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CRAFT CIRCLE MEMBER PROFILES
Janet Andrews I am a Tap Dance teacher at Lusher Charter School (K-12) and Executive Director of New Orleans Dance Collective. I am also a candidate for Master of Social Work at Tulane University. I look forward to developing New Orleans Dance Collective using the CRAFT framework and to contributing my insights along the way.
Diana Argabrite I've been doing collaborative public art projects with children and youth here at Euphrat Museum of Art on the campus of DeAnza College for many years. I would like to expand this into a certificate program.
Erin Barnard I am a photographer, teacher and student. Master of Arts Management candidate in Arts in Youth and Community Development at Columbia College Chicago; Program Associate at Video Machete, a media arts/activism collective and youth media program, and Coordinator of Exposures Cross -Cultural Youth Arts Program. I look forward to dialogue and exchange of successes, challenges, methods and materials beween practitioners, organizations and individuals working with common goals.
Natascha Bolden I am working on school curriculum that will integrate the arts and sciences in effort to promote transformational learning. I would like to learn and contribute to network of community artists.
Katherine Boring Director of Straight Up Ventura County, a youth development project using improv and social change theatre techniques to promote social change regarding underage and binge drinking. I am looking forward to building community with other community based artists, to include sharing of ideas, techniques, stories and dialogue. I offer my stories and experiences with our project and community-based arts in general, plus feedback for others when requested.
Eleanor Brownfield I am a member of Alternate ROOTS (Regional Organization of Theaters South), working with many others, as well as a stage manager for music, theater, dance and mime, and a social activist and peacenik. I am looking forward to learning from the experiences of others in such a diverse conversation, and the discipline of approaching the work with a beginner's mind.
Jackie Calderone I've been involved in community-based work most of my life -- most recently the CAPACITY Youth Arts Program. We are now evolving CAPACITY into TRANSIT ARTS, an intergeneration/multicultural community of artists based in the central city and working closely with the Federation of Settlement Houses and a host of arts organizations/artists and youth-serving organizations. I am looking forward to learning from the challenges and successes of others engaged in community-based art, and looking for people who will stand with us and refuse to label our kids as "at-risk" and other negative terms.
Peter Creekmore I work for a non profit organization dedicated to combating poverty and oppression. We have an arts platform that utilizes the arts as means of change. We use the space provided by our arts campaign to educate and build with the community. In this way we involve art community members by furthering their art.
Larry Gant I've been involved creating, implementing and evaluating community-based initiatives in Detroit and Southeast Michigan for several years. I also teach a Community Based Initiative to students in the Masters of Social Work Program, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I would like to develop a course or series of teaching modules for students and community residents on art based community development. I would be happy to help co-create a variety of program evaluation designs for CRAFT Circle participants.
Natalie Goodnow I graduated from Southwestern University (Georgetown, Texas) in May 2007 with a major in Theatre, and minors in Spanish and Feminist Studies. I am passionate about collectively-created, community-engaged projects that create spaces for healing and dialogue in the places they are needed most. I am looking for Mentors/teachers/anyone willing to share their stories and experiences related to this work. I can offer the inappropriate eagerness, earnestness, and enthusiasm that only a just-got-out-of college graduate dares to share openly.
Liza Grisales I'm the Development Director at Comprehensive Community Solutions, INC. in Rockford,IL. We are currently working on social change through education and making progress towards the arts. I just graduated with a Masters in Non-profit Administration with an emphasis in Arts, Youth, Community Development. I am interested in looking at different ways of involving the community and looking at ways of incorporating the arts into education. I offer my experience in collaborating and bringing agencies together in the community, particularly community arts programs within social service organizations.
Pablo Guerra-Monje I will start as the art teacher in the fall at a bilingual charter school in Santa Fe.
Harper Jones-Hermerding I am a graduate student at Indiana University, currently working with people like Edris Cooper on a Community-Based Art project in Baja California. I think we are going to open a Museum and Art Gallery with the ability to do theatre and art. I could use some support—this is a wonderful project, but it would be great to get some feedback while I am in the field.
Robert Hines III Neighborhood Arts Program Director, Red Moon Theater Company.
Mike Keller
Tucson Arizona I'm a candidate for degree of Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. I am looking for lessons learned from community-based projects. I would like to contribute the results of my practicum with a non-traditional community church in Duluth, Minnesota.
Keval Kaur Khalsa I am an Associate Professor in Dance at Duke University where I teach a freshman course based on the work of Augusto Boal. I am Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of 2 Near The Edge, a duet dance company with L.D. Burris doing community and education-based work in North Carolina. I look forward to hearing about other activist and community-based work, and to sharing my experiences as an educator, performer, choreographer committed to educational and community work.
Cheryl Simrell King I am a professor of public administration/politics at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA - area of emphasis is democracy, community and social change.
Amy Koritz I'm a professor in the English Department at Tulane University who combines arts and social change in the teaching of my courses.
Shelley Krause I am an openly lesbian counselor who works with a diverse group of college-hopeful students as a coach and matchmaker as they embark on a search for an academic community to call home for the next four years. I also juggle. I am looking for stories about work with young people, and would like to contribute my own.
Leia Lewis I am Museum Educator at Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College of LA, where I coordinate school and community based education programs with visual arts exhibitions. Additionally, I am upstarting Sankofa Vision, Inc. a nonprofit cultural arts and community building organization rooted in African Diaspora heritage and traditions. I am developing a college-level community based arts course and wish to share ideas with others on course content, format/design, and grading. I hope to share our challenges, experiences and lessons engaging and organizing community participation within our immediate neighborhood.
Jeff Lichtman I am a recent graduate and new elementary school teacher in the Portland, OR area. Still subbing and interviewing in several districts, I love bringing out the creativity in students and I'm always looking for ways to integrate the arts into all curriculum and connecting with the community as well. At this point I am interested in listening to what others are doing and gathering ideas. I'm looking to collaborate with another teacher(s) when the timing, idea, & opportunity all click.
Richard Luther I am our city's urban renewal and economic development manager. I would like to learn about productive reuse of old buildings and creative economies in older areas. In exchange, I offer creative ideas for reuse and redevelopment from my experiences.
Jeff Mather Director of community-based public art projects, Site Sculptor/Environmental Artist, Master Teaching Artist, President of the Board of the Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning, Alternate ROOTS was founding partner. I would like to participate in a national conversation with community-based arts educators. I bring a 16 year history of serving as a teaching artist in over 100 communities. No two were alike. What worked beautifully in one place wasn't necessarily similar to what worked in another. My "pearl" to throw in this cook pot: Don't forget to check your assumptions, every time you set out!
Amy Michael I work for an Associate Vice President at Rutgers University. Our office does arts/community partnerships and would love to be on your mailing list. I bought your books and loved it!!
Nzingha Ming
Michael R. Moore I am a teacher at Michigan Tech University, grant writer and book-arts curriculum coordinator for Community Arts Center in Hancock (MI) and editor of Community Literacy Journal. I am looking forward to interaction: ideas, materials, sounding boards, and grant-writing mutual support. I can offer research help, developing collective expertise in community-arts environments and sites.
Carey Nadeau I work to support composers and communities through commissions and community residencies. I am looking to learn some new ideas (!) and contributing whatever insights I have from my experiences working with composers.
Shirah Rubin I am the chair of the art department at a private high school in Boston. I am interested in offering an arts based option for the existing week-long (40 hour) community service week at our school. This collaborative work will be in ceramics based on existing literacy work with a partnering public elementary school. I look forward to learning about what other people are doing with community based art and the wisdom gleaned from this type of communal creative process. I have a background in education and a great deal of experience in curriculum development. I would like to contribute being a reflective thinker in responding to community arts ideas and curricula.
Christopher Donshale Sims I am an educator, teach, instructor. I design curricula with a multi-disciplinary arts-based approach. I lead and facilitate workshops on poetry, spoken word and performance. I am also an Artist in Residence with the Rockford Area Arts Council and author of a self-published book of poetry entitled, "Super Lyrical." I look forward to sharing in a community of practitioners, and offering my understanding of arts-based education.
Priscilla Smith I am a writer, performing/ance artist, high school teacher and activist. I would like to learn how to infuse art across the curriculum. I offer stories of lack of success at my school; and stories of implementing CRAFT.
Robert Smith I am a video producer with a full service studio. I am a writer of screenplays. I hold degrees in philosophy, economics, and English. I create images. I like to keep my connections to current trends of change. I like to stay on the cutting edge of several areas: critical thinking, assessments, writing, ideas, images, philosophical concepts and metaphors. I deconstruct for fun.
Mindy Stricke I'm a photographer and I'm in the process of developing community arts programming in Tulsa.
Yilis del C. Suriel I am an artist participating in the Transcultural NJ: Public Service Arts Program (in association with CARTS) in New Jersey. Also act as the program coordinator for the program itself. I am looking for more efficient ways for artists to have residencies through out my state, and to contribute my experience organizing and being part of these residencies.
Laurel Tien My practice is process-oriented and has focused most recently on multimedia work, art in the everyday, and book art. I'm also an arts advocate, interdisciplinary educator (in nursing and art education--at Kwantlen University College, the University of British Columbia, and the Open Learning Agency), and nurse (with a strong interest in community health development). Facilitating community-based art projects brings together these areas of my life. I am also researching community-based art making through my PhD dissertation. Contact me through www3.telus.net/latien
Tom Tresser I am the Lead Organizer for the Creative America Project - inspiring and preparing artists/creative professionals to lead in the public sector. Teaching "How To Be A Cultural Activist" and :Who's Lying To You Now?" at DePaul University. I am also preparing a class on "Artists as Activists" for Loyola University. I look forward to fellowship, sharing best practices, discussion of issues of power, and translating knowledge from community work into political power.
Mark Webster I run projects and teach courses in community arts and community capacity building in England. I would like to get gain new networks and exchange of ideas. I can offer links with English Community Arts movement.
J. Camille Whitworth Current Involvement: Recent graduate from Brenau University with degree in Theatre. Currently working on a project called "Project Act-Out" with juvenile delinquents and theatre. I would like to gain inspiring and encouraging stories from other artists and teachers as well as ideas for exercises, games and future projects. I offer a younger person's perspective on the curriculum that is being built here and how to best implement it for today's and future generations.
Rachel Williams Currently, as an associate professor of art education at The University of Iowa, I teach graduate classes devoted to art and social change and undergraduate classes related to secondary methods. My community work takes place at various sites across Iowa: The Iowa Correctional Institution for Women, The State Training School, Elizabeth Tate Alternative High School, and the Iowa Juvenile Home. I want to find out how others integrate this information into university art education classes. I am interested in program evaluation and qualitative research. I have also been teaching a course devoted to graphic novels, I love the Beginner's Guide.
Dr. Bonnie Winfield I am director of a college program which integrates community arts into a children's after school program in an urban setting; and I teach a first year seminar on community arts. I am looking forward to sharing my story and connecting it with others and the dialogue to develop deeper understandings of the work.
Jacki Wood I am working with my husband using Augusto Boal's and Michael Rohd's techniques to work with various age levels and groups in our community. I am looking for iIdeas from other community-based activists, and offer to help more beginners use theatre for social change.
Judy Wukitsch I am cultural arts director for my town overseeing a fine arts gallery, presenting performances, classes and special events bringing artistic exposure and experience to a diverse community. I look forward to sharing ideas for using arts to build community in a changing, diverse culture, particularly some grassroots concepts for building an arts destination.
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