NHSCA has recently had three new artists join the Arts Education Artist Roster. Teaching Artists on the roster work as both professional artists and experienced educators, bringing deep content knowledge and real world perspectives to facilitate hands-on project based learning. Often through residencies at schools and organizations, Teaching Artists supplement school curricular offerings and enrich learning opportunities in our communities, diversifying the artistic disciplines and forms that students experience. These artists share their expertise to facilitate creative and meaningful engagement in the arts. Artists apply to the roster on a rolling basis and application materials are reviewed by an independent panel.
Damon Honeycutt
Manchester, NH
Damon Honeycutt is a professional artist across the mediums of martial arts, dance, and composition, educator, and academic. Working with dance companies such as Scapegoat Garden, Nai-Ni Chen, and, Pilobolus, Honeycutt has traveled to over 20+ countries around the world dancing in venues that range from the 2009 Royal Variety Performance in the presence of HM The Queen to the 79th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony. As a composer, Honeycutt has composed music for many including Chatham Baroque, The Power String Quartet headed by Jennifer Choi, The Delgani String Quartet, Ensemble Entelechron, and Ken Thomson’s Saxophone Quartet. Honeycutt’s work has evolved to connect all of these disciplines. He shares, "Music is an internal and arcane language that I use to express narrative concepts or states of being. As a physical artist, I believe that you do not have a body, you are your body. The physical form is a lifelong refinement that demands the ceaseless awareness of cultivation through time. Music, therefore, is the sonic extension of this personal philosophy.” Honeycutt has an M.F.A. in Music Composition from The Vermont College of Fine Arts, an M.A. in Conscious Evolution and Integral Studies from The Graduate Institute, and a B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts. To learn more, visit: https://damonomad.wixsite.com/damonhoneycutt
Shanta Lee
Manchester, NH
Shanta Lee is a writer across genres, a visual artist, and a public intellectual actively participating in the cultural discourse with work that is widely featured. Winner of the Abel Meeropol Social Justice award, she was the creator and producer of Vermont Public’s “Seeing...the Unseen and In-Between within Vermont’s Landscape.” Her work has been widely featured in several anthologies and places such as Harper's Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, ITERANT Literary Magazine, Palette Poetry, BLAVITY, and DAME Magazine. Shanta Lee's professional wingspan covers public health, arts, local government, non-profit, and other sectors. Shanta Lee created, produced, and reported the original series, “Seeing...the Unseen and In-Between within Vermont’s Landscape" for Vermont Public and is a regular contributor to Art New England. Shanta Lee is the author of the poetry collection, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, winner of the 2020 Diode Press full-length book prize and the 2021 Vermont Book Award. Her latest poetry collection Black Metamorphoses (Etruscan Press, 2023) - an interpretation, conversation, and interrogation of Ovid's original work - illustrated by Alan Blackwell. Shanta Lee's forthcoming work, This is How They Teach You How to Want It...The Slaughter debuts in 2024 through Harbor Editions. She is the 2020 recipient of the Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts, the 2020 gubernatorial appointee to the Vermont Humanities Council’s Board of Directors, and serves on two state Humanities Council Speakers Bureaus. Her latest multimedia exhibition, Dark Goddess is currently traveling. Shanta Lee shares, “I am a practitioner of entanglement. Exploring the connections that extend beyond the categories or boxes we prescribe to places, things, and ourselves, is what excites me the most. Can you limit your life to being just one thing?" Explore more, Shantalee.com.
Joshua Winer
Waltham, MA
I'm Joshua Winer, an artist who specializes in working with schools and communities to create works of mosaic art. I'm passionate about sharing the experience of collaborative art making. I've worked with many different communities to create mosaic murals, in my hometown of Boston, in regional cities and towns, and across the United States. The mosaic art form is ideal for community art. Creating a large mosaic is the coming together of many hands, minds, talents and spirits. There is so much satisfaction and joy in sharing this process!
I studied painting at Yale as a college student, then studied architecture at Harvard for graduate studies. I worked as an architect for about 10 years, all the while creating large painted murals. In 1991 I started working as a full-time artist and teacher. My first large mosaic, commissioned by The Meadowbrook School of Weston MA, was a 'Tree of Life' for the outside wall of the school's parking circle. With this project, I experienced for the first time the amazing value that the community mosaic process provides as a way of creating hands-on public art. This was a powerful formative experience for the mosaic work I do now.
I work with about five to ten schools and community groups per year, specifically on group mosaic murals. This daily work allows me to fulfill my love of working on art closely with people, being a guide, a teacher, a partner and a friend. Every new community offers me a professional and personal adventure as we share a wonderful, focused experience creating art.
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