MARQUIS STUDIOS, VSA and PS 37
TEACHING ARTIST TRAINING INSTITUTE (TATI) 2016
Application for Program Enrollment
Application Due: Friday November 20, 2015
Personal Information:
Name: ______________________________________ E-Mail: ___________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________________________
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Phone: ( ____ ) _______________________________
Please Check All That Apply To You:
Graduate Student [ ]
Which university program are you attending? ___________________________________________
Current Teaching Artist [ ]
Current Teacher [ ]
Been in the field:
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3-5 Years
5+ Years
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Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Special Education
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Art discipline(s)? _________________________________________________________________
If you are a Teaching Artist, please list the organizations for which you have worked:
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If you are a Teacher, in which school are you currently teaching?
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Is this a District 75 school? Yes [ ]
No [ ]
What grade level? _________________________________________________________________
Are you a specialist or a classroom teacher? ____________________________________________
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Please answer the following questions in detail:
1. Have you ever worked with District 75 students or in a self-contained Special Education class?
Yes [ ] No [ ] (Experience is not necessary)
If so, please describe your experience: _______________________________________________
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2. Do you have any other experience working with children on the autism spectrum or developmentally
delayed students?
Yes [ ] No [ ] (Experience is not necessary)
If so, please describe your experience: ________________________________________________
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3. What do you hope to gain from participation in this program? _________________________________
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4. What impact do you think this program will have on your professional career? __________________
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5. If you are currently teaching, describe the challenges you face in your classroom: ________________
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TATI 2016 will take place on six Mondays: Feb 29, Mar 7, Mar 14, Mar 21, Mar 28 and Apr 4.
Are there any dates you know in advance that you would not be able to attend? If so, please list:
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Please attach a current resume. Application is due: Friday November 20, 2015
Please e-mail application as an attachment to Ryan@MarquisStudios.org or mail to:
Ryan Berg
Marquis Studios
45 Main Street, Suite 616
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Thank you for your interest!
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Workshop Leaders
Joan Merwyn has been a Master Teaching Artist with Marquis Studios since 1994. Joan offers professional development
for teaching artists and teachers in autism spectrum classrooms at Marquis Studios’ Teaching Artist Training Institute (TATI).
She conducts both general education and special education residencies and professional development for public school
teachers in movement, theater, music and circus arts. Joan is also an original Co-Curriculum Author and Lead Teaching
Artist of the federally funded Everyday Arts for Special Education (EASE), through Manhattan New Music Project, in
conjunction with Urban Arts Partnership and the NYC DOE. She has served special needs populations of all ages and
cultural backgrounds extensively through Hospital Audiences, Inc. as a Senior Workshop Artist and Artist Evaluator. Joan is
committed to bringing innovative, multi-arts training experiences to communities of all ages, disabilities and cultures. Joan
Merwyn is an award winning and critically acclaimed physical theater performing artist, choreographer and stage director.
For more information, visit www.JoanMerwyn.com or call 212-613-6358.
Erica Rooney is a Teaching Artist and a licensed Creative Arts Therapist. For many years she was a scientific illustrator and
writing teacher. As a Teaching Artist, her interest is primarily the special education classroom. Her work is decidedly multimodal, since her background includes music, Japanese dance, poetry and visual arts. She is currently involved in two
ongoing initiatives, which train teaching artists and classroom teachers in adapting the arts to special education. With
Marquis Studios, she is a Master Teaching Artist in TATI (Teaching Artist Training Institute), a program for teaching artists
who wish to work with students on the autism spectrum. With the Manhattan New Music Project / Urban Arts Partnership,
she is a Co-Curriculum Writer and Lead Teaching Artist in the five-year, federally funded EASE project (Everyday Arts for
Special Education), a project that combines professional development with in-class co-teaching across all special education
populations. She is on the Steering Committee of The Arts in Special Education Consortium, a group whose mission is to
bring together the many people – including parents – who have a stake in bringing arts to students with special needs. Erica
has an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University and an MPS in Creative Arts Therapy from Pratt Institute. Janice Harding has
been involved in the Arts programs at PS 37R for the past twelve years, working closely with Marquis Studios. During that
time she has assisted in writing, documenting and implementing a variety of grants. Presently she is the school liaison for
the TATI program and coordinator for residencies with Marquis Studios, with assistance from Pat Bergstrom. At the school
she works as an Adaptive Physical Education teacher for Pre-K and Kindergarten students.
Cecilia Smith is a professional composer, recording artist and multimedia artist; she has been granted a number of
commissions and grants for her composing abilities. She is a Joyce Award recipient, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
recipient and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) recipient. Cecilia is also an avid MIDI music programmer. She is
currently one of the leading vibraphonists of Four-Mallet Technique. She is also the first woman to release recorded work
on the vibraphone on a national and international level, where she has six CDs released as a leader and co-leader. She has
performed in concert halls, nightclubs, colleges, universities and festivals throughout the world. Some of the noted artists
Cecilia has performed and recorded with include: Donald Harrison, Greg Osby, Gary Bartz, Mulgrew Miller, Cassandra
Wilson, Amina Claudine Myers and Marian McPartland’s – National Public Radio’s (NPR) – Piano Jazz. As a teaching artist
Cecilia has developed music programs for children, teens and adults in all kinds of teaching settings. Cecilia has also
developed music programs in therapeutic settings for a variety of social service facilities. She is a graduate and former
faculty member of Berklee College of Music, Boston.
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Susan Natacha Gonzalez is an artist, Teaching Artist and art therapist with15 years of experience. She has extensive
experience in research in special education and has carried out her multi--‐modal practice in variety of settings. Susan
Natacha is a board certified and registered art therapist. She has degrees in Art, Psychology, Art Therapy and Education. She
has also augmented her art studies in the US with studies at the University of Salamanca in Spain and the Lorenzo Di Medici
Institute for Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. Susan Natacha has presented the topic of art, education, creativity, art therapy and
child development in a variety of conferences, on the radio and has responded to interviews for several publications
nationally and abroad. As an artist Susan Natacha utilizes various media and concepts to explore and further understand
creative processes and change. She deems the practice of art as an opportunity for the development, understanding and
fostering of relationships with other individuals in accordance to the space at any given time. She believes we are not
isolated in our creative development, growth and process – we are a collective within and out of our bodies.
Maya Turner Singh has been a member of the arts education community in New York City since 2005. She has worked
extensively as a teaching artist and theater practitioner for many arts education and cultural organizations across the New
York Metro area including TADA! Youth Theater, the Park Avenue Armory, Vital Theatre, and the New Victory Theater. She
has authored several arts education curriculum for the IDA school in Gurgaon, India and Global Partners Junior (an
organization sponsored by former Mayor Bloomberg). Maya is also a founding member of Global Empowerment Theatre, a
grass-roots Educational Theater organization that brings English literacy and gender equity through theater workshops to
under-privileged students in East Africa and India. Before joining Marquis, Maya served as the Education Programs
Manager at TADA! Youth Theater. Maya holds a BA in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Theater and Education from The
New School and an MA in Educational Theater from NYU.
David Marquis is the founder of Marquis Studios and has been its Executive Director since the company’s inception in 1977.
He brings to his work as an educator his considerable experience as a theater artist of many capacities. David began is
artistic career in London, where he studied and taught acting for five years. From 1985-1989 he sat on the Board of
Directors for the Puppetry Guild of New York. From 1988-1990 he was a site reporter for the National Endowment for the
Arts theater program. From 1992-2000 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Arts in Education
Roundtable. He is a founding member of the Association of Teaching Artists and currently sits on the Board of Trustees of
Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute as well as the Board of Directors of the Delaware College of Art and Design. His work as a
puppeteer has toured the United States and has been placed prominently in many international festivals. As a teaching
artist for the last 35 years, David has taught innumerable classroom and professional development workshops. Subjects
include puppetry, theater arts, writing, video editing, literacy and mask making. In the late 1970s, his work with video and
computer-generated images of his own design was the first integration of this technology into puppet theater in the United
States.
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