Rosemarie (MiMi Zannino) Law has been a teaching artist with the MSAC since 1989, originally as a poet-in-residence, and additionally as a living history performance artist portraying the American poet, Emily Dickinson, and the American spy, Virginia Hall in one-woman dramatic shows. She has conducted creative writing and recitation workshops with over 10,000 students and teachers throughout the State, helping them create, recite and publish original poetry as well as compete in the national Poetry Out Loud Program.
Pam Minor has been entertaining children for many years with song, dance and puppetry with ventriloquism. She was a regular cast member for the Emmy award winning TV show "It's Kindertime" on the ABC affiliate WMAR TV2 during its' nine year run. Her CD Musical Manners won the Parents' Choice Recommended Listening award.
After 3 decades I’m still excited to witness how art making changes us, how a whole space can become welcoming and inspiring, how all humans, regardless of their age or socio-economic bracket , are deeply impacted by the process of creating. So I’ve led hundreds of mosaic mural installations, mural creations, taught classes, workshops, and retreats in schools, libraries, senior centers, jails, and my home. I’m an artist who explores consciousness, growing myself into a more kind human who understands we’re part of nature.
Since 2006, New Moon Theater has been touring the Mid-Atlantic, bringing high quality theater and opera productions to children and family audiences in schools, summer camps, libraries and museums. Over the years, New Moon Theater has presented over 1000 performances, seen by over 85,000 peoples. We were proud to be selected as the state sponsored performer in the 2018 Delaware Division of Library’s SRC Arts in the Libraries program, touring into every public library in Delaware.
The Civic Circle uses music and the arts to empower young students to understand and participate in democracy, inspiring compassionate, informed, engaged citizens. Through in-school assembly shows and after-school workshops with teaching artists, students learn seven civic skills we call "steps to democracy." These are: civility and respect (Listen!), news literacy (Learn!), voting (Choose!), service-learning (Join!), advocacy (Speak!), organizing (Act!), and public service (Lead!).
Mary Ruth McGinn
As an Author, Illustrator, Muralist, Doll Artist, Puppeteer, and Master Teaching Artist, Danyett Tucker has over 15 years of experience cultivating joyful learning environments for multi-generations of learners. Dedicated community artist that is passionate about using visual storytelling techniques to support mental health awareness, embrace strength through adversity, and to help build a more equitable and inclusive society for Everyone!
Lynne Streeter Childress is a playwright, actor, teaching artist, director, and founding artistic director of Building Better People Productions, a theatre company for young audiences based in Annapolis, MD that does shows based in themes of kindness, respect and the things that make us all better people. Her shows include We Got: It! A Show About Empathy and Feeling All the Feelings. Lynne lives in Annapolis, MD with her husband and son.
Elias Schutzman is a teaching artist with the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts and Arts for Learning Maryland. Since 2016 he has been teaching arts integrated residencies, performing interactive assemblies and giving family involvement workshops for public school children throughout Maryland, DC and Virginia. As a musician, Elias has been a principal songwriter, drummer, keyboard player and vocalist for his bands The Flying Eyes, Black Lung and Revvnant, releasing over 9 original albums and touring internationally since 2010.