In 1992, Imagination Celebration Fort Worth under the leadership of Mrs. Head and the acclaimed Deaf Educator, Dianne Fisher, created a special statewide program for deaf and hearing-impaired students. This program has become part of the annual curriculum for middle and high school deaf students in Texas and is anticipated each year with great excitement. It has affected the lives of thousands of deaf students and also the artists and leaders from the world deaf culture who have worked with the program over the past twelve years. The program has been adapted in Southern California under the leadership of Mrs. Head, and Mrs. Fisher.

Under Ginger Head's leadership of Imagination Celebration Fort Worth, the program became a national and international model for arts and educational programs consequently Mrs. Head has received the following awards.

Special Awards

" John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts special "Award for Excellence."1993
" Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women as an outstanding woman of Fort Worth (Woman of the Year) 1990
" "Lifetime Membership" by the Texas Parent Teachers Association for contribution to the Arts for children of Texas
" "Most Influential Business Women" by the Fort Worth Business Press in 1997.
" "Legacy Of Women Award" for her work in the field of Education from The Women's Shelter
" "Outstanding contributions to the State of Texas" in the field of the arts, by the State of Texas and Governor Rick Perry, 2002.
" Texas Association of Parents and Educators of the Deaf, "Outstanding Service to the Deaf Citizens of Texas"
" Two Chairman's Extraordinary Action Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts ( Invitational Grants)
The Texas Medal of the Arts, 2005 and Fort Worth Library System's "Woman of the Year" 2005

National and State Committees

" Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and SERC for purpose of creating an Arts Education Distance Learning Program
" National Task Force to create Arts and Education Internet Bulletin Board System. (ICFW became one of the first arts/ed. based Internet sites. It formed a foundation for Kennedy Center ARTSEDGE)
" Texas State Task Force for Arts and Education
" Texas Coalition for the Arts Creative Committee
" Bass Performance Hall Children Education Program, Preliminary Planning Committee


National and State Speaking Engagements

" Cultural Consortium, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1997.
" International Conference on Technology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1997(Building Arts Bulletin Board and Web Site).
" National Sculpture Society, New York, National Arts Club 1996 The Art of Sculpture and Education.
" National Conference of Public School Administrators, San Diego, CA 1999 (District based Arts and Ed.Program)
" Texas Commission on the Arts, Statewide Conference Texas 1991, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000.
" Texas A &M University, Performing Arts and Schools Conference, 1993.
" State Conference of Deaf Educators, 1993,1995,1996,1999.
" Washington, D.C. School District Arts and Ed. Community based Program. 1997-1998.
" Rotary International Texas. 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004.
" Conference of Teachers, Nuevo Leon, Monterrey Mexico. 2001-2003.
" Symposium of Cultural Institute Monterrey Mexico, 2001-2002.
" Kennedy Center Alliance for the Arts and Education. 1993-1996.
" Kiwanis Clubs, 1993-1995.
" Statewide Conference of Veterans of Foreign Wars, "Art Transforms Education and Arts Ed. For the Deaf" 1999.

Board of Director and Advisory Board Positions

" The Fort Worth Opera
" Ballet Concerto
" Contemporary Dance Fort Worth
" Hip Pocket Theater
" Texas Coalition for Arts and Education
" Texas Folklife Resources
" Fort Worth Library Foundation
" Black Stallion Literacy Project


Since the spring of 2000, Mrs. Head has guided the creation and development of a program based on the Imagination Celebration Fort Worth Model in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Mexico. Working through the gift of two invitational "Chairman's Extraordinary Action Grant's" from the National Endowment for the Arts to Mrs. Head and Imagination Celebration Fort Worth, Mrs. Head worked with a team of leaders from the state of Nuevo Leon in the creation of a new Mexican non-profit adapted from the Imagination Celebration Fort Worth Model. Working with this team Mrs. Head guided the creation of a first time partnership between the museums, performance companies, libraries, science institutions and offices of the Minister of Education for the State of Nuevo Leon for the purposes of developing a unified effort for students and teachers which would connect thousands of children in a thematic study connecting the arts, sciences, humanities and technology in the city of Monterrey. The pilot program was a tremendous success and has been adopted by the state department of education. The program has reached 22,000 students in Nuevo Leon in an in-depth multiple experience series and 350,000 students in a single experience adaptation based on the in depth thematic study series. Over 1000 teachers have been trained in the use of the arts for interdisciplinary studies in the classroom. A learning partnership has developed between the city of Fort Worth and the City of Monterrey, Mexico and consequently Mrs. Head has launched a series of special collaborative programs under the theme "A Celebration of Mexico" for students and teachers in Fort Worth, Texas. Mrs. Head has been asked by Partners of the Americas, the largest network of partnerships between the US and states and countries in Latin America, to work with the states of Arizona, Oaxaca, Guanajuato in the development of programs based on the Imagination Celebration Fort Worth /Nuevo Leon model. This work is now being supported by a Chairman's Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.


Following the development of this program, Mrs. Head developed similar programs for the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the Fort Worth Opera.

Summary of Programs Co-created, Produced or Presented
Mrs. Head's expertise has been utilized to launch, co-create, produce, implement and present
special educational programs for a myriad of artists and cultural organizations.


Co-created, implemented, and presented special arts and educational programs for:

Ms Debbie Allen, Debbie Allen Dance Institute*
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The White House Millennium Project for Youth in America
Wings Trust and Women of Discovery
National Danish Arts and Culture Team
The National Cowgirl Hall of Fame (prior to opening)
National Theatre of the Deaf
Fort Worth Symphony
Van Cliburn Foundation
Texas Boys Choir/Texas Girls Choir
TRIPOD Caption Films.
Texas Ballet Theatre
Taiko Dojo/Omigari, Japan
Forth Worth Botanic Gardens
Shakespeare in the Park (Fort Worth)
Stage West/Circle Theatre (Fort Worth)
Pepito Story, Debbie Allen
Contemporary Dance Fort Worth
Fort Worth Opera

Co-created, implemented special art and educational programs for:

Texas Film Society
Ballet Folklorico de Azteca
Botanic Institute Texas
The City of Fort Worth
The Pawnee Bill Wild West Show
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Retrofest

Produced, co-created and implemented special arts and educational programs for:

PIXAR
Disney Feature Animation
Colonial Williamsburg
Sun and Star International Japanese/Texas Festival
The Southwest Association of Indian Arts
The Arabian Nights Theater and Walter Farley's Black Stallion
National Deaf Dance Theatre
Binney and Smith's Crayola DREAMAKERS
Main Street Arts Festival
Fort Worth Public Library
Fort Worth Stockyards
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Hip Pocket Theatre

Education

Mrs. Head graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1968, with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in painting and art history. Immediately following her graduation, she worked as a designer of packaging for Susan Crane, Inc. in Dallas. As the mother of three sons, Mrs. Head taught art in the private school system in Dallas, and after coming to Fort Worth taught art classes at the Museum of Science and History and created an art curriculum for All Saints Episcopal School. Mrs. Head, a member of the Junior League of Fort Worth, has been active in the volunteer community to date. Mrs. Head was a docent for the Kimbell Art Museum for 15 years, during this time she created a special in-depth, multi-visited program for Deaf students which continues to this day. The program was the first program for the Deaf in a cultural institution in Fort Worth based on learning the elements of the history of art which connected the utilization of acute visual awareness to awaken all of the other senses.

* In 1998, Ms. Head formed a partnership with Ms. Debbie Allen, acclaimed choreographer, director, star of stage/film and TV, to create the world's 1st Debbie Allen Dance Institute. The six-year old program, initiated in Fort Worth, is held annually under the creative direction of Ms. Allen. In 2001, Ms. Allen created her yearlong Dance Academy in Los Angeles based on the Fort Worth model.