2019-741-E Arts - New Hope Elementary arts grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID:06CEEEC8-EDB6-42D5-AD51-21357BE60FF7 Artist Description The ArtsCenter uses a core group of teaching artists who have extensive experience working in schools and have worked through the Artist in Residence program in past years. All of the following artists have also completed an application and attended a Teaching Artist Training Workshop at The ArtsCenter prior to being chosen as a core artist: • Virginia Queen has over 20 years of experience working as an actor and teaching artist. She helped develop The ArtsCenter's Artist in Residence program 13 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 ArtsCenter's Artist in Residence program. • Anita Woodley 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 ArtsCenter's Artist in Residence program since 2008. 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. • Erin Dangler is the owner of Broadway Bound, which is a company that teaches musical theatre to children. 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 ArtsCenter'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 ArtsCenter 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. • 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 to teach the history of Bluegrass music and has been a part of The ArtsCenter's Artist in Residence program for several years. He is co-founder of The Shady Grove Band from Chapel Hill and has performed over 5,000 shows in his 32 years as a professional musician. • Teli Shabu is from Liberia, West Africa, and is the Musical Director and Lead Percussionist of The Magic of African Rhythm. He has toured with the African American Dance Ensemble and was awarded Best Original Music 2012 for his work on The Brothers Size at Manbites Dog theater. He teaches throughout North Carolina and performs with his touring unit Djembe Fire! • Jaki Shelton Green (guest artist) is North Carolina's poet laureate and has been teaching poetry and creative writing for forty years, in addition to being a community arts advocate. She currently teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies.