The Association of Teaching Artists is proud to announce the following recipients of its 2007 awards, to be presented at ATA's Reception on March 22:

2007 Teaching Artist Distinguished Service to the Arts In Education Field Award

Bertha Rogers
Poet and Visual Artist Bertha Rogers has published more than 250 poems in journals and anthologies, and in the interdisciplinary collection Even the Hemlock: Poems, Illuminations, Reliquaries; chapbooks The Fourth Beast; A House of Corners, and The Reason of Trees; and full-length poetry collection Sleeper, You Wake. Her translation of Beowulf was published in 2000, and she is currently translating the riddle-poems from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book. Her poem “Rhomboid” won PhiloPhonema’s Lyric Recovery Award in 2001, selected by Alfred Corn; and her poem “Truck Stand” was selected by John Ashbery for display in the Albany International Airport to celebrate the Millay Colony’s 3Oth anniversary. She has won residency fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, Caldera, Jentel, Hawthorne International Writers Retreat, and Hedgebrook. She is Delaware County’s first Poet Laureate.

Bertha Rogers’s paintings, illuminations, and artist’s books have been shown in more than 200 juried and solo shows throughout the US and abroad, and she has received several NYSCA Decentralization and NYFA SOS grants for her interdisciplinary work, including a 2006 award for her forthcoming solo exhibit, “The Stones and Bones of Delaware County.” In 2006 she was the recipient of an A.E. Ventures Granthttp://www.brighthillpress.org,. She founded Bright Hill Press in Treadwell, NY, now celebrating its 15th year, and serves as BHP program director, in partnership with NYSCA, for the New York State Literary Web Site and Literary Map, nyslittree.org.

Bertha Rogers has been a teaching artist, on and off, since the 1970s. She teaches through the DCMO/ONC BOCES AIE programs, with arts organizations in upstate New York, and she is a CROP artist as well as a Teachers and Writers Collaborative artist. She has been a poet-in-residence at Hartwick College, SUNY Potsdam, NCCC, and Wells College, and has taught creative writing at Hartwick. Through Bright Hill she is leading a series of Museum Research, Writing, and Visual Arts programs in 2007.

2007 Golden Administrator Award

Carol Terry
Carol Terry currently serves as the Field Coordinator for Fine Arts for the Syracuse City School District where she heads the Music, Visual Arts and Theater programs. During the six years in the position, the district has developed pre-k-12 curricula for the arts and continues to work on integrating the arts into all facets of education. The philosophy that we need to educate all students to be knowledgeable in the arts and to be well-rounded, literate adults who will be a part of a global society drives her commitment to the arts. This belief draws artists from a variety of sources to assist students in their learning. The combination of teaching staff, teaching artists and institutions of higher learning come together to provide rich experiences for the SCSD students. Her teaching experiences in the West Genesee and LaFayette School Districts and the Onondaga Nation School have provided a rich background for her current position.

Ms. Terry serves on the boards of the Everson Museum of Art, the Community Folk Art Center, Music Journey’s, Inc, Stone Canoe and on the education committees for the Syracuse Opera, Everson Museum of Art, and Syracuse Symphony. She has also been instrumental in the development of the Partnership for Better Education with Syracuse University, LeMoyne College, Onondaga Community College, SUNY ESF, and SUNY Upstate.