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TAA Faculty

The Academy core faculty consists of twenty nationally recognized professors, academic instructors, and artists assembled from leading, universities, schools, and arts institutions from throughout the United States. A rigorous curriculum, cutting-edge methodology, and a unique philosophical perspective provide world-class instruction, community, and renewal to arts educators from across Tennessee and the nation.

Virtual Winter Retreat Faculty

Lynn

 

Hoare

Theatre

 Faculty

Lynn Hoare is a facilitator, educator, and director working in the field of applied theatre and arts education with regional, national, and international partners. She was the senior director of school-based programs at Creative Action, the largest arts and education nonprofit in central Texas. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin, a co-founder of the Center for Imagining and Performing Justice, and the co-director of the Performing Justice Project which devises original theatre with young people about gender and racial justice. Her co-authored book, Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project, won the distinguished book award from the American Alliance of Theatre and Education in 2021. Hoare collaborates with others to use theatre as a tool for imagining justice, building connection and community, and fostering critical dialogue.

Core Class Description

Building Belonging in the Classroom Through the Arts

9:00-10:30 AM

This workshop will use a variety of arts-based strategies to explore belonging in the classroom. Strategies include “Story of my Name”, “Alphabet Relay”, “Object as Metaphor”, and “Yes, Let’s!” This session will include discussion about using and adapting strategies to other areas of the curriculum.

Nature is in Me: Building Connection to the Natural World Through the Arts

10:45 AM-12:15 PM

This session will use arts-based strategies to explore connections to the natural world. Participants will practice descriptive language, seeing and naming patterns, weather patterns as metaphor for self, visual description, and sociometrics. This session will include discussion about using and adapting strategies to other areas of the curriculum.

Tennessee Arts Academy • Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation
801 2nd Avenue North  • Suite 100 • Nashville, Tennessee 37201
615-988-6250 • taa@tnartsacademy.org