ADVISORY BOARD
Mayor David Still
City of Lawrenceville
GCPS and Central Gwinnett High School are proud to partner with the City of Lawrenceville to bring the School of the Arts to life!
Ann-Carol Pence & Jono Davis
Aurora Theatre
Aurora Theatre is committed to producing quality, professional theatre for the Southeast, North Georgia, and our most ardent supporters—the residents of Gwinnett County. We will serve these communities by offering entertainment that nurtures a love of theatre and develops a new generation of theatergoers.
Nite Driscoll
Atlanta Institute of Music and Media
CEO
Atlanta Institute of Music and Media (AIMM) has a uniquely effective approach to vocational training for musicians, audio production, and recording engineering.
Utilizing a well-rounded curriculum of classroom instruction, stage performances, computer labs, recording studios, and live clinics, AIMM offers an extensive education that no other Accredited Music College can match.
Angela Harris
Dance Canvas
Executive Artistic Director
Dance Canvas, Inc. is a non-profit, 501 (c) 3 organization, incorporated in the City of Atlanta in 2008 with a mission to provide opportunities and venues to increase the awareness of professional dance in Atlanta. We achieve our mission through three program areas of service: Choreographer Career Development, Youth Leadership Development, & Audience Engagement.
Jessica Kiger
The Atlanta Opera
Director of Community Engagement & Education
The Atlanta Opera’s mission is to build the major international opera company Atlanta deserves, with a vision to reimagine opera.
Laura Cole
Atlanta Shakespeare Company
Director of Education & Training
We believe that to build a better world, our art must actively educate, engage, and reach out to each new generation of young people. Thus, we have committed ourselves to this task with the same enthusiasm, intellectual vigor and passion that drives all of our professional work. This extraordinary alignment of ASC's Core Aesthetic, company values, and teaching methodology gives our work the power to change lives. Doing just that time and time again for our adult audience on the main-stage and for tens of thousands of young people all over Georgia is our mission, our plan, and the embodiment of our artistic vision.
Jaclyn Hofmann Faircloth
Georgia Gwinnett College
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Laura Ballance
The Hudgens Center for Art & Learning
Executive Director
The Hudgens Center for Art & Learning is dedicated to bringing art lovers, leaders, and learners together through quality programs and exhibits. We accomplish this through visual arts initiatives, such as year-round fine art exhibits and classes for all ages; as well as community arts initiatives which reach out to underserved students and residents throughout Gwinnett.
Lara Langston
Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD)
Director of Educator Outreach
SCAD prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
David DuBose
Gwinnett County Public Schools
Director of Fine Arts