Our teaCHERS
Our amazing team of educators come to Mississippi each summer ready to share what they know. They are all professional working artists who believe in the power of the arts. They lead classes to write poems, make music, learn photography and film, and how to dance! At the end of each program students perform in a final show that highlights everything they did in their classes.
Project Manager/Music Teacher
Bell has been teaching music at TGAP's summer camps since its beginning & joins us in Brookhaven this summer. He is a guitarist, composer and touring musician. He's worked in Theatre, Film, Avant-Garde music, Funk & Fun Music Projects. Bell is from St. Louis and resides in New York.
Dance Teacher
Aaliyah Hudson is a Mississippi native who has performed and taught dance with MobHQ Dance Crew, Debbie Allen Dance Academy, where she has also taught dance, and on tour as Jubilee with Pilobolu.
Poetry Teacher
A.H. Jerriod Avant is a poet from Longtown, Mississippi, and the author of Muscadine from Four Way Books. He is a graduate of Jackson State University and earned his MFA degrees from Spalding University and New York University.
- Visual Arts Teacher
Garretti was born in Los Angeles, CA. For several years now he has been teaching visual art, sculpture and ceramics to students in Mississippi. He creates ecstatic ceramic sculptures, 3-D sculpture, paintings, and assemblage pieces.