ACA Community Artist Ambassadors
ACA Artist Ambassadors are an integral part of ongoing efforts to offer unique arts programming to private groups throughout Southeast Volusia County. Through existing relationships and decades of community outreach, service, advocacy, and partnerships, ACA has a reputation of serving as a connector in designing programs that create lasting impact.
Volusia County Public Schools
ACA leads mentorship and experiential learning to youth in our local public schools and offers them opportunities to exhibit their work.
- Volusia County Select Exhibition (curated feature of the most talented youth in our community)
- Advanced Art Workshop at Atlantic Center for the Arts Main Campus
- Teacher mentorship by visiting Atlantic Center for the Arts artists
- Artist Outreach
- Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
Sponsored by Wharton Smith Construction
New Smyrna Beach Leisure Services
In partnership with the City of New Smyrna Beach, Atlantic Center for the Arts offers unique and free opportunities for the local community.
- Summer camp workshops for Babe James Community Center children
- Spring Break workshop for Babe James Community Center children
- Arts & Health Workshops
- Caregiver & Pre-schooler Workshops
- Atlantic Center for the Arts Visiting Artists engagements
Sponsored by the City of New Smyrna Beach Leisure Services
Healing Arts Homeschool Art Program
This monthly program focuses on art enrichment for homeschool students that includes: movement, culinary arts, music, and visual arts. The students also enjoy engagement with visiting Atlantic Center for the Arts artists.
Supported by the Pabst Steinmetz Foundation and the Wendell N. Jarrard Foundation
Nursing & Rehabilitation Facility Visits
Atlantic Center for the Arts long-running partnership in Arts & Wellness, with artists and volunteers visiting our valued elders.
ACA Artist Ambassadors in the Community:
M.B. McLatchey currently serves as one of Florida’s Poet Laureates for Volusia County and is the recipient of the 2011 American Poet Prize. She was recently selected as a Writer-in-the-Spotlight by the national Association of Writers & Writing Programs. A widely-published author and the recipient of several national literary awards, including theMay Swenson Award for her book of poems, The Lame God, published by Utah State University Press, M.B. is a professor of Classics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. She completed her graduate work in literature and teaching at Harvard University and Brown University and the M.F.A. in Poetry at Goddard College. Find her at: www.mbmclatchey.com
Peggy Imbert has helped ACA realize its Arts & Health Initiative in the community since 2014. She is a fiber artist and uses her crafting skills to design easily accessible projects for each of her programs. Alongside Mary McBride, she pioneered techniques and best practices for working with elders who navigate cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer’s Disease. Her background as a entrepreneur in local childcare has given her the foundation to build activities for multi-generational programs in the community. Peggy leads the ACA Summer Art Camp and has facilitated Creative Caregiving and Creative Aging with Oceanview Nursing and Rehabilitation in New Smyrna Beach.
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