Accrediting Commission for Community and Precollegiate Arts Schools
Biographies:
ACCPAS Commission Members and Consultants
CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION
(pending)
MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION
ROBERT CAPANNA
Philadelphia, PA
Robert Capanna came to the Settlement Music School in 1976 as director of the School's Kardon-Northeast Branch; in 1982, he was named executive director. Since that time, Settlement has grown to six locations serving over 9,000 students on-site and 6,000 students off-site with programs of instruction and activity in music, dance and the visual arts. He is the President of the Presser Foundation Board of Trustees and Chair of the Music Panel for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. He is past President of the Musical Fund Society and Musical Fund Society Foundation and served as President and Chairman of the Board of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts and Vice-President of the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. He has served on panels for the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Delaware State Arts Council and the Philadelphia Music Project. Mr. Capanna is an active composer with degrees in composition from the Philadelphia Music Academy. In 1974, he was the Bruno Maderna Fellow in Composition at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood and was awarded the Koussevitsky Prize in composition. Mr. Capanna's works have been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Concerto Soloists, Penn Contemporary Players, Orchestra 2001, Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, Network for New Music and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.
DAN CARTER
University Park, PA
Dan Carter has been Professor and Director of the School of Theatre at Pennsylvania State University and Producing Artistic Director of Pennsylvania Centre Stage since 1994. He was formerly Associate Dean of the School of Theatre at the Florida State University and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Illinois State University, where he also served as Producing Director of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. A full-time freelance theatre artist for fourteen years, Dan worked extensively as actor, stage manager, director, and fight choreographer before beginning his academic career. Dan recently completed ten years on the Commission on Accreditation of the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST), including the last three years as Chair, and was elected Vice President in March 2008. He is also Vice President of the National Theatre Conference. He is a recipient of the Society of American Fight Directors’ Patrick Crean Award. He served Actors' Equity Association for four years as Area Liaison from the State of Florida. In April 2008, he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre.
DANIEL LEWIS
Miami, FL
Daniel Lewis joined the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida, in 1987, as founding Dean of Dance. He created the dance division's eight-year professional program starting in the ninth grade and ending with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Mr. Lewis is most widely known for his association with the work of José Limón. From 1962-74, he danced with the José Limón Dance Company, originating a number of legendary roles. He has staged works for such companies as the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the American Ballet Theatre, the National Ballet of Canada, and many others. His book, The Illustrated Dance Technique of José Limón, has been translated into German, Spanish and Japanese. Mr. Lewis’s choreography has been commissioned by the Dallas Civic Opera, the American Opera Center at Lincoln Center, the University of California at Los Angeles, the Juilliard School, and many others. His repertory company has performed and taught extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Scandinavia. In 1988, he founded a developmental dance effort in South Florida called Miami Dance Futures. He has served on the Fulbright Screening Committee and as a dance panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Canada Council, the Florida State Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Metro-Dade Cultural Affairs Council. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Schools of Dance, and in 1990 was awarded the Gold Medal for Lifelong Achievement in Dance by the National Society of Arts and Letters. In 2001, he received the Florida Arts Recognition Award.
COLE WELTER
Harrisonburg, VA
Cole Welter is a Professor of Art and immediate past Director of the School of Art and Art History at James Madison University (1995-2004). Welter has served as a two-term member of the NASAD Commission on Accreditation (2000-2005), a member of the Executive Board of the National Association of Arts Administrators, and Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Alaska Anchorage (1990-1995). He has served as a consultant and/or accreditation reviewer to over two-dozen college and university art programs, and exhibited critically acclaimed paintings at a variety of national and international venues for more than three decades. Past exhibition sites of his work include galleries and museums in Houston, New York, Seattle and Chicago as well as invited shows in Canada, Japan and Russia. His artwork is on display in several permanent public collections, and he regularly juries regional and national arts events such as the Scholastic Art Awards program in New York City, and as a project grant evaluator for the Virginia Commission for the Arts. His creative and scholarly work has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from numerous artistic and philanthropic organizations including the Ford Foundation, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, the National Endowment of the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Alaska Arts Commission, and the Arts Council of the Valley. Welter was the first recipient of Texas Tech University’s Distinguished Art Alumni Award (1991), and received the Reston Prize in Writing (second place) from the National Associations of Art, Music, Theater and Dance (1987). Welter received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Texas Tech University.
PUBLIC MEMBER OF THE COMMISSIONTO BE ANNOUNCED
CONSULTANT TO ACCPAS
MICHAEL YAFFE
New Haven, CT
Michael Yaffe is Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs for the Yale School of Music (2006-). He is former Executive Director of The Hartt School of the University of Hartford and Director of its Community Division, a community arts school with over 2,400 students (1986-2006), Assistant Director for Operations of the National Association of Schools of Music (1976-1986), and Director of the Arts Unit at Radio Station WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C. (1980-1985). Mr. Yaffe holds degrees in piano and musicology. He serves on the Board of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, and is Chair of the Commission on Non-Degree-Granting Accreditation of the National Association of Schools of Music. He also serves on the boards of the Connecticut Alliance for Arts Education and the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. He has led workshops on community arts programs in university contexts at both the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts and the National Association of Schools of Music Annual Meetings, and has served as a consultant to more than thirty community arts schools around the country. Before accepting an appointment as Chair, Mr. Yaffe served as a consultant to the Accrediting Commission for Community and Precollegiate Arts Schools from its inception in 2001 until June 30, 2004.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ACCPASSAMUEL HOPE
Reston, VA
Samuel Hope is Executive Director of the National Office for Arts Accreditation and the organizations it serves: the National Association of Schools of Music, founded in 1924; the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, founded in 1944; the National Association of Schools of Theatre, founded in 1965; the National Association of Schools of Dance, founded in 1981; and the Council of Arts Accrediting Associations. These organizations accredit over 1000 institutions and programs in the United States, primarily in higher education. Mr. Hope has served as Executive Director since 1975. He is an executive editor of Arts Education Policy Review magazine, an editorial consultant to the Journal of Aesthetic Education, and a trustee of the American Academy for Liberal Education. Throughout his career, he has worked to build relationships between higher education and pre-K-12 education. He was a member of the National Oversight Committee for the 1994 National Voluntary K-12 Arts Standards, and on the steering committee that developed specifications for the National Assessment of Educational Progress for the Arts. He has long been an advocate for attention to community and precollegiate arts education within the context of voluntary accreditation. At present, he is the senior accreditation administrator in the United States, and has worked with over 2,000 full reviews for accreditation in the arts. He holds degrees in music composition and is well-known as a writer on arts and arts education policy.
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