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High Falls Resident Wins Nation's Top Arts Education Award

An Ulster County teaching artist has won a prestigious leadership award.

Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education in America, has announced the recipients of the 2015 Americans for the Arts Annual Leadership Awards.

The organization's Arts Education Award has been given to Eric Booth of High Falls for his contributions to best in arts education program design, execution, and organizational leadership. Having taught at Stanford and Julliard, Booth is the first teaching artist to receive the award. He has taught classes for every level from kindergarten through graduate school and served as a consultant for many organizations, cities, states, and businesses around the country.

Booth will join other honorees being presented their awards Friday in Chicago.

Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.
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