Please join the Association of Teaching Artists in an evening of raising the visibility for the teaching artistry field and celebrating to innovation and excellence. Teaching artists are the bedrock of arts education and will forge our new future of the field in a post COVID-19 world. Join the celebration of their incredible work.
The award recipients are:
Nai-Ni Chen will receive The Distinguished Service to the Field Award, for her 20-plus years of dance teaching artistry in the Tri-State area in more than 100 schools with both in-school residencies and assembly performances, in particular their partnership with the A. Harry Moore Laboratory School for students with disabilities.
Kwame Scruggs will receive The Innovation in Teaching Artistry Award. Founder and director of Alchemy in Akron, OH where he has developed a program to engage adolescent males through the telling, discussion, and interpretation of mythological stories and fairy tales told to the beat of an African drum.
Dennie Palmer Wolf of WolfBrown will receive The Teaching Artist Ally Award for her research which has been cited by arts education organizations nationally. Wolf’s recent article “Teaching Artists as Essential Workers: Respect, Collaboration and Heft” named teaching artists as the most vulnerable population in the arts education field and called for economic support during the COVID-19 crisis.
Awards of Recognition will also be given to Tim Lord and Jason Duchan at DreamYard in the Bronx, NY, Nicole Bond of the SMART Museum in Chicago, IL, Margie Reese of Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture, and Mandi Jackson from Music Haven in New Haven, CT.
To rsvp please register here: https://ataawards2020.eventbrite.com