artist who utilizes various media specializing in oil paintings, murals and graphic arts. He attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan and received a BFA in Architecture from the Pratt Institute in New York. His acclaimed murals can be seen throughout the city of Atlanta, and his drawings and paintings have been included in numerous exhibitions. He has taught drawing and painting for the past ten years and is currently an instructor and graphic artist at the Southwest Arts Center. Brian Hebert – Visual Arts Instructor Brian Hebert has held the position of Arts Program Specialist/Visual Arts at the Southwest Art Center since 2001 and was the catalyst for establishing the visual arts program. Mr. Hebert has taught visual arts classes for ages 5 to adult for over 10 years in various media from drawing, painting and ceramic sculpture. As an Artist and Curator, he has conceptualized and organized various projects merging visual arts with dance, music, and theater resulting in projects; Bridging the Gap (2010), The Antidote (2011), and Camouage (2011 and 2012), to name a few. Brian Hebert is currently a Visual Arts Instructor for the Teen Arts Academy, Experiment with Art Media and Drawing and Painting Workshop. Brian’s work is inspired by music, specically music used in the foundation of hip hop; blues, jazz, soul, funk, rock in roll, and roots reggae. He exhibits his work throughout the country. The narratives in his work incorporates a music, or specically a hip hop aesthetic, using text or grati style letters in the foreground of a landscape setting mainly set in the sky or above the clouds which is a metaphor for spiritual cultivation exposing a higher state of consciousness revealed in his compositions. Brian Hebert has a fascination with depth on 2 dimensional surfaces using acrylic on wood or canvas. The titles and compositional designs used by Mr. Hebert reveal his hip hop inuences; “Looking At My Gucci”, “Soliloquy Of Chaos”, “Always Above The Clouds”, “The Denition Of Dope”, “A Dope Piece of Fruit” and “Louder Than A Bomb 1963”. His work specically speaks to the generation born between the 60-70s and raised between the 70s-80s, b-boys and girls, MCs, DJs, break dancers and grati writers. I view my pieces as rhymes written to share with my comrades to get my point across. All art can be used as a tool to enlighten and educate. Although a visual artist, he has a strong and symbiotic relationship with music, which is the primary inspiration for the compositions he designs. My father, Bernard Hebert laid the foundation for my love of music, playing everything from Bob Marley, ZZ Top, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, George Clinton and Parliament, Funkadelic, Earth, Wind and Fire, Sting, Prince, etc. growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Compton and Inglewood, California. If I were not a visual artist, I know I would be a musician. Currently Brian has work in the Afro-Futurism Exhibition, Ring On The Reel II at the Tubman Museum in Macon, Georgia. He stays working on his own paintings and curatorial projects collaborating with artists of every genre to help shed light on the visual arts. I believe the visual arts are unconsciously overlooked and taken for granted, although everything in society is visual and utilizes the visual arts to be created. I feel it is my responsibility to represent as an Ambassador for the visual arts. Meredith A Moore - Dance Instructor Meredith grew up dancing in her hometown of Atlanta, Ga. She received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2008. Meredith has worked commercially with such artists as Ciara, TLC, Lloyd, and toured with Jagged Edge, Ladies Night Out Tour 2003. She has also performed new works by Camille A. Brown, Kay Cummings and Chase Brock, where she apprenticed with the company, The Chase Brock Experience in 2008. She was also a company member of the Brooklyn, New York based, JamalJackson- DanceCompany from 2008-2010. Meredith has choreographed for various theatrical productions including, the Night Writers, performed at the Woodru Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Witness Uganda, performed at the Tank and Rattlestick Theatre in New York, NY and Crowns, for Spelman College. She is currently a Professor of Dance at Spelman College and the Dance Coordinator for The Southwest Arts Center. This year she choreographed for Zoetic Dance Ensemble and produced Choreographic Sketches, both presented at the Southwest Arts Center. Ms. Moore is excited to be a part of the Teen Artist Academy again this summer. Maiesha Mcqueen, a native Atlantan, is a singer, actress, dancer, songwriter/composer, and educator. After graduating from the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, she has performed on countless stages from o-Broadway in New York to the World Music Festival in Europe. She also acted in such feature lms as “Down to Earth” starring Chris Rock. Currently, she FULTON COUNTY TEEN ARTISTS ACADEMY teaches theatre at KIPP STRIVE Academy in Southwest Atlanta and works as a private vocal and acting coach. She can also be seen performing on stages in and around the Atlanta area. Garnetta Penn - Voice Instructor A product of the Atlanta Public school system she has had the distinct pleasure of returning to her high school Alma Mater to continue a strong tradition of choral excellence where she found her passion in Music. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Clark Atlanta University she completed an internship at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Arts Education Administration. She later went on to complete her Master of Music Education from University of Georgia. The subjects she imparts upon young minds include Choral Music, Piano, Music Theory and Music Theater at Benjamin Elijah Mays High School. She exhibits a spirit of creativity in everything she does. She has been a dedicated instructor for the Met’s: HD Live in Schools program for four years and has taken a personal interest in providing this wonderful opportunity to all students that makeup the district. She coordinates and organizes workshops and transportation for all broadcast. She has enjoyed the exposure the program has presented in order to cultivate and develop a new generation of Opera attendees.She has served as the Georgia Music Educators Association 5th District Chair and District choral chair as she has helped to plan and organize Large Group Performance Evaluations and other activities at the state level. She currently serves as Model Teacher Leader (High School Choral Division) for our school district Jade Lambert-Smith – Theatre Instructor Jade Lambert-Smith is an Atlanta based artist who recently served as assistant director for Regina Taylor’s revision of her play Crowns currently running at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and directed by the playwright. Ms. Lambert-Smith also co-wrote a song for that play entitled “Run and Tell That.” Previously Jade served as an artistic associate and teaching artist at the Alliance Theatre and on the faculty at Spelman College. Jade has worked as and actor and director with several theatre companies in the Atlanta area including Theatrical Outt, Theatre in the Square, Horizon Theatre and True Colors Theatre Company. Jade is glad to be back at the Teen Arts Academy where she originated the role of theatre director in 2006 and 2007. Stephan Isijia Reynolds - Dance Assistant Stephan is a seasoned veteran of stage performance. His dance training includes Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Dance Theater of Harlem, Paul Taylor and the Martha Graham School. Stephan is also an accomplished dancer, choreographer, creative producer, drag personality and coach and is the founder of the Sin City Drag Queen Pageants. His professional credits include: 1998, lead solo in Paul Taylor’s Company B. 1999, the leading role in Penumbra’s Black Nativity. He has been chosen to work with noted artists Christina Aguilera, Debbie Allen, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson for the 30th Anniversary Celebration on NBC, and most recently Céline Dion in A New Day. He has danced and taught dance in 30 major cities and throughout Europe as an International Master Teacher. Friday, July 26, 2013 He has performed full time, since 2005, as a name character Le Travesti in Cirque du Soleil’s production of “O” at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino.

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