Administrative
- Katherine Latterner
- Director, Fillmore Arts Center
- katherine.latterner@dc.gov
- Sara Friendly
- Director, Fillmore Arts
- Workshops & Arts Camp
- PH. 202-465-2810 FAX 202-724-3680 sbfriendly@gmail.com
- Karen Daniels
- Head Teacher, Dance
- Karendaniels@k12.dc.us
- zoomba@aol.com
- Carlene Thompson
- Admin. Assistant Secretary
- carlene.thompson@dc.gov
Fillmore West
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Faculty and Staff
Visual Arts
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Music
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Theater/Drama
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Dance
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Visiting Artists:
- Yolanda Ackles – music & dance – more
- Mary Timony – guitarist, singer/songwriter -...more
- www.marytimony.com
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CAROLINE SCHMIDT received her BFA in Painting from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in 2007. A year later she received her BFA in Art Education, studying under Richard Siegesmund. Her personal artwork explores the relationship between the visual and the audible, using expressive mark-making in response to melodic variations in music. She has exhibited work in Athens, Georgia, and Cortona, Italy. She also studied ballet and classical guitar for many years.Ms. Barton is honored to have joined the Fillmore Arts Center staff in 2009. She believes that each student has a unique point of view, and gives students the encouragement and techniques they need to use art as a tool of self-expression. Her lessons focus on the elements and principals of art, and expose students to a variety of media such as painting, printmaking, drawing, illustration, and sculpture. Along with teaching at Fillmore, Ms. Barton volunteer teaches a studio art class at Sitar Arts Center in Adams Morgan. | visual art - Fillmore West |
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ALEX AUCOIN - M.M. University of North Carolina School of the Arts, B.M. Stephen F. Austin State University (TX) - has bee with Fillmore since 2011 teaching instrumental music. A percussionist, Alex has played with symphony orchestras in Texas, North Carolina, and Virginia as both a section player and soloist. Alex has also played for musical theater all over the country and is an active performer in Washington, D.C. Alex will be teaching at Fillmore East, Ludlow-Taylor ES, and River Terrace ES. | music - Fillmore East |
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CURTIS BEELER - BFA Art Education, Howard University with a minor in Art History and Painting, additional study at American University - has been a DCPS teacher for 25 years, has been teaching at Fillmore since 2009 and currently teaches art at Fillmore Arts Center East. Mr Beeler was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in the Petworth section of the city. He is a proud product of the District of Columbia Public Schools having attended Barnard Elementary, Macfarland Junior High, and Theodore Roosevelt High School. He is a member of Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraturnity inc., the Theodore Roosevelt Alumni Association, and the Howard University Alumni Association. He has had partnerships with the Phillips Collection, the Textile Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. He believes that all children have the ability to achieve, create, think and perform at any level at the hands of a teacher who cares, has respect for them and knows that we all are human beings. | visual art - Fillmore East |
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MICHAEL BOWIE is an accomplished bassist who won a National Endowment for the Arts award in jazz. He has music degrees from the University of Michigan and Ohio State University, and has been an instructor at the FAME International Classical and Jazz Camp. Mr. Bowie has performed and recorded with Sarah Vaughn, Betty Carter and Natalie Cole, among others, and currently performs with the Manhattan Transfer.back to top |
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BONITA CACHO has a professional career in acting, singing, and dancing began in Theatre West of Dayton, Ohio touring mainly throughout the Midwest region, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC where she established her career. Bonita studied classical ballet from Lynn Welter, Edna Long, Harriet Williams, Jane Bonbright, Natalie Smith, Lynn Wenning, Sarah Slifer, Diane Xenopoulous, Miya Hisaka, and Vladimir Angelov; modern dance from Maida Withers and Mel Manco; jazz dance from Tyrone Murray, Charles Quintyne, Sekouba Sylla, Sekouba Camara, and Mohamed Camara Sis Alalade.Bonita is currently an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University's Theater and Dance Department teaching African Dance. She has taught African Dance at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, McGogney Elementary, and Birney Elementary. She has taught both drumming and dancing at Roots Public Charter School and various recreation and community centers in Southeast and Ward 8, such as the DC Therapeutic Recreation Center, Children of Mine Community Center, and the Greater Washington's Boys and Girls Club. In addition, she has been a resident instructor and choreographer for Andrew Cacho African Drummers and Dancers.back to top |
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JOSHUA CARR - B.A. Temple University, M.A. Howard University - was born and raised in Alexandria VA. Josh began performing professionally in 2003 after graduating from Temple University. As a professional jazz saxophonist, Josh has performed at The Kennedy Center's main stage and Millenium stage, The 9:30 Club (w/Josh Ritter, and Natalia Clavier), Bohemian Caverns, Utopia, Twins Jazz Club, The Birchmere, numerous Jazz Festivals in the DC area (The Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, TheCherry Blossom festival, etc). He has performed as both a leader and as a sideman in several musical genres including Jazz, Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop, Latin, and American Country Music. He continues to actively perform, presently as a leader with his own Jazz ensemble, and as a sideman in numerous projects including the Josh Ritter Band(Folk-Rock), Timba St. (Afro-Cuban), and Bemcha (Jazz/Latin/Salsa). He currently teaches instrumental music at Fillmore East and loves watching the students perform. | music - Fillmore East & West |
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ANITA CARSON | vocal music - Fillmore West |
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JONATHAN COLTON is an AU graduate; teaches Physical Education at Key and Stoddert Elementary; played four years of soccer; coaches soccer in the Bethesda Soccer Club.back to top | |
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ALISON CROCKETT-LANDHAM is a Brooklyn based vocalist, pianist and songwriter whose style is 'steeped' in a deep Soul tradition, with generous helpings of Jazz and Blues. Taking her cue from divas of the past and present such as Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Donna Summer, Diana Ross and Sarah Vaughn,this singer/songwriter and pianist is destined for greatness.Alison honed her vocal skills at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and then a masters degree at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. As she says, "I set out to be a craftsman; someone who could mold and shape music like a sculpture." Throughout her school years, Alison continued to build her reputation and gain a loyal following by performing regularly with notable local and national artists in and around her Washington, DC home as well as in Philadelphia and New York."Alison has spent much of the last decade working with a number of progressive soul and jazz artists such as Us3 and King Britt (of Digible Planets). She hooked up with King Britt in Philadelphia and sang on the underground hit "Season's Change" for Ovum/Sony Music. This led to an invitation to serve as the lead singer for the influential UK acid-jazz group Us3, with whom she cut the 1994 hit "Get Out." Crockett continued to write and perform on the side during her period with Us3, and cut an EP in 2001 under the name Diva Blue. It took two more years before she would begin to work on her first full album, 2004's On Becoming A Woman.On Becoming A Woman is a nice showcase of Alison Crockett's talents, and moves seamlessly from 70s grooves to smooth jazz to neo soul.In 2007, Crockett released her second full studio album, Bare, to solid reviews."..quoted from Chris Rizik. back to top |
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Allyson Daniel - BFA musical Theatre, Pennsylvania State University - Ms Daniel is new to Fillmore Arts Center. After graduating from school in 2008 she performed on Disney Cruise Line. In February 2010 she joined the National touring company of The Color Purple. She is delighted to teach Fillmore students. | |
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KAREN DANIELS M.ED, Education Leadership, George Mason University, 2000 M.A., Arts Management,American University, 1988 B.F.A., Dance, Adelphi University, 1980 Dance Certificate, Duke Ellington School of the Arts,1976Karen Daniels, a native of Washington, D.C., is a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Workshops for Careers in the Arts. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Adelphi University, and a Masters in Arts Management from American University. She has the honor of having been awarded 2 Fulbright scholarships.Her performing experience includes: Everyman Street Theatre Company, Adelphi Dance Theatre, Memory of African Culture, KanKouran Dance Company, Chuck Davis Dance Company in Nigeria, and with members of the National Ballet Diolliba of Guinea, West Africa. Ms. Daniels is co-founder and program director of Cosan Arts Institute, a non-profit arts organization providing services in video production, photography, and artstraining for youth. She has been a dance instructor at Fillmore since 1989, and she taught movement in the Theatre Department at Duke Ellington School of the Arts for fifteen years.back to top |
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| JOY ELCOCK- BA Fine Arts, Howard University - Ms Elcock has worked at Fillmore Arts Center since 2010 teaching visual art. She enjoys creating portraits, jewelry, and greeting cards. "Teaching art is the best job in the world!" | visual art - Fillmore East | |
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MONIQUE FLOWERS - BFA Theatre Arts Acting/Dance Arcadia University Glenside PA, Monash University Theatre/Dance studies, Melbourne, Australia. Studied Theater at the Duke Ellington school of the Arts.
Ms Flowers has been teaching for Fillmore Arts Center since 2009. She started performing at the tender age of two years old and her last show was JUNKANOO at THE ARC in Washington DC. She is currently focusing on creating independent film work, producing scripts, documentaries, and directing. She also works with her church as a choreographer and dancer for the dance ministry team. She loves teaching and understands her call that God has placed upon her to work with youth. Ms Fower's teaching methods ask that students be daring, let go of fear, take risks and do not allow the world to define what they "should" be. We each have our own calling and as performing artists we are creative leaders that can change the world in many ways. |
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| ALVIN RUSSELL GRAHAM | strings - Fillmore East | |
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AMY HOEBEKE - BA Art Education, Virginia Commonwealth University - Ms Hoebeke teaches visual art at Fillmore West, Ludlow-Taylor Elementary, and River Terrace. Ms. Hoebeke helped raise $1500 dollars for her schools by auctioning off student work. | visual art - Ludlow Taylor & FAC West |
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CATHY HUNT (Tammie) - This is Ms. Hunt's 3rd year with Fillmore Arts Center. She was the Artistic Director for the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet for 10 years, the Director of the Jones-Haywood Youth Dancers and one of the creators of the"Nut-Kraker". She is currently a ballet instructor at the Joy of Motion Dance Center and the Ballet Master at The New School of Dance and Arts. Ms. Hurt has dedicated her life to educating young people in dance. | dance - Fillmore East |
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CeYvonne Jackson - B.A. in Studio Art, University of Maryland U - Ms Jackson has been teaching at Fillmore Arts Center since 2011 and is very excited to join this creative community of educators. She has been teaching Visual Arts in Washington DC for eight years and currently teaches Visual Arts at Fillmore East and Takoma Educational Center. She has worked with students from ages 3 to 14 in various academic and recreational settings, promoting a genuine interest and love of art within her students. Ms Jackson encourages young artists to explore art as a means of creative self-expression and to recognize the value and importance of art in their daily lives. | |
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JANET JONES - B.A.Theatre & Dance, East Carolina University. Graduated from Duke Ellington School of the Arts, studied at Jones & Haywood School of Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, N.C. Academy of Dance Arts, Bobbi Collins School of Dance Arts and D.C. City Ballet. Apprenticed with Capital Ballet. Performed with Jones & Haywood Jr. Dancers, Mike Malone, Lavern Reed, D.C. City Ballet, Bobbi Collins Dancers, and for various events, organizations, and chuches in the community. Has taught for Duke Ellington summer program, Jones & Haywood summer program, School of Dance Arts, Bobbi Collins Dance Studio, Fillmore Arts after school program, Sugar Foots summer camp, and Urban Nation Academy. Janet continues to hone her skills in dance and drama by taking classes and studying the Arts and Arts Education. | drama - Fillmore West |
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KATHERINE LATTERNER, Director, brings over twenty years of arts education experience to Fillmore. She served for fourteen years as the music and creative writing teacher for the Fillmore program, coordinator of the Hearst/Fillmore program and director of Fillmore Summer Camp. For the last five years, Katherine has served as the Director of Education for the Musical Theater Center, a private non-profit arts school, where she oversaw a dance, music and theater arts education program for over 1,500 students and established a community outreach program in MCPS schools.Katherine has an undergraduate degree from Bucknell University and a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership from George Mason and has taken additional certificate programs in the arts and education. She is a pianist and singer and currently plays in a handbell choir.She is extremely proud of the expertise of the Fillmore staff, the accomplishments of its young artist students and the support of the community and looks forward to an excellent year.back to top |
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FREDRIC LEE rejoins the Fillmore staff after a brief stint four years ago. Mr. Lee, a freelance director in the Washington area, has been associated with the Washington Theater Club directors, John and Hazel Wentworth and Davey Marlin-Jones. At the Theater Club he became involved in youth programming as director of teen and adult/teen programs as well as New Play programs. Mr. Lee founded the OFF THE CIRCLE THEATER COMPANY, the first on-going Cabaret Theater in Washington, and was also the Artistic Director for the Back Alley Theater Company for seven years. His directing in Washington includes New Playwright’s, Source, Studio Theater, The Kennedy Center, George Washington University, George Mason, Howard University, The In-Series, and The National Theater.Mr. Lee was on the faculty of Duke Ellington School of the Arts for fifteen years, and was production manager of the Smithsonian’s African Diaspora Program. His work in musical theater as well as alternative theater is well documented. He is currently work with youth programs and is a consultant with The DC Department of Parks and Recreation’s Cultural Arts Division. Mr. Lee has produced over fifty salutes and concerts celebrating the American Song, featuring artists from Debra Tidwellto Carolyn Sotir-Black. His productions of Steve Wilmer’s Scenes From Soweto and Streamers were taken from DC to be presented by theStat’s Theater in Stockholm and Orebru Sweden. He was chosen to premiertwo works of the late Miguel Pinero after working with the author on his celebrated Short Eyes. He is currently working on works by Sondheim and the Gershwin’s.back to top |
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ERIN MAPES received her BA in Visual Art from Bennington College in Vermont in 2007, with a focus in Drawing and Painting. The following year, she received her MAT in Art Education, also from Bennington College. Her personal artwork is continually evolving, though she is most intrigued by surrealism and dream imagery, as well as contemporary street art.She also holds a BA in Chinese Language and Culture, and has studied in Hangzhou, China.Erin has taught visual art with the Fillmore Arts Center since 2008. Her classes focus primarily on drawing and painting, and also explore printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, and street art. She strongly believes in the power of art and its ability to give a voice to those who thought they had none. She strives to empower her students, by giving them the skills, encouragement, and discipline to speak through their artwork and say what they need to say | visual arts - Fillmore East |
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STEPHEN MASON | physical education - Hyde & Ludlow Taylor |
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MARGARET "Maggie" MEENEHAN is a certified Arts Specialist K-12 and holds a BS Movement Education from George Washington University. She has presented workshops and performances in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and locally at several Universities, Washington Project for the Arts, DC Space, Dance Place, Joy of Motion, Dance Arts, and Red Wiggler Farm. Ms Meenehan is a receipient of two Fulbright Scholarships to study the arts and cultures of Japan, Canada and Mexico, and has been awarded two DC Commission of the Arts & Humanities Grants in Education. She was also awarded a merit scholarship to Duke University to work with the American Dance Festival. Ms Meenehan has acted as Assistant to the Editor of the National Dance Association newsletter (AAHPERD) and Production Manager of the Dance Performing Groups at George Washington University. She has directed many large scale student theatre productions for the DC Department of Recreation. Currently, she is working toward her Masters in the Neuropsychology of Learning/Curriculum Design and Instruction. She enjoys working with the talented members of the staff, administration and students of Fillmore Arts Center.back to top | dance - Fillmore West |
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Robert "Brother AH" Northern (B.A. Communications (radio, TV & film), Howard University, Washington, D.C. also studied at the Manhattan School of Music, NYC, the Vienna State Academy in Vienna, Austria) and currently teaches african percussion and world music at Fillmore Arts Center - East.
Composer, flautist & french horn player Brother AH was among the busiest session musicians of the '50s and '60s. He worked and recorded with numerous jazz stars, among them Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Sun Ra, DonCherry, McCoy Tyner, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and the Jazz Composers Orchestra, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Eric Dolphy, Max Roach, John Lewis, among many others. During an extended period living in New York in the late 1960s, AH tirelessly evangelized great black music as a dj on WBAI, organized radical concerts at WBAI's Free Music Store & tirelessly documented the energetic music around him. That motivation is as present today as it was decades ago in his involvement with the local & global artistic community. AH lives in Washington, D.C. and is the founder of the World Community School of Music. His live appearances are a rare & special treat. As a lecturer and instructor he taught at the Levine School of Music, Sewell Music Conservatory, D.C. public and private schools and lectures at Howard University, UDC, University of Maryland, Smithsonian Institution and Kennedy Center. He has also taught at Brown University in Rhode Island (9 years), Dartmouth College in New Hampshire (3 year), the New York City Public School system, The African Learning Center in Washington, D.C. and privately. Brother Ah is a performer, educator, lecturer, composer and arranger both in Western and non-Western traditions. He has composed and directed numerous extended works including "Ode to Creation", "The Forces of Nature", and "Tribute to the Ancestors". Robert Northern (Brother Ah) as a French hornist has played and recorded with musical greats including Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Sun Ra, Dizzy Gillespie, Eric Dolphy, Max Roach, John Lewis and many more. His classical performances include the New York Metropolitan Opera (stage band), George Solti, conductor; the Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski; conductor; Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Raymond Page, conductor; symphony orchestra in Vienna, Austria and West Germany and Broadway Theater orchestras in New York City. Brother Ah is the musical director for the World Music Ensemble and the "Sounds of Awareness" and specializes in Wind Instruments, African Drums, and percussions, and brings together the best of African, American Japanese, European and Indian music. This musical collective utilizes music, dance, poetry, and the sounds of nature to inspire and raise individual levels of consciousness. The group also produces music for meditation, relaxation and healing. He released an album with his Sounds of Awareness ensemble featuring Max Roach. |
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PAMELA TIIK POLLET received her BFA in Photography from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, where she also studied digital arts and web design. Her photographic art is frequently on exhibition. She has been teaching digital art at the Fillmore since 1999, specializing in drawing, video and web animation.Ms. Pollet is also an award winning musician who has received two grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has a long and colorful career as a performing musician.Ms Pollet is also the Fillmore webmaster, graphic designer and Apple computer technican.back to top |
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MARJA PONKKA-CARPENTER holds certification in Social Work and a Bachelor of Art Education degree from the University of DC. As part of her degree program, she interned at Fillmore with Harriet Lesser, and then joined the Fillmore staff in Fall 1992.As a sculptor and mixed media artist, Ms. Ponkka-Carpenter exhibits frequently in the Baltimore/Washington area. Her work has been seen at the National Museumof Women in the Arts, Gallery 10, and at U.D.C.Ms. Ponkka-Carpenter loves to work with children, watching freedom of expression comethrough their work. She encourages them to develop and keep the freshness, and to find a rich and colorful world inside and around them. She wants all children to feel good about themselves and their art works.back to top |
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HOPE PRICE-LINDSAY - B.A. Theater, Howard University - is a drama Teacher at Fillmore East and Takoma. She is also a children's author, playwright and has worked as a professional actress in New York. Her credits include Off-Broadway, regional theater, and an ABC soap opera. She belongs to the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) , Actors Equity Association (AEA), and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). She has been contracted to do workshops for children by the Walt Disney Co., Childrens Book Festivals, Public Libraries and the Smithsonian. | visual art - Fillmore East |
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DENNA PURDIE - studied cello with Ronald Feldman (Boston Symphony) and Sieva Lezhnev. She was the first black female to join the US Marine Band, "The President's Own". She taught for D.C. Youth Orchestra Program and is a member of the Soulful Symphony. She has been teaching at Fillmore since 1999.back to top |
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Wendell Regis - B.A. Marketing, Howard University - Originally from Trinidad & Tobago, Mr Regis attended Howard University on a soccer scholarship. He played soccer professionally, played basketball in high school, loves all sports and is a USSF 'A' licensed coach. He enjoys teaching physical education for Fillmore Arts Center. | physical education - Houstonw |
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PETER ROMERO received his early training from Hungarian expatriate Magda Corbett and earned his B.A. Art & Humanities from the University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Mr. Romero was awarded several dance scholarships from the Maryland Youth Ballet, American Ballet Center, and American Ballet Theatre School. Mr. Romero has worked with companies such as the National Ballet of Santo Domingo (in the Dominican Republic), National Ballet of Panama, Buffalo Inner City Ballet, Chicago Lyric Opera, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Washington Opera. He was Ballet Master for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Dance department, dance teacher and choreographer for the Duke Ellington Show Choir, dance teacher for the Fillmore Arts Center, and stage director for the Opera Camerata of Washington. Mr. Romero currently teaches Ceramics at Fillmore Arts Center, and has been a visual artist/teacher for 17 years, as well as a flower designer and a costume designer for 10 years.Mr. Romero has performed classical and contemporary repertoire nationally and internationally in roles such as pas de trois in Swan Lake and Peasant pas de deux in Giselle, to parts in Birgit Cullberg's Miss Julie, to Agnes de Mille's Rodeo.back to top |
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Elena Strunk is an artist and teacher who has been living in Washington, DC since 1968. Ms. Strunk started teaching in Fairfax County Public Schools in 1998 and has been teaching Visual Arts at Fillmore since 2006. She has an B.F.A. in Painting from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, M.F.A. Painting from The American University, and an M.A. in Education from The Catholic University of America, both in Washington, DC. Most recently, Ms. Strunk has shown 3-D work in various Washington DC galleries such as the Warehouse Gallery, Artomatic, and the Katzen Galleries of American University in Washington, DC. Her work was included in a themed show called "Tension" in the galleries of Moore College of Art in Philadelphia in 2008. |
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MITCHELL WAGNER - B.A. in Physical Education Teacher Education, West Virginia University - is excited to begin teaching at Stoddert Elementary and Takoma. Over the last three years Mr Wagner has been a personal trainer and in 2009 he became a NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. He believes that Health and Physical Education are an integral part of a students education and looks forward to making physical education a positive experience for every student. | physical education - Stoddert & Takoma Ed. Ctr. |
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SALLY TSOU YICK - BA, Studio Art, American University, Masters in Art Education, George Washington University - is a visual artist who has shown in art exhibitions and art fairs nationally and internationally and has won many awards. She has been teaching visual art for more than 10 years in high school, middle school and at Fillmore Arts Center as well as providing art and short story writing classes at her own Washington DC studio. | visual art - Fillmore West |
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MARY TIMONY attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C., where she played guitar in the jazz band and also studied viola.In 1990-91 Timony played guitar and shared lead vocals in the Washington, D.C.-based all-female band Autoclave. She later relocated to Boston, where she graduated from Boston University with a degree in English literature and formed the band Helium in the summer of 1992, recording two albums and three EPs with the group between 1994 and 1997. Helium disbanded in 1998, whereupon Timony embarked on her solo career, recording albums in 2000 and 2002 (Mountains and The Golden Dove).In 2005, Timony joined with drummer Devin Ocampo; her CD Ex Hex, released on the Lookout! Records label, features the two performing together as a duo. In the same year, she contributed vocals to Team Sleep's premier self-titled album on the tracks "Tomb of Liegia" and "King Diamond."Timony's music is often heavy and dark, frequently using drones, beats, and modal melodies reminiscent of European Medieval music. She uses a number of alternate guitar tunings, most prominent of which is DADGAE, which allows for the execution of melodic passages.She most recently finished recording another album, The Shapes We Make, which was released on the Kill Rock Stars label on May 8, 2007. A music video for "Sharp Shooter" was produced by the art collective Paper Rad.In addition to her work with Autoclave, Helium, and the Mary Timony Band, Timony has occasionally collaborated or recorded with other groups. In 1999, Timony recorded a four-song vinyl EP with Carrie Brownstein of the band Sleater-Kinney, in a duo called The Spells. In 2000, she recorded a six-song CD with Anna Johansson and Erin Maclean, entitled Green 4.In 1995, Timony recorded the song "All Dressed Up In Dreams" with Stephen Merritt, on The 6ths album Wasps' Nests.Timony collaborated with Team Sleep on Tomb of Liegia and King Diamond on their 2005 self titled album.Timony had a cameo role in the 1997 independent film All Over Me as lead singer/guitarist of the fictional girl rock band Coochie Pop, along with another real-life singer/guitarist, Leisha Hailey. They performed the Helium song "Hole in the Ground" in the movie. | music - Fillmore West CD's The Shapes We Make 2007 Kill Rock Stars Record Ex Hex 2005 Lookout! Records The Golden Dove 2002 Matador Records Mountains 2000 Matador Records HELIUM The Magic City 1997 Matador Records No Guitars E.P. 1996 Matador Records Superball+ E.P. 1995 Matador Records The Dirt of Luck 1995 Matador Records Pirate Prude 1994 Matador Records AUTOCLAVE Self Titled 2002 Combined CD of 10" and 7" originally released 1991 Dischord Records |
