Allied Arts is proud to be working with several new Teaching Artists this year for our Arts Education Project. Bringing a diverse range of art into our Whatcom County Elementary Schools.

Havilah Rand is an award winning singer songwriter and educator who relocated to Bellingham, WA in 2018 after an eleven year stint in the acclaimed Live Music Capital of the World Austin, TX. Havilah holds a Masters In Teaching degree from Woodring College and taught middle school Social Studies, Language Arts, and ESL for over fifteen years to grades K – 12 in both private and public school settings. She founded Holistic ArtVentures in 2012 and has since been creating and leading songwriting summer camps, after school workshops, homeschool curriculum and more for both kids and adults alike.

Students will join her Youth Songwriter Program

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Allied Arts is proud to be working with several new Teaching Artists this year for our Arts Education Project. Bringing a diverse range of art into our Whatcom County Elementary Schools.

Liz Smyth has been working with Allied Arts for several years and is now one of our many new Teaching Artists. Liz is currently a graduate student in anthropology at Western studying dancers and their connection to community and identity. Liz has been teaching for seven years in dance studio settings in Port Orchard, Gig Harbor, Seattle and currently in Blaine, WA. She’s taught students that range in age from toddlers to seniors in ballet, tap, creative movement, and jazz.

Students will join her in her lesson, Anatomy: The Skeletal System Through Dance.

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Allied Arts is proud to be working with several new Teaching Artists this year for our Arts Education Project. Bringing a diverse range of art into our Whatcom County Elementary Schools.

David Sadowsky has been a dancer, choreographer, teaching artist and arts administrator for over 30 years. As Artistic Director of David Wes Dance his work was called “Must See Dance” by the Boston Metro and his show “Dance Pick of the Week” by the Boston Globe. David earned a BA in Dance at Queens College. David recently moved with his family to Bellingham when his wife joined the faculty at WWU. He is excited about his own daughter being within the Bellingham school district and is just as excited for her to receive Allied Arts experiences as he is to provide them to others.

Students will join him in learning Creative Dance Making.

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Allied Arts is proud to be working with several new Teaching Artists this year for our Arts Education Project. Bringing a diverse range of art into our Whatcom County Elementary Schools.

Michelle DeAsis studied Native Art at the University of Alaska Southeast, where she learned to carve traditional tools like Halibut Hooks and speak the Tlingit language. For the past 2 years she’s been an understudy, learning traditional artforms from Tribal Elders who pass on their knowledge of our ancestors. Michelle also designs, makes, and sells Inspired Native Jewelry with materials harvested properly and ethically from the land.

Students will join her in learning how to make Cedar Ribbon and Roses.

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Allied Arts is proud to be working with several new Teaching Artists this year for our Arts Education Project. Bringing a diverse range of art into our Whatcom County Elementary Schools.

Daelinar focuses his teaching on creating a culture of loving kindness that is deeply rooted in nature, fosters connections among humans & non-humans, and empowers children to walk in the world with confident creativity, endless curiosity, and without shame. He has many years of experience with his own summer camp programs, martial arts classes, afterschool programs, wilderness survival camps, and rites of passage programs. Daelinar combines mixed media and assemblage with natural and found elements to create intricately detailed art.

Students will join him in class on Nature Art.

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