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Jade Osborne - Artist | Activist | Activator: Non-profit Arts Facilitator; International Performance Artist & Workshop Leader; Capoeira Beribazu Professora; AcroYoga & AcroFitness Instructor; Voler Aerial Acrobatics Co-Director & Instructor; Aerial Yoga & Shamanic Yoga Instructor; NEA and U.S. Dept. of Education Grant Recipient; A classically trained dancer with supplemental training by Pilobolus, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Interplay, Biodanza and Bioenergetics instructors as well as with Shamanic, Brazilian and Native American teachers. As a creative enthusiast, I have had a long-term commitment to social development with a community education emphasis. I am a motivated, goal-oriented creative conduit who thrives in a diversely collaborative and educational environment. As a facilitator and workshop leader, I guide participants through the artistic process. This process helps participants to reconnect with their inherent creative abilities, thus allowing for the re-emergence of personal integrity, inspiring authenticity and giving energetic support to everyone on their path of purpose.I believe that each form of expression is a facet of the spherical self, combining perfectly as a whole. As a dancer, choreographer, spoken word artist, visual artist, capoeirista, and aerialist, my work interlaces multiple art forms, performance art and theatrical techniques with modern spiritual connectedness.Art is interlaced; everything is the essence of creativity. Every motion, sound and vision is connected and inspired by this same expressively potential energy.

Choreographer, Performer, Rigger, Web Developer, Marketing, Planning Committee and Co-Artistic Director and Co-Producer

Poetry and Art instructor for annual Alvin Ailey youth camp in Kansas and Missouri. Curriculum development and facilitation of poetry and art workshops for middle school students and poetry performance coach for closing presentation. Poetry Workshops (2003-2009). Art Workshops (2006-current)

Identified eligible youth participating in the re-entry portion of STTAP resulting in a successful transition into the community. Coordinate the re-entry portion of STTAP, working closely with Jackson County Family Court identifying eligible program youth to transition back into the community through MyARTS Program. Assess Family Court determining eligible program youth for re-entry program.Work closely with DJO’s to ensure transition back into the community is successful.Thorough documentation of interaction and activities involving STTAP program youth.Report to Program Manager weekly.Attend STTAP programs at various sites in order to develop relationships with eligible program youth.Other duties as needed.

Planning and facilitating projects within the Visual Arts studios, including layout, design, and final execution of commissioned and personal pieces. Teaching young artists and apprentices skills and tools needed to perfect their art throughout projects. Collaborating on creative projects with other studio mentors, incorporating multimedia approaches to projects and pieces. Aiding the curator of MyARTS art shows and fundraisers. Acting as a positive role model and resource for participants/ apprentices and other staff members. Supporting participants’ academic, cultural and art interests. Recruitment of new apprentices and responsible for new apprentice acclimation to the MyARTS program. Responsible for planning and coordinating community activities and visiting community artists.

Planning and facilitating projects within the Visual Arts studios, including layout, design, and final execution of commissioned and personal pieces. Teaching young artists and apprentices skills and tools needed to perfect their art throughout projects. Collaborating on creative projects with other studio mentors, incorporating multimedia approaches to projects and pieces. Aiding the curator of MyARTS art shows and fundraisers. Acting as a positive role model and resource for participants/ apprentices and other staff members. Supporting participants’ academic, cultural and art interests. Recruitment of new apprentices and responsible for new apprentice acclimation to the MyARTS program. Responsible for planning and coordinating community activities and visiting community artists.

Assistant instructor and professional performer of the Afro-Brazilian cultural art of Capoeira in metropolitan area public schools, community centers, community colleges, youth group homes and detention centers. Responsible for all project coordination such as program contract negotiation, scheduling, presentations, grant writing, collaborative efforts with local non-profit groups and all administrative tasks including: marketing, advertising, art design and website design for the group. Coordinator for the Outreach program which helps to provide Capoeira internship programs for at-risk youth and connects local artists with domestic and international satellite groups. International performances and workshops to Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.

Facilitator of visual arts programs in metropolitan area detention centers and alternative schools. Member of the Art Model team funded by the National Education Association for the development of creative arts implementation for public education, 2004-2006.

Project Developer and Lead Instructor for literacy through poetry programs in Wyandotte County Public Schools. Poet In Residence for Wyandotte County School District, 2002-2004. Co-developer of literacy/poetry program for Wyandotte County students. Facilitated in the creation of annual Metropolitan area poetry and art magazine, Urban Transcendence, including layout and design. Dedicated to inspiring young people to use their creative voice. Fine-tuned student’s writing capabilities and motivated students to become effective and strong performance poets. Co-Director of Urban Transcendence Poetry Performance, Bringing the Heat, 2005.Project Developer/ Lead Instructor for Video Technology Programming. Responsible for implementing programming in Wyandotte County schools teaching young people fundamentals in development, acting techniques and editing short films and commercials 2003-2005. Instructor for media class held at Kansas City, Kansas Community College providing instruction and planning for student based cable television show, Reality Check, 2004-2006. Film director and editor of Urban Transcendence Poetry Performances, 2003-2005.Facilitator of Visual Art Projects for Kansas University Medical Center, Health Careers Pathways Programs, providing summer internships to high-school students who wish to concentrate on careers in the sciences.