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BOARD & STAFF

Staff Members

Eileen M. Carpinella, Executive Director

Eileen M. Carpinella is Executive Director of Young Audiences Arts for Learning Connecticut. Prior to joining Young Audiences in 1995 she was the founder and director of an elementary school after school arts program. Ms. Carpinella also worked for the U.S. government for over ten years. She currently continues to teach the arts in an adult evening education program. Ms. Carpinella resides in Hamden with her husband and two children. She has a master’s in Public Administration from University of Hartford and received her undergraduate degree in Education from St Joseph College in West Hartford, CT.  Ms. Carpinella serves on the board of CT Association of the Gifted.

Aleta Staton, Artistic and Communications Associate

Loraine Brown, Program Manager

Kate Carr, Program Assistant

Barbara Asmus, Administrative Assistant

Mike Kachuba-Education Consultant

Board Members

Joseph Juliano Chair

Kathryn Giampietro- Vice Chair

Betsy Ritter-Treasurer

Ellen Belok-Secretary

Hyla Crane

Mary Daniel

Robert Karanian

Margaret Kinsella

Alden Rockwell Murphy

Manuel Rivera

Robert Wolfe

Young Audiences Arts for Learning Connecticut: Our mission is to integrate the arts into the lives of children in educational and community settings. Our vision for Connecticut is that all children realize their potential through the arts; that the arts are valued for their ability to improve our schools and communities; that, by participation in the arts, children come to understand and value themselves, their neighbors, and the world cultures they share.

We are an Affiliate of VSA an international nonprofit organization that is creating a society where all people with disabilities learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts.

We offer educational classroom workshops, school cultural programs, school arts programs, assembly programs, arts integration programs, artist in residence programs – bringing theater, music, drama, puppetry, visual arts, storytelling, drawing, painting, history and cultural arts to the classroom.