Organization Mission

As a music educator with a BME in Music Education (K-12), I’m currently working on my Master’s Degree in Special Music Education (K-12) at the Wichita State University. I’m set to graduate in May 2025. Prior to beginning my master’s work, I was a full-time teaching artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Prior to my teaching artist working in California I was a founding artist of Arts Partners in Wichita, KS.

My Mission and Vision Statement

  • Mission: To empower students of all abilities to discover the joy and transformative power of music through active engagement, collaborative learning, and cultural exploration.
  • Vision: A world where music education is taught through a curriculum that combines modern band, world music, steelpan band, and music technology in a manner that fosters creativity, empathy, and a lifelong love of music, enriching individuals and communities alike.

Areas of Expertise

  1. Teaching Artist Music Workshops (K-12)
  2. Collaboration & Teamwork Professional Development Workshops
  3. Music Education, Performance and Production Consulting

Current Top Priorities for Guidance or Collaboration

Contact us to learn more about these current priority areas or to explore collaboration opportunities.

Percussion based music & movement workshops and consultation.

Geographical Areas Served:

Midwest, North Central, Rural/Remote, South Central, Southwest, Suburban/Exurban, Urban, West Coast,

Primary Audience Served:

Children (0-15), Community Members, Higher Education institutions, Organization Administrators, Organizations, Parents, Pre-K Schools and Learning Centers, School Administrators, School-based Teachers, Teaching Artists, Youth (15-24),

Artistic Discipline:

Music,

Title: 2280 Pasos Bajo un Cielo Nublado | Artist: Hernán Jourdan | Medium: Film

When I was asked to create a work of art exploring literacy, I wanted to create a dance but I had no dancers or a studio, so I chose to use my own body in the space I had, my yard. Fluent Nature is video of micro-choreography that explores what cannot be expressed with words, how nature has its own language, and how placing the human body in nature changes the story.

Title: What Is Me and What Is Not Me | Artist: Alex Chadwell | Medium: Music

My thinking on arts and literacy centers around the concept of literacies and artmaking as both sense-making and meaning-making processes that organically and inevitably overlap, intersect, and reciprocate. Compositionally, What is me and what is not me is a sound collage of sorts (there is no notation for the piece, and I'd be hard pressed to recreate it accurately) that abstractly and aurally represents the relationships between literacies and artmaking.

Title: A Curious Honeybee | Artist: Gideon Young | Medium: Film

Offering welcome through traditional and digital elements of literacy, A Curious Honeybee provides an experiential learning environment by activating visual, musical, natural, and emotional literacies.

Title: Tercera Llamada | Artist: Karilú Forshee | Medium: Audio

La Carpa Theatre is a project that I am currently directing in the Detroit Latinx community. The project aims to strengthen and uplift youth voices through devised theatre, in the style of the Mexican Carpas. This audio was created in the theatrical environment envisioned for our project. The ways in which literacies are re-defined are at the heart of La Carpa Theatre's mission.

Title: Literaseas | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite and ink on paper with digital edits

Title: A Riddle | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

Title: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits