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Regional chapters provide a forum for Guild members to connect with their neighbors. Through regional chapters, Guild members come together to share information and ideas, gain skills, provide mutual support and inspiration, and achieve common goals.
Chapters are led by member-elected officers who serve three-year terms, and may include a chair, vice-chair, secretary and representative of the Committee of School Directors. The Guild is currently comprised of 11 regional chapters:
Northeast (ME, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI)
Eastern Great Lakes (Upstate NY)
New York Metro (NYC, Northern NJ)
Mid-Atlantic (Eastern PA, Southern NJ, MD, DE, WV)
Central Great Lakes (Western PA, OH, KY, IN, MI)
Southern (VA, TN, NC, SC, GA, AL, MS, AR, LA, FL)
Southwest (OK, TX, NM, AZ)
Western Great Lakes (MN, WI, IA, IL, MO, KS)
Mountain (CO, UT, NE, WY, ND, SD)
Northwest (AK, WA, OR, ID, MT)
West Coast (CA, NV, HI)
Chapters hold at least two meetings a year: one in the fall (in conjunction with the national conference) and one in the spring. Chapters also may meet by conference call.
Chapter Chair: Bill Budai, Director, IUPUI Music Academy, Indianapolis, IN
Vice Chair: Bryan Bowser, Assistant Conservatory Director, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, Berea, OH
Secretary: Amy Dennison, Director, College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department, Cincinnati, OH
CSD Representative: Davin Torre, Director, Flint School of Performing Arts, Flint, MI
Update: As a 2008 Chapter Project grant recipient, CGL will present Experience an Arts Community: Cleveland, featuring professional development sessions on partnership, building streams of public funding for the arts, and arts therapies in the community arts school setting, as well as a showcase of students from across the chapter. Presenters include Ronna Kaplan, director of music therapy at the Cleveland Music School Settlement and Thomas Schorgl, president and CEO of the Community Partnership for Arts & Culture. The event will take place on April 12 at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music in Berea, OH. Click here to view the invitation.
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Chapter Chair: Howard Potter, Director, Eastman Community Music School, Rochester, NY
Vice Chair: Linda Mabry, Executive Director, Community Music Center of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Update: In Spring 2007, the Chapter held a full-day meeting in April at the Hochstein School in Rochester, NY. Topics included: registration procedures at each of the EGL schools; procedures for determining financial assistance; approaches to marketing and promotion; faculty motivation issues; chamber music programs; outreach programs; and the possibility of holding exchange concerts.
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Chapter Chair: Kathy Bestwick, Executive Director, Phoenix Village Art Center, Phoenixville, PA
Vice Chair: Mark Huxsoll, Director, Temple University Music Preparatory Division, Philadelphia, PA
Secretary: Beverly Houck, Program Director, Wyomssing Institute of Fine Arts, Reading, PA
CSD Representatives: Carla Pastore, Executive Director, Center for the Creative Arts, Yorklyn, DE; Steve Rock, Executive Director, Community Conservatory of Music, Doylestown, PA; Andrew Sussman, Executive Director, Cumberland Valley School of Music, Chambersburg, PA
Update: In Spring 2007, the chapter provided a full-day training session at the Christina Cultural Arts Center in Wilmington, Delaware for Guild members and other non-profit organizations led by Michael Kumer, the Executive Director of the Nonprofit Leadership Institute and Associate Dean of the School of Leadership & Professional Advancement at Duquesne University. Topics included: recruiting and retaining the high peak performing board; better board meetings; trends in non-profit governance; and the role of the governance committee. Washington D.C. regional members will be meeting at the Sitar Arts Center on March 31, during Arts Advocacy Day.
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Chapter Chair: Peggy Bruns, Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, Lafayette, CO
Vice Chair: Kelly McCallum, Director, Foundation Music School, Ft. Collins, CO
Secretary: Fredric Cook, Executive Director, Utah Conservatory, Salt Lake City, UT
Update: The Chapter has begun communicating more via e-mail, and are committed to creating a more active group, and establishing a collaborative and problem-solving network among the schools within the chapter.
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Chapter Chair: Aaron Flagg, Executive Director, Music Conservatory of Westchester
Vice Chair: Igal Kesselman, Director, Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Center
Secretary: Jean Newton, Dean of Students & Faculty, Music Conservatory of Westchester
CSD Representatives: Leslie Jones, Director, F. M. D. Greenberg Music School & Kathleen Suss, Director, Concordia Conservatory
Update: As a 2008 Chapter Project grant recipient, NYM will present a Faculty Professional Development Seminar, which will offer teaching artists the opportunity to participate in workshops on working with students with special needs; increasing communication & motivation amongst students, families, schools and instructors; and responding to cognitive, emotional and physical developmental needs of students. Presenters include Dr. Patricia Bower Clinical Associate Professor of Management Communication, Stern School of Business New York University and Dr. Robert Landy, Director of the Drama Therapy Program New York University. The event will take place on April 14 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, NY. Click here to view the flier.
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Chapter Co-Chair: Valerie Nelson, Executive Director, Brookline Music School, Brookline, MA
Chapter Co-Chair: Laurie Russell, Executive Director, Winchester Community Music School, Winchester, MA
Vice Chair: Mark George, Director, University of Hartford- Hartt School Community Division, West Hartford, CT
Secretary: Michael Havay, Director of Education, Indian Hill Music Center, Littleton, MA
CSD Representatives: E. Christensen, Director of Preparatory School, New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, Boston, MA; Alana Seddon, Associate Director, University of Hartford- Hartt School Community Division, West Hartford, CT; Jason Trotta, Executive Director, Northampton Community Music Center, Northampton, MA
Update: As a 2008 Chapter Project grant recipient, the Northeast Chapter will present a workshop entitled “Arts & Aging Programming: Philosophy to Reality,” which will provide an intensive professional development opportunity for executive directors, program directors, marketing staff, development staff and faculty, while engaging personnel at a higher level of understanding of the community arts education field beyond day-to-day operations. The workshop will be led by Donna Bost-White, Director of Arts Education, New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The event will take place on Friday, April 11at the South Shore Conservatory (Hingham Campus) and begins with a brief business meeting and chapter update. Click here to view the workshop outline, meeting agenda, and directions to South Shore Conservatory.
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Review minutes from November 2007 meeting (MS Word; 40 kb)
Chapter Chair: Kristen Murphy, Director, University of Puget Sound Community Music Department, Tacoma, WA
Vice Chair: Greg Dubay, Associate Director, Community Music Center, Portland, OR
Secretary: Laura Albright, Executive Director, Alaska Fine Arts Academy, Eagle River, AK
Update: As a 2008 Chapter Project grant recipient, NWT will produce a Chapter Retreat, which will focus on increasing diversity, participation, earned revenue, and support of community arts education. The diversity training workshop will be led by Jerry Yoshitomi, Chief Knowledge Officer, MeaningMatters, LLC. The event will take place this summer. Click here to view a message from the Chapter Chair.
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Chapter Chair: Richard Dickson, Executive Director, Amelia Arts Academy, Amelia Island, FL
Vice Chair: Tom McColley, Director, Community School for the Arts, Tampa, FL
CSD Representatives: Paula Morgan, Director, Alia Lawson Pre-College Program, Spartanburg, SC; Cheryl Stephenson, Executive Director, Music Academy of Eastern Carolina, Greenville, NC; Joyce Wehner, Director of Education, Hoffman Performing Arts Institute, Clearwater, FL
Update: In Spring 2007, the Chapter was encouraged to attend “North Carolina: The State of the Arts” (a statewide Conference on the Arts in 21st Century Education) held in March. Currently, STH is focusing on strengthening communication, identifying the benefits of working together as a regional chapter, and building community.
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Chapter Chair: Cathy Fletcher, Director, Herberger College for Kids, Arizona State University, AZ
Vice Chair: Aida Aydinyan, Executive Director, Barthelmes Conservatory of Music, Tulsa, OK
Secretary: Regina Nixon, Executive Director, Phoenix Conservatory of Music, Phoenix, AZ
CSD Representative: Nina Tishkevich, Director, Music Academy of Tucson, Tucson, AZ
Update: In Spring 2007, the Chapter developed a survey which was emailed to each school director to gauge the level of interest in traveling to a different city or state for chapter activities; participating in conference calls with up to three topics each; sharing successful grant proposals; and, as a group, exploring the Guild resources more thoroughly. The coming year is expected to be very productive for the chapter.
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Chapter Chair: John McCarthy, Director, San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory, San Francisco, CA
Vice Chair: Kevin Marlatt, Executive Director, Blue Bear School of Music, San Francisco, CA
Secretary: Christopher Maddock, Executive Director, Claremont Community School of Music, Claremont, CA
CSD Representative: Janine Day, President, Bass Clef Method Association, Los Angeles, CA
Update: In Spring 2007, the Chapter met in March at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The topic of “interaction and partnerships between community schools” was of common interest and the chapter discussed ways for schools to maintain autonomy while complimenting the needs of quite diverse schools. John McCarthy (Director of SF Conservatory of Music Prep and Extension Divisions) and Steve Shapiro (Director of the SF Community Music Center) spoke about a joint concert held at the Conservatory in the spring. Additionally, the need for the smaller schools to gain visibility was discussed. The Spring 2008 meeting will be held on April 29 at the African American Cultural Complex in San Francisco. Click here for RSVP information.
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Chapter Co-Chair: Carol Commerford, Director, Community Music School of Webster University, St. Louis, MO
Chapter Co-Chair: Karen Deschere, President, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Milwaukee, WI
CSD Representatives: Susanne Baker, Director, DePaul Community Music Division, Chicago, IL; Eric Delli Bovi, Director of External Affairs, Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL; Fred Snyder, Director, Lawrence Academy of Music, Appleton, WI
Update: The Western Great Lakes Chapter held its spring 2008 meeting at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, MN. Executive Vice President Paul Babcock led a tour of the new Center, which opened in January 2008 after seven years of planning and fundraising. We learned more about the planning and development processes involved with the project, and received a software demonstration of a new program intended to coordinate registration, billing, development, and other functions through one unified system (in development with the Active Network). The group also engaged in general discussion on enrollment, economy, tuition prices, parent groups and involvement, cultural diversity, and more! Click here to view the spring 2007 WGL update.
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