2016 Program Book
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July 10–15, 2016 On the Campus of Belmont University Connecting PEOPLE to the Tennessee’s only Center devoted to research, creation and education in the arts. For more information about the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, visit www.apsu.edu/creativearts. Austin Peay State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, age, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, or any other legally protected class with respect to all employment, programs and activities sponsored by APSU. http://www.apsu.edu/les/policy/5002.pdf 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. Additional support for the Tennessee Arts Academy is provided by the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation, Belmont University, Tennessee Arts Commission, Beth Bennett, Gibson Foundation, KHS America, Lingner Gift Fund, Pinnacle Financial Partners, Sara Savell, Pat and Thane Smith, Lee Stites, Tennessee Book Company, the Wolfe Family Fund, and private donors. The Premier Summer Institute for Arts Education Welcome TO THE TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY From the Governor Dear Friends: On behalf of the great State of Tennessee, it is my honor to welcome participants and guests to the 2016 Tennessee Arts Academy. I congratulate you on this very special thirtieth anniversary 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 Tennessee Department of Education Dear Educators: Welcome to the 2016 Tennessee Arts Academy! How fortunate you are to be a part of the thirtieth anniversary 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. The role of the arts in education is so important to ensuring our students complete their K–12 education experience as well-rounded and creative critical thinkers. I hope that you find your experience in the Academy to be both exciting and meaningful, and that you will take full advantage of this collaborative learning opportunity. Thank you for all that you do! Best, Candice McQueen Commissioner From Belmont University Welcome to Belmont University! We wish to congratulate the Tennessee Arts Academy on thirty successful years of promoting the arts by 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. We are very pleased to host the Tennessee Arts Academy, and 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 4 Faculty 7 CORE WORKSHOP SESSIONS 12 Interludes 22 SPECIAL EVents 18 MUSINGS 25 Academy Awards 20 Performances 28 ADMINIstratIVE COUNCIL AND Staff 30 TAA HISTORY 31 ADVertISERS 52 CLOSING CREDITS Faculty Jamin Carter Mark Friedman Arts Leadership, Administration, Theatre-Upper Middle/Secondary and Assessment Mark Friedman fell in Jamin Carter is a visual love with musicals at an Holly Adams artist and educator from early age when he and his Theatre-Upper Middle/Secondary Memphis, Tennessee. He brothers built their own holds degrees in visual theatre in the basement Holly Adams is a arts education as well as of their home. A longtime performer who divides sculpture and painting. classroom teacher and her time between original He has taught in several now composer and studio pieces with the physical diverse Title I classrooms producer, Friedman was named National theatre company Kakeru, ranging from elementary and high school Music Educator of the Year in 2005. He has audiobook narration for studio art to Advanced Placement art history. scripted, written music, and hosted events Audible, clown therapy Additionally, Carter has served as a mentor for for national conventions and is a sought-after projects, and acting gigs. elementary and middle school art educators speaker at music and education seminars Adams is also a passionate teaching artist; her in his school district. He currently works as around the country. He co-founded, produced, favorite recent projects include her work with a national arts integration consultant and and performed with Cincinnati’s first free girls in Kabul for the Afghan Children’s Circus is refining a new workshop in partnership outdoor Shakespeare Festival, the Peanut Butter and with the brand new Theatre Company in with the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Theatre for Children. In partnership with his Balan, Haiti. Her work as an artist-in-residence Working out of his Memphis studio, Carter uses collaborator, Janet Yates Vogt, Friedman is the for schools and universities links academic various art mediums including oil painting, composer, lyricist, and playwright of many and arts curricula while addressing socio- sculpture, and brush with ink. He participates successful theatrical works represented by cultural challenges. Adams is a graduate of in exhibitions, volunteers as a consultant for Theatrical Rights Worldwide and Rodgers the International Dell ‘Arte School, and holds public artwork, and occasionally curates shows. and Hammerstein, including How I Became a a masters in theatre, education, and social Pirate, Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy change. She is a recipient of the Association of Dru Davison Tale, and The Magical Adventures of Merlin. His Teaching Artists’ Service to the Field Award. newest work, Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Adams believes art is how we connect to, Arts Leadership, Administration, and Assessment Musical, has been described by critics as process, and understand our world, each other, “touching, affecting, and greatly entertaining,” our communities, and our living and dying. Dru Davison is an arts and is currently enjoying much success playing administrator for the in theatres across the country. Douglas Akey Shelby County Schools Music-Upper Middle/Secondary and currently serves Kevin Gerrity as project chair for the Douglas Akey has a Music-Upper Middle/Secondary Tennessee State Board bachelor’s degree in of Education’s Standards Kevin Gerrity is associate instrumental music and Revision Committee. He professor of music a master’s degree in has held several professional appointments education at Ball State solo performance from with the National Association for Music University in Muncie, Arizona State University. Education including chair of the association’s Indiana. Before joining the He has also studied brass Council of Music Program Leaders, its faculty in 2007, Gerrity performance at the Banff President’s Cabinet, and its Professional taught instrumental and Centre for the Performing Arts in Alberta, Development Committee, as well as being general music in Ohio for Canada. He has been teaching middle level a current revision team member of the thirteen years. His research interests include band in the Phoenix area since 1979. His school association’s Opportunity to Learn Standards. teacher preparation, the impact of policy on ensembles have been invited to perform at Davison has been a consultant for the United music education, the integration of music the Midwest Clinic and the Music Educators States Department of Education and the and reading instruction, education issues National Conference. As a clinician, Akey has Tennessee Department of Education as well related to adolescence, and the teaching of directed many junior high and high school as the Insight Education Group. He has taught secondary general music. In addition to serving honor bands, in addition to presenting sessions music to students in kindergarten through as a frequent presenter at state, national, to music educators throughout the United twelfth grade, was an adjunct jazz instructor at and international conferences, Gerrity has States and as far away as Singapore. Akey is Arkansas State University, and was a teaching published articles in Bulletin of the Council recognized as an accomplished composer of fellow in music education at the University of for Research in Music Education, General band music. He has composed thirty-four North Texas. He has been a member of the Bill Music Today, Journal of Research in Music commissions for band and has more than and Melinda Gates College Readiness Advisory Education, Music Educators Journal, Update: forty-five published works. After thirty-three Council and is a former national fellow for the Applications of Research in Music Education, years