The Environment and the Arts workshops are designed to stimulate the senses and to encourage exploration of our natural world as an infinite resource for learning through the arts. Sessions in the four arts disciplines--dance, music, theatre, and visual art--will lead us to imagine the possibilities. 

This program is funded in part
 by the Mississippi Arts Commission 

 Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education

 Alliance Alive

Workshops for the Imagination

 The Environment and the Arts

 Saturday, February 2, 2002

8:00 a.m. 4:15 p.m.

 Lynn Meadows Discovery Center

246 Dolan Avenue, Gulfport, MS 39507

 Morning Schedule:

 8:00-9:45 a.m. Music or Theatre

10:00-11:45 a.m. Visual Art or Dance

 11:45 12:30 p.m. Lunch* 

Afternoon Schedule:

 12:30-2:15 p.m. Dance or Visual Art

2:30-4:15 p.m. Theatre or Music 

     *Plan a picnic lunch to enjoy on the grounds, or
       visit a fast food restaurantseveral are nearby. 

Artists/Presenters

Dance

Marcella Kaye Sullivan is the director of the Math and Dance in the Curriculum project and a Dance Lab Instructor at Brinkly Middle School in Jackson. She is a board member of the Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education, and is listed as an arts in education demonstrator of the Mississippi Arts Commission. She is an independent dance consultant concentrating on merging the arts into the basic curriculum.   

Music

Althea Jerome is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Southern Mississippi. She is listed on the arts in education roster of the Mississippi Arts Commission, serves as a field advisor in the Whole Schools Project Initiative, and is a facilitator for The Great Flood of 1927. She is past president of the Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education and the Mississippi Music Educators Association. 

Theatre

Rebecca Jernigan is a theatre professional and teaching artist. She is on the artist rosters of the Mississippi and Tennessee Arts Commissions, a speaker on the Mississippi Humanities Speakers Bureau, and an enrichment artist for Department of Defense schools in Europe. The storytelling half of the performance team, Dance a Story, she has worked in recent years to meld the arts of music, movement, and literature in a unique performance and instruction experience.   

Kathryn Lewis is currently president of the Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education. She is the retired Fine Arts Department Chair, speech and theatre instructor, and director of the Perk Players at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Perkinston Campus. She is a field advisor for the Mississippi Arts Commissions Whole Schools Initiative, is a theatre consultant, and a facilitator for The Great Flood of 1927.  

Visual Art

Trisha Havard is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early Adolescent and Young Adulthood Art and teaches art at the George County Middle School. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education, is president-elect of the Mississippi Art Education Association, and is the 2001 Mississippi 5^th Congressional District Teacher of the Year. In 1998 she received a Fulbright Memorial Fund scholarship to Japan, and in 2001 was U.S. Art Conference Delegation Leader to China.

Fees: 
Morning or Afternoon Sessions only... $45.00
Full Day...$60.00
For CEU credit add $15.00

Please make checks payable to MAAE

Registration deadline:  01/26/2002
Registration is not complete until fees are received.
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                              Lola Norris, MAAE Executive director
                              101 Carrie Road (601) 268-6996 (h)
                              Hattiesburg, MS 39402 (601) 266-4370 (w)
                              Lola.Norris@usm.edu  (601) 296-9929 (fax)