Do you wonder if Artists-In-Schools programs are for you? Join our free roundtable discussion where arts administrators and artists who are experts in these programs will discuss what Artists-In-Schools programs look like now. Get your questions answered and learn about resources you can use in adding Artists-In-Schools teaching to your art business. Shana Adams, Durham Arts Council, and Julia Mastropaolo, United Arts, will be joined by veteran Artists-In-Schools artists Cynthia Bennett Harrell and Beverly Botsford. Whether you are visual or performing artist, this program will help you learn more about the current state of Artists-In-Schools programs in our region.
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About our Roundtable experts:
Shana Adams is the director of the Durham Arts Council’s Creative Arts in Public and Private Schools (CAPS)program. CAPS places professional teaching artists into the community and area schools to provide students with arts integrated residencies and cultural experiences. Shana earned her Bachelor of Arts Music degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Masters in Arts Administration from the University of New Orleans. She participates in the Americans for the Arts Mid-Career Arts Leaders Steering Committee is a member of Dementia Inclusive Durham’s action team and arts committee. In addition to her work in arts administration, Shana facilitates sound healing and vocal meditation experiences that support healing and relaxation.
Julia Mastropaolo is the current Arts Education Coordinator at United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County where she manages their flagship program, Artists in Schools. Each year she recruits and trains 200 volunteers for this program and partners with over 100 professional teaching artists to provide curriculum-based performances, workshops, and residencies in 150+ schools in Wake County, NC. Previously Julia worked as a Grants Officer with the Arts and Science Council in Charlotte, NC; the Grants Director for The Arts Council of Winston Salem and Forsyth County, NC; and most recently, co-managed Cool Walkings, the Glenwood South Street Scape project that involved painted murals on four crosswalks in Raleigh’s first ever permanent public art installation on public streets. Julia holds a degree in Studio Art from Meredith College and a certificate in Non-Profit Management from Duke University. In her spare time, she likes to cook, garden, and when possible, produce her own art.
Cynthia Bennett Harrell is a potter and painter who has been teaching art since 1996. Her teaching style fosters scientific and artistic environments to embrace creative problem-solving. In her frequent work as a teaching artist in schools, she demonstrates and encourages students to think outside the box as they make their own decisions, including mistakes, as a very important part of their creative process and personal development. Through her virtual residencies in the last year she has connected today’s learners via technology and social media. Learn more about Cynthia Bennett Harrell’s work here.
Beverly Botsford is a cross-cultural percussionist and educator who has been teaching since the early 1990s. Her work blends music, movement and spoken word in solo and ensemble performances, workshops and residencies. Embracing drumming traditions of Africa, Cuba, Brazil and NC, she weaves colorful rhythmic tapestries with a fascinating array of percussion from around the world. Beverly believes in the power of art to build bridges and to educate and inspire creative thinking, learning and action. Learn more about Beverly Botsford’s work here.