Faculty
Biographies
(in
alphabetical order)
Martha
Bari, Department
of Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland
A doctoral candidate in Art History, Ms. Bari's research focuses
on Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, and the New York avant-garde in the 1960s.
Bari regularly teaches undergraduate courses in twentieth-century
art and Asian art at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
and Hood College. She has lectured extensively in the Baltimore-Washington
area on various aspects of Western and Asian art. Her engagements
have included talks at the Textile Museum, the Walters Art Gallery,
the Sackler Gallery American University, Hood College, and the University
of Maryland, College Park. This summer, she is a staff lecturer
for the special exhibition "The Impressionists at Argentcuil"
at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Clinton
L. Carbon, Department
of Theater Arts, Howard University
Currently a Theater Arts Instructor at Howard University, Mr. Carbon
has a BFA in Drama and a Masters of Art Administration. He is an
accomplished director, dancer, choreographer, and singer with many
productions to his credit. He has served as both Artistic and Program
Director for Howard University's Children's Theater and the Playmakers
Repertory Company. In his twenty one years as an educator, Mr. Carbon
has taught and served as department head and administrator in schools,
including St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Bethesda, where he was
a founding teacher, Episcopal High School in Houston, where he served
as Assistant Headmaster, and Pilgrim School in Los Angeles, where
he was Headmaster. In each institution, he instituted performing
and visual arts programs while advocating the complete integration
of the arts into the classroom. Mr. Carbon has served on the Board
of Directors of the Houston Conservatory of Music, the Independent
School Alliance for Minority Affairs in Los Angeles, and committees
for the National Association of Independent Scholars and the Independent
Schools Association of the Southwest. In the future, Mr. Carbon
plans to pursue a Ph.D. while continuing to research and write about
the history of the internationally acclaimed Howard University Players.
Dr. Richard
Deasy, Director, Arts
Education Partnership, Washington D.C.
Dr. Deasy is the Director of the Arts Education Partnership, a private,
nonprofit coalition of education, arts, business, philanthropic,
and governmental organizations that demonstrate and promote the
essential role of arts education in enabling all students to succeed
in school, life, and work. Over 100 national organizations committed
to promoting arts education in elementary and secondary schools
throughout the country have joined to help states and local school
districts integrate the arts into their educational improvement
plans. Dr. Deasy has enjoyed successful careers in education, international
cultural affairs, and journalism. He served for ten years as Assistant
State Superintendent of Schools for Maryland, where he was responsible
for all statewide assessments and adopted the first curriculum requirements
in the arts. He established a summer center for students in the
performing and visual arts and provided grant support to educational
and cultural institutions in the state to provide professional development
for arts teachers as well as outreach programs for students. In
addition, he has served as the Executive Assistant to the Secretary
of Education in Pennsylvania and the President and CEO of the National
Council for International Visitors. As a prize-wining journalist,
Dr. Deasy covered politics and government at state and local levels.
He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on housing
and urban affair in Philadelphia. He has been a teacher of English,
religion, and philosophy at secondary and university levels and
has served on a variety of nonprofit boards of directors.
Dr. Robert
Gibson, Music Composition, School
of Music, University of Maryland
Dr. Gibson is a Professor of Composition at the University of Maryland,
a composer member of the Contemporary Music Forum of Washington
DC, and a performer of new music and jazz who has appeared with
numerous local and internationally recognized jazz artists. His
compositions have been performed throughout the United States, including
concerts at the national conferences of The College Music Society,
Society of Composers, Inc., and the Society for Electro-Acoustic
Music in the United States. His works have also been presented on
National Public Radio and in South America and Europe. Among Dr.
Gibson's awards in composition are six Creative and Performing Arts
Awards from the University of Maryland Graduate School and the Artist
Fellowship in Music from the Maryland State Arts Council. His Chamber
Music appears on Fanfare magazine's 1996 Want List as
one of critic William Zagorski's five notable recordings of the
year.
Catherine
Hays, Coordinator
of Digital Technology and Electronic Media and the Director of the
Electronic Media Center, College of Arts & Humanities at University
of Maryland
As
Coordinator of Digital Technology and Electronic Media for the College
of Arts and Humanities at University of Maryland, Catherine Hays
works with faculty, staff and students to use digital imagery and
multi-media technologies for teaching, learning, research and making
art. In this
capacity, Catherine manages a multimedia resource lab, the Electronic
Media Center, for the college, and she is actively involved in faculty
training programs. She also serves as a technical liaison on special
projects and committees involving technology in education. Catherine
received a Master of Arts in Education and Human Development from
the George Washington University, Educational Technology Leadership
Program, and she studied art history as an undergraduate at the
from the George Washington University, Educational Technology Leadership
Program, and she studied art history as an undergraduate at the
University of Colorado, Boulder.
Djimo Kouyate,
Lecturer, African Drumming, School
of Music, University of Maryland
Djimo
Kouyate is an oral historian who has served the Cultural Ministry
of Senegal for twenty years as a founding member of the National
Dance Company and an instructor of kora music at L'Institute National
des Arts. Presently in the US, Mr. Kouyate is the co-founder and
director of Memory of African Culture, Inc., a cultural and educational
arts organization based in Washington DC since 1983. He is the leader,
composer, and arranger for the contemporary African music ensemble,
Mamaya African Jazz. He is an adjunct lecturer of African Music
and Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland where he also
organized and directed the Mande Foli International African Music
and Dance Conference. Having taught as a guest lecturer at numerous
universities, Mr. Kouyate's work as a historian of African cultural
traditions has reached thousands of students over the past 17 years.
He is the recipient of Individual Fellowship Awards from the DC
Commission on the Arts, Arts Education Fellowship Award, and awards
from the National Endowment for the Arts Music Program. He has several
recordings, including Djimo: West African Kora Music, African
Odyssey, and Diali Djimo Kouyate: Khabila.
Living
Stage Theatre Company, Oran Sandel, Artistic Director, Washington,
D.C.
For
34 years, Living Stage Theatre Company has affected social change
through the art of improvisational theater. Working from the fundamental
belief that everyone is an artist with the need to create, the Company
conducts workshops in regularly scheduled sessions with children,
teens and adults who typically lack access to avenues of creative
development. Living Stage also offers training in its philosophy
and techniques to artists, educators, human service professionals,
parents and others who want to discover how to make use of their
creativity and how to nurture creativity in others.
An actor/educator
at Living Stage since 1977, Oran Sandel was named Associate Director
in 1992 and Artistic Director in 1995. Mr. Sandel received his degree
in Theater from Catholic University. In addition to his many years
of experience with Living Stage, he has performed in theaters throughout
the Washington area, including the New Playwright's Theatre, the
Source Theatre, the Federal Theatre Company, the Back Alley Theater
and Ford's Theatre. He has trained in Suzuki technique with Tadashi
Suzuki in Toga Mura, Japan, and in Grotowski Technique with Zbignew
Cynkutis and with Barry and Helen Meiner of the Iowa Theater Lab.
Mr. Sandel's expertise in the field of creativity and social change
has been called upon by social service and arts agencies throughout
the country and internationally. He is currently the head trainer
for the Washington, D.C. Children First Partnership Project, a coalition
of early childhood service providers working to build the arts into
their curricula. Through the Living Stage Residency program, he
has lead master workshops in the creative process for artists and
community activists in such communities as East Palo Alto, California;
Newark, Delaware; and Revysklen, Sweden. In 1994, he worked with
a group of artists who, under the aegis of the Greater Columbus
Arts Council and the Corporation for National Service (Americorps)
are setting up arts programs in community centers throughout the
Columbus area. He also serves on the faculty of the National Theatre
of the Deaf's Professional Theatre School and has taught in the
Model Secondary School for the Deaf's Young Scholars' Program. He
has conducted training sessions for many other District agencies,
including Sasha Bruce Youthworks, Manna, Inc., the Community Services
Program of the District of Columbia's Youth Services Agency, the
District's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Administration, and District
of Columbia Public Schools.
Dr. Kip
Lornell, Departments of Music
and American
Studies, The George Washington University
Dr. Lornell has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and is a professor of
Africana Studies, Music, and American Studies at George Washington
University and serves as a Research Associate at the Smithsonian.
He has received fifteen grants and fellowships from such as donors
as the National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, Smithsonian,
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was a awarded
a Grammy, the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, and the University of Memphis
Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Since 1973, Dr. Lornell has published
fifty articles in popular journals and twelve scholarly contributions
or chapters in American Music, Current Musicology,
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and Journal of American
Studies. Among his seven books are American Folk: The Grassroots
of Popular Music and Musics of Multicultural America.
Dr. Greg
Metcalf, Department
of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland
Dr.
Metcalf has a doctorate in American Studies from the University
of Maryland (dealing with the arts from a cultural context), and
an MFA in Painting and Graphics from Bowling Green State University.
A Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at the University
of Maryland, Dr. Metcalf has also taught the arts and culture and
studio art courses at Johns Hopkins University, Prince George's
Community College and the Smithsonian Institution. He has published
articles on film and culture, contemporary popular and high art
in the Journal of Popular Culture and various scholarly catalogs
and collections. He has been invited to lecture and direct colloquium
on Modernism and Postmodernism and Art at Columbia College, the
University of Central Arkansas and New Mexico State University.
Dr. Metcalf is an exhibiting sculptor, creating Congolese-inspired
ritual sculpture for contemporary American society and bricollage
constructions. Outside of academe, Dr. Metcalf also worked as an
illustrator and clothing designer, a radio producer, and a cartoonist.
Dr. Carolina
Robertson, Ethnomusicology, School
of Music, University of Maryland
Dr.
Robertson has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology focusing
on African and Native American performance traditions. Since 1979
she has coordinated Graduate Studies in Ethnomusicology at the University
of Maryland and has taught at Columbia University, the Tuskeegee
Institute, and the National Institute of Anthropology of Argentina.
As a consultant, she continually advises the Smithsonian, the Mountain
Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts and has served
as President of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Dr. Robertson has
conducted field research in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Andean Argentina
and Chile, and Polynesia. Her numerous publications in English and
Spanish emphasize the relationships between social and musical structures,
shamanic practices, music and ritual, and the impact of sound on
physiology. Her edited and co-authored volumes include Musical
Repercussions of 1492 focusing on the impact of colonialism
on musical practice, Fact and Value in Musical Scholarship
dealing with post-modern reconsiderations of musical analysis, and
"Indigenous Music of Latin America" on the politics of
music ethnography.
Joyce J.
Scott, Visual & Performance Artist, Baltimore, Maryland
Ms.
Scott received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art Education
from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1970. Then she moved
to Mexico to study at the Institute Allende, San Miguel Allende,
where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Crafts. Scott has
studied the art of Native Americans, West Africans, and Central
American Cuna Indians. Her work is additionally influenced by her
appreciation of Japanese theater, East European decorative arts,
the beadwork of the peoples of Africa, and American popular culture.
This wide range of influences plays a crucial role in her interpretation
of contemporary issues such as racism and violence, sexism and stereotypes.
In addition to teaching and lecturing nationally and internationally,
Scott has received wide acclaim as a performance artist. While living
in Mexico, Ms. Scott supported herself by singing at local nightclub.
She is most recognized for her work in the satirical Thunder Thigh
Revue with collaborator Kay Lawall, which had its beginnings at
Baltimore's Theatre Project and took the Edinburgh Festival by storm
in the early 1980s. Part of the Baltimore Museum of Art's collection
since 1984, Scott's work has appeared in more than 60 solo and group
exhibitions at numerous museums across the country and internationally,
including the American Craft Museum, New York; The Baltimore Museum
of Art, Maryland; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.;
the Orlando Art Museum, Florida; the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York;
and the Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. She has been awarded honors
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, and Anonymous was a
Woman.
Al Smith,
Department
of Art, Howard University
Al
Smith holds a BFA and MFA from Boston University's College of Fine
Arts and a Masters in Digital Arts with a concentration in 3D Animation
from Maryland Institute College of Art. He seeks a synthesis of
aesthetics between Western harmony and Eastern rhythm that he describes
as a visual "Jazz Aesthetic." He conceptualizes calligraphic
paintings and sculptural elements as permutations on a theme and
visual voices, creating as a final product the improvised
spatial play of polyrhythmic interwoven elements. He envisions further
developing 3D Animations as a visual instrument that allows him
to play time and space with musicians. As a leader and member
of an audio-visual band, he extends his use of animated calligraphic
figures, projecting them onto and through space warp such as domes,
walls, and corridors. Mr. Smith's recent exhibitions include: Seeing
Jazz (Smithsonian International gallery and traveling national
museum tour, 1997-99), TransAtlantic Dialogue (Ackland Museum;
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Museum of African Art,
Smithsonian Institution; and the DeSalvo Museum, Chicago; from Fall
1999-Spring 2001).
Dr. Marilyn
Stewart, Professor of Art
Education, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Dr.
Marilyn Stewart is recent past Chair of Related Arts at Kutztown
University where she teaches courses in art criticism, aesthetics,
and art education in the undergraduate and graduate programs. A
past Visiting Scholar with the Getty Education Institute for the
Arts, Dr. Stewart is known for her ability to translate difficult
theoretical concepts in arts education into practical, inquiry-based
activities for the classroom. She has worked with numerous national
projects involving curriculum development for K-12 comprehensive
arts education, including projects with the College Board, the Annenberg
Foundation, the Getty Institute for Education in the Arts, and the
Milken Foundation. Dr. Stewart is the author of Thinking through
Aesthetics and field editor of the Art Education in Practice
series, both published by Davis Publications, Worcester, MA. With
her colleague, Dr. Eldon Katter, President of the National Art Education
Association, she has recently completed two of three volumes of
Art and the Human Experience, a middle school textbook program,
also published by Davis Publications.
Dr. Paul
Traver, Professor Emeritus, School
of Music, University of Maryland
Dr.
Traver is the founder and retired director of the University of
Maryland Chorus, and the founder and artistic director of the Maryland
Handel Festival. He has made appearances as a conductor worldwide,
with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra,
the Richmond Symphony, and the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. He
conducts a repertoire of music which spans the 9th through the 20th
centuries, performing major choral works at the Halle Handel Festival,
Germany; the Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg; and in London, Moscow,
Rome, Vienna, and Istanbul. In 1985, Dr. Traver was named Distinguished
Scholar Teacher, University of Maryland, and recipient of the first
President's medal, the highest honor the University confers.
Tony Tsendeas,
Actor, Director and Teacher, Baltimore, Maryland
Tony
Tsendeas' work Tony Tsendeas' work as an actor, director and writer
has received critical acclaim both in the US and Europe. He is the
Artistic Director of Action Theater, a Baltimore based professional
touring theater (www.actiontheater.org). Tony also is a member of
the faculty of the Baltimore School For the Arts, where he teaches
acting. His Arts in education experience includes authoring the
Baltimore City Middle School Theater Curriculum. In 1998 Tony was
nominated as best actor in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by Stage
Magazine for his performance in BeckettLand, which he also directed.
BeckettLand, a collection of short plays by Samuel Beckett set in
a "Ghost carnival" or "bemusement park" received
five star reviews and attracted European booking representation
for Action Theater. Acting credits include Gary Swirn in "Homicide:
Life on the Streets," Voice over work for The Discovery Channel,
Training and independent films and a large number of stage performances.
Directing Credits include over 25 professional productions of original
material and works by authors such as Samuel Beckett, Stanislaw
Ignacy Witkiewicz, David Mamet, Peter Barnes, Edward Albee and Ring
Lardner Jr. Tony is also a recipient of the Maryland State Arts
Council Playwriting award for his play The Adventures of Felix.
Chris Vadala,
Coordinator of Jazz Studies, School
of Music, University of Maryland
One
of the country's foremost woodwind artists, Chris Vidala is in demand
as a jazz and classical performer and educator. He has appeared
on more than ninety recordings as well as numerous film and television
scores, performing the saxophone, flute, and clarinet. He has a
BFA in Music Education and an MA in clarinet. Currently, Mr. Vadala
is Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Saxophone at the University
of Maryland after having held several academic appointments. He
serves as President of the Maryland Unit of the International Association
of Jazz Educators and was the recipient of a National Endowment
for the Arts Jazz Study grant. He has published several original
compositions and arrangements, authored many magazine articles,
and currently writes a column that appears in Saxophone Journal.
As a distinguished clinician, Mr. Vadala travels worldwide, performing
with and conducting student and professional jazz ensembles, symphonic
bands, and orchestras. Within the past few years, he has appeared
at over 200 high schools and colleges throughout the country.
Dr. Sydney
Walker, Associate Professor, Art
Education, The Ohio State University
Dr.
Walker teaches about contemporary art, art criticism, and studio
production. Her publications on teaching and art criticism are found
in the anthology Lessons for Teaching Art Criticism, School
Arts, Arts Policy Review, and Studies in Art Education.
Postmodern theory informs her research about teaching art criticism
and her chapter, "Postmodern Theory: Why Bother?", is in the anthology
Art Education: Content and Practice in a Postmodern Era.
Her book, Meaningmaking as Artmaking, will be published this
fall by Davis Publications. Currently, her work with curriculum
includes serving as faculty coordinator at Ohio State for the national
Getty-Annenburg Challenge project, Transforming Education Through
the Arts Challenge, and consulting with the Virginia Beach City
Schools and Nebraska Arts Council.
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