{"id":65119,"date":"2025-03-31T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/?p=65119"},"modified":"2025-03-31T12:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:35:05","slug":"coaa-students-find-rewarding-jobs-as-teaching-artists-with-local-arts-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/2025\/03\/31\/coaa-students-find-rewarding-jobs-as-teaching-artists-with-local-arts-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"CoAA Students Find Rewarding Jobs as Teaching Artists with Local Arts Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe moment when I knew that I was making a difference in a child&#8217;s life was when one of my students truly began to show her passion for dance,\u201d says dance major Amaree Ratliff. \u201cShe would be the first one to be ready for class; she would ask for solos and tell me that she loves coming to class and wants to continue dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ratliff (pictured with ballet students, right) is one of eight UNC Charlotte interns currently employed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrebelleballet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barre Belle<\/a>, a local nonprofit that provides free dance and yoga classes through partnerships with organizations such as the Salvation Army and Freedom Schools.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arts education and youth development are key to the missions of many arts organizations in Charlotte. Across the city, specialized arts programs are offered as part of the school day and in after-school and community settings, and students in the College of Arts + Architecture often earn valuable experience and income teaching in these educational programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Barre Belle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The extensive collaboration between Barre Belle and UNC Charlotte began in 2019 \u201cwith a simple email to the dance department,\u201d says Barre Belle Founder Noel Pipkin. Barre Belle now offers classes to children and adults in six locations across Charlotte. Each intern is assigned to a location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m so grateful for the UNC Charlotte partnership,\u201d says Pipkin. \u201cOver the years we\u2019ve had such amazing interns, who value the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ratliff has been assigned to the Salvation Army\u2019s Red Shield Youth Center, Sedgefield location, for the past two years, says Pipkin. \u201cShe knows her students inside and out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A junior, <a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/faces\/amaree-ratliff\/\">Ratliff<\/a> is pursuing a double major in dance and international studies, with a minor in French.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/Barre-Belle_Riley-McGowan.jpeg\" alt=\"Riley McGowan with dance students.\" class=\"wp-image-65147 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/427;width:452px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/Barre-Belle_Riley-McGowan.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/Barre-Belle_Riley-McGowan-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/Barre-Belle_Riley-McGowan-300x200.jpeg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a child growing up, I couldn&#8217;t afford dance lessons, so it is a full circle moment being able to share dance with students like myself,\u201d she says. \u201cBy immersing students in the world of dance, they are allowed to form a passion for dance, and music, and possibly pursue further training.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/faces\/riley-mcgowan\/\">Riley McGowan<\/a>, who graduates this May with a BA in Dance, an English minor, and a Certificate in Advanced Dance Studies, taught at a youth center last fall (pictured left) and is now teaching a seniors class at the BlueCross BlueShield Community Center on Freedom Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTeaching for Barre Belle has been an integral part of my growth as a dance teacher,\u201d she says. \u201cI learn new things each class and form bonds with wonderful children and adults. It has given me the opportunity to not only continue my work with teaching different ages and levels of children, but also to continue with the varying adult and senior age levels as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Opera Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music education student Mckeila Ortiz is in her second year working in educational programs with Opera Carolina, the region\u2019s professional opera company. An accomplished soprano, Ortiz has <a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/2024-02-05\/music-students-star-opera-carolinas-touring-education-production\/\">performed for thousands of children through Opera Xpress<\/a>, which each year tours an opera production into local schools and community centers to perform for elementary students. This season, she is singing in dozens of performances of \u201cThe Busy Bee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKeila-Ortiz_Reid-Park.jpg\" alt=\"Mckeila Ortiz with elementary students.\" class=\"wp-image-65127 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 940px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 940\/788;width:549px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKeila-Ortiz_Reid-Park.jpg 940w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKeila-Ortiz_Reid-Park-600x503.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKeila-Ortiz_Reid-Park-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKeila-Ortiz_Reid-Park-300x251.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">McKeila Ortiz with students at Reid Park Academy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January, Ortiz, who hopes to become an elementary school music teacher after graduating next spring, became a teaching artist for Opera Carolina\u2019s seven-week residency with Reid Park Academy. Each Monday morning, she works with third graders to improve their literacy skills and says it has been \u201ca great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teil Taleisin, Learning Programs Manager for Opera Carolina, says that Ortiz has done \u201ca phenomenal job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMckeila&nbsp;is working independently with one class on English Language Arts subjects, including dramatic uses of voice, exploring theme of stories through colors and images, examining point of view and how that changes a story, discussing character traits and motivation through color and design, using context clues in sentence structure, and more! As one of Opera Carolina\u2019s Opera Xpress artists, we knew that&nbsp;Mckeila&nbsp;would thrive in this opportunity to utilize the arts as a vehicle for learning Core Curriculum in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lorien Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Junior art major McKenzie Edmund learned about the Lorien Arts after-school program from fellow art student Je\u2019wel Lucas, who had been mentoring Lorien Arts students for a couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLorien Arts was founded based on research which strongly suggests that a lack of access to art is one of the greatest disadvantages facing youth living in low-income households,\u201d the program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lorienarts.org\/why\">explains on its website<\/a>. \u201cInequitable access to art is too easily ignored.&nbsp; It\u2019s ignored by most schools.&nbsp; It\u2019s ignored by most of our society.&nbsp; Lorien Arts exists to address this inequity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edmund, who will graduate in Fall 2026 with a BFA in Art, painting concentration, began teaching in the Lorien Arts program at Governors\u2019 Village STEM Academy Upper Campus in January. Part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, the Title I school serves students in fifth through eighth grades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen Je\u2019wel told me about the program, I was interested because that\u2019s where my heart lies, in youth and community,\u201d Edmund says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edmund meets with students \u2013 typically seven or eight kids participate \u2013 every Friday afternoon, 4:30 to 6:00 pm, setting up art supplies in the school\u2019s in-school suspension room. While she sometimes finds the students rambunctious on Friday afternoons, she says the job is rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s cool to grow a little community, to watch our relationship grow and encourage them in their creativity,\u201d she says. \u201cCreation is something we\u2019re meant to do. We all have this innate ability to create. It closes off a lot when we neglect our creative side.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKenzie_Lorien-2.png\" alt=\"Art student McKenzie Edmund taking a selfie with Lorien Arts students.\" class=\"wp-image-65131 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKenzie_Lorien-2.png 2500w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKenzie_Lorien-2-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKenzie_Lorien-2-1000x750.png 1000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKenzie_Lorien-2-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKenzie_Lorien-2-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKenzie_Lorien-2-2048x1536.png 2048w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKenzie_Lorien-2-1400x1050.png 1400w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2025\/03\/McKenzie_Lorien-2-300x225.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2500\/1875;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Art student McKenzie Edmund at the Governor&#8217;s Village art club run by Lorien Academy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the College \u201cmake a difference\u201d while earning valuable experience and income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":65121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_clt_a11y_last_scan":"1778695877","_clt_a11y_has_violations":"0","_clt_a11y_violations":"[]","_clt_a11y_suppressions":"","_clt_a11y_needs_validation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,55,47,43],"class_list":["post-65119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-art-history","tag-coaa","tag-dance","tag-music"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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