APRIL 16, 2021 | 6 PM | LIcE
Partners First Lady Yumi Hogan, Maryland State Arts Council, Fine Arts Office of the Maryland State Department of Education, Arts Education in Maryland Schools, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Out Loud, and Maryland Citizens for the Arts
Table of Contents & Special Presentations Welcome and Event Overview Message from Maryland’s First Lady Heritage Awards Overview Presentation of Heritage Award Recipient: Tradition, Arabbing Message from the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Commerce Independent Artist Awards Overview; Presentation of 2021 Regional Awards, Part 1 Introduction of State Independent Artist Awardee Presentation by Stephen Towns Arts Education in Maryland Schools Overview Student performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Bourée Presentation of Jay Tucker Award for Outstanding Arts Education Message from the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Out Loud Overview Recitation of A.E. Stallings’ The Pull Toy by Kate Maerten, 2021 Maryland Poetry Out Loud State Champion Recitation of A.E. Housman’s Is My Team Ploughing by Randolph Smith, 2020 Maryland Poetry Out Loud State Champion Heritage Award Presentation of Heritage Award Recipient: Place, the Dentzel Carousel Message from the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Maryland State Department of Education Fine Arts Office Overview
Maryland Art Education Association, Maryland Dance Education Association, and Maryland Music Educators Association’s Educator Awards Independent Artist Awards Presentation of 2021 Regional Awards, Part 2 Introduction of State Independent Artist Awardee Presentation by Mia Rollow Maryland Citizens for the Arts Overview Presentation of Elected Official Award Closing Remarks Heritage Awards Performance by Heritage Award Recipient: Person or People, Phil Wiggins
Regional Independent Artist Awardees Desmond Beach ● Michael A. Buckley ● Elizabeth Casqueiro ● Mina Cheon Schroeder Cherry ● Formstone Castle Collective ● strikeWARE Collective Graham Coreil-Allen ● Cynthia Daignault ● Gabriel Dinsmoor ● Sara Dittrich Shannon Collis and Liz Donadio ● Andrea Evans ● mcfigg ● Anna Fine Foer Phylicia Ghee ● Lesley Giles ● Shanelle Harrison ● Heather Harvey Rosa Leff ● Dean Lynes ● Antonio Mcafee ● greggmo ● Jill Orlov Jason Patterson ● Nancy Pirtle-Connelly ● Mike Pugh ● Kevin Rohde John Ruppert ● Kenneth Schiano ● Amare Selfu ● Yann Seznec Lynn Tomlinson ● Fahimeh Vahdat ● John Aquilino ● Caroline Blizzard Jack Boul ● Cintia Cabib ● Tristan Cai ● Shanthi Chandrasekar ● Wesley Clark Ellen Cornett ● Alyscia Cunningham ● Margaret Dowell ● Thomas Faison ● Karen Fitzgerald ● Susan Goldman ● Charity Harris ● Elyse Harrison David Ibata ● Hedieh Ilchi ● Kate Kretz ● Laurel Lukaszewski Adrienne Moumin ● John Paradiso ● Carrie Patterson ● Sonia Pratt Beverly Ress ● Nicole Salimbene ● Paula Saneaux ● Rachel Schmidt Chris Shea ● Annie Simcoe ● Michael Hunter Thompson
State Independent Artist Awardees Stephen Towns ● Mia Rollow