Our 2015 Beacon Scholarship Recipient: Amie Flowers Shakespeare

As a Beacon Scholarship recipient, Amie Flowers Shakespeare traveled to Seattle for Smithsonian Folkways Certificate course in World Music Pedagogy (WMP). As a participant in the program, Amie joined international educators, culture bearers and ethnomusicologists at the University of Washington for a simultaneously academic and practical study of World Music in the classroom.

Today, in her Arlington, Virginia classroom, Amie uses audio/visual field recordings from the Folkways archives as well as songs, games and dances learned at WMP to promote concepts of Elemental structure and, most importantly, highlight areas of connectivity in Children’s Culture throughout the world. Additionally, when time and opportunity allow, Amie partners with Smithsonian Folklife Festival and DC’s Indonesian Embassy to tailor and promote educational events for local music educators.