Auntie Rose
112 Spring Valley Dr
Spartanburg SC 29301
864-576-5624
roseauntie@yahoo.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: No
Actress, storyteller, singer, songwriter, modern dancer, pianist, musical director and playwright.
Multi-sensory theatrical programs in stage or classroom settings for the young and young at heart. Interweaves multiple art forms with curriculum.
MFA - Drama; BM - Piano Performance; certified Drama Educator - Texas; arts integration training; training intensives for working with disabled and special needs; certified cable access television producer.
Professional artist roster in SC, HI and NC; Libraries’ Directory of Performers; Pi Kappa Lambda (National Honorary Music Society); grant recipient - the Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg.
Professional

Nancy Basket
1105 E Main St
Walhalla SC 29691
864-718-8864
nativewmn@aol.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: No
Native American culture and arts. Native American music, dance, theater, stories and crafts taught on levels from pre-K to adult. Crafts include kudzu baskets, paper quilts and pine needle baskets.
VSA (Very Special Arts) through SCAC focusing on classroom discipline; 1 year college; Institute for Community Scholars; McKissick Master Artist Apprenticeship.
Barnwell County Museum purchased a pine needle cradle board; 2005 Smithsonian Folk Life Festival candidate.
Professional

Clapping Dog Music
3109 Five Forks Rd
Chapel Hill NC 27516
919-968-1168
clappingdog@nc.rr.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Multicultural music, stories and games.
Participatory performances for schools, conferences and festivals based on the music, stories, and games. School performances and residencies designed to support the curricular focus of the school. Accomplished folklorist and curriculum designer. Offers topic-based programs such as African American acapella singing or world music drumming.
Bachelor of Music Degree and Masters Degree in Education. A+ Fellow (educational consultant for A+ schools, an arts integration school reform model).
Professional

Mary Graham Grant
23 Silverleaf Ct
Columbia SC 29209
803-783-1836
Teach: Yes
School Performances: No
Sweetgrass Baket Maker
I will intrduce students to a general historical overview and origin of sweetgrass basketry.
It is important for students to know that the art of sweetgrass basketry is an art form that was brought to South Carolina by slaves from West Africa, and has been practiced here for over 300 years. The students will be learning a part of South Carolina history.
I have worked as an artist-in-residence in several elementary, middle and high schools, and conducted workshops for many governmental and Arts organizations throughout South Carolina.
Professional

Leon Osakumi Jackson
464 Player St
Georgetown SC 29440
843-546-7555
osakumi@worldnet.att.net
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
African-Caribbean drummer, percussionist.
Artist, teacher, performer, and researcher of African-Caribbean drum and percussion. Founder and coordinator of Egbe-Killimanjaro African-Caribbean Drum and Dance. Taught children and adults in special, grassroots, gifted and talented programs, after-school programs including at-risk, challenged, AIE and the incarcerated since 1991.
Formerly initiated drummer of two religious houses located in Cuba and Haiti; research grants to Haiti in 1999 and 2001; William Paterson College for 2 weeks percussion artist-teacher training in 2003.
2001 Juneteenth Celebration, Wilmington, NC; Middle Passage Remembrance, Sullivan’s Island, SC 2001; Jonathan Green Art Exhibit, Myrtle Beach, SC 2003; Bahai Peacefest, Hemingway, SC 2003; Southern Style TV, Myrtle Beach, SC 2004
Professional

Killimanjaro African-Caribbean Drum & Dance
464 Player St
Georgetown SC 29440
843-546-7555
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
African-Caribbean drum, dance, folklore and magic.
Participate in festivals, cultural events, traditional or African weddings, pool parties, family reunions, fashion shows, drum and dance seminars. Gullah presentation featuring "Geechie Grandma" and a Haitian magic show including glass and fire eating by special request.
Drum and/or dance with Moja dancers for 5 years; ancestor dancers of Oyotunji Village over 10 years; multiple master classes in and out of country. Francis Marion College, Clemson University, USC, Benedict College, Horry-Georgetown Technical College.
Professional

Connie Lippert
216 Redbud St
Seneca SC 29672
864-654-3913
clipper@clemson.edu
Teach: Yes
School Performances: No
Weaver
Connie Lippert uses the Navaho Wedge weave technique and yarn hand-dried with natural dyes to create her weavings. Her work has been exhbited nationally.
Two years as an art major at Auburn University (1974, 1975). Workshops with nationally recognized artists. Twenty-nine years experience.
Contemporary America Rug Makers, Ohio Craft Museum, 2004 SCAC, quarterly artist grant, 2004 Fiber Celebration, Loveland Museum of Art, Loveland Co., Art from the Loom 2004, Sangre de Cristo, Pueblo CO, Crafts Nat. ‘03, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Professional

Bruce Piephoff
808 Scott Ave
Greensboro NC 27403
336-852-7218
bpiephoff@aol.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Folk singer, songwriter and poet.
Native of Piedmont, NC has traveled the US performing on the folk circuit. Written over 1,000 songs and poems, produced 12 CD’s on Flyin’ Cloud Records and one book of poetry.
BA - English and MFA - Creative Writing - UNC-G.
New folk finalist 1994 at Kerrville Folk Festival; Kennedy Center performance; shared stage with Steve Forbert, Chuck Brodsky, Greg Allman, Riders in the Sky and Tom Paxton.
Professional

Sylvia Rex
117 Convair Dr
Spartanburg SC 29301
864-576-1904
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Multicultural folk dance and folk lore.
Active participation format encourages teamwork/collaboration through basic folk dance steps and responses to classical/folk music, using multicultural music, folk art and instruments. Strong curriculum connections can be made with math, social studies, history, music, science and language arts.
Professional folk dancer; VPAOO; KCA03; DAX99; VSA04.
SC Dance Association Outstanding Service Award.
Professional

Jeff Robbins
PO Box 56
Black Mountain NC 28711
800-766-9008
jeffrobbins@mindspring.com
Teach: No
School Performances: Yes
Traditional Appalachian folk music.
An educator who makes learning fun.
Robbins exposes students to the wide variety of sounds that comprise American folk music. BA--Warren Wilson College
Library of Congress; 5000 school performances
Professional

The Magic of African Rhythm
PO Box 14724
Raleigh NC 27620
919-790-2337
shabu@mindspring.com
Teach: No
School Performances: No
African Cultural Arts
We weave the rhythmic thread that links drumming, singing, dancing, dramatic, and visual artistic expression to school curriculum and daily life.
Professional