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