OZ School Days: Presidents’ Day
Monday, February 15, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Theme: FAME!
Centennial Performing Arts Studios
(27th Avenue North and Poston Street)
This daylong multi-arts program engages 5 to 15 year-old students at Centennial Performing Arts Studios on days when Metro Nashville Public Schools are out of session on public holidays. Metro Parks’ Centennial Performing Arts Studios are located in the 27th Avenue North and Poston Street corner of Nashville, Tennessee’s beautiful Centennial Park.
Each date has a unique, contemporary theme which inspire the workshops in visual art, theater, music and movement the students will rotate through led by a Nashville based teaching artists working in each of their respective disciplines.
5-8 year olds • 9-11 year olds • 12-15 year olds
The 2015-2016 academic school year is OZ Art’s second year of OZ School Days programming.
Our Schedule
8:30-9:00 Welcome Orientation + Introductions
9:00-10:15 Session # 1 (1 hour 15 minutes)
10:15-10:30 Restroom Break + Snack* (15 minutes)
10:30-11:45 Session #2 (1 hour 15 minutes)
11:45-12:45 Lunch* & Playground (1 hour)
12:45-2:00 Session # 3 (1 hour 15 minutes)
2:00-2:15 Restroom Break + Snack* (15 minutes)
2:15-3:30 Session # 4 (1 hour 15 minutes)
3:30-4:00 Group Reflection + Wrap Up
4:00 Pick-Up
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Teaching Artists
Theater – Mallory Gleason Mundy
During this workshop, students will explore thinking “outside of the box” through various games, prop work, and collaboration considering what creates fame. Students will then conceive, write, and present a performance completely of their own creation in response to the question, “Why would someone want to be famous?”
Mallory Gleason Mundy lives in East Nashville with her husband, Micah, and their fur baby, Mavis. A Musical Theatre graduate of Belmont University, Mallory has worked as a professional actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, and educator in various areas of the world. Locally, Mallory has worked with companies such as Studio Tenn Theatre Co; Chaffin’s Barn Dinner Theatre; Blackbird Theatre Co; Roxy Regional Theatre; Street Theatre Co; Actors Bridge Ensemble; The Music City Theatre Collective; TPAC; Acting Up, LLC; among others, and will next be seen in The Nashville Repertory Theatre’s production of CHICAGO. Mallory also teaches private dance, voice, and acting to students of all ages. As an educator, Mallory desires to instill the truth of love, hope, and purpose in every person through the exploration of art.
Music – Mike Teaney
In this workshop, students will be encouraged to reimagine famous songs with their own unique perspectives and ideas, and to create re-worked cover versions of these songs. Students will also have an opportunity to try their hand at writing original songs focused on what it may be like to be famous.
Mike Teaney is a multi-instrumentalist who primarily composes and produces original music. He has a Bachelor’s degree in classical guitar performance and also plays the banjo. His album, The Meantime, is available on iTunes and has pieces which have been featured in television and are a favorite of local dance groups for choreography opportunities. Mike also plays in a free form music ensemble and hosts an event called Free Form Friday at the Centennial Black Box Theater in Centennial Park which features unique and different music as well as some type of visual element. Along with his Bachelor’s in Music Performance he holds two Associate’s degrees in Electronic Engineering and Recording Arts. Mike was formerly a staff engineer at Seventeen Grand Recording, a professional recording studio on Music Row. He earned many technical album credits and worked with artists including Dolly Parton, The Black Crows, Alison Krauss, and more. Mike also served as front of house engineer for touring artist Steve Azar. This technical background has facilitated his ability to be a “one-stop” shop regarding music production. He can create and compose music as well as record and produce it to a very high standard.
Movement – Laurel Desmarais
Students will focus on and be inspired by famous musicians and their iconic music and moves, to generate their own movement. During this exercise we will explore and learn the differences that occur when one performs both in and out of the “spotlight”.
Lauren Desmarais has been a movement educator and freelance artist for the past eight years in New York City and is a recent transplant to Nashville. She has taught for institutions as Dance New Amsterdam, Chez Bushwick and the Dance Forum Festival in Sweden. “I am interested in the exchange of knowledge, sharing what I know and learning from others, constantly investigating the language of movement. Most recently she collaborated with photographer Emra Islek on multi-media project Subliminal involving pinhole photography and live piano composition as well as with Rebekah Hampton-Barger and Fall Dance Company in Nashville for The Artist Lounge Series at OZ Arts Nashville. She assisted Max Stone for the Complexions summer dance program and Mathew Bourne’s Swan Lake as well as traveled to Sweden for the annual Dance Forum; a ten day festival bringing together dancers from all over the world.
Visual Art – Lesley Patterson-Marx
Through an exploration of images from pages in famous artists’ sketchbooks, students will learn how sketchbooks and journals are beneficial to artists in the development of their works, and how and why these artists’ works became significant and/or gained notoriety.
Lesley Patterson-Marx was born in Louisville, Kentucky and received her BA in Fine Art from Murray State University in 1997 and her MFA from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2001. She has exhibited her artist’s books, prints and mixed-media works in galleries, art centers, colleges and universities across the U.S., including Cynthia Broan Gallery in New York City; Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wis.; Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, Calif.; and Frist Center for Visual Arts, TAG Art Gallery and Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville. Her work has been featured in national publications, including Craft and ReadyMade, and 500 Handmade Books, Volume 2 . She is a founding member of Platetone: Printmaking, Paper, and Book Arts in Nashville, TN. Lesley works as a teaching artist and illustrator, having taught at Watkins College of Art Design, Vanderbilt University’s Sarratt Art Studios, Art & Soul, and University School of Nashville.