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Marie Flowers, teacher, singer, composer and music director (conductor) is currently a Gifted and Talented music teacher with the East Baton Rouge Parish School System since 1999. Marie Flowers received her Master of Music and Bachelor of Music from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, followed by further study at Arizona State University and Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
Since her residency in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Marie Flowers has focused her talents on developing as a teacher, artist and composer. She was recently commissioned to write an original music composition for the television pilot show, JK’s House featuring television/film actress, Robin Givens. Currently Marie Flowers is a staff coordinator for the annual summer arts camp at Baton Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Baton Rouge’s premier arts elementary school. Marie Flowers continues to perform and compose as well as support the arts through her teaching talents. mflowers@ebrschools.org
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2010 marks the beginning of Patricia Delony’s 29th year of teaching. After teaching Special Education for sixteen years, Mrs. Delony returned to the music classroom. For the last 13 years she has taught Elementary and Middle School Choir and General Music. She conducted the EBRPSS Children's Chorus for 7 years and taught Choir at Glasgow Middle School for 7 years. During this time her choirs earned top ratings at District and State Festivals as well as First Place and Best In Class in National competitions in Atlanta, San Antonio and Gatlinburg. Her choirs have performed for the Louisiana BESE Board, the Louisiana Middle School Association, the Louisiana Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, the Chorister's Guild and with the Baton Rouge Symphony and the LSU Symphony. The Children's Chorus was honored with an invitation to perform for the National Orff Convention. Mrs. Delony also serves as an adjudicator and honor choir clinician for surrounding parishes. Mrs. Delony currently teaches at Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts, an elementary arts magnet school. Along with teaching every child in the school, she directs the schools auditioned Choir and Recorder Percussion ensemble. pdelony@ebrschools.org
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Leea Reese began dancing 25 years ago, and hasn't stopped since. She is a graduate of Northwestern State University’s Theatre and Dance department and is pursuing a Masters degree in education from Arkansas State University. For the past ten years, she has served the arts community as a performer, choreographer and educator. Her musical theatre credits include Urinetown, Kiss Me Kate, The Wiz, Cabaret, Singin' In The Rain, and most recently BRLT’s Hairspray.
Leea has presented intensive training workshops for Twin City Ballet in Monroe, LA and Carol Still Dance Academy in Lancaster, PA. She is a member of the Louisiana Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance and serves as a grant panelist for the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Leea is currently a faculty member with Cangelosi Dance Project and is the Dance Specialist at Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts lreese1@ebrschools.org
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| Raquel M. Brown, Middle Schools |
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Raquel Metoyer Brown is a native of Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, Louisiana where she graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1991. While at Northeast Louisiana University, she received the Roger Frisbee Award, the Clara Freiberg Scholarship, and the Hazel Goetz Memorial Scholarship. In addition, she was named to the national Dean’s List, was in Who’s Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges and was named the Music Educator’s National Conference Chapter Student Teacher of the Year for 1991. In 1994, she received a Master of Music degree from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Ms. Brown has been teaching music for 18 years.
Though most of her experience is at the middle school level, she has taught band, strings choir and recorder from kindergarten to 12th grade. Her students have been selected for honor band, honor orchestra, honor choir, honor jazz band and the Louisiana Junior Youth Orchestra. Her groups have received several sweepstakes trophies at the district level and at the state level. In 1999, she completed Mentor and Assessor training for The Louisiana Teacher Assistance and Assessment Program. From that time on Ms. Brown mentored several new teachers in East Baton Rouge Parish. Ms. Brown received the Carlos G. Spaht Brotherhood/Sisterhood Award in 2005. She was named Woodlawn Middle School Teacher of the Year for 2010 and was one of three finalists for East Baton Rouge Parish Middle School Teacher of the Year. Ms. Brown is a member of Phi Delta Kappa International, the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the Louisiana Music Educator’s Association and the Cambridge Who’s Who for Professionals. rbrown@ebrschools.org
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| Sylvia L. Martinex |
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Sylvia LeBlanc Martinez teaches Drama at Baton Rouge Magnet High, having directed scores of shows during her 29 year career there, including original ballet-plays (attended by hundreds of school children), Shakespeare and other classics, and many modern works. She is a co-founder of Playmakers of B.R., our local professional theater company for young audiences, has served as State Director for the Louisiana Thespian Society, and was a Teacher of the Year finalist for EBRPSS. smartinez@ebrschools.org
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2009 Grammy Award Winner, Mike Esneault began his early studies with two influential mentors/instructors, renowned clarinetist Alvin Batiste and composer/arranger Dr Bert Braud. With Batiste, Mike studied jazz improvisation and often performed with his quartet around the New Orleans area. Studies with Dr. Braud focused on the craft of composition and arranging for large and small ensembles including full orchestra. Esneault credits these two teachers for laying down a solid music foundation and also as a constant source of inspiration. In addition Mike has studied with Willis Delony, Bill Grimes, Lawrence Sieberth, Mike Pellera and many others.
Esneault has established a prolific career as a composer/arranger for various mediums, including television, motion picture, and live concerts as well as compact disc recordings. For television, he has composed music for many clients including McDonald's, Exxon, Blue Cross Blue Shield, La Lottery, US Agencies and Eatel. He has composed the score for the six part series “Louisiana: A History”, which featured actress Lynn Whitfield's narration and has also composed scores for many other documentaries including “Making Waves: Louisiana’s Radio Story.”
Mike has received numerous awards including the Henry Mancini Fellowship as well as the Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship. Mike currently makes him home in Louisiana where he and his wife are raising three boys. He is also currently on staff with the Gifted and Talented Program in Baton Rouge where he works with gifted young musicians. This curriculum focuses on small group improvisation, arranging and jazz composition. Mike has been with this program for the past 9 years. clearcreeksound@eatel.com
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| Robbye Thomas, Dance Showcase |
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Robbye Lynne Thomas.
Southern University-Baton Rouge ♦ Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge
University of Nevada ♦ University of South Florida, Sarasota
Professional Experience
• East Feliciana Parish Schools
• St. Charles Parish Schools
• Clark County School District, Las Vegas, NV
• Sarasota County School District, Sarasota, FL
• East Baton Rouge Parish Schools
Glasgow Middle School
Broadmoor Middle Magnet School
McKinley Middle Magnet School
Career Highlights
• First Middle School Dance Curriculum, 1979
• Performing Arts Middle School Dance Program, 1998
• Expanded Middle School Dance Programs, 2004
• Teacher of the Year-McKinley Middle Magnet School, 2006
• Disney Land Magic Music Days-Dance Competition, Orlando, FL, 2008
• Dance Competitions: Beta Talent, Myrtle Beach, SC, 2008
• Liturgical Dance Minister/Dance Instructor
*Donaldson Chapel Baptist, *Wesley United Methodist & *Elm Grove Baptist.
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Debra Miller Sullivan is a graduate of the Holmes Master of Education Program. She also has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture. Sullivan has a diploma in Professional forestry and Wildlife Conservation. She is a member of The Nature Conservation Society and National Art Education Association. Her teaching experience includes an internship at Woodlawn High School and five years at McKinley Middle Academic Magnet of Visual and Performing Arts School; currently the team leader of the Visual and Performing Arts Team.
She has traveled with her students to Rome, Italy and Greece to view and study art and will be traveling to Spain this year. Along with other teachers, Mrs. Sullivan and her students annually attend the Renaissance Festival. In the past five years her students have received awards in DeBose and the Pancake Festival. This year she is a presenter in two workshops.
She loves the arts and enjoys sharing her own experiences, knowledge, talents, and personal art with her students. She believes art can open multiple doors of success, achievement, pride, and confidence. Through hands on learning students gain self-discipline, self-improvement and self-discovery . . . . “it is only when persons experience themselves taking risk, embarking on new beginnings, that the predictable gives way to the possible” (Maxine Green). dsullivan@ebrschools.org
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Randell Henry decided to become an artist when he was in the sixth grade at South Scotlandville Elementary School in North Baton Rouge. While in Junior High School, he spent much of his “free time” in the school library studying the paintings and sculptures of master American and European artists. He was fascinated with what he saw the abstract expressionists and cubist artists do with paint. He went on to earn a B.A degree in art at Southern University in 1979 and the MFA degree in Painting from L.S.U. in 1982. Henry has shown his paintings in art galleries in Baton Rouge for more than twenty five years. He is an artist member of Baton Rouge Gallery and Associate Professor of Art at Southern University. Henry presently serves on the Boards of Baton Rouge Gallery, DeBose Foundation, and Acts and Deeds Non Profit Organization. He is President of Black Artists’ Network.
Henry was recognized in November 2009 by Peter Falk, one of the country’s leading experts on American Art after Falk discovered his collages at an art dealer in Connecticut and acquired twelve works. Falk showed the collages in an exhibition at Summer House Fine Art Gallery in downtown Madison, Connecticut in November, 2009.
In his travels Henry has visited museums and art galleries in Canada, Ghana, Liberia, Greece, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, China, Japan, Turkey and other places where great art can be seen.In December 2010 Henry spent two weeks in Liberia, West Africa making collages in a studio overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Monrovia, where he conducted art workshops for children and adults and exhibited his collages at the University of Liberia and at the U. S. Embassy residence of a U.S. Ambassador.
His paintings have been in major exhibitions at The New Orleans Museum of Art, Alexandria Museum of Art, Southern University Museum of Art, L.S.U. Museum of Art, The West Baton Rouge Museum, The Museum Of Arts and Science in Daytona Beach, Florida, The National Museum of Ghana, U. S. T. Fine Arts Gallery in Kumasi, Ghana, Dallas Museum of African American Art, Stella Jones Gallery, Nahan and Elliott Galleries and several Julia Street Galleries in New Orleans and in galleries in California, Georgia, Mississippi, New York.
Currrently, his work is included in an exhibition that opened on October 1, 2011 at Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans to celebrate the one hundred anniversary of the birth of Mahalia Jackson and in the traveling exhibition, Southern Journeys along with works by major African American artists that is touring museums and art centers in the southern parts of the United States. With earlier stops at the Alexandria Museum of Art, Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida, Bessie Smith Cultural Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock, Arkansas and Gallery 210 in St. Louis, Missouri, the show will open in November 2011 at the Dallas Museum of African American Art and will end in March, 2012 at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Mississippi.
In April 2011 three collages by Henry were purchased by L.S.U. Museum of Art and two months later, two of his collages were purchased by the State Department for the Permanent Collection of the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia. Over the years Henry has organized and curated exhibitions in commercial galleries in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lake Charles for both, students in the Department of Visual Arts and major African American artists. Currently, visitors to the university can see Choices: African American and African Art from Private Collections, an exhibition he curated to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Southern University Museum of Art. Henry was presented the Cluster Quality Award from the SU Business and Industry Cluster for outstanding work, efficiency and improving productivity at Southern University.
Henry believes in bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge from the world of art to his students at Southern University. He believes that each student who comes through a university should have a background in the vast, vibrant area of visual arts to be inspired to be creative in whatever field of study pursued. randell_henry@subr.edu
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