Arts High Consortium
Officers and Honorary Members

Honorary Chairperson Willie Cole

Arts High Alumnus, internationally renowned sculptor and print maker. Recipient of the 2006 Driscoll Prize presented by the High Museum in Atlanta Ga., the 2004 Lamar Dodd Fellowship at the University of Georgia, and the 2007 Institute of Diversity in the Arts fellowship at Stanford University in Stanford Ca. Graduate of the School of Visual Arts. His works are in major museums and private collections around the world.


Founder/President/CEO
Volora Bridget Whaley

Arts High School Alumnus, Jazz Vocalist, Executive Producer of Sahara Entertainment Productions, Created original programs for the BET J Cable Network . Journalist and Editor for WILD Radio and Harlem Times.
Earned an M.ED from Cambridge College ;
BS in Journalism from Suffolk
University . Nominated ""Best Female
Jazz Vocalist" in Boston .

Arts High Consortium
Officers and Honorary Members

 

 Vice President
  Robert L. Whaley Jr.

Publisher/Founder, "Politix 101.Com " Historian, Journalist, Radio Producer, Social Studies Teacher. Earned a B.S. in Political Science from Oberlin College . He currently is collecting and compiling historical data about Arts High School , The Newark School of Fine Arts, and The Fawcett School. Newark Public Library and the NJ Historical Society, archival data from the Board of Education.

Treasurer Bruno Lee

Arts High School Alumnus, Trumpet
player - Music with a Message Ministries and is employed at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey . Earned a B.S. degree in Marketing from Hampton University.



Secretary Bridget Walker

Arts High School Alumnus, Former Administrative Assistant for Prudential Financial for many years, presently working for Rutgers University as an Administrative Assistant for Prudential Business Ethics Center located in Newark.

Arts High Consortium
Executive Members

 
VP of Jazz Programming
 Donald Harrison

Donald Harrison Jr. is an American Jazz saxophonist. Harrison played with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the 1980s, and co-led a group with fellow New Orleanian Terence Blanchard for many years. He also played with the re-formed Headhunters band in the 1990s. His performance credits include appearances and recordings with many influential jazz musicians. Harrison 's records and live performances are in the jazz mainstream, but still manage to incorporate influences from many of the other styles that are prominent in his hometown. Harrison's father (Donald Harrison, Sr.) was a prominent Mardi Gras Indian in New Orleans . Harrison was recently forced to evacuate New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and proceeds
f rom his album Nouveau Swing will
go to victims of the hurricanes.

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Program Manager
Deirdre Howard

Former Program Assistant for the Arts work for Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , Manage logistics,
special events planning
and coordinator, fundraiser, assist in planning/monitoring the $400,000 annual budget for the Arts Program. Works closely with program staff in grants management: review unsolicited
grant requests and make funding recommendations; write
award letters, and terms and conditions
for grant agreements; create
and maintain grantee file.

Writer /Editor
 
 
 Mistress of Ceremonies
Arts High Hall of Fame
  Salamishah Tillet

Philadelphia, scholar, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University; co-founder and program director, A Long Walk Home, Inc., This non-profit organization uses art to document, educate and end violence committed against women and children; Recipient, Harvard University Derek Bok Center Distinction of Teaching Award and the Andrew Mellon Fellowship for Humanistic Studies; graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. Her mentor, Scholar, Professor Michael Eric
Dyson, nominated made Ebony's
Young Leader for 2006..

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Executive Members


Photographer
Scheherazade Tillet

She is the founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Child Development and Studio Arts from Tufts University and her Masters in Art Therapy degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Scheherazade is currently an art therapist at the YWCA and freelance photographer in Chicago . Her photographs published in numerous social documentary projects such
"Children in Ghana ," "Body Image: The Last Trimester," "Harlem World."
She photographed three times
Grammy Award Winner
John Legend first CD cover.

Jahsun Lamaar
Arts High School Alumnus,
Graphics Artist Arts High
Consortium Advisory Members


Cephas Bowles
General Manager WBGO Jazz88.3FM


Savion Glover
Tony Winner Dancer


Tisha Campbell
Arts High School Alumnus , Actress

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Advisory Members


Tony Award Winner Melba Moore
Arts High School Alumnus ,
Singer, and Actress


Frankie Negron
Arts High School Alumnus ,
Two Time Emmy Nominated
Vocalist For Latin Music

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Advisory Members


Charles Calello
Conductor/Arranger

Arts High School alumnus, four decades, with 100 recordings on the Billboard charts, 25 of which has been Top Hits, is regarded as one greatest arrangers including Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, Neil Diamond and Frankie Valli, moreover, the 4 Seasons.


Bill Sienkiewicz
Marvel Comic Illustrator

Graduate of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. Marvel Comic Illustrator, Nominated for two Emmys. "Where In the World is Carmen Santiago."

Arts High Consortium
Advisory Members

David Mitchell Event Planner
Entrepreneur and owner of
Still Life-Event Design

L. Diane Jones- Brown
Director of Culinary Arts

Arts High School Alumnus, Caterer, and Event Planner, Social Studies Teacher for Newark Public Schools. She earned B.S and History and Early Childhood Education.