2012 Program Book
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CLOSING CREDITS The Tennessee Arts Academy gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following individuals, businesses, and organizations whose contributions have helped make the 2012 Academy possible. MAJOR FUNDING SUPPORT ADVERTISERS Tennessee Department of Education Austin Peay State University – Center of Excellence Tennessee Arts Commission for the Creative Arts Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Bethel University – School of Global Studies Belmont University Corner Music Crystal Productions MAJOR SPONSORSHIP SUPPORT Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. Kem and Marilyn Hinton Eldridge Plays & Musicals Thane and Pat Smith Frist Center for the Visual Arts SunTrust Bank Lane Music Memphis Music Foundation EVENT SPONSORSHIP SUPPORT Mid South Business Furniture, Inc. Cavit Cheshier Nashville Opera Solie Fott Nashville Symphony Bobby Jean Frost Plaza Artist Materials Delores Kinsolving QuaverMusic.com Jean Litterer The Renaissance Center Michael Meise Scott Schrecker Photography Linda DeMarco Miller Steinway Piano Gallery of Nashville Tommie Pardue Tennesseans For The Arts Diana K. Poe Tennessee Art Education Association Fran Rogers Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Thane and Pat Smith Tennessee Music Education Association Jane Walters Tennessee Shakespeare Company Tennessee Tech University, Department of Music BREAK SPONSORS Watkins College of Art, Design & Film Belmont University College of Visual and Performing Arts GOODS AND SERVICES Cumberland University School of Music and Art Alliance Music Publications Lighting Control Group Franklin Elementary School Plaza Artist Materials Franklin Special School District Tennessee Educational Theatre Association Freedom Intermediate School Theatrical Rights Worldwide Freedom Middle School JULY 8–13, 2012 Thomas Tours ORNL Federal Credit Union QuaverMusic.com Jack Parnell ON THE CAMPUS OF BELMONT UNIVERSITY Yamaha Corporation of America Peripole Bergerault NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE Tennessee Art Education Association TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY PROGRAM BOOK Graphic Designer: Ron Watson Photographer: Michael Krouskop Proofreaders: Lori Anne Parker-Danley, Susan Ramsay Printer: Douglas Printing, Inc. Production Coordinator: Frank Bluestein A Program of the Additional support for the Tennessee Arts Academy is provided Tennessee Department by the Tennessee Arts Commission, of Education the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation, and Belmont University. The Premier Summer Institute for Arts Education FOUNDATION WELCOME TO THE TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY CONTENTS From the Governor 4 Faculty Dear Friends: 7 WORKSHOP SESSIONS On behalf of the great State of Tennessee, I am pleased to extend a warm welcome to the participants and guests of the 2012 Tennessee Arts Academy. 11 Interludes This time offers you the opportunity to meet with friends and colleagues while making new 17 MUSINGS acquaintances. I hope you share your ideas and learn new ones as you listen to speakers, participate in sessions, and interact with others in the field. If you have the chance, I hope you will take time to 18 Performances enjoy Nashville and all it has to offer. Again, welcome to Tennessee. Crissy and I send our best wishes. 20 SPECIAL Events Warmest regards, 22 Academy Awards 23 TAA HISTORY Bill Haslam 24 Administrative COUNCIL AND Staff 26 Advertisers From the Tennessee Department of Education Welcome to the 2012 Tennessee Arts Academy. You are about to have an exciting and enriching professional development experience. You will meet new colleagues, benefit from the expertise of a gifted faculty, and renew your excitement for the arts as part of an integrated approach to education. We know that the arts have a vital role to play in students’ lives, and I hope all of you will leave refreshed and excited about unlocking the potential in all your students. Kevin Huffman Commissioner From Belmont University It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to Belmont University. We are honored to host the Tennessee Arts Academy on our campus, and I trust that our facilities will provide for enriching learning experiences for each of you. The Tennessee Arts Academy is an excellent venue for teachers of the arts to share the best practices and receive instruction from gifted faculty within a collegial community. I am confident that your students’ learning will be enhanced by the valuable techniques that you obtain as a participant. Again, thank you for allowing Belmont to host the Arts Academy. Sincerely, Robert C. Fisher President FACULTY FACULTY Janet Barrett Burke has used applied and interactive theatre program in the Tullahoma City School system Mary Frances Hand Beuys. In 1974, Leo created the Eulenspiegel Kerri Lynn Nichols Music: Upper Middle/Secondary for the purposes of conflict resolution and for twenty-two years. Coleman has served as School Administration Puppet Theatre in West Liberty, Iowa, where she Music: Elementary/Lower Middle Janet Barrett is an social change and to address such issues as the president of the Middle Tennessee School As a doctoral student is the lead puppeteer and managing director. Kerri Lynn Nichols has been associate professor at the diversity, discrimination, and bullying. She is a Band and Orchestra Association, the Tennessee at Trevecca Nazarene Eulenspiegel has performed at numerous a student and teacher of Bienen School of Music, professional director, actor, singer, and vocal and Bandmasters Association, Phi Beta Mu, the University in Nashville, festivals, both internationally and in twenty- music and dance for most Northwestern University, dialect coach, and is a faculty member at Kent Tennessee Music Education Association, and is Mary Frances Hand wrote eight states. Leo makes dolls, creates block of her life. A prolific and where her research interests State University. beginning his second term as president of the a dissertation about prints, and writes about the art of puppetry and award-winning composer, include curriculum Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Board. the effects of the arts touring in the rural Midwest. author, and recording artist, studies, interdisciplinary Suzanne Burton Coleman has presented clinics and sessions on on math and language she presents courses across approaches in music Music: Elementary/Lower Middle various aspects of music education at many state arts achievement. That Talleri McRae the country and abroad in education, and professional development in music Suzanne Burton is and national conferences. research and previous arts experiences led her to Theatre: Elementary/Lower Middle music, movement, and brain-based education. teacher education. She is a co-author of several associate professor of develop the curriculum and design for Thurman Talleri McRae is an Her eclectic work includes in-services for school books, including Sound Ways of Knowing: Music music education, director Dru Davison Francis Arts Academy in Smyrna, Tennessee, education associate at Stage districts and associations and choreography for in the Interdisciplinary Curriculum; Looking In of graduate studies, Arts Assessment where she served as an administrator for nine One Family Theatre in dance companies. Nichols is an accomplished On Music Teaching; and Constructing a Personal and coordinator of Dru Davison is the years. After serving in Rutherford County Louisville, Kentucky. During vocal performer and currently directs the Olympia Orientation to Music Teaching, and is also the music education at the chair of arts education Schools for twenty-two years as a teacher and the last ten years she has Peace Choir, which she founded. She is passionate editor of Music Education at a Crossroads: University of Delaware. for Memphis City administrator, she joined the faculty at Trevecca collaborated with theatre about creating inclusive learning structures that Realizing the Goal of Music Education for All. She She specializes in early Schools and has a wide Nazarene University as an associate professor artists and educators in meet the needs of all types of learners by using teaches courses in secondary music education, childhood and K–12 general music. Her research range of experience as in the education program. Hand has served as Alaska, California, Illinois, powerful yet simple principles. An imaginative, curriculum development, qualitative research interests are music acquisition, the development both a performer and post-baccalaureate coordinator, undergraduate Kentucky, and Texas and has worked for About playful, and inspiring teacher, she nurtures methods, and interdisciplinary perspectives on of music literacy, and effective professional educator. Prior to his field placement coordinator, and student teacher Face Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, and Next students of all ages to connect with music from music education. development. Burton is on the editorial board work in educational seminar professor at the university. One of the Theatre in Chicago. During her graduate studies, the inside-out. of Visions of Research in Music Education, is administration, Davison taught instrumental strategies she introduces to pre-service teachers Talleri researched perceptions of theatre and Richard Bjella widely published in professional journals, and music and early childhood music in Arkansas, in urban schools is the integration of the arts disability while working with young people, and Robert Post Music: Upper Middle/Secondary has contributed book chapters to Applications of Tennessee, and Texas. Davison has presented throughout the curriculum. offered professional development workshops to Theatre: