50 Years of the Arts

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Bolles Fine and Performing Arts Department Celebrates 50 Years 1

The arts have been a part of The Bolles School educational experience since its founding as a boys' military school in 1933.

Small scale performances in drama, chorus and band helped students explore new ways to express themselves artistically. But in 1967, a new narrative for the arts at Bolles emerged. Under the direction of Arthur Carnes, the Bolles Fine and Performing Arts Department was born — taking its now familiar lead role in the School’s orange and blue limelight.

50 years later, the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Bolles is one of the School’s most prominent strengths with a highly regarded faculty, a vibrant guest artist program, a rich multi-grade level curriculum in drama, chorus, dance, band and visual arts and opportunities normally found in a college arts experience. 100 percent of Bolles lower school students are involved in art, music and theatre instruction and 80 percent of the middle and upper school student body are enrolled in a Bolles Fine and Performing Arts class. Each year, Bolles hosts more than 40 performances and gallery receptions on all four campuses during the academic year.

“At Bolles we teach Fine and Performing Arts students to maximize their expressive potential through the varied tools, techniques and skills necessary for successful translation from idea to final form — or creation,” said Bolles Director of Fine and Performing Arts

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Laura Rippel. “We look forward to celebrating 50 years of creation during the 2017-18 school year.”

Bolles campuses, arts facilities and communications exhibit a special “50 Years of the Arts” logo to honor the School’s artistic achievements.

This year, School leaders will commemorate the 50-year anniversary of Bolles Fine and Performing Arts by showcasing its historical accomplishments and encouraging faculty and students to keep doing what they do best ­— creating. The fall 2017 upper school musical will be “High School Musical” and rehearsals began in September.

Bolles Director of Dance Angela Blackledge has organized a stellar guest artist line-up for the year. Former Martha Graham Dance Company principal dancer Steve Rooks, whose mid-September weekend program had to be rescheduled due to Hurricane Irma, will hold a two-day workshop later this year. Rooks is presently a professor of dance at Vassar College. December 2-3, Ariana Crowder will be on campus to inspire Bolles dancers. Crowder was a Season 12 finalist on “So You Think You Can Dance.”

Disney Imagineer and Professional Artist George Scribner ’70 will be the featured speaker for the upcoming “Peak Perspective” speakers’ series event on campus October 26.

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In April, the School will host an Alumni Gallery Exhibit in Gooding Gallery and a special showing of Bartram alumna Kathy Stark’s works in Murchison Lane Gallery. Other special guest visits — as well as concerts, events and exhibits in all areas of Bolles fine and performing arts and on all four Bolles campuses — are in the works for the 2017-18 school year.

This also will be an important anniversary year for the Phoenix Society, Bolles’ honor society within the Bolles Fine and Performing Arts Department.

Co-founded in 1967 by first department head Carnes and longtime Academic Dean Rufus McClure, the society recognizes juniors and seniors who excel in two or more areas of the arts. Phoenix Society candidates demonstrate a commitment to the demands of artistic vision, delight in the process of creative discovery, and show gratefulness and humility in the face of achievement.

“I am always humbled and amazed by the caliber of work our students demonstrate in the arts,” said President and Head of School Dave Farace. “Their talents not only enrich our Bolles community, but have helped shape the vibrant art scene in Northeast Florida.

Bolles faculty and student works and performances are pervasive in Jacksonville, and have been for decades.

We are fortunate at Bolles to understand the importance and influence of art in our community.” n

Current arts faculty and their specialty at Bolles include: Don Bied | VISUAL ARTS Angela Blackledge | DANCE Rachel Clifton | CHORUS Dewitt Cooper | DRAMA Kelly Cullen | PHOTOGRAPHY Francesca D’Angelis | DANCE Andrew Dickson | ART HISTORY Jeanette Edwards | VISUAL ARTS Michael Fritton | DRAMA Tiffany Gonzalez | VISUAL ARTS Pamela Hiller | VISUAL ARTS John Jenkins | THEATRE TECH ASSISTANT Elizabeth Miron | VISUAL ARTS Andy Payne | THEATRE PRODUCTION Stacey Posick | MUSIC Laura Rippel | DRAMA Jim Smith | VISUAL ARTS Maggie Vance | BAND Beth Zerkowski | MUSIC

Many Bolles fine and performing arts faculty have been teaching at Bolles for much of the fine and performing arts 50-year history. Many are known in the community for their expertise.

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FACES OF THE ARTS Donald M Bied was raised in Los Angeles and completed his undergraduate degree at the Art Center College of Design.

He has also received an MA in Painting and Drawing from California State University and an MFA in Printmaking from SUNY at Buffalo. Bied has taught at the college/university level and at the high school level. He began his tenure at The Bolles School in 2002 where he teaches Drawing, Painting and the Two-Dimensional Advanced Placement classes. Bied has lived, worked and exhibited in several regions of the country including Los Angeles, New York City and currently in Jacksonville. His work has included observational based images as well as conceptually based images.

Angela Blackledge is the Director of Dance at The Bolles School. She received her B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Southern Mississippi and did her graduate work at the University of Utah with additional graduate studies at Columbia University, Oklahoma City University, University of Oklahoma and The University of Southern Mississippi. Blackledge piloted new dance programs at Landon Middle School for the Arts, now known as La Villa School of the Arts. At Bolles she began the dance program and Bolles Repertory Dance Theatre in 1993.

She has performed in and choreographed musicals and union productions throughout the U.S. and Africa.

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Blackledge is a member of the Actors Equity Association and has served as visiting committee member for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

She is the recipient of the 1991 Folio Award for Best Choreography for Jacksonville, Florida, has been awarded two Florida Times-Union/Cultural Arts Council Grants and an Ottenstroer Excellence in Teaching Fellowship in 2005. Blackledge has been guest choreographer for Bob Mackie, Pearl Bailey, Marie Osmond and Dinah Shore.

Pianist and educator Rachel Clifton performs regularly in chamber music concerts and as a collaborative artist. She has taught elementary through collegiate levels, serving on the music faculties of Muhlenberg College, Cedar Crest College and Jacksonville University.

Since moving to Jacksonville in 1989, she has performed with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the First Coast Wind Symphony, the St. Augustine Music Festival, the San Marco Chamber Music Series, the Beaches Fine Arts Series, at the University of Florida and the University of Miami.

Clifton has been a faculty pianist with the Buffet Crampon Summer Clarinet Academy. She presented concerts at the International Clarinet Festivals held in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Atlanta, New Orleans, Kansas City and Baton Rouge. At Bolles, she has been honored with the Teacher of the Year Award, the Ottenstroer Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, the Edward Ford Merit Award and two grants from the Florida Humanities Council. Her choruses have presented three concerts in Carnegie Hall, performed

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The History of the Fine and Performing Arts at The Bolles School As written by Rufus R. McClure, longtime Bolles English Department Chair and Academic Dean, in “The Bolles School: On Parade Saluting the Legacy.” The Bolles Fine and Performing Arts Department was founded under his tenure as academic dean. McClure also is co-founder of The Phoenix Society, Bolles’ arts honor society.

“Although academic, athletic and lifestyle traditions began early and have endured through the decades, of the arts traditions, there are very few for the first 30 or so years. Throughout Bolles’ early military history, there was no arts curriculum nor, for that matter, any structured or organized arts activities.

However, because the arts universally demonstrate man’s yearning for spiritual expression, there were sporadic attempts to engage students in the arts,

generically speaking. Although there was no music program as such, various faculty members organized and conducted information glee-club programs, particularly for the Christmas season. Some students in the military band organized a dance band, which enjoyed considerable success. Old yearbook pictures reveal occasional efforts to stage dramatic performances, but there exist no written texts to elucidate.

So it was through the 30s, 40s and 50s.

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share the proud tradition of excellence. In 1975, McGehee Auditorium rose from the sand; and the arts, especially music and drama, finally had a home.

“Best in Show 2017 Winner,” by Will Skinner ’18

The first concerted effort to organize the arts and design a specific arts curriculum began in the mid60s. The world had begun to change. Colleges began to demand a broader, more comprehensive preparation, including some experiences with the arts and more electives in the other disciplines. The first reflection of the arts curriculum was a part-time, single-period chorus, which for years was shunted about from one woefully inadequate space to another. The only viable location was the Bolles Hall Lobby, which turned out to be a serendipitous solution because most subsequent choral traditions began there; and the chorus has subsequently become an enduring tradition, proudly extending as far south as Disney World and as far north as Carnegie Hall, where it is now a tradition to perform frequently. The military band continued into the 40s, but it then sputtered into extinction until the early 80s, when the School acquired an instrumental director who resuscitated the instrumental program, and the phoenix rose again. Like the chorus, the instrumental programs now enjoy regional prominence, and they too now

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Our first efforts in the visual arts were likewise part-time endeavors, one or two periods daily; but, lacking a formal space, this program also had to be shunted about. Just as the music and drama programs could not achieve maturity until McGehee Auditorium and Lynch Blackbox Theatre materialized, neither could the visual arts achieve maturity until the Cindy and Jay Stein Fine Arts Center and the Lucy B. Gooding Gallery were completed. Young artists now had the very best facility in which to develop their creative talents, and we were finally able to exhibit the works our talented student artists had been creating. Today, a firm tradition of excellence permeates the visual arts and involves many shows and exhibits all over Jacksonville. It should also be noted that a proud new arts tradition is the alumni and faculty art show, a perfect example of how new traditions get started.

As with the chorus and band, interested faculty during the military years occasionally managed to assemble a cast and produce a play; but, since there was no theater, they also had to improvise a location.

There was still no structured drama program and still no integrated find arts curriculum until 1966 when the School acquired an individual with vast experience in the humanities and arts and, in particular, drama. That individual was Arthur Carnes and the School was at the time just completing construction of the Swisher Library, which, fortunately and without

at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., at George Mason University and with the Disney Candlelight Processional program at Epcot Center. Rachel has received numerous honors for her good work.

DeWitt Cooper III holds an MFA in modern dance from Case Western Reserve University. He studied musical theatre extensively at Florida State University where he was the first African-American male to be admitted to the program. During his time at Case Western Reserve University, he was nominated for the Wittke Undergraduate teaching award and in 2006, he was awarded the Okie Award by the La Villa School of the Arts for most inspiring Choreography. In 2007, his choreography was recognized at the Nuvo Dance Competition and in 2008 his choreography was awarded Platinum Awards at the Applause Talent Competition. Cooper also set choreography for the production of “Julius X” for playwright, Al Letson, at Players by the Sea. He has choreographed for “Dreamgirls” and the FAMU Connection Tour. His professional dance experience includes Phlava Dance Company, Great Lakes Festival Ballet and Verlezza Dance. Cooper also has played the role of “Simon” in the Alhambra’s production of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Other professional credits include: “West Side Story,” “Anything Goes,” “She Loves Me,” “Ain’t Mis’ Behavin’,” “Once on this Island” and “Black Nativity.” He has sung for the Ann Reinking Doctoral Ceremony and was a full-time employee for the Walt Disney World Animal Kingdom where he was a cast member of “Finding Nemo the Musical.” He is the

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former Artistic Director of the Jacksonville Centre of the Arts and severed as school program coordinator 2013-2017. Cooper is a co-founder of CooperMorgan Dance Theatre.

Kelly Cullen began her career here at The Bolles School in 2006. She is the Photography instructor and Yearbook advisor at the San Jose Campus as well as Director of Yearbooks and Studio Photography Services for all campuses. Prior to coming to Bolles, she was a Photography Teacher at Fleming Island High School in Orange Park, Florida, where she earned Exemplary Teacher for the year. Cullen is a graduate of the University of North Florida with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography as well as an English minor in drama studies. Throughout her photography career, she has earned many awards including: a Juror Award from the 2002 UNF Student show; a finalist place in the Best of College Photography in 2005; and acceptance into numerous North Florida Art Educators shows at the MOCA as well as the 2007 Society for Photographic Educators Show. Cullen has worked on instillations with fellow fine arts teacher Jim Smith throughout the city of Jacksonville. Throughout her education, Cullen was a dedicated musician and equestrian. She was a member of the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra and was a Region 2 and Northern Ohio Dressage Association Champion. She is married to Tim Cullen, a Helicopter Pilot in the United States Navy, and is Mommy to their daughter McKenzie.

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Francesca D’Angelis began her dance training at Washington School of Ballet and continued at DC City Ballet, Dance for Washington, Charleston Civic Ballet and Jacksonville University.

Previously, D’Angelis was Ballet Mistress for Dance for Washington in Washington D.C; choreographer for The Ballet Center of Washington and was the Founder and Director of the Ballet Performing Workshop of Washington which did many outreach programs for the community and surrounding cities. Additionally, D’Angelis was the choreographer for the Young Peoples Concert Series in conjunction with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She was also the choreographer for the annual Safe Toys Conference held annually in Washington, D.C. hosted by the First Lady. For many years she performed and choreographed for the show band Maiden America. The band performed all over the U.S. including venues such as the Las Vegas Hilton, Sea World and Disney World as well as for the troops overseas in South Korea.

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intentional design, just happened to present an ideal theatre-in-the-round. The formal drama program was born on the spot. Under Carnes guidance, the School integrated all of the nascent arts programs and began to conceptualize a single, integrated fine and performing arts curriculum for the first time.

Finally, there was dance. Like the other architects of this talented faculty, the first and only dance director, Angela Blackledge, had to start from scratch, but this remarkably energetic performer quickly and expertly assembled a group of talented aspirants and melded them into ensembles that, like all of the other performing groups, have won regional and state distinctions for their excellence, which translates into enduring traditions. With mature programs in drama and theater, instrumental and vocal music, visual arts, and now dance, the School was ready for fully implemented musical productions, typified by “Peter Pan,” which packed the Florida Theatre in 1993. This was followed by shows like “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” (1998), “Annie” (2013) and many more extraordinary shows, thereby establishing the Bolles musical production as a permanent showcase tradition.” n

Theater, English, Debate, Mock Trial and Art History at Bolles since 1998. Trained in acting at the Jacques Lecoq International School of Theater in Paris, and the Philippe Gaulier School in London, Andrew has worked in many areas in the professional arts. At Bolles, he directed mainstage productions until 2005. One of them,

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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” was a finalist in the 1999 Florida State Thespian Festival in Tampa. He and his wife, Bolles English teacher Anna Jacobson, were co-recipients of The Duane Ottenstroer Excellence in Teaching Award for the study of Greek tragedy in Athens. A production of “The Libation Bearers” resulted from this experience. He was the recipient of a grant from the Jesse Ball duPont Foundation to develop curriculum on mask making and performance, and received a fellowship from the English Speaking Union to study at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Most recently, he was awarded a second Ottenstroer grant to study Renaissance and Baroque art in Florence and Rome. He is extremely grateful for the opportunities to teach and learn that Bolles gives its faculty and students.

Jeannette Edwards was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. She graduated from Florida State University and studied Art History in Florence, Italy. Edwards raised two sons in Glasgow, Kentucky on a horse farm. She served on the Board of Directors of the Glasgow Highland Games promoting Scottish Heritage in the local schools. Edwards moved back to Jacksonville and worked at the Cummer Museum as an educator before joining The Bolles School in 2000. She has traveled and toured many art museums in England, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain. Jeanette enjoyed scuba diving in Costa Rica and Mexico and went to Australia and Malaysia on mission trips. Recently, Edwards sang with a choir at Lincoln Center in New York City. In addition to her work with the Ponte Vedra Beach Campus at Bolles, she is currently creating art programs at the Amelia Plantation Chapel. Edwards is a member of the Florida Art Educators Association.

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Michael Fritton has a BFA in Theatre Education from Jacksonville University and has taught theatre for 33 years — including 25 years at The Bolles School as theatre director on the Bolles Middle School Bartram and Lower School Whitehurst campuses.

He is the director and founder of Dreammakers Fine and Performing Arts Camp and has directed many past musicals and plays for Bolles including “Peter Pan,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Lil’ Abner,” “Arsenic and Old Lace,” “Honk,” “Seussical,” “Cinderella,” “Once On This Island,” “The Lion King,” and many more. He was co-director of “The Wizard of Oz” and “Annie.” Past professional positions include the executive boards of the Florida Association of Theatre Educators and Theatre Jacksonville. Fritton has performed in many community plays at Theatre Jacksonville, as well as with the Wilson Community Players in Wilson, NY. In the British Virgin Islands, Fritton writes and performs music as Calypso singer, “Lord Landcrab.”

Tiffany Gonzalez joined the Bolles Fine and Performing Arts team as a fulltime Visual Art Instructor in 2012. Her Florida Arts Educator certificate includes gifted certification and she has taught elementary, middle and upper school arts in her 11-year teaching career in Duval County. Gonzalez worked for Bolles as a freelance set designer and production artist on the all-school production of “The Wizard of OZ” in 2006 and on Michael Fritton’s traveling original production of “Mi Nanny Told Me Granny” in 1999. A

graduate of the Savanah College of Art and Design, with concentrations in both painting and furniture design, Gonzalez is a current MFA student at Jacksonville University developing further her voice as an exhibiting 2D and 3D artist.

Gonzalez currently teaches introductory and intermediate high school art courses at The Bolles School and is the Art Club sponsor. Gonzalez was also instrumental in bringing the Scholastic Art Awards program to our greater Jacksonville Community serving as the Award Ceremony Coordinator for the Northeast Florida Scholastic Art Association from 2014-16. She is an active member of the Northeast Florida Art Educators Association and served their board from 2011-2015.

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Pamela Hiller has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally. She began teaching middle school art at The Bolles School in 1997. Hiller has taught a variety of two and three-dimensional courses throughout her career. Hiller was awarded a full fellowship and Teaching Assistantship from the University of Miami where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree. While at the University, she received The Outstanding Teaching Assistantship Award from the College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to Bolles, Hiller taught as an adjunct professor at: the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida; Florida International University; Minneapolis College of Art and Design; and the University of North Florida. Hiller has exhibited artwork in both national and international shows (solo and group exhibits). Listed is only a sampling of exhibitions that she has participated in: Chappelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France; Musee de la Commanderie d’Unet,

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Bordeaux, France and The Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida. Hiller’s artwork currently resides in private and public collections including the Ann Taylor National Oil Painting Purchase Award. Inspired by the Flemish School of Painting, Hiller’s intricate oil paintings have evolved into small-scale mixed media, jewelry and Turnersque painted enamel pieces.

John Jenkins is a Jacksonville native and has lived here all his life. At a very early age, he was enamored by the arts and more specifically music. Once in high school he took an interest in the live elements of concerts and special events, and started learning about signal flow, lighting and stage production. Jenkins is a graduate of The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale for Music/Lighting/Video Production and has worked for such companies as Sally Corporation, Florida Sound, Whitehawk Pictures, International Video Projects and his own company The Stage Left Productions.

Elizabeth Miron came to Bolles in 2016 and teaches Lower School art on the Whitehurst Campus.

Elizabeth graduated from the University of North Florida in 2007 with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing. After graduation, she worked for Duval County Public Schools as an Elementary Art Teacher. After her first year of teaching, she was elected Teacher of the Year at Whitehouse Elementary. In 2012, Elizabeth began working for MOCA as a part-time Museum Educator, eventually growing her position into the J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver

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Educator for Family and Children’s Programs, receiving the first endowed position at the museum. While at MOCA, she oversaw programming for children and families serving approximately 16,000 students a year. She created and evaluated curriculum for all programs, oversaw the delivery of all outreach, tours and educational initiatives, created age-sensitive in-gallery activities guides and oversaw three Museum Educators as well as departmental goals and objectives. She has presented at the Florida Art Educators Association Conferences, Southeastern Museums Conferences and National Art Educators Association Conference. She was also the Museum Division Director for the Florida Art Educators Association.

Andy Payne joined the Bolles Fine and Performing Arts Department as the Director of Auditoriums and Theatre Technology in August of 2008 after having served five years as a consultant and freelance lighting designer for the School.

Payne’s background includes over 11 years at Jax Stage Lighting as the head lighting salesman and rental supervisor, and two years at PRI Productions as head lighting designer for events that included The City of Jacksonville, The Jacksonville Jaguars and even The White House Communications Department. He served as one of the premier riggers for shows of all types that passed through the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, The Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts and The Prime Osborne Convention Center. Payne has also put on shows for major companies like Fleet Management, PSS World Medical (now McKessen) and Amway. Payne has lived in the Jacksonville area all his life even though he was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1971, due to his parents being located overseas.

Stacey Posick joined the Bolles School family in 2013.

She is the Music and Drama specialist for the Ponte Vedra Beach Campus. Posick graduated from Florida Southern College with a Bachelor’s of Music Education and Sacred Music. Singing, teaching and playing music has been her passion from the start. During her first years of teaching, she became an Orff specialist and a Kindermusik (early childhood music) teacher. She has been in ministry as director of children’s choir and a worship leader at her church for over 20 years. Over the years, Posick has directed many children’s plays and programs. She has had the privilege of singing our National Anthem at local venues such as the Jacksonville Suns Games. At Bolles, she has started a Bulldog chorus and a ukulele club and hopes to continue inspiring even our youngest students to keep making music forever.

Laura Anne Rippel received her BA in Theatre at Drew University and studied in London at the Marymount Program with Bill Homewood, and the founding members of Complicite. She worked with the Theatre Noir Company in London before returning to the States. She is now in her third year as the Director of Fine and Performing Arts at the Bolles School Upper School and in her 16th year as a member of the Fine and Performing Arts Department faculty. In 2009, she spent the summer in London studying Shakespeare Performance at The Globe Theatre.

Selected Directing credits both at Bolles and in the community include; “Is He Dead,” “Annie,” “As You Like It,” “And Then

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There Were None,” “Grease,” “Midsummer Jersey” and “Romeo and Juliet.” Rippel serves on the board of Theatreworks and is a recipient of the The Dewan Teaching Fellow Award and The Frank Cane Award, and is a two-time recipient of the Ottenstroer award.

Jim Smith began his career at Bolles in 1977. As such, he has seen the evolution of the art department from one room in Ulmer Hall to the complex we have today. Smith currently teaches the Three-Dimensional Art classes and Foundations. Along with his years of teaching, Smith has been awarded several academic honors such as Memphis Wood Excellence in Teaching Award, MOCA, 2012, along with the Oxford academic program scholar for his Paris teaching seminar in 2006. Smith is an active artist and is noted for his work in local regional and international venues.

Smith has put his particular style into public works around town. With sculptures on permanent display at the Hendrix Avenue Baptist Church, the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Kickbacks Restaurant, the Downtown Library and the University of North Florida Library. Smith’s interests include his membership to special programs such as, the Florida Art Education Association, National Art Education Association, where he has on several occasions been a speaker. He is a member of the Jacksonville Community Council, Inc., a founding member of Northeast Florida Sculptures Group and a Creative Capital Artist Workshop Participant. Smith earned his Bachelor of Science degree from a crumbling college in Williamsburg, Kentucky along with his Masters in Art Education from Jacksonville University.

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Maggie Vance was appointed Middle School Band Director at The Bolles School in 2004. In 2014, she was offered the opportunity to establish the instrumental music program at Patriot Oaks Academy in St. Johns County, Florida. While at Patriot Oaks Academy, Vance also taught elementary music (Grades 1-5) before returning to Bolles in 2016 as Band Director for both middle and upper schools. She was awarded the Bachelor of Education degree with emphasis in music, cum laude, from the University of North Florida in 2004. During her undergraduate studies, Maggie performed in Jazz Ensembles, Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, Trumpet Choir and Brass Quartet. In 2008, Vance received her Master of Music Education degree at the VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois. While completing her degree, she studied conducting with Dr. Charles Menghini and trumpet performance under Dr. Leah Schuman. Vance completed the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA) Certification in 2014 at Stetson University and is nationally certified to teach Level I of the Orff curriculum.

In 2010, she was named an Ottenstroer Fellow at The Bolles School and was awarded a grant to study musical wind instrument history and production in France. Vance has served as a faculty and staff member with the North Florida Music Camps at the University of North Florida and also established her own instrumental music camp is St. Johns County. She is a professional member of the MENC (The National Association for Music Education), the Florida Music Educators’ Association (FMEA), The Florida Bandmasters Association (FBA), the Jazz Education Network (JEN) and the Golden Key Club.

Beth Zerkowski followed an unconventional, but very musical, path to the Lower School Whitehurst Campus music classroom. Growing up in Pennsylvania, Beth began studying the organ at the age of eight. She then learned flute, piano and other instruments when the band needed a part covered! Beth served as a church organist and choir director from the young age of 13. This was also about the time that she became active in Community Theater, alternating between performing on stage and serving as music director. Upon moving south and earning her Florida certification in music education, Zerkowski taught in the Diocese of St. Augustine schools. When asked to step in and teach in the technology lab, she then pursued her Master’s degree in Curriculum and Technology. Zerkowski enjoys creating music with the young students at Whitehurst and watching their individual spirits come alive onstage! n

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Fine and Performing Arts Calendar Event

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Date

Time

Location

Fall Musical “High School Musical”

16-18

7:30 p.m.

McGehee

Gallery Reception for Whitehurst and Upper School Art Exhibit

17

10:30 a.m.

Gooding

Middle School Chorus Concert

30

7:30 p.m.

Parker

Upper School Band Concert

5

7:30 p.m.

Parker

Upper School Chorus Concert

7

7:30 p.m.

McGehee

Gallery Reception for the Middle School Fall Visual Arts Exhibit

8

10:25 a.m.

Murchison-Lane

Middle School Band Concert

11

7:30 p.m.

Parker

Upper School Drama Showcase

10

7:30 p.m.

McGehee

Gallery Reception for Whitehurst and Upper School Art Exhibit

19

10:30 a.m.

Gooding

Instrumental Honors Receital

6

7 p.m.

Staman Lobby

Gallery Reception for Whitehurst and Upper School Art Exhibit

9

10:30 a.m.

Gooding

Gallery Reception for Whitehurst and Upper School Art Exhibit

9

10:30 a.m.

Gooding

Upper School Spring Play “TBA”

15-17

7:30 p.m.

McGehee

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

JANUARY

LOCATION KEY Gooding Gooding Gallery, Upper School San Jose Campus

McGehee McGehee Auditorium, Upper School San Jose Campus Parker Parker Auditorium,

Betsy Lovett Arts Center, Middle School Bartram Campus

FEBRUARY

MARCH

Murchison-Lane Murchison-Lane Gallery, Betsy Lovett Arts Center, Middle School Bartram Campus

Staman Lobby Staman Lobby,

Bolles Hall, Upper School San Jose Campus

Lynch Lynch Theatre, Upper School San Jose Campus

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Fine and Performing Arts Calendar Event

Date

Time

Location

10

7:30 p.m.

Parker

CONT.

APRIL Jazz Night Spring Dance Concert

12 & 13

7:30 p.m.

McGehee

Gallery Reception for Whitehurst and Upper School Art Exhibit

13

10:30 a.m.

Gooding

Upper School Chorus Concert

19

7:30 p.m.

McGehee

Upper School Spring Band Concert

24

7:30 p.m.

Parker

Upper School Production Class Play

26-27

7:30 p.m.

Lynch

MAY Middle School Band Concert

8

7:30 p.m.

Parker

Upper School Spring Drama Showcase and Mitton Awards

9

7:30 p.m.

McGehee

Phoenix Arts Honors Society Induction

10

6 p.m.

Lynch

Gallery Reception for Bolles Juried Visual Arts Showcase

11

10:30 a.m.

Gooding

Middle School Chorus Concert

15

7:30 p.m.

Parker

Gallery Reception for the Middle School Spring Visual Arts Exhibit

18

10:25 a.m.

Murchison-Lane

Student Choreography Concert and Awards

18

7 p.m.

McGehee

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