I provide community-building world music workshops and related arts activities (drama, shadow-puppetry, visual arts, movement) for groups of all ages and abilities. I design and build sets of musical instruments for use by groups (including specific designs for people with disabilities), utilizing inexpensive, locally available materials. Background: Peace Corps Africa , MA Ethnomusicology (Wesleyan University , CT ), KAC & VSA artist, APPEX (Asian Pacific Performance Exchange) 2006 fellow. Specialties: Indonesian, West African, and South Indian music.
My program for middle schools, which integrates visual and verbal thinking, begins with children drawing something important to them. I guide them to analyze their drawings. Using their knowledge, students write stories about their pictures. This program works well with English and Social Studies classes. I have been a teacher and visual artist for over 25 years and have a BFA and Masters of Arts in Teaching. I don't travel outside the Louisville area.
Richard "Dick" AlbinRabbit Hash, KY
MUSIC:
Traditional, Folk (banjo, guitar, dulcimer) and Storytelling
I do three different workshops: Creative Storytelling guides students through the process of developing characters, creating a plot, writing and performing the story; Music as Social Studies uses folk music to take a look (and listen) at how music came to Kentucky and how it has changed. Since the dulcimer is Kentucky’s official stringed musical instrument, it figures prominently in this workshop. Playing with History is a workshop that uses playwriting and performance to take a look at local history and folklore.
I provide visual art workshops for people of all ages and ability levels. My work primarily focuses on fiber art: basketry, weaving, doll-making, fabric surface design, creative journals, costuming, etc. I provide experiences in individual, collaborative, small-scale, and large-scale work. I enjoy working with teachers and organizations to support learning in other areas. I am willing to travel outside the Louisville area.
As a dance specialist, I have designed workshop activities that encompass Arts and Humanities Core Content for all students, including those with disabilities. I work closely with teachers and administrators to meet both artistic and academic needs for their students through carefully designed dance and creative movement projects. I have an MFA in Dance from Texas Christian University and was a former Dance Trainer for the Kentucky Collaborative for Teaching and Learning.
During a workshop we discuss the elements of drama in storytelling, such as character, structure, projection, expression, and dialect. Students create a simple collaborative work through which they expand their skills in improvisation, pantomime and role playing. We discuss the concept that traditional and personal stories reflect on specific cultures, periods, and styles. We consider the roles of storytelling in community-building and the idea that all of us, everywhere, have folk life.
Angela BartleyLouisville, KY
DANCE / MUSIC:
The "Dance of Latin America", "Global Rhythms" with Adaptive Instruments
Angela Bartley has spent her adult life extensively traveling six continents, gaining first-hand experience with world cultures. Her adaptive music and dance workshops and residencies engage participants through international music and movement. Students may learn to play African drums, sing tribal call and response, play on global adaptive musical instruments (provided), or dance salsa and cha-cha. With music and motion as instruments of global celebration, her students have fun while learning about other cultures.
I take joy in teaching students: about works of art, aesthetics and art criticism; and how to create art within a studio. I have been teaching and providing comprehensive and discipline-based art education in public schools and as a teacher for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. I teach undergraduate art education courses at Eastern Kentucky University, American Sign Language in local communities and have an MA in Art Education from EKU.
The Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet, provides operational support funding for VSA Kentucky with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
