Recently, AAAE Board Members held a retreat at the Eastern Shore Art Center in Fairhope, after leaving their mark at the Fairhope Founders Park Renovation Project. Shown from left to right: Donna McCurry (Alabama PTA Cultural Arts Chair), Charlie Smoke (Mobile Arts Council Director of Community Development), Donna Russell (Executive Director of the Alabama Alliance for Arts Education), Lindy Ashwander, (Executive Director for the Princess Theatre for the Performing Arts in Decatur) and Melissa Kimbrough (Community Relations Representative for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama). The board made plans for the upcoming year of arts education advocacy and discussed the success of the Imaginative Learning Workshops held in Orange Beach in June. ILW is one of AAAE's main programs, bringing teachers together from across the state to learn how to use the arts across the curriculum.
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