Board and Staff

Board of Directors 2007/2008

Jeff Mather President jeff at artsinlearning.org	Celeste Miller Secretary celeste at artsinlearning.org
Barry Stewart Mann Treasurer barry at artsinlearning.org	Scott Painter scott at artsinlearning.org
Cynthia Brown cynthia_b at artsinlearning.org	Wayne Smith wayne at artsinlearning.org
Francine Stowe francine at artsinlearning.org	Cynthia Terry cynthia_t at artsinlearning.org

Staff 2007/2008

Lauryn Menard
Administrative Director
lauryn at artsinlearning.org

Staff and Board Member Bios

Cynthia Brown (coming soon)

Barry Stewart Mann is an actor, storyteller, writer and arts educator. He has a B.A. in English from Harvard University and an M.F.A in Theatre from the University of San Diego. He has acted on numerous Atlanta stages including Theatrical Outfit, Horizon Theatre, Jewish Theatre of the South, Art Station, and the new Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern. As an arts educator, Barry has performed and presented in hundreds of schools for thousands of children through Young Audiences at the Woodruff Arts Center, The Georgia Council for the Arts, and the Alliance Theatre. Barry is a member of the National Storytelling Network and was name the 1999 "National Storyteller of the Year." His original stories can be heard regularly around the country on the 'Recess!' Public Radio program. Barry speaks several languages with varying degrees of proficiency, and has traveled to more than forty countries on four continents.

Jeff Mather is an interdisciplinary site artist. He has directed dozens of community-based public art projects in Georgia, South Carolina, and Massachusetts. He has conducted teaching artist residencies in over 100 schools. He is a member of Alternate Roots and also serves on the artists' advisory board for Young Audiences/Woodruff Art Center and is a member of the arts education 'think tank' for ALL GA. He has been a teaching artist for the Georgia Council for the Arts' Artists-In-Education Program since 1990. Jeff earned his BA degree 1979 from Hobart College, Geneva, New York with an Independent Major in Proxemics. He was a founding member of the APAL board in 2001.

Lauryn Menard is a new jack of all trades in the arts education community of Atlanta. She teaches, and performs modern dance with Moving in the Spirit, a youth development organization. She works at the Emory Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts as a House Manager, through which she coordinates and trains volunteers. She is the part-time Administrative Director for the Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning, an arts infusion non-profit organization in the metro-Atlanta area. Lauryn also does freelance work as a writer and project coordinator. She is a member of Alternate ROOTS and served as the intern at the 2007 annual meeting. Lauryn received her BA from Emory University where she studied English with a focus on Creative Writing.

Celeste Miller is a solo performer, choreographer, writer, and educator. She has received numerous grants and awards for her work including those from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Guttman Foundation, The Bruce J. Anderson Foundation, and arts councils in Georgia, Maryland, and Massachusetts. For the past ten years, she has been engaged in "Curriculum in Motion," an arts-integrated education method that uses movement and the choreographic process as tools for learning units of academic study. Miller has shared this approach of arts integration into academic curriculum at residencies, workshops and conferences throughout the United States.

Scott Painter is the founding principal of the South Atlanta School of Engineering and Computer Sciences. Mr. Painter moved to Atlanta in 2000 to teach chemistry and physics at South Atlanta High School as a member of the Teach For America program. In 2004, he became the Advanced Placement Coordinator for Project GRAD Atlanta, an education nonprofit seeking to improve the education of low-income children within Atlanta Public Schools. In 2006, he returned to South Atlanta High School to start and lead the new Engineering and Computer Sciences Academy. He was named the 2002 Atlanta Public Schools High School Teacher of the Year, he served as one of nineteen commissioners on the national Teaching Commission, he was one of 23 members appointed by Governor Sunny Purdue to develop the master teacher and academic coach program for Georgia, he was a member of the 2006 class of LEAD Atlanta, and he is Nationally Board certified in Adolescent Science. Mr. Painter holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, a M.A. in Science Teaching from Clark Atlanta University, and a M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from the Summer Principals Academy at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Wayne Smith (coming soon)

Francine Stowe (coming soon)

Cynthia Terry (coming soon)