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Lamp Post Campaign is in full force. This is a great way to advertise for the holidays and make a tax deductible contribution to the Barbara Ingram Foundation.

  Piano dedication ceremony at Barbara Ingram School for the Arts.

Vialeta Brodava, freshman at Barbara Ingram, Steve Weiss and Melissa Mackley, Lead Piano Instructor

The Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of their “Hearts for the Arts” Annual Membership Campaign 2013-2014. This program has wonderful benefits and several payment options. Please join now!

The Foundation Board president, Brad Pingrey welcomed all new and returning Barbara Ingram School for the Arts parents on Monday and Tuesday night. Brad gave a brief history of the Foundation and presented the new “Parent”  Hearts for the Arts Annual Membership campaign package. The Foundation and the school have collaborated on this project and both feel this program will benefit the school and the Foundation.

The Maryland Symphony Orchestra has awarded two scholarships for students to attend the Barbara Ingram Summer Arts Academy. Grace Mellott from Chambersburg Middle School for the Flute camp and Freddy Koogle from Sharpsburg Elementary for the Guitar camp. This camp is being held from July 8-11 from 9-noon and the cost is $90.

Congratulations!

The Thomas L. Law Visual Arts Scholarship was awarded to two students this year. The students are: Courtney Koogle from Boonsboro Middle School and Alexis French from Northern Middle School. Both students will be attending the Barbara Ingram Summer Arts Academy Visual Arts camp this summer.

The Barbara Ingram Summer Arts Academy Visual Arts camp is open to student in grades 6-10. This is a full day camp from 9-4 and the cost is $150. Congratulations to you both!

 

The Robert Herr Scholarship is a $500 scholarship to be applied towards the student’s future educational endeavors. The format is a writing essay  and this year the school received 15 applications and the winner is Gabriella DiGiuseppe. Miss DiGiuseppe will be attending Hagerstown Community College in the Fall. Congratulations!

The Bill Dorsey Scholarship Fund for the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts is a component fund of the Community Foundation of Washington County MD. The Fund was established by the Community Foundation in honor of Rev. Janice Dorsey, a 2008 People’s Choice Award winner.

The purpose of the fund is to provide financial support to benefit qualifying students in vocal music or dance at Barbara Ingram School for the Arts.   The recipient for the 2013-14 school year is Kenny Catchings, rising Senior in the Dance discipline.

Thank you to everyone that helped with making the Celebration of First a night to remember. The Foundation would like this to become an annual fundraising event. Photo taken by ©Wertman Photography.

LITERARY ARTS SUMMIT FEATURES A PANEL OF NOTED WRITERS

 

Mark June 27^th on your calendars for the 3^rd Annual Literary Arts Summit to be held once again in the Black Box Theatre at The Barbara Ingram School for the Arts.

 

This year’s panel includes James Grady, journalist and author of Six Days of the Condor (which was adapted into the Robert Redford movie); Maggie-Kate Coleman, a Hagerstown native (now a New Yorker) who wrote the book and lyrics for the award-winning musical POP!;  writer-actor Dale Stein, who earned Helen Hayes Award Nominations for Best New Play and for Lead Actress for her one-person play, A Fresh of Breath Air; and Harry Bagdasian, a writer-director who co-founded both New Playwrights’ Theatre and The League of Washington Theatres, and who produced the Inaugural Helen Hayes Awards at The National Theatre in Washington.

 

The yearly Summit features noted writers in and around the area.  Among previous presenters were such noted writers as Peter Stitt, editor of the Gettysburg Review; Tim Wendel, journalist and author of fiction (Castro’s Curveball) and narrative nonfiction (High Heat; Summer of ’68); and Tony Mendez, whose book Argo was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie.

 

The program will run from 6:15-8:30 p.m., with a brief intermission.  Admission is free.

Rob Hovermale, Washington County Public Schools’ supervisor of visual and performing arts, has been named the next principal for the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts, school system officials said.

Hovermale said he will start his new job June 1, working with current principal Michael Thorsen, who plans to retire at the end of June.

“I’m all excited. … It’s going to be great to get back into a school again and be part of a whole school culture,” Hovermale said Wednesday.

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Hovermale, 49, of Smithsburg, has worked for the school system for 23 years.

He has been in the arts supervisory position for about 10 years. He said he was the band director at E. Russell Hicks Middle School during the 1990s.

Hovermale is a “gifted and talented artist himself and so we knew that Rob could come in and take that side of the house over, but Rob is also an academic. He’s somebody who understands instruction, so he can help with the instructional side,” Schools Superintendent Clayton Wilcox said.

Wilcox said Hovermale also has great relationships with organizations such as The Maryland Theatre and museums, sites where students could exhibit their works.

The downtown Hagerstown arts school, which opened in 2009, had 258 students at the start of the school year. The high school offers dance, instrumental music, theater, visual arts, vocal music and literary arts.

The school system had 32 applicants for the job, school system officials said in April.

The job was advertised nationally, with a regional focus, Wilcox said.

 

 

A BIG thank you to Cake Walk for donating the cake for the evenings party. So cute and yummy too!

The winner of the $50 gift certificate to Cake Walk was Erin Wolfe ~ Congrats!