about — Cultural Creative Arts Inc.

Mrs. Dollie Eaglin received her BFA Degree at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette and earned an MA Degree at the university of Houston/Clear Lake City.

Dollie Eaglin retired as a full-time Arts Educator/ Creative Movement Specialist and Talented Arts Theatre teacher from Audubon Charter School/Broadway where she taught from 1989-2021.

Through her initiative, Cultural & Creative Arts (CCA), Mrs. Eaglin will continue her work in Arts Integration (integrating the Arts into the Academics), Arts Education,

(Creative Movement, Theatre, and Visual Arts), Professional Development for teachers and Administrators and mentoring new teachers.

She was chosen Audubon Charter Schools Teacher of the Year in 1998, 2007. In addition, Ms. Eaglin taught Seminar in Movement, and Advance Movement for Theater students at the University of New Orleans and has presented Arts Integrated workshops for Teachers at Ashe Cultural Arts Center. Mrs. Eaglin is also (director of The Big Easy Classical Arts Award-winning production, Ashe’ Cultural Arts Center, Origin of Life on Earth, An African Creation Myth) In addition, she has presented arts integrated/Comprehensive Arts Education workshops for teachers and administrators at Ashe’ Cultural Arts Center, Institute of Cultural Education, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Acadia Parish Schools, and New Orleans Ballet Association’s classroom teachers and dance professionals. The New Orleans Arts Council, Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Brown Foundation have contributed funding to numerous projects that Eaglin-Monroe directed and produced at Audubon Charter School/Broadway. She is also the founding member of New Orleans Dance and a Big Easy award Nominee for Best Choreography in a musical, “The Act.”

Ms. Eaglin was Dance Coordinator for the Louisiana Alliance Institute for Education in the Arts and served on the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Alliance in Baton Rouge. She has worked with the Arts Content Standards writing team and presented statewide professional development programs through the Arts Bridge Initiative. She has written lessons for the State Department of Education focusing on the Middle School Dance Benchmarks.

Mrs. Eaglin was also one of the first African American Dancer & Showgirl in Donn Arden’s “Hallelujah Hollywood” and original cast member of the long running Vegas spectacular, “Jubilee.” While in Las Vegas, she was chosen as JET Centerfold and was in JETS Photo of the Week with the Nicolas Brothers the following year. She has traveled throughout the United States and Europe as a teacher, performer, model, and choreographer.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

1993 — WYES teaching that works series

1996 – Big Easy nominee for best choreography, The Act

1995 – Award winning touring grant from the LA Decentralized Arts Fund through the Arts Council of New Orleans, — Audubon Creative movers for the house that crack built, a multil-art-disciplend production.

1996- Kennedy Center nomination and recognition on the Kennedy Center web site for The House that Crack Built and Butterflies.

1998-99 & 2007-2008 “Teacher of the Year” at Audubon Montessori School

1999 — Served on the state superintendent’s task force for arts education and a member of the professional development committee.

2004 – University of New Orleans Martin Luther King, Jr. community service award.

2007 – Big Easy award winner as director of multi-discipline art production, Origin of Life on Earth, an african creation myth.

2009 – Louisiana pathways child care development system

Dollie Eaglin
Cultural & Creative Arts, LLC
Founder & Executive Director

Available for Classroom Workshops K-12 and Professional Development

Email: ccartsinc21@gmail.com
504-239-0126

MAHALIA JACKSON THEATER

The Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts is a theater located in Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was named after gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, who was born in New Orleans. The theater reopened in January 2009, after being closed since the landfall of Hurricane Katrina.

ARMSTRONG PARK

Louis Armstrong Park is a 32-acre park located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter. In the 1960s a controversial urban renewal project leveled a substantial portion of the Tremé neighborhood adjacen
to Congo Square.

CONGO SQUARE

Congo Square is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street north of the French Quarter. The Tremé neighborhood is famous for its history of African American music.

PRESERVATION HALL

Preservation Hall is a jazz venue in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The building is associated with a house band, a record label, and a non-profit foundation. In the 1950s, art dealer Larry Borenstein from Milwaukee managed what would become Preservation Hall in the French Quarter as an art gallery, Associated Artists.

DOROTHY MAE TAYLOR (FORMERLY AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL)

In 1986, a French component opened within the school that has been extremely effective for a new cadre of students. The French government took note, and in 1990, Audubon became an official French School in an historical agreement between the French Government and the State of Louisiana. In 2002, the French government designated our school as a center for effective strategies in the teaching of a foreign language.