welcome! student art We believe in the power of the arts to transform lives and communities. We believe the resources offered here today will help aspiring artists build fulfill- ing and sustainable careers. Zea Boyle, 7th grade - Laguna Blanca School But most importantly, we believe in you! YOU ARE THE FUTURE ARTISTS OF THE WORLD! collaborators Adara Balbanow, 12th grade - Garden Street Academy Garden Street Academy www.gardenstreetacademy.org SB County Education Office Partners in Education www.sbceo.org SB Teen Star www.teenstar.us Rod Lathim Dug Uyesaka Clark Sayre/Dos Pueblos High Sofia Pfitzmann, 11th grade - Laguna Blanca School our supporters City of Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture National Endowment of the Arts donations California Pizza Kitchen Ice In Paradise Lobero Theater Foundation Lure Fish House McConnell’s Fine Ice Cream Moxi Olio e Limone Ristorante Patxi’s Pizza Pizza My Heart SB Bowl Angel Martinez, 9th grade - Laguna Blanca Taco Bell Trader Joe’s Tri-County Produce Via Maestra 42 Vons Montecito Zodos - Bowling & Beyond thank you Nina Dunbar Diane Mackenzie Adara Balbanow, 12th grade - Garden Street Academy Brett McDaniel Joie McKay Ryan McKinney Dana Patterson Kiki Reyes Erica Urech Dug Uyesaka ...Our Presenters ...Our Volunteers ...Our Roundtable Leaders ...Our Future Artists ...Our Board of Directors media Voice Magazine SB Family and Life Magazine SB Independent UCSB Career Services Edhat Sofia Fouroohi-Martin, 12th grade - Laguna Blanca acdc 2019 program 10:30 REGISTRATION 11:00 WELCOME ~ In The Theater ~ Julie & Jodi McLeod (Founder and Executive Director) EMCEE ~ Clare Carey (am) & JD Lewis (pm) MENTORSHIP SPEAKER ~ Rod Rolle & Erica Urech PERFORMANCE ~ Adam Phillips of Folk Orchestra instruments from around the world ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION #1 12:50 LUNCH & NETWORKING 1:35 PERFORMANCE ~ Dos Pueblos High School Production of West Side Story Nevaeh Harrington and Nolan Montgomery SPEAKER ~ Wyatt Lavasseur (Animator) KEYNOTE SPEAKER ~ Mayor Cathy Murillo PERFORMANCE ~ 2019 Santa Barbara Teen Star, Sofia Schuster 2:20 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION #2 3:15 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION #3 4:10 SURVEYS & PRIZES ~ IN THE THEATER 5:00 SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! Be considered as one of next year’s young featured artists, 10-25 yrs old! Send your visuals to [email protected] Entries must be received by 2 /1 /20 roundtable discussions (numbers 1-5 refer to room) SESSION I ~ 11:55-12:45 1 PHOTOGRAPHY Isaac Hernandez & Macduff Everton 2 GRAPHIC & MOTION DESIGN Ulrike Kerber & Rodrigo Aguilar 3 JOURNALISM Joan Tapper & Nancy Black 4 GALLERIES & MUSEUMS Yessica Torres & Sasha Karlova 5 MUSIC Ian Putnam, Adam Phillips & Michael Andrews SESSION II ~ 2:20-3:10 1 CERAMICS & SCULPTURE Joan Rosenberg-Dent, Patrick Faulk & Chris Rupp 2 ACTING & DIRECTING J.D. Lewis & William Davies King 3 PAINTING Connie Conally & Seyburn Zorthian 4 PROMOTING YOUR ART Andi Garcia 5 FILM & MEDIA ARTS Karin Stellwagen & Alison Learned-Wolf SESSION III ~ 3:15-4:05 1 DANCE Tonia Shimin & Nancy Colahan 2 POETRY & PROSE Perie Longo, Grant House & Susan Gulbransen 3 COSTUME, FASHION DESIGN & MAKEUP Louise Wallis, M’Lynn Hass & Patricia Guerrera 4 ARCHITECTURE Susanne Kortz Tejada 5 ANIMATION Wyatt Lavasseur our speakers & performers Clare Carey, Emcee is a film and television actress collaborating with J.D. Lewis’s The Actor’s Lab in Advanced Teen Acting Class for local young people with professional ambitions. She is known for her television roles on Coach, Aquarius, Jericho, So Little Time, and Crash, and has guest star credits on CSI, Weeds, NCIS, Revenge, ER, Without a Trace, and House. She co-created the Lab Rats, a theatre program for homeless youth with legendary, Shelley Winters, and taught and directed original theatre works in Hollywood middle schools. J.D. Lewis, Emcee & Leader is an acting coach by trade. He established The Actor’s Lab in Los Angeles in 1990. He now has studios in Los Ange- les, Santa Barbara, Charlotte and Portland. He is also known for his phil- anthropic work. He founded The Twelve In Twelve Foundation in 2012. He set a world record: He and his two sons, 8 and 13 at the time, were the first family to travel to all 7 continents in one year, specifically to do humanitarian work. Mayor Cathy Murillo, Keynote Speaker is no stranger to the Santa Babara arts community. The former journalist grew up in the East Los Angeles area of Boyle Heights and moved to Santa Barbara to obtain her B.A. in Dramatic Art at UCSB. She is a classically trained stage actor. After working as a legal assistant, Murillo pursued a career in creative writing and journalism. She has published with the Ventura Independent, LA Times, Ventura County Star, and SB Independent. She was the News and Public Affairs Director for KCSB, UCSB radio station before she ran for City Council in 2011. Her Council experience led her to become Santa Barbara’s first Latina mayor in 2017. Murillo has volunteered for various non- profits, including SB Children’s Theater, Community Recovery Network, Shape of Voice Youth newspaper, and SB Channels public access television station. Rod Rolle, Mentorship Speaker is a photographer and a photojournalist. His work has appeared in Time and Business Week. Sipa USA and Getty Images distribute his photographs, which he has sold to over 220 world- wide publications. His 2004 photo of Michael Jackson won him a spot in Getty Images’ Pictures of the Year Collection. He taught Basic Photog- raphy Workshops at UCSB, VideoProduction at California Mens Colony through the UCLA Extension Arts In Corrections Program, and Advanced Photography, Digital Design, and Photojournalism at SBCC. With AWoL, he mentored Shannon Jordan and now Erica Urech and Chelsea Dormevil. Erica Urech, Mentorship Speaker is our newest emerging artist in the Art Without Limits Emerging Artist Mentorship program, mentored by pho- tographer Rod Rolle. Urech graduated from the Art Institute of Colorado with a BA in 2004. She owns photography studios in Santa Barbarba and London and seeks to strengthen her skills in photojournalism. Nevaeh Harrington, Performer is a junior at Dos Pueb- los High School and plays Maria in West Side Story. She has been singing and acting since she was very young. In the theater program at Goleta Valley Junior High she had leading roles in Once Upon A Mattressand Legally Blonde. Nolan Montgomery, Performer is the president of the Dos Pueblos Theater Company and a senior at Dos Pueb- los High School. DPHS shows he has been in include Spelling Bee, The Adams Family, and Newsies. Sofia Schuster, Performer is a 9th grader from San Marcos High School and the 2019 Teen Star winner. Santa Barbara Teen Star is a non-profit providing scholarships, supporting performing arts in our schools and showcasing the incredible talent in our community. Born with paralyzed vocal chords, Sofia was never supposed to talk, let alone sing. But at the age of six months she made her first sound. Two years ago, Sofia wrote and per- formed on her first album, titled Golden Gate, and donated all sales to Girls Rock Santa Barbara, a music education program for girls in town. She is currently working on her second album and loves playing the guitar. Isaac Hernandez, Leader earned his B.A. in Photography, Film and Studio Arts at SBCC. With his wife, Nancy Black they founded Mercury Press Int’l. As a photographer and journalist he published in over 300 magazines and news- papers and a photo essay of gay families in El Mundo in 2000 that resulted in marriage and adoption equality in Spain. His video journalism for El Mundo and Wall Street Journal returned him to his first love, filmmaking. Macduff Everton, Leader is a renowned photographer and contributing editor at National Geographic Traveler and Island Magazine. His clients include Condé Nast Traveler, Gourmet, Life, LA and NY Times Magazine, Outside, Smith- sonian, and Town & Country. His work is in the collections of many of the best museums worldwide. Macduff loves mentoring future artists! He is eager to challenge them and give them skills to create a career. He has mentored 4 young photographers for Art Without Limits including Ash Robinson, Catherine Bennett, Elite Henenson, and Leanna Thompson. Julie McLeod is the Founder of and current Mentorship Director at Art Without Limits. She served as Executive Director of SB Dance Alliance, producing over 100 con- certs while maintaining her SB studio, Dance Warehouse for 20 years. She is the driving force behind the Art Ca- reer Day Conference. She studied dance with Martha Gra- ham, Jose Limon and AnthonyTudor at Juilliard in NY, was in the original cast of West Side Story on Broadway and toured with Yul Brynner in King and I. She has served on many boards of community organizations. Julie has nurtured many budding artists, hence her inspiration for Art Without Limits’ one-on-one mentorships to keep the arts alive. Jodi McLeod is the Executive Director of Art Without Limits and became so in January 2018. Jodi has 30 plus years in management, bookkeeping and nonprofits. She has been working with AWoL for 4 years previously as the bookkeeper, board treasurer, of- fice manager, while streamlining and running programs. Before becoming Executive Director she was the co-director and did intense training leading up to her position. She has dabbled in art fields such as musical instruments, drawing, dancing, acting, and makeup. MENTORSHIP IS FINDING SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN YOU ....SO YOU CAN BELIEVE IN YOURSELF ART WITHOUT LIMITS PROGRAMS: Chat With A Pro 1 hour evaluation and guidance for artists 10 years old and up EA Mentorship Up to 1 year with a mentor for talented artists 16 years old up BizArts Workshops Workshops for the art community with business professionals Gallery Exhibitions Display of our mentored artists work in galleries and museums Fiscal Sponsorship Use of our nonprofit status to receive grants and tax deductible donations Art Career Day Conference....and here you are! GIVING BEGETS GIVING! We believe that every young artist deserves the opportunity to let their talent shine! Mentored artists are not charged, but asked to give back to their mentors, AWoL & the next generation.