PRESS RELEASE: PROFESSIONAL ARTIST CHRISTY CROWL TO BE AT BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AS AN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE THIS WEEK
PRESS RELEASE: PROFESSIONAL ARTIST CHRISTY CROWL TO BE AT BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AS AN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE THIS WEEK
Artist Christy Crowl will be spending the week of September 18-22 as an artist in residence at Barbara Ingram School for the Arts. Christy has collaborated with some of the biggest names and legends in music as a music director, conductor, songwriter, arranger/orchestrator, performer and singer. She has most recently been seen with the Grammy award winning MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER. Ms. Crowl will be at BISFA from Monday, September 18 until Friday September 22, 2017. She will be working with the students through master classes, performance techniques and in college and career strategy sessions to better understand the business of the arts moving into the next 20 years. Ms. Crowl resides in Malibu California, but is originally from Hagerstown, Maryland.
For more on Ms. Crowl visit her website: http://www.christycrowl.com/
Congratulations to one of our Board Members
Congratulations to one of our Board Members
Kelsi Waltemire Palmer, a digital and social media strategist at High Rock Studios, received the Rising Star Award, which honors a person aged 25 to 40 who “demonstrates a commitment to the Washington County community through volunteer service and financial support.”
Palmer serves on North Hagerstown High School’s Professional Advisory Council and is an assistant varsity softball coach for Washington County Public Schools.
A graduate of Shepherd University, she is on the boards of the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts Foundation and BraveHEART Program. She leads committees at the Hagerstown-Washington County Chamber of Commerce and volunteers for numerous local events, ranging from Washington County Gives to HEAL’s annual Color Splash.
“I was rather humbled,” she said of receiving the award. “I’m just very passionate about the organizations that I do get the opportunity to work with, and I love spending time with people and I love to be able to give back to the community that I was born and raised in.”
The foundation will contribute to the Young Philanthropist’s Fund in her honor.
Click on the link for more information about the evening. http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/local/community-foundation-of-washington-county-salutes-unsung-heroes/article_13d08568-a7a8-11e6-8f1a-53d0f77d5eef.html
Please join us in the Black Box Theatre
Please join us in the Black Box Theatre
Please join us in the Black Box Theatre for ” A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” We still have tickets available at 10$ each. Call 301-766-8840 during 11- 4pm.
http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/life/a-funny-thing-happening-at-bifsa/article_b6a87d64-627a-5d48-8234-6fb95b5c2506.html
The Art and Science of Social Media
The Art and Science of Social Media
Visual Arts Video by Voyager AVD
Visual Arts Video by Voyager AVD
This is the second in a series of four that will be produced by an alumni and his team at Voyager AVD. This is remarkable. Enjoy.
Black Box in the Air: BISFA’s New Theatre Department Head
by Kelsi Maddock, BISFA Foundation 2020 Summer Intern
Lead Theatre Teacher Niki Lewis remembered her first performance on her parents’ bed. Equipped with a tambourine and endless imagination, the audience was her own eyes in the bureau mirror.
Lewis, who joins the Barbara Ingram family from Allegany County Public Schools, hopes to show her students they are already ‘making it’.
“I was very fortunate, early on, to meet people who directed me in terms of the way they thought about theatre and what it meant to be ‘making it’…. My mentor’s idea of ‘making it’ was about actually making, crafting, the theatrical experience and being creators. Interpreters. Not so much imitators,” said Lewis.
She paused for a moment, eyes glossing and “lost in the wonder”. The banners from BISFA’s ten all-school musicals hung on the Black Box wall behind Lewis while she looked towards the scripts and scores and costumes delivered earlier in the day.
Lewis thought back to her first performance in 7 South Potomac, when it was Henry’s Dinner Theatre and she landed her first major role in Annie.
Her extensive list of credits also includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Theatre from Shepherd University, involvement in the original Contemporary American Theatre Festival, and being the founder, as well as the Artistic/Executive Director, of Authentic Community Theatre.
“I am committed to, ‘What if…’. I am committed to, ‘Yes, and…’. I am committed to holding this in the right hand, and that in the other hand… I am vigilant in my commitment to possibility and exploring,” she said.
While Lewis understands beginning the school year virtually will be a challenge, she aims to inspire while being inspired by others, and she seeks to unite students, in a time of social distancing and political divide, through theatre and creativity.
“There are so many reasons to study drama and theatre. There are so many reasons why we should, as [Henry David] Thoreau said, ‘If you have built castles in the air, your work is not lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.’”
Announcement of the nine new Board members
Announcement of the nine new Board members
The Barbara Ingram School for the Arts Foundation announced the appointment of nine board members to its board of directors, three of whom have served on the board in the past.
“They bring us a wealth of expertise in business and the community, as well as personal experience and passion for the arts,” said Al Martin, board president.
The board consists of 25 members, operating at full capacity.
The new members are Mary Anne Burke, Ranelle Flurie, Sarah Gamerman, Kelsey Lorman, Joseph M. Montano, Debi Park, Cynthia Perini, Ann Rotz and Angela Youngblood.
http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/education/barbara-ingram-school-for-the-arts-names-new-board-members/article_9e80eafa-61ff-56e9-83fc-bd9e4b0d38f8.html
Richard N. Funkhouser Foundation
Richard N. Funkhouser Foundation
The Board of Directors of the Funkhouser Foundation awarded the Barbara Ingram Foundation with their grant request to enhance the Summer Arts Academy. The Barbara Ingram Foundation is grateful for the funds.
Barbara Ingram student speaks out on Asperger Syndrome
Barbara Ingram student speaks out on Asperger Syndrome
This is a wonderful representation of how music and scouting improved a students high school experience.
Barbara Ingram Summer Arts Academy still has openings!
Barbara Ingram Summer Arts Academy still has openings!
