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ACE/Florida Alliance for Arts Education
P.O. Box 1476
Winter Park, FL 32790
phone: 407-488-8868
info@faae.org
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Board of Directors
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Sibille Pritchard, President
Senior Vice President, Brooksville Development Corporation
Oviedo,
FL
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Sibille Hart Pritchard is Senior Vice
President of the Brooksville Development Corporation. She is
Past President of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville
Community, Inc., the Zora Neale Hurston Festival, and the Board
of Directors of the Orlando Ballet. As President of Global
Connections of Central Florida at the University of Central
Florida as well as Chair of the Florida/Southeast U.S. - Japan
Association, Sibille provides an international perspective. Sibille
also serves as a Commissioner for the Seminole County Housing
Authority, and is a board member of the Florida Chamber of Commerce,
Florida State University’s Medical School Community Board,
and the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center in Orlando. She
is former Chair of the Florida Arts Council, a past board member
of the Florida Executive Women organization, and the Governor’s
Council of Libraries.
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Bruce Rodgers, President Elect
Executive Director, Hermitage Artist Retreat
Manasota Key, FL
Hermitage Artist Retreat |
| Bruce Rodgers began his theatrical career in 1977
at the GeVa Theatre in Rochester, NY. He has also affiliated with
the Tony-award winning McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, as resident
playwright, and the Asolo Theatre Company in Sarasota, FL. As
a playwright, his drama Lost Electra won the prestigious
Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize in Cincinnati, and a Dramalogue
Award in Los Angeles. It has been produced at numerous regional
theatres throughout the United States. In 1992, he was commissioned
to write the very successful Centerburg Tales for the Asolo
Theatre. His play, The Gravity of Honey, has also seen
numerous American productions, including at the Asolo Theatre in
1995. It opened in Dublin with the Dublin International Theatre
Festival in October 1996 and most recently at the Chester Theatre
Company in Chester, Mass. Mr. Rodgers is a MacDowell Colony Fellow,
a Seaside Institute "Escape to Create" Fellow. He was named a Distinguished
Artist by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and has won
a Playwriting Fellowship from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.
In 1998 the Sarasota County Arts Council awarded him a special "Renaissance
Leadership Award". |
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Jayne Ellsperman, Past President
Florida Association of School Administrators |
| Jayne Ellspermann is the Principal of West Port High
School in Ocala, Florida. West Port High School is the home
for Marion County Center for the Arts magnet program in visual and
performing arts. West Port High School was recently identified
as a ACE/FAAE Arts Achieve Model School. She represents the
Florida Association of School Administrators on the ACE/FAAE board. Jayne
is also on the Florida Association for Secondary School Administrators
Board of Directors. She has served as President of the Ocala
Civic Theatre Board of Directors and President of the Marion Performing
Ballet Board of Directors. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from
the University of Georgia and a M.Ed. in Educational Administration
and Supervision from the University of Florida. |
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Marian Winters, Treasurer
Executive Director, VSA arts of Florida
Tampa, FL
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| Marian is the Executive Director, VSA arts of Florida,
Visiting Faculty, University of South Florida, College of Education. She
received her Master’s degree in Urban Studies, University
of Texas and holds a BA in Sociology, University of Florida. Marian
has worked as a Director of Programs, and Program Consultant, VSA
arts of Florida; Program Director, AmeriCorps Arts USF and
Visiting Faculty, College of Fine Arts; Administrative Director,
Artists Unlimited; Executive Director, Tampa Bay Children’s
Chorus; Founder and First Executive Director, Children’s Museum
of Tampa. Marian has been a grants panelist for the State of
Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and a Board Member of the Arts
Council of Hillsborough County. |
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Cindy Balistreri, Vice President for Education
Fine Arts Specialist, Sarasota County School Board
Sarasota,
FL
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Lucinda G. Balistreri has worked as an arts educator
in the Sarasota County school district for 33 years. She graduated
from the Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree
in Music Education and from the University of South Florida with
a master’s degree in Education Administration/Supervision.
She taught elementary music, middle school chorus, pre-school
music, and general classroom for Grades 4 and 5. She has been
selected Elementary Teacher of the Year (1992) Sarasota County
and Florida Music Educator of the Year (1994) the Florida Music
Educators’ Association. She has served on writing committees
at the state level for the Sunshine State Standards, Course Descriptions,
and Grade Level Expectations. She has served as president of the
Florida Elementary Music Educators Association, the Florida Music
Supervision Association, and is the past president of the Florida
Music Educators’ Association. Her current position in Sarasota
County is as the Fine Arts Program Specialist in the Curriculum
Department of the school district. |
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Tom Pearson, Ed.D. Vice President
of Coalitions
K-12 Arts Education Administrator, Palm Beach County Schools
West Palm Beach, FL
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| Dr. Tom Pearson is the Arts Education Administrator
for the School District of Palm Beach County, and a twenty-nine-year
veteran in the field of education. For twenty of those years, he
taught band at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, and
conducted two community bands. Dr. Pearson is a Past President of
the Mississippi Bandmasters Association, where he taught band for
12 years before moving to Florida. Since moving to Florida, he has
served as District Chairman for FBA District 14 and Chairman of
the FBA Ethics Committee for two terms.
He has served as the Vice President for Governmental Relations
on the Florida Alliance for Arts Education/Arts for a Complete
Education Board of Directors and the Governmental and Community
Relations Chair for the Florida Music Educators’ Association.
He is presently serving as the President of the Florida Music
Supervisors Association and a board member on the Florida School
Music Association. Dr. Pearson also serves on the education
boards of the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
and the Norton Museum of Art.
Dr. Pearson was the Magnet/Choice Program Specialist and Acting
Director for the School District of Palm Beach County. Dr. Pearson
is a frequent conference presenter for student recruitment/assignment,
and partnership and funding at the International. He has been
an adjunct professor for Palm Beach Community College and Nova
Southeastern University. Dr. Pearson has adjudicated for the
Florida Bandmasters Association, and Bands of America, throughout
the United States. |
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Sherron Long, Vice President of Government Relations
Florida Cultural Alliance
West Palm Beach, FL
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| Sherron is president and founder of Creating Executive
Options Inc., a management and planning consulting business. She
manages three statewide service organizations: the Florida Professional
Theatres Association, which she created in 1981; the Florida Cultural
Alliance, which she co-founded in 1983; and the Florida Association
of Local Arts Agencies. Prior to Creating Executive Options in 1985,
she developed the grants program for the Palm Beach County Cultural
Council’s Tourist Development Cultural Activities Program
and co-hosted and co-produced a weekly television show about the
arts. She worked at the Florida Department of State Division of
Cultural Affairs and Florida Arts Council from 1978 to 1983 as an
arts administrator, where she created and managed the State Touring
Program; initiated the first statewide Florida Dance Association
summer dance festival and the first statewide conferences for local
arts agencies and sponsors and presenters. Sherron has been an on-site
evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts' Dance Program
and has served as president of the State Arts Advocacy League of
America, the former national organization for state arts advocacy
organizations. Sherron has received many honors including the Florida
ArtsPAC Cultural Advocacy Award; the Florida Department of State
Arts Recognition Award; Arts & Business Council of Miami Arts
Advocate of the Year Award, the Art Serve Individual Leadership
Encore Award. Sherron taught theatre, speech, dance, and humanities
at the high school and university levels and has directed and choreographed
a number of productions in educational and professional settings.
She has a B.A. in Speech and Drama from Valdosta State University
and an M.F.A. in Directing from Florida State University's School
of Theatre. |
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Ellie Potts Barrett
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Ellie Potts Barrett is a teacher/choreographer
who is highly sought after by national dance organizations, professional
theatre companies, schools, colleges and private dance studios.
She was recently selected for inclusion into the 2002-2004
Florida Artist’s Residency Directory, by the Florida Division
of Cultural Affairs, as well as being selected by her students
for the Who’s WhoAmong America’s Best
Teachers publication for 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. She
is a faculty member for Dance Olympus/Dance America, Douglas
Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Flagler College
in St. Augustine, and the School of Performing Arts in Orlando.
She most recently composed the Modern Dance Syllabus for the
Florida Dance Masters Organization, which will be used as a
study tool for the testing of future Modern dance teachers in
Florida. Ellie trained at Boston Conservatory and graduated
with a B.A. in Dance from the University of South Florida. |
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Jennifer Coolidge
Executive Director, Museum of Florida Art
Deland, FL
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Coolidge has served as the Executive Director for
the Museum of Florida Art since 2001; Executive Director Arts
for a Complete Education, Florida Alliance for Art Education,
ACE/FAAE (1995-2001); Education Coordinator for Atlantic Center
for the Arts and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
in Winston Salem, NC and others in North Carolina. She has also
served as a consultant, presenter and grant panelist for such
organizations as The Center for Human Rights and Civil Liberties
at The University of Southern Mississippi; Arts Extension Service,
University of Massachusetts; ICARE, Initiative for Cultural Arts
and Education in Cleveland, Ohio; United Arts of Central Florida,
Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and Rochester Contemporary
Art Center in Rochester, NY and the Arts Council of Asheville,
NC. Coolidge graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art from Guilford College
in Greensboro, NC and completed a fellowship with the Denali Initiative
on Social Enterprise in 2000 through The Kauffman Center on Entrepreneurial
Leadership. Coolidge has received such awards as an Ambassador
of the Arts Award from Florida First Lady, Columba Bush, in 2005;
Distinguished Service Award from the Florida Music Educators Association
in 2002, and the ACE of Hearts Award from ACE/FAAE in 2001.
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Katherine Ramsberger
President, Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center
Orlando,
FL
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Kathy Ramsberger is the President of the Dr. P.
Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center (DPAC), an independent
non-profit 501(C)3 organization dedicated to develop, build, and
operate a destination that elevates the arts, provides the best
arts education, generates urban renewal and most importantly,
is programmed to be fiscally responsible in construction and operations.
Kathy is a former film commissioner for the Metro Orlando Economic
Development Commission. As a volunteer, Kathy is an executive
committee member of the Coalition for the Homeless of Central
Florida. Kathy is a graduate of Leadership Orlando Class
33 and served as Chair of Leadership Orlando Class 39. The Orlando
Business Journal (OBJ) selected Kathy as one of its “Women
Who Mean Business in Metro Orlando” in 1999, 2000, 2001,
and 2007. She was also named to the OBJ’s “Forty
Under Forty list.”
She currently resides in Orlando and has two children. |
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Dr. Linda Lovins, Ex officio
Performing and Fine Arts Program Specialist, Florida Department
of Education
Tallahassee , FL
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Dr. Linda Lovins, Performing and Fine Arts Program
Specialist at the Florida Department of Education (DOE), is an
experienced choral and general music educator with degrees from
the Crane School of Music, State University College at Potsdam,
New York (B.M., M.M.) and The Florida State University School
of Music (Ph.D.). She taught public school music from 1980 to
1998 and held a number of district-, county-, and state-level
leadership positions. While working on her doctorate, Dr. Lovins
was an assistant to June Hinckley, then Music and Fine Arts Program
Specialist at the Florida DOE during Ms. Hinckley’s tenure
as President of MENC: The National Association for Music Education from
1998 to 2000. In that two-year period, Dr. Lovins organized and
presented numerous workshops for arts educators across the state,
including workshops focused on literacy and the arts, FCAT and
the arts, and training workshops for the Florida League of
Arts Teachers (FLOAT). She then worked at the Center
for Performance Technology (CPT), where she edited and co-authored
middle and high school arts and non-arts course descriptions for
the DOE. Following completion of her doctorate, Dr. Lovins wrote
the music education curriculum for, and taught at, Buffalo State
College in New York State during the 2002-2003 school year. Since
returning to Tallahassee, Dr. Lovins has been the Director of
Music at Lafayette Presbyterian Church. She has also served as
Program Director for Arts for a Complete Education/Florida Alliance
for Arts Education (ACE/FAAE). Dr. Lovins is very passionate about
children, their potential, and their implicit right to a high-quality
arts program as an integral part of a world-class education. |
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Mary Palmer, Ex officio
Consultant to the Board of Directors
Orlando, FL
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Dr. Mary Palmer is President of Mary
Palmer & Associates, LLC, a consulting firm specializing
in the arts and education. Drawing on her four decades in public
education and community leadership, Mary works with schools
throughout the country to assist them in developing and implementing
arts integration programs to maximize student success and enliven
schools. Her most recent position was as Professor and Coordinator
of Graduate Studies in Music Education at the University of
Central Florida, Orlando; she previously served as Dean of the
UCF College of Education. Palmer is senior author of Pre-Kindergarten
through grade 8 music textbook series published by Silver Burdett
Ginn. She is the Founder, first and current Director of Florida’s Arts
for a Complete Education/ Florida Alliance for Arts Education organization
and has been instrumental in developing programs and policies
affecting arts education in Florida. She sits on numerous Boards
including Florida Theatrical Association, VSA Arts of Florida,
Florida Music Educators Association and A Gift for Teaching.
Her intergenerational program for babies from birth to twenty-four
months, Connect with Music, has gained national attention.
She has established award-winning collaborative programs with
Walt Disney World, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Junior
Achievement and others. She was a recipient of many awards,
including the Arts Recognition Award from the Florida Department
of State. |
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Laura Stone, Ex officio
Program Manager for Arts in Education
Florida Department of
State/Div. of Cultural Affairs
Tallahassee , FL
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Laura Stone joined the staff of the Division of
Cultural Affairs in 2006. Passionate about the arts, she enjoyed
a ten-year career with the Walt Disney Company. Ms. Stone worked
as a professional dancer who performed stage shows at the Magic
Kingdom and EPCOT Center, and later as a Staging Specialist teaching
on-property shows at the Magic Kingdom.
She assisted on many Disney special events including the Teacheriffic
Awards, Disney's Dreamers and Doers, President Bush's Points
of Light
Ceremony and also choreographed for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas
Parade and Disney's Happy Easter Parade. Laura holds a Bachelor
of Arts Degree in Dance with an emphasis on teaching from Virginia
Intermont College.
She has also choreographed for USFSA figure skaters, with
former students competing at the local, regional and national
levels.
At the Division of Cultural Affairs, she is the Program Manager
for Arts in Education and the Underserved Arts Communities Assistance
Programs. Ms. Stone lives in Tallahassee with her two beautiful
daughters Olivia and Kate. In her spare time she enjoys photography,
reading, working in her yard, and going to the beach. |
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