Murfreesboro Cultural Arts Announces 2022 Laureates

The City of Murfreesboro, announced the 2022 recipients of the Murfreesboro Cultural Arts Laureate honor this January. Dancer Laureate Meg Brooker will continue her Dancer Laureate role and Cameron L. Mitchell has been accepted for the Poet Laureate after being selected from a talented pool of artists to represent the City of Murfreesboro.

The Murfreesboro Cultural Arts Laureate Program, currently in its fifth year, is a notable honor for local artists, providing recipients with further opportunities to educate, advocate, and represent the community through their creative initiatives. Laureates serve for one year. Meg Brooker was selected as Dancer Laureate last year and was invited to serve through 2022. Cameron L. Mitchell served as Actor Laureate in 2021 and because of his involvement and presence in the Poetic Arts community, he was accepted to represent Murfreesboro once again in the role of Poet Laureate.

About the Laureates

Returning Dancer Laureate
Meg Brooker, Artistic Director of Duncan Dance South and Associate Professor and Director of Dance at Middle Tennessee State University, is an artist and scholar specializing in the early modern dance practices of Isadora Duncan and Florence Fleming Noyes. Meg has performed in national and international venues throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Russia, and her work has been covered by publications including Dance Teacher Magazine, Nashville Arts Magazine, and Chattanooga’s The Pulse. In Tennessee, Meg has appeared at the Parthenon in Centennial Park and the Hunter Museum of American Art, as well as at MTSU’s Tucker Theatre, where she frequently creates work with MTSU dance majors. Meg holds an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin and a BA from Yale. www.duncandancesouth.org, www.mtsu.edu/dance

Poet Laureate
Cameron L. Mitchell is a Memphis native and graduate of Middle Tn State University. After studying in Japan, Cameron found a passion to engage the community as an actor and spoken word artist. When he is not mentoring poets for Southern Word, you can catch him acting in plays such as Ghost at The Nashville Children’s Theater. Cameron has presented at Conferences for Vanderbilt University, NAACP, & Creative Exchange to name a few. Many of his works are used to inspire the community, highlight mental health awareness, and spotlight conversations that we need to have as a society.

Information about the laureate program and submitting for the 2023 Laureate honor can be found at www.murfreesboroparks.com, or by contacting Susan Hicks or Lisa Browning, Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation, at shicks@murfreesborotn.gov or lbrowning@murfreesborotn.gov.