Lanea Collins

Co-Chair, Communications Working Group

Lanea is the Creative Director of The Teaching Artist Hub, based in Middletown, CT, where she acts on her passion for mentorship and collaboration in the arts by connecting and providing spaces for teaching artists. She is a Goodwin College award winning poet of “American Baby,” and is the writer, speaker and author of “My Heart Is Art,” a foundation of workshops, youth services and speaking engagements that promote creative healing for the inner soul.

Lanea has appeared in theater performing in “For Colored Girls” and “Daisies On Harlem’s Doorstep” for CT Theater Company and Vintage Soul Productions, as well as “Expression Through Color” at the Jamaican Performing Arts Center in Queens,NY, which was written and produced by her. Along with writing and directing her very own “Agape” with Oddfellows Playhouse Theater, Lanea has created many workshops including Play + Write = Playwright, Culture Couture, and Life Through Colors. For the last five years she has been a teaching artist for grades K-12 and after school programs working in both school and community settings.

As a certified arts trainer in the principles of nonviolence through the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence, Lanea has a passion for social justice and the arts and continues to share her gifts in all spaces.