Priscilla Kane Hellweg (she/her) is the Principal Teaching Artist & CEO of the Arts Integration Studio, a new creative maker space that utilizes creativity, collaboration, and the practice of arts integration to address critical issues in education and community health & well-being. Prior to forming AIS, Priscilla was a teaching artist and the Executive/Artistic Director of Enchanted Circle Theater, a non-profit, multi-service arts organization in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which she led for forty years, integrating the arts, education, and social services to engage, enhance, and inspire learning.

Awards/Proudest Achievements:  Priscilla received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network and was a finalist for Excellence in Leadership in 2018 for her work, serving students and teachers in PreK-12, youth in foster care, families in homeless shelters, and youth in residential treatment programs. She received a Champions of Arts Education Award and a Millennium Award from the National Guild of Community Arts Educators for her commitment to making quality arts education accessible to all.

Acting/Playwriting/Directing: Priscilla has co-written and directed site-based historical plays for educational and cultural tourism sites, including: Women on the Move: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention (2017) commissioned by Bay Path University; A Fiery and Still Voice: William Cullen Bryant at Home (2015), commissioned by the Trustees of the Reservation; Inherent Dignity: Women Change Makers in the Progressive Era (2014), commissioned by Wistariahurst Museum; Sojourner’s Truth: “I will shake every place I go to” (2012), commissioned by the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Committee; Leah Enters Late: A New Chapter in the History of Yiddish (2010), commissioned by the National Yiddish Book Center; The Skinner Servants’ Tour: A Living History of Wistariahurst (2005), commissioned by Wistariahurst Museum; and Between the Canals: The Evolution of a Mill Town (2001), commissioned by Open Square LLC.

Final Word: Collaboration and connectivity is at the center of everything Priscilla does. She is thrilled to be working with WAM Theatre in 2023, a company whose work she has greatly admired for many years.

Connect: Priscilla@artsintegrationstudio.com