CLOSING CREDITS The Tennessee Arts Academy gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following individuals, businesses, and organizations whose contributions have helped make the 2011 Academy possible. MAJOR FUNDING SUPPORT ADVERTISERS Tennessee Department of Education Beacon Financial Group, LLC Tennessee Arts Commission Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation at Austin Peay State University Belmont University Crystal Productions Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. MAJOR SPONSORSHIP SUPPORT Eldridge Plays & Musicals Delores Kinsolving Frist Center for the Visual Arts Milton T. Schaeffer Memphis College of Art Pat and Thane Smith Memphis Music Foundation Mid South Business Furniture, Inc. Nashville Symphony BREAK SPONSORS Scott Schrecker Photography Belmont University College of Visual and Performing Arts Steinway Piano Gallery of Nashville Cumberland University School of Music and Art Tennesseans For The Arts Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Tennessee Art Education Association Mayfield Dairy Farms Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation Tennessee Educational Theatre Association Tennessee Music Education Association Theatrical Rights Worldwide Tennessee Shakespeare Company Thomas Tours Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music QuaverMusic.com Watkins College of Art, Design & Film Yamaha Corporation of America GOODS AND SERVICES Alliance Music Publications TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY PROGRAM BOOK Barfield Elementary School (Rutherford County) Graphic Designer: Ron Watson Hinshaw Music Photographer: Michael Krouskop ImageQuest Proofreaders: Lori Anne Parker, Susan Ramsay MorningStar Music Publishers Printer: Douglas Printing, Inc. ORNL Federal Credit Union Production Coordinator: Frank Bluestein Jack Parnell Peripole Bergerault Pilot Oil SunTrust Bank Tennessee Art Education Association A Program of the Tennessee Department of Education Additional support for the Tennessee Arts Academy is provided by the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation, and Belmont University. FOUNDATION The Premier Summer Institute for Arts Education WELCOME TO THE TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FROM THE GOVERNOR Dear Friends: On behalf of the great State of Tennessee, I am pleased to extend a warm welcome to the participants and guests of the 2011 Tennessee Arts Academy. I hope this time provides you with ample opportunity to meet with friends and colleagues while making CONTENTS new acquaintances. May you find encouragement 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 enjoy Nashville and 4 FACULTY all it has to offer. Again, welcome to Tennessee. Crissy and I send our best wishes. 7 WORKSHOP SESSIONS Warmest regards, 10 INTERLUDES 15 MUSINGS 16 PERFORMANCES Bill Haslam 18 SPECIAL EVENTS FROM THE TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 20 ACADEMY AWARDS Welcome to the 2011 Tennessee Arts Academy. You are about to have one of the most enriching 21 TAA HISTORY experiences of your professional career. You will make new friends, benefit from the expertise of a gifted 22 ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL AND STAFF faculty, and renew your excitement for the arts as part of an integrated approach to education. In an era of high stakes accountability and with greater focus on student achievement, you will be reminded that 24 ADVERTISERS the arts have a vital role to play in students’ lives. 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 Craig Arnold from rhythmic training, eurhythmics in teacher Maud Hickey served on the state writing team that developed Anita Manley years of general education experience at Carter- Music-Upper Middle/Secondary training is an important focus of Frego’s research. Music-Upper Middle/Secondary the grade level expectations for visual arts for Theatre-Elementary/Lower Middle Lawrence and Rose Park Middle Schools, she Craig Arnold is currently Frego also researches methods of using Dalcroze Maud Hickey is an the Sunshine State Standards and also served as As a speech and language joined the districts’ team of gifted education the artistic director and Eurhythmics as palliative treatment for adults associate professor of the state president of the Florida Art Education pathologist in the Columbus specialists. She has also served as director of chairman of Manhattan with post-traumatic stress disorder. Frego has music education at the Association. During the summer, she volunteers City Schools in Columbus, Cumberland Heights and has provided support Concert Productions published articles, book chapters, and DVDs in Northwestern University at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Ohio, Anita Manley uses for academic improvement at Community High in New York City. He both music education and medical journals. Bienen School of Music Gatlinburg, Tennessee. She has received grants classroom drama as a School. She has completed additional studies at also serves as professor in Evanston, Illinois. Her from the Division of Cultural Affairs in Florida mode for realizing the Donald Treffinger’s Center for Creative Learning of conducting at the David L. Gamble interest in research and and has also been recognized with several communication and in Honeoye, New York. In addition, she has Manhattan School of Visual Art-Upper Middle/Secondary teaching has recently awards. academic skills of her served as an adjunct instructor at Vanderbilt, Music and conductor of the United States Inter- David L. Gamble has spent focused on using improvisation and composition students. Her research has included inquiry into Belmont, and Trevecca Universities. Collegiate Chorale. His teaching experience three decades balancing to nurture musical creativity. She has worked with Mike Looney the ways drama strategies effectively address ranges from high school and university to art and business in the children and adults to assist them in integrating School Administration the communication and literacy skill challenges Cara Rawlings music ministry. Choirs under his direction ceramic industry. He music composition and improvisation into their Mike Looney has served of students enrolled in special education Theatre-Upper Middle/Secondary have performed at national conventions, toured has developed products, learning and teaching. Hickey is the author of as superintendent of the programs. She has also led many workshops at Cara Rawlings currently throughout the United States and abroad, and written many articles, and chapters in several books and articles in journals Williamson County Schools state, national, and international education and serves as assistant produced numerous recordings. Arnold serves designed and conducted including Music Educators Journal, General Music since December 2009. Born drama conferences. Manley was the co-editor professor of movement and as a frequent guest lecturer and conductor marketing campaigns Today, Journal of Research in Music Education, in Germany, Looney moved of Dreamseekers: Creative Approaches to the acting in the Department and has appeared in China, England, France, while continuously making clay art and teaching. and Research Studies in Music Education. to the United States when he African-American Heritage, which was awarded of Theatre and Cinema Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Gamble has conducted hundreds of workshops She is currently completing a book on music was in fourth grade. Prior the Distinguished Book Award by the American at Virginia Polytechnic Spain, and Wales. in the United States and Canada and has composition for music teachers. to joining the Williamson Alliance for Theatre and Education in 1998. Institute and State helped organize and participated in five clay County School District, he served in Alabama as University. She previously Debbie Burton symposiums in Eastern Europe. He recently Ron Keller assistant superintendent and then superintendent Margaret Orem taught movement, acting, and stage combat at Music-Elementary/Lower Middle presented workshops in Finland and Alaska. Theatre-Upper Middle/Secondary for public school districts in Montgomery and Music-Elementary/Lower Middle the University of Miami. Professionally, Rawlings Debbie Burton teaches Gamble and his wife, Tracy Gamble, share their Ron Keller is a professor Butler Counties, respectively. A public educator Margaret Orem teaches has worked as a teacher, performer, fight director, music in San Diego, home and studio in a converted 1886 Indiana and the head of design and since 1994, he has also served as a principal, music at Jerabek and dance choreographer in Chicago, Nashville, California, at Jerabek church. Gamble thinks of his current ceramic resident scenic designer for assistant principal, and an elementary school Elementary School in San New York, and St. Louis.