PHILIPSBURG:--- Ms. Stroud will be on the island on February 15th 2016, to award a student of the Charlotte Brookson Academy of the Performance Arts, a full scholarship to attend a four week Summer Intensive Program. This scholarship will allow one of our students to attend Center for Creative Youth, (CCY) four week Summer Intensive Workshop, hosted on the pristine campus of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. This program is sponsored and organized by the Capitol Region Education Council, (CREC) Ms. Kim Stroud has an extremely impressive background in Education and in The Arts:
Kim Stroud's Bio:
Kim Stroud, Director of the Arts, started at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in 1993 and has served as dance department chair, assistant director and director of the arts. Ms. Stroud’s former positions include: Administrator for the Dance Programs for City Youth through the School of the Hartford Ballet, General Director and Dance Chair for the Center for Creative Youth and Head of the Diversity Committee for the International NETWORK of Performing and Visual Arts Schools. She currently serves as the General Director of the Center for Creative Youth at Wesleyan University. Ms. Stroud has been on faculty at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York City, SUNY Purchase, University of Hartford and The Hartford Conservatory. She was a Principal Soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company for eleven years, touring the world. She has also danced and toured with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Your Arms Too Short to Box with God, performed in the Universal Studio film production of The Wiz, and as a guest artist with Katherine Dunham and the Gemini Dance Company. Ms. Stroud has been a master teacher for such institutions as the University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Southern California at Los Angeles, University of Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut State University, Randolf-Macon Women’s College in Virginia, and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington D.C. Ms. Stroud received Teacher Recognition from The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in 2000 and from the Connecticut Dance Alliance in 2007. The National Dance Education Organization named Ms. Stroud Outstanding Dance Educator of the Year in 2005 and in 2009 she received the Teacher of the Year award from the International Arts Schools Network. Ms. Stroud was selected to be a member of the International Dance Council of the United Nations in 2008. Kim’s most recent honors were being named a member of the International Dance Council of UNESCO, and receiving a citation from Mayor Eddie Perez and the City of Hartford for teaching. In 2012 she was named Outstanding Dance Educator by Dance Teacher Magazine.
In keeping with the vision of her Grandmother, Charlotte Brookson, Founder of CBA Drs. Julienne Augusty, and Mrs. Judith Martin-Bell promised to honor her wishes by providing opportunities for our island’s children. In 2011, Ms. Augusty, Mrs. Bell and Ms. Manoogian, visited Ms. Stroud at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, for a tour of the high school and an in-depth discussion of their curriculum. Since their initial meeting, Ms. Stroud has maintained a relationship with the Founder of the school. Earlier this year, Ms. Stroud visited the island of St. Maarten to lead a teachers’ workshop for the Charlotte Brookson Academy of the Performance Arts. The theme of this workshop was the Importance of Arts Immersion in the Academic Curriculum.
Ms. Stroud has worked hard to secure a fully paid scholarship for one of our students of the Charlotte Brookson Academy of the Performance Arts to attend the prestigious and much sought summer intensive program held every year on the Wesleyan University Campus. This year will mark the summer intensive program’s 40th Anniversary. The student awarded this scholarship by Ms. Stroud will attend an all expense paid high caliber quality summer intensive program.