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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 |
| 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 |
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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