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Celeste Miller Joins Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center Staff
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Emily Genetelli
ATLANTA, - Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center (YAWAC), Georgia’s leading provider of in-school arts-in-education programming, today announced that Celeste Miller has joined the organization as its Professional Learning Multi-Disciplinary Teaching Artist.
In this role, Miller is responsible for working with Arts Partners schools, designing and delivering residencies for students, as well as, workshops and courses for teachers and teaching artists. She will also assist with the training of YAWAC teaching artists. Additionally, Miller will support the implementation and facilitation of Woodruff Arts Center’s Education Professional Learning Initiative programs.
“For me, it is an honor to join Young Audiences and the Woodruff Arts Center in their leadership role to advance the field of arts integrated education as we move boldly into the 21st century with its shifting needs for how education and the arts will partner to build a future we will all be proud of on a local, national and global level,” said Celeste Miller.
Miller has over twenty years of arts and education experience. She is co-founder and co-director of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Curriculum in Motion®, a laboratory for the continued exploration of student centered dance-making as a tool for academic learning, particularly in high school settings. Miller is also part of Lesley University’s national faculty in their Integrated Teaching through the Arts Masters in Education.
“Having Celeste on our staff enhances our ability to reach children in their school and educate them through the arts, specifically through dance,” commented Virginia A. Hepner, interim executive director of Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center. “Celeste has proven she can work with teachers to help students perform, create, and respond to art using arts integration in their classrooms. These skills and experiences ultimately contribute to students being successful in school and the real world.”
About Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center
Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center (YAWAC) is an affiliate of the nation’s largest arts-in-education organization, Young Audiences, Inc. and Georgia’s leading provider of educational arts programming. Since 1983, YAWAC has pursued its mission – to transform the lives and learning of young people through the arts – by bringing the power of live arts experiences in music, dance, theatre, literary, and visual arts to young people from preschool through high school. Each year YAWAC’s curriculum-based programs reach more than 700,000 students in schools, recreation centers, libraries, museums, and other community venues throughout the state of Georgia.
About Woodruff Arts Center
Over the past 40 years, the Woodruff Arts Center has distinguished itself as one of the premier cultural centers in the nation, a unique institutional model where individual arts institutions unite to form a collaborative, inspirational, and supportive environment for the arts and education. The Woodruff Arts Center campus, located in the heart of Midtown Atlanta houses four renowned arts organizations including Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, High Museum of Art, and Young Audiences. Since 1968, Woodruff Arts Center has served more than 30 million patrons and annually offers more than 3,300 performances and exhibitions. In addition to its role as a cultural beacon and hub of the Southeast, the Center serves as a critical economic, educational, and social catalyst for Atlanta and the region. For more, visit www.woodruffcenter.org.
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CONTACT:
Emily Genetelli
404.733.4574
emily.genetelli@woodruffcenter.org
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