The Muse in Montclair
Gala
Honorees
Jim Peskin
Jim Peskin is currently the Executive Director of the Montclair Arts Council. He is a member of the Essex County Arts Advisory Board and the Montclair Board of Education Arts Education Advisory Board. A long time resident of both South Orange and Maplewood, he participated in the founding of ArtsMaplewood and currently serves on the board of the What Exit? Theatre, a group that evolved from ArtsMaplewood. He worked at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey where he was their first Managing Director, and worked on the New Jersey Young Playwrights Festival as a teaching artist and director. He worked as a teaching artist in theatre and playwriting for Paper Mill, NJPAC and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and was an adjunct professor of theatre at Drew University for many years.
Margot Sage-El
Margot Sage-EL, proprietor of watchung booksellers since 1996, is honored to be recognized by The Muse in Montclair. watchung booksellers thrives as an independent bookstore because Montclair is a unique community of writers, artists and readers who value independent thought. Margot and her dedicated staff enjoy introducing their readers to new books, supporting local authors with readings, and working with the educational, religious and civic institutions in Montclair to further the cause of literacy and the exploration of new ideas. Margot has served on the Undoing Racism committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, the board of the MEDC and is currently on the board of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association. Margot and her husband Barry have raised their three children in Montclair for the past 19 years and are grateful to the welcoming, nurturing and challenging spirit of the people of this community.
Pamela Redmond Satran
Pamela Redmond Satran, an author, magazine columnist, and web developer, is the founder of Montclair Editors & Writers, a group of nearly 800 writers and editors of all types at all levels in and around Montclair. Satran is the author of five novels published by Simon & Schuster, including Suburbanistas and Babes in Captivity, and the coauthor of nine bestselling baby-naming books including Beyond Jennifer & Jason and The Baby Name Bible. She is a developer of nameberry.com and also started a blog called How Not To Act Old, which will be published as a book by Harper Collins in August. A columnist for Glamour and for Park Place, her articles appear in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, annd The Daily Beast. She and her husband Richard Satran, an editor at fidelity.com, have three children: Owen, a student at Montclair High School, Joe, a sophomore at Yale, and Rory, a magazine editor in Paris.
Melissa Walker and Janet Lemansky
Melissa Walker is Founder and Executive Director of Jazz House Kids.
A professional jazz vocalist and recording artist with more than 20 years of experience, Melissa Walker is dedicated to arts education and using the unique qualities of jazz as a tool to boost student achievement. In 1999, grateful for her own excellent public school arts experience and the enthusiasm she received from youngsters while conducting a free WBGO Radio concert for kids in Newark, New Jersey, she first introduced the basic concept of the Jazz House and began to articulate the mission of what would develop into a multi-faceted jazz education organization. Walker has developed the acclaimed Let's Build a Jazz House Workshop SeriesTM and guided the organization in providing excellent educationally-based music programming for a largely underserved group of young people grades K-8, lacking in exposure to the cultural richness of jazz. Walker is currently developing programming for special needs children with autism, low cognitive involvement, and other disabilities.
Originally from Alberta, Canada and the youngest of three daughters, Walker graduated from Brown University and currently studies at the Nonprofit Sector Resource Institute/Center for Public Service at Seton Hall University She resides in Montclair, New Jersey. www.jazzhousekids.org
Janet Lemansky is Founder and Director of Jazz Connections.
A Montclair resident for 20 years, Janet Lemansky has devoted her career to cultivating a love of music in our children. In addition to the year-round workshops, performances and community events conducted by Jazz Connections, she is also Artistic Director of the Summer Jazz Workshop at Montclair State University Music Preparatory Department as well as the Jazz Ensemble Director at Stokes State Forest Camp, a program that she created. As an Instrumental Band and Orchestra Director for many years, she has introduced her students to classical, rock, pop, jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban musical styles. She has successfully fostered a love of music in kids and believes deeply in music as a way to build relationships, communities and bridge cultures. Janet has an undergraduate music degree with a concentration in piano and cello from Douglass College and a graduate degree in music from Columbia University. She is currently developing a Samba Jazz Student Ensemble at Jazz Connections. www.jazzconnections.org
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