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			<title><![CDATA[Ricky Williams]]></title>
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			<media:keywords><![CDATA[Administrative Assistant]]></media:keywords>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pam James]]></title>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[Pam James]]></media:title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Olivia McConkie]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Olivia is a graduate of Conway High School and is currently attending Vincennes University in Little Rock pursuing a major in Business.  Her plan is to graduate in December 2012 and get my Masters Degree in Education from UCA. She has been dancing for 19 years and began training in Conway studying only Ballet and Tap.  Later she expanded her training by adding Jazz, Pointe, and Hip Hop. She has been fortunate enough to attend several master classes in dance workshops where she was able to extend her dance training, and she was able to perform last year with the local community dance group Soul Speak.  During her competition career, her team were highly awarded on both regional and national levels including taking home several division titles and special awards.  She has over 6 years of experience in teaching dance classes from the ages of preschool through senior high, and she is very excited to see what Blackbird has in store for her! ]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[Olivia McConkie]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[Olivia is a graduate of Conway High School and is currently attending Vincennes University in Little Rock pursuing a major in Business.  Her plan is to graduate in December 2012 and get my Masters Degree in Education from UCA. She has been dancing for 19 years and began training in Conway studying only Ballet and Tap.  Later she expanded her training by adding Jazz, Pointe, and Hip Hop. She has been fortunate enough to attend several master classes in dance workshops where she was able to extend her dance training, and she was able to perform last year with the local community dance group Soul Speak.  During her competition career, her team were highly awarded on both regional and national levels including taking home several division titles and special awards.  She has over 6 years of experience in teaching dance classes from the ages of preschool through senior high, and she is very excited to see what Blackbird has in store for her! ]]></media:description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Costa Rica Poaz Volcano]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></media:description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Joe Dull]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Film - Joe Dull has been making films and teaching production for 15 years in
California, New York, and now Arkansas. His award-winning feature length
film *Table at Luigi*s* is playing around the country at theaters
and film festivals. He*s also finishing up *Starring: Rachel
Miller,* a combination documentary and original musical about a
performer who, following an on stage accident, is a *walking
paraplegic* who can sing, dance, and perform even though she can*t
feel below her waist. And, because he apparently doesn*t enjoy
sleeping, Joe is also writing the screenplay for his next feature film
based semi-autobiographically on a man who finds out his wife is
pregnant and can*t stop his own morning sickness.

Joe is an assistant professor and coordinator of undergraduate studies
in the digital filmmaking program at UCA. His goal is to make filmmaking
available to anyone with the desire and discipline.]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[Joe Dull]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[Film - Joe Dull has been making films and teaching production for 15 years in
California, New York, and now Arkansas. His award-winning feature length
film *Table at Luigi*s* is playing around the country at theaters
and film festivals. He*s also finishing up *Starring: Rachel
Miller,* a combination documentary and original musical about a
performer who, following an on stage accident, is a *walking
paraplegic* who can sing, dance, and perform even though she can*t
feel below her waist. And, because he apparently doesn*t enjoy
sleeping, Joe is also writing the screenplay for his next feature film
based semi-autobiographically on a man who finds out his wife is
pregnant and can*t stop his own morning sickness.

Joe is an assistant professor and coordinator of undergraduate studies
in the digital filmmaking program at UCA. His goal is to make filmmaking
available to anyone with the desire and discipline.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shelle Stormoe]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Writing—Shelle Stormoe is an Arkansas native who currently lives in Little Rock and teaches Writing at the University of Central Arkansas as a Visiting Writing Lecturer. She earned a MA in Literature at Kansas State University and a MFA in Fiction Writing at Colorado State University. Shelle has taught writing and literature at least a half-dozen community colleges and universities. Her personal essays and journalism have been published in River Teeth, Segue, Tales from the South, The Arkansas Times,  Salon.com and elsewhere. She’s taught Creative Writing at Kansas State, UAPB, and is currently teaching an introductory course at UCA. Shelle loves the whole process of storytelling, and credits her Grandmother Opal for introducing her to the proper southern method. She has traveled widely, including 40 states and three countries, likes to teach herself how to sew, and is obsessed with genealogy. Shelle is currently at work on a memoir/history about how a person get to be “from Arkansas.”]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[Shelle Stormoe]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[Writing—Shelle Stormoe is an Arkansas native who currently lives in Little Rock and teaches Writing at the University of Central Arkansas as a Visiting Writing Lecturer. She earned a MA in Literature at Kansas State University and a MFA in Fiction Writing at Colorado State University. Shelle has taught writing and literature at least a half-dozen community colleges and universities. Her personal essays and journalism have been published in River Teeth, Segue, Tales from the South, The Arkansas Times,  Salon.com and elsewhere. She’s taught Creative Writing at Kansas State, UAPB, and is currently teaching an introductory course at UCA. Shelle loves the whole process of storytelling, and credits her Grandmother Opal for introducing her to the proper southern method. She has traveled widely, including 40 states and three countries, likes to teach herself how to sew, and is obsessed with genealogy. Shelle is currently at work on a memoir/history about how a person get to be “from Arkansas.”]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rachel Herman]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[ Rachel’s violin journey spans the length of eleven years and began in Greensboro, North Carolina.  After moving to Wye Mountain, Arkansas in 2005, she continued her pursuit of learning the violin by performing in many venues and playing for family and community events.
 
Formerly a member of the Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra, Rachel served as concertmaster for two years.  She was also a member of Fourte, the Arkansas Youth Symphony’s string quartet.  She has attended several summer music festivals including the Faulkner Chamber Music Festival for three seasons, the Stephen F. Austin University Orchestra Camp, and the Philadelphia International Music Festival.  She also attended the Brevard Music Center Institute during the summer of 2011 as a recipient of the Karen and John Flake Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra Outstanding Member Scholarship Award.
 
Rachel is currently a member of the Meadowlark Piano Trio, a newly formed chamber group in Central Arkansas, the Pine Bluff Symphony Orchestra, and the Little Rock String Quartet.  She is studying to complete a BA in Music at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock while taking violin lessons from Meredith Maddox Hicks.  Rachel is excited about the future years ahead and using the violin in whatever capacity life has to offer!]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[Rachel Herman]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[ Rachel’s violin journey spans the length of eleven years and began in Greensboro, North Carolina.  After moving to Wye Mountain, Arkansas in 2005, she continued her pursuit of learning the violin by performing in many venues and playing for family and community events.
 
Formerly a member of the Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra, Rachel served as concertmaster for two years.  She was also a member of Fourte, the Arkansas Youth Symphony’s string quartet.  She has attended several summer music festivals including the Faulkner Chamber Music Festival for three seasons, the Stephen F. Austin University Orchestra Camp, and the Philadelphia International Music Festival.  She also attended the Brevard Music Center Institute during the summer of 2011 as a recipient of the Karen and John Flake Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra Outstanding Member Scholarship Award.
 
Rachel is currently a member of the Meadowlark Piano Trio, a newly formed chamber group in Central Arkansas, the Pine Bluff Symphony Orchestra, and the Little Rock String Quartet.  She is studying to complete a BA in Music at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock while taking violin lessons from Meredith Maddox Hicks.  Rachel is excited about the future years ahead and using the violin in whatever capacity life has to offer!]]></media:description>
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			<media:keywords><![CDATA[Violin Teacher]]></media:keywords>
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			<title><![CDATA[Maria Kramer]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Dance—Maria Kramer began her dance career at the age of five at Sonshine Academy under the direction of Allison D’Avtevil, Jane Phillips, and Michelle Knell. She has been trained in jazz, lyrical, modern and contemporary with an emphasis in ballet and pointe. She spent four years on the competition circuit competing in both group and solo numbers. In 2007 she competed a classical ballet solo placing 2nd overall in her age division, top 5 in the senior division, receiving an invitation to dance as a TOP Star at Talent on Parade Nationals. She has taken guest classes at Texas Christian University under the instruction of Elizabeth Gillesby and Li –Chou Cheng. Under the direction of Carrie Dicken, Maria danced a demi-soloist role in Dicken’s ballet  “The Little Match Girl” and the principle role of Snow White in Mirror, Mirror: A Ballet of Spells and Enchantment.
Maris has consistently assisted since age 12 in ballet, jazz, and lyrical and is currently under the instruction of Carrie Dicken,. She is currently at the University of Central Arkansas majoring in Public Relations and Spanish.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Dance—Maria Kramer began her dance career at the age of five at Sonshine Academy under the direction of Allison D’Avtevil, Jane Phillips, and Michelle Knell. She has been trained in jazz, lyrical, modern and contemporary with an emphasis in ballet and pointe. She spent four years on the competition circuit competing in both group and solo numbers. In 2007 she competed a classical ballet solo placing 2nd overall in her age division, top 5 in the senior division, receiving an invitation to dance as a TOP Star at Talent on Parade Nationals. She has taken guest classes at Texas Christian University under the instruction of Elizabeth Gillesby and Li –Chou Cheng. Under the direction of Carrie Dicken, Maria danced a demi-soloist role in Dicken’s ballet  “The Little Match Girl” and the principle role of Snow White in Mirror, Mirror: A Ballet of Spells and Enchantment.
Maris has consistently assisted since age 12 in ballet, jazz, and lyrical and is currently under the instruction of Carrie Dicken,. She is currently at the University of Central Arkansas majoring in Public Relations and Spanish.]]></media:description>
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