Former SIUE Employees and Alumni, Dr. Johnetta Haley and Keith Tyronne Williams, to Receive Acclaim at the 2018 St. Louis Art Awards
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville emeritus music professor Johnetta Randolph Haley and one-time SIUE East St. Louis Center (ESLC) for Performing Arts instructor Keith Tyronne Williams will both be honored at the 2018 St. Louis Arts Awards on Jan. 22, 2018 at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis.
Haley, who retired from SIUE as the ESLC executive director and who earned a master’s in music from SIUE in 1972, will receive the Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award from the Arts and Education Council.
Williams, who is one of the few people certified by Katherine Dunham to teach the world-renowned Dunham Technique and who worked as a dance instructor at the East St. Louis Center for Performing Arts Program, will receive the Art Educator of the Year Award. Williams earned a bachelor’s in theater and dance from SIUE in 1998.
Another alum on program that night will be internationally acclaimed pianist Dr. Stan Ford, who is also a 2011 SIUE Alumni Hall of Fame inductee. Ford will honor Haley, his former instructor, with a performance.
Read more about the 2018 St. Louis Arts Awards announcement and the 2018 St. Louis Arts Award program.
