2017-462-E Arts - New Hope Elem. School - 2017-18 Arts Grant Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:B3B563FD-6D63-4031-A74C-538395FA5A15 assure teachers that the teaching artists coming into their classrooms have extensive experience working in schools and are trained to work in educational settings. The following artists are included in the core group of teaching artists for the Artist in Residence program: • Virginia Queen has over 20 years of experience working as an actor and teaching artist. She helped develop The Arts Center's Artist in Residence program 12 years ago and has worked as a highly sought after teaching artist with the program since that point. In 2016 she also began managing The Arts Center's Artist in Residence program. • Amy Kennan Amago has over 15 years of experience as a visual artist and has designed, written, and taught rich, original art curricula, in a variety of educational settings in accordance with state and national art learning standards, She has extensive experience using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) with students, creating and teaching STEAM-focused lessons and creating a number of interdisciplinary art units utilizing and collaborating with community resources and institutions. • Anita Wood ley is an African-American literary and theatre teaching artist, as well as an Emmy award-winning journalist, producer, columnist, actress, poet, mixed-media folk artist, baker, and playwright. • Kim Arrington is an African-American teaching and performing artist who uses poetry, drama, and music to reach audiences of all ages. She has worked with The Arts Center's Artist in Residence program since it began in 2008, and also works as a singer and songwriter. In 2012, she was the recipient of North Carolina Central University's 40 Under 40 Award for excellence in the arts and is the co-founder of The Relative Pitch, a free, quarterly performance workshop for youth ages 18 and under. • Erin Dangler is the owner of Broadway Bound, which is a company that teaches the art of musical theatre (choreography, music and acting) to children from elementary to high school. In addition, she is the Performing Arts Coordinator for Duke Arts in Health and a choreographer for mainstage productions for Playmakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill. She has worked with The Arts Center's Artist in Residence program since 2009. • Jason Abide is a potter and ceramic artist who has taught classes to children and adults at The Arts Center since 2007. He has taught numerous residencies creating video and ceramic art on site with students, as well as summer camps teaching ceramics, writing and producing short films and documentary filmmaking. He is an exhibiting artist doing both solo shows and group exhibitions, including Works in Clay, Students and Teacher (2016) Carrboro Arts Center Worlds to Discover, and Worlds to Explore (2015) North Carolina Crafts Gallery All Manner of Life (2014) Nicholson Gallery. • Charles Pettee is a professional guitar and mandolin player, singer, songwriter and teaching artist. He has designed assembly programs and week-long curricula for artist residencies that incorporate NC Essential Standards, as well as Common Core standards, to teach the history of Bluegrass music to a wide range of age groups and has been a part of The Arts Center's Artist in Residence program for several years. He is co-founder of Flying Fish recording artist The Shady Grove Band from Chapel Hill. He has performed over 5,000 shows in his 32 years as a professional musician. One third of the core artists mentioned above, Anita Wood ley and Kim Arrington, are African- American. All artists receive a payment rate of $75/hour, which includes hours spent in classrooms, as well as one hour each for planning and evaluation sessions. The Arts Center's School Show Series is also an integral part of the Artist in Residence program since the residencies all align with performances. Artists in the series include African-American