About
In 2018, Teaching Artist and Arts Integration Specialist Christina Farrell consulted with the Iowa Arts Council to assess the need for teaching artist training in the state. After talking with over 40 schools, arts organizations, individual artists, and community partners in both urban and rural areas across the state, it became clear that there is a need for a centralized resource to support artist partnerships. In 2020, Christina started Throughline Arts to serve as that hub.
MEET OUR TEAM!
Christina Farrell specializes in arts integration and has over twenty years experience as a teaching artist, consultant, and professional development facilitator. She is a Master Teaching Artist with the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, and has provided early childhood residencies, educator mentoring and teaching artist training across the U.S., Singapore, India and South Korea. She has facilitated professional development workshops for educators in partnership with Kennedy Center Education, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Turnaround Arts. In 2005, Christina founded Opera Ignite, whose premier early childhood residency program “An Opera is a Story” has served 1800+ children since 2010 in partnership with Toledo Opera and Pittsburgh Festival Opera. She is a member of the Teaching Artists Guild National Advisory Council and is an alumni of Lincoln Center Education’s Leadership Lab under the direction of Eric Booth.
Christina has performed with Washington National Opera, Baltimore’s Opera Vivente, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, Revival Theatre Company, and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a Finalist with the National Symphony Orchestra’s Young Soloists’ Competition. She is a 2011 recipient of the Fred Rogers Memorial Scholarship presented by the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences. Christina holds degrees in Vocal Performance from Carnegie Mellon University (BFA 1997) and Educational Theatre from New York University (MA 2012.)
Beau Kenyon has cultivated a deeply collaborative creative practice, making interdisciplinary dialogue fundamental to his approach to music composition. His award-winning collaborations have produced permanent and temporary multimedia installations, site-responsive immersive performances, and chamber music works. Kenyon has installed and staged his work at art institutions, such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and SITE Santa Fe, but is most frequently drawn to the public art landscape, staging immersive performances and installing multimedia sculpture at parks and public institutions throughout the country. He is currently on faculty at Northeastern University College of Arts, Media + Design, where he teaches graduate level courses in arts advocacy, audience engagement, and strategic planning.
Kenyon’s consulting practice intersects with arts organizations and educational institutions, leading strategic initiatives for private and public entities throughout the country. He engages a curiosity-led process and leverages creativity and collaborative strategies (such as Design Thinking) to produce plans of equal parts research, interviews, and relevant application. His contracts have included system-wide strategies for Social Emotional Learning in public libraries, integrated curriculum development for elementary-aged students, and professional development for artists.
Beau Kenyon earned his composition degrees from Berklee College of Music (B.Mus. 2004) and Tufts University (M.A. 2007) and has actively pursued experiential training in music cognition, curriculum design, and arts leadership since 2005.
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Your donation sparks joyful learning for all students by providing residency fees for teaching artists, professional development for educators, and communications with schools and arts organizations.
Throughline Arts is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Throughline Arts must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” onlu and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.