Julio Enrique Badel, Director of Education & Community Engagement, joined Grounds For Sculpture in August 2018 producing educational programming for youth, families, schools, adults, artists, and community partners integrating art making, horticulture and wellness for experiential lifelong learning while practicing servant leadership. Julio holds a M.S. Ed in Leadership in Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education, a BFA in Drawing & Painting from San Francisco State University and a BA in Psychology from the University of Southern California. Originally from Long Beach, California Julio has also worked with Abrons Arts Center in New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and with El Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín in Colombia. His own therapeutic artistic practice is to record his family history through writings, textiles, drawings and found objects.

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The Governor’s Awards in Arts Education began in 1980 to promote awareness and appreciation of the arts, recognizing the creativity, talent and leadership of the award winners. Each year, awards are presented to approximately 20 educators and 80 students. National and statewide organizations select the students for their exemplary work in creative writing, speech, dance, music, theatre and visual arts and the leaders for their exceptional commitment and contribution to arts education. The program also recognizes arts educators and arts education advocates, whose leadership has helped nurture the development of students in the arts across the state.

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The Governor’s Awards event is a partnership of the Arts Ed NJ, the Department of Education, Art Pride New Jersey Foundation, the Department of State and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Additional support is provided by: the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics; Art Educators of New Jersey; Art Administrators of New Jersey; Dance New Jersey; New Jersey Council of Teachers of English; New Jersey Speech and Debate League; New Jersey Music Educators Association; New Jersey Performing Arts Center; Writer's Theatre of New Jersey; Speech and Theatre Association of New Jersey; New Jersey Thespians and Young Audiences of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. The cooperating organizations, award sponsors and individual members of the planning council dedicate their time to make sure that excellence in the arts is rewarded, and work tirelessly throughout the year to plan this special event. The Governor's Awards in Arts Education ceremony are a major collaborative effort of the arts, education and state government.