Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #1 (Dance) September 18-19, 2007 Akua Kouyate Dancer; Educator Associate Director of Local Programs Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts Washington, DC Daniel Lewis Dancer; Choreographer Dean of Dance New World School of the Arts Miami, FL Alison Marshall Dancer; Choreographer; Teaching Artist, University Professor Lesley University  Paradise Valley, AZ Barry Oreck Dancer; Writer; Educator Adjunct Professor (Education) Long Island University, Brooklyn and University of Connecticut  Brooklyn, NY Craig Williams (Layperson) Assistant Director of International Programs  Director of International Summer Camp  Northwest School Seattle, WA Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #2A (Theater, Musical Theater, and Literature) September 25-28, 2007 Wayne Cook Program Specialist California Arts Council Sacramento, CA Kwame Dawes  Playwright; Actor; Author; Poet-in-Residence  Department of English University of South Carolina Elgin, SC David Mahaley (Layperson) Principal  Franklin Academy Wake Forest, NC E. Ethelbert Miller  Poet and Author; Director African American Resource Center Howard University Washington, DC Sherry Robbins  Poet/Writer and Teaching Artist Amherst, NY Susann Suprenant  Dean of Communications & Humanities Metropolitan Community College Omaha, NE Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #2B (Theater, Musical Theater, and Literature) September 28, 2007 Wayne Cook Program Specialist California Arts Council Sacramento, CA Kwame Dawes  Playwright; Actor; Author; Poet-in-Residence  Department of English University of South Carolina Elgin, SC David Mahaley (Layperson) Principal  Franklin Academy Wake Forest, NC Sherry Robbins  Poet/Writer and Teaching Artist Amherst, NY Susann Suprenant  Dean of Communications & Humanities Metropolitan Community College Omaha, NE Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #3A (Design, Museums, and Visual Arts) October 2-5, 2007 Roberta Ahmanson (Layperson) Arts Patron, Trustee Fieldstead and Company Irvine, CA Ana Cardona Fine Arts Education Consultant Michigan Department of Education Lansing, MI Minuette Floyd  Photographer, Associate Professor of Art College of Arts & Sciences University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Olivia Gude Artist, Director of Spiral Workshop Associate Professor, School of Art and Design  University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL Ruth Piispanen Metalsmith, Director of Arts Education Idaho Commission on the Arts Boise, ID Paul Anthony Sproll Professor, Head Department of Art + Design Education Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #3B (Design, Museums, and Visual Arts) October 5, 2007 Roberta Ahmanson (Layperson) Arts Patron; Trustee Fieldstead and Company Irvine, CA Ana Cardona Fine Arts Education Consultant Michigan Department of Education Lansing, MI Minuette Floyd  Photographer; Associate Professor of Art College of Arts & Sciences University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Olivia Gude Artist, Director of Spiral Workshop Associate Professor, School of Art and Design  University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #4 (Media Arts) October 10-11, 2007 Charlie Humphrey Executive Director Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Pittsburgh, PA Ed Radtke  Filmmaker Transparent Films, Inc. Yellow Springs, OH Saul Rockman (layperson) President Rockman Et Al San Francisco, CA Dorothy Thigpen Executive Director Third World Newsreel Brooklyn, NY Kathleen Tyner Author and producer Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #5 (Folk & Traditional Arts) October 15, 2007 Luvenia George  Ethnomusicologist; Educator Washington, DC Kuo-Huang Han  Music Educator, Ethnomusicologist School of Music University of Kentucky  Lexington, KY Anne Pryor  Folk Arts Education Specialist Wisconsin Arts Board Madison, WI Randy Ross (Layperson) Independent Consultant Rapid City, SD Laura Garciacano Sobrino  Professional mariachi musician Whittier, CA Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #6A (Music, Opera) October 22-25, 2007 Richard Baker  Education Program Consultant Louisiana Department of Education Baton Rouge, LA Carole Birkhead (Layperson) Arts Patron, Community Volunteer Louisville, KY Emily Ellsworth Artistic Director Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus Wheaton, IL Luis Haza Violinist, National Symphony Orchestra Music Director American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra Virginia Chamber Orchestra Vienna, VA Ming Luke  Music Director, Napa Valley Symphony Youth Orchestra  Assistant Conductor and Education Director, Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra. Alameda, CA David O'Fallon President MacPhail Center for Music Minneapolis, MN Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #6B (Music, Opera) October 25, 2007 Richard Baker  Education Program Consultant Louisiana Department of Education Baton Rouge, LA Carole Birkhead (Layperson) Arts Patron Louisville, KY Luis Haza Violinist, National Symphony Orchestra Music Director American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra Virginia Chamber Orchestra Vienna, VA Ming Luke  Music Director, Napa Valley Symphony Youth Orchestra  Assistant Conductor and Education Director, Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra. Alameda, CA Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #7A (Local Arts Agencies and Presenting) November 26-29, 2007 Anne Alston Education & Communities Manager Nebraska Arts Council Omaha, NE Tomás Benitez Development Director Shakespeare Festival/Los Angeles Monterey Park, CA Libby Lai-Bun Chiu Art and Foreign Language Specialist Illinois State Board of Education/Illinois Arts Council Partnership Illinois Arts Council Ogden Dunes, IN Paulette Coleman (Layperson) Senior Consultant Strategic Alternatives International Co. Nashville, TN Barry Kornhauser Playwright, Director; Teacher Director of Theatre for Young Audiences Fulton Opera House  Lancaster, PA Benjamin Loeb Pianist, Music Director El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras El Paso, TX Jeff Prauer Trombonist, Executive Director COMPAS St. Paul, MN Learning In The Arts For Children & Youth, Panel #7B (Local Arts Agencies and Presenting) November 29, 2007 Paulette Coleman (Layperson) Senior Consultant Strategic Alternatives International Co. Nashville, TN Barry Kornhauser Playwright, Director, Teacher Director of Theatre for Young Audiences Fulton Opera House  Lancaster, PA Benjamin Loeb Pianist, Music Director El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras El Paso, TX Jeff Prauer Trombonist, Executive Director COMPAS St. Paul, MN