Arts Educator/Teacher

Kwelismith

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Substitute Teacher, Music Educator, Workshop Facilitator, Poet, Songwriter, Author, Lecturer Interdisciplinary Performance Artist, Jazz Vocalist, Artist In Residence, Independent Contractor, Consultant

I Teaching

Substitute teacher Kelly Services D.C. Charter Schools Prekgn-12 ( music, visual art, math, history, English, foreign languages, Advisory) long-term-- design lesson plans, enter grades in power school, manage students and learning environment until teacher returns.

General vocal music requires scheduling classes, classroom management techniques and choral technique. The ability to organize choirs based on children’s two and three part choral literature for public performances; teaching recorder and Orff Instruments; maintaining a record book for grades. I incorporated a non profit literacy through dance program that was publicly funded. As Artist faculty, I designed arts curriculums to include state literacy, math and science standards. additionally, I maintained student portfolios. At the university level, I created performance studies courses for undergraduate honors students and undergraduate visual art students. I Ordered performance history and theory textbooks. I secured video examples of contemporary performance artists from non print media library. I gave student designed final performance exams.

Vocal Music Teacher District of Columbia Public Schools Pre kgn - 8

Vocal Music Teacher, Prince Georges County Public Schools Pre-K- 6

Artist Faculty, Interdisciplinary Music Performance, Children’s Studio School

Lecturer in Performance Art History Maryland Institute College of Art, Undergraduate, Baltimore, MD * Lecturer in Performance Studies, University of Maryland Undergraduate Honors Program *

II Workshops

Design workshops for the community to coincide with performances. Utilize my interdisciplinary performance content and creative process to teach adults. Workshops include music, movement, theater improvisation, creative writing, and discussion on social issues and challenges facing communities. Teach Music Pedagogy workshops for music teachers based on Secret Meeting Publication.

Empowering Welfare Mothers entering the Workforce, Crossing The River Community for Social Change (1999) Senior Citizens Raising Other’s Children, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA (1999)) Roots and Survival, The Role of Song in the Black Experience, Sumner School Museum (1996)

National Families and Literacy Festival, Smithsonian Museum of American History * director Movement and Creative Arts Workshop WDC * Secret Meeting Music Workshop, Compton Community College for Kids and Teens, Compton CA * Director. It’s About the Music.

Artist in Residence, Video Action Team Anacostia History Project Johnson Junior High School 1992 * Maryland Youth Writer’s Conference Smith Center, Rockville, MD.* Poetry in the Spiritual, Friends School, Baltimore, MD * Poetry Workshop, It’s Your Mug * Poet in Residence, Writer’s Corps D.C- Urban League Homeless Shelter, Hendley Elementary School * The Drama of the Creative Process, St. Mary’s College (1990) From Page to Performance, Winston Churchill High School (1990)

Unleashing the Genius through the Blues, National Association for the Study and Performance of African American Music, Jackson, MS. (2007)* Making Connections from Music to Literacy, NASPAAM, Chicago, IL/ (2005)* Kwanzaa Songs for Young Singers, PG County Music Teachers Workshop (2000) * Teaching from a Blues Aesthetic, DCMEA Fall Conference (1999) The Democracy of Jazz Maryland University faculty lecture

III Interdisciplinary Performance Artist

Write/ Design/Stage and Produce Interdisciplinary Solo Performances. Memorize all spoken text. Write grant proposals. For audience development, maintain a press packet including 8x10 black and white photo, flyer/ press release for mailing and internet. Send press kit to newspapers, radio and television stations. Negotiate contracts.

Follow The Drinkin Gourd Anacostia Community Museum 2012 * American Slavery in History and Memory/ Smithsonian National Museum of American History 2000 * White ( Women of Substance) The Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA; Oberlin College, Oberlin OH 2/99; The Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA 7/98; The Dance Place WDC 10/97 * Blue, The Kitchen, New York City 5/1998 * Red George Mason University; Text and Community 5/97; The Toni Morrison Society, Baltimore, MD 6/97; Zora Neal Hurston Richard Wright Foundation 1994; Corcoran Gallery of Art Danny Lion Exhibit, 1994 * Oyelo Nuyorican Poets Café Live, WPAS/ Gala Hispanic Theater 1995 *Follow The Drinkin Gourd, Congressional Black Caucus, 1995, Anacostia Museum * A Tree Is Green, The Dance Place 1992, Maryland Institute College of Art 1993, FW3 Writer’s Workshop Ithaca, NY 1993 * Blues Print, DC Space/ Painted Bride Arts Center 1991, Mount Vernon College 1992, WHYY TV Philadelphia 1992 * When I Lay My Burden Down, Terrace Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center

IV Jazz Vocalist:

Maintain a rolodex of jazz musicians according to instrument. Maintain a marketable vocal instrument and repertoire through daily practice. Secure performance venues. Select musicians (piano, bass drums, trumpet, guitar). Send music charts in appropriate keys to all musicians at least four weeks in advance of the show.

The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Jazz Alphabet 2007 * Local venues 1990- present * Raddison Hotel Norfolk, VA IBWC 2005* Twins Restaurant and Lounge 2002, 2004, 2006/ Billie’s Birthday * Johns Hopkins University 2000 * University of Maryland The Democracy of Jazz 1997 * Harmony Hall John Addison Auditorium 1995 * Bethune Museum and Archives 1996.

V Poetry Readings

Negotiate contract. Read original poetry from publication or manuscript. Stay within the agreed upon time limit.

Library of Congress, DC: Bennington, College, VT: Episcopal Divinity School, Harvard University: Saint Mary’s College, MD: Women’s Work, Women’s Words In Series: George Washington University: Front and Center Poets JFKC Terrace Theatre: The McCauley Institute: Lammas Women’s Book Store: Windows and Mirrors, Jewish Community Center/African American Resource Center: International Black Women’s Congress: Irena’s Café, Baltimore, MD: Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, MD: Montpelier Arts Center: Feminist Women’s Writing Workshop: The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD: Miller’s Cabin, DC: Spaulding Library P.G. County:: DC Art Center: The Walter’s Museum, Baltimore, MD: Catholic University, DC: University of Maryland: Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC: George Mason University, VA: Gaucher, College, MD: Maryland Institute College of Art: Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School: Winston Churchill High School, Bethesda, MD: Howard County Library, Columbia, MD:

VI Publications

Submit your original writings according to the specification of the publisher/editor. To self-publish a book, select cohesive writings on a topic and arrange them to tell a story. Collaborate with type setters, visual artist, editors and readers. Oversee the entire publication through to completion.

To make a recording, hire musicians and engineers. Write contracts. Secure appropriate recording studio to accommodate the number of musicians. Work with engineer for approval on the end product.

AS Hungry As We Are; Washington Writer’s Publishing House * WPFW Poetry Anthology edited by Grace Cavalieri * Fast Talk Full Volume edited by Alan Spears, Gut Punch Press * Brown Girl In the Ring (Audio) Washington, Writer’s Publishing House 1992 * Sing A Softblack Poem for Winnie Mandela, Children of Promise African American Literature And Art for Young People; edited by Charles Sullivan, Abrams Publications 1991 * Secret Meeting, Kwanzaa Songs and City Sounds; Anacostia Repertory Company 1999 * Slavesong, The Art of Singing, Anacostia Repertory Company 1989 * Maria recorded at Lion and Fox Studios

Secret Meeting CD recorded with children’s voices, piano, bass, drums, percussion, guitar, trumpet at John Addison Auditorium with Engineer John Vengrowski and Gant Kishner

VII Panels

A grants panel is a peer review process of rating applications according to a specified rubric. Being a lead or secondary reader means introducing the application to the panel. To serve on a conference panel is to present a prepared statement on a topic. It is to share one’s expertise with other presenters and an audience.

D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities Arts in Education Panel 2008 & 2009, DCCAH (Individual Fellowship Panel 2000, 2001. 2003), Montgomery County Arts Council Grants Panel 1999 * Maryland State Arts Council Grants Panel 1995 & 1996 * Pennsylvania Arts Council Interdisciplinary Arts Panel 1992 & 1993 *

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Interdisciplinary Arts Panel 1990 * International Black Women’s Congress (Nomo,The Power of the Spoken Word)

* Rhythm and Words/Black Ethnic Dance in America Hot Feet Dance Studio and The Dance Place * Literacies, Technologies & Responsibilities, Eleanor Traylor, Chair, National Communications Conference of English Teachers

VIII Radio /Television

WETA Hometown Heroes, June 2005 * WTTG What’s Kwanzaa? *

ABC Nightline with Ted Koppel, Poetry In Washington * WHMM Kojo Nambi, Evening Exchange (Women of Substance) * NBC Radio Interview (Women of Substance ) * WETA Video Action Team Who’s Gonna Sing Our Song * WHYY PBS Philadelphia, PA Excerpts from Blues Print * CNN The Semi Valley Verdict * NPR All Things Considered, Katie Davis Slavesong Book Review * WPFW From the Margin, Jo Reed Secret Meeting book review * WPFW The Poet and The Poem, Grace Cavalieri

IX Education/ Training

Education

Elementary PRAXIS II, Post Graduate Study in Education Trinity University WDC * MAT Counseling Psychology, Trinity College WDC * Post Graduate Study in Music Education, Howard University and University of Maryland * B.S. Music Education University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music *

Voice (WDC) Regina McConnell, Leroy Dorsey, Vocal Jazz, Ronnie Wells

Percussion: African Drumming* Acting Living Stage with Rebecca Rice / Community Theater: Dance: Modern, The Dance Place African Jazz: Memory of African Culture company member

Poetry Writing: FW3, Ithaca, NY, The Institute for Policy Studies D.C, (Jayne Cortez and Sonia Sanchez Workshops) Visual Art Corcoran School of Art, Color Theory/ Acrylic Painting/Abstract Painting, Metal Sculpture, Ceramics, 1997-2000

X Awards/Commendations

Puffin Foundation Music Award 2010 * WETA Hometown Hero 2005,* University of Maryland Honors Program Outstanding Faculty 1999; DC Humanities Council/National Endowment Grant Award 1995, Mayor’s Arts Award, Outstanding Emerging Artist 1991; DC Commission On The Arts and Humanities Individual Fellowship Grants 1988-1994; Painted Bride Art Center New Forms Regional Grant/NEA 1990; Fannie Lou Hamer Award, Money For Women Fund, Brooklyn NT 1987; Institute for the Preservation of African American Writers Promotional Award 1986; DC Public School Superintendent’s Teacher Incentive Award 1983; Alto Soloist, Mozart Requiem Mass ; Federation of Negro Musicians Primo Melody Singers Scholarship Award ; 2nd Place James Cleveland Gospel Music Workshop

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