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5 QUESTIONS WITH GENE KRCELIC – PRESIDENT OF PREMIER ARTS COLLECTIVE

Who is a leader you look up to/aim to model in your leadership at Premier Arts Collective (PAC)? The first leader who comes to mind is Jesus Christ. I know that may sound like an “easy out” to the question, but His care and love for humanity sets the highest standard...

PREMIER ARTS COLLECTIVE AND JULIE VALENTINE CENTER LAUNCH ART AND MUSIC THERAPY PROGRAMS

Premier Arts Collective (PAC) and Julie Valentine Center (JVC) have partnered to offer art and music therapy programs to 50+ JVC clients in 2022. Premier Arts Collective therapists Alison Hughey (music) and Courtney Chandler (art) will lead four, eight-week programs...

ARTIST NICK BURNS NAMED RECIPIENT OF PAC-SPONSORED BRANDON FELLOWSHIP ALUMNI STUDIO AT GCCA

Premier Arts Collective and the Greenville Center for Creative Arts (GCCA) have teamed up to award one alumni of the prestigious Brandon Fellowship a free artist studio through August 2024. Nick Burns, artist name “Ninja Picasso,” was awarded the new Premier Arts...

PREMIER ARTS COLLECTIVE ANNOUNCES NEW BRAND

The non-profit organization, Premier Foundation, announced it has re-branded and will now be known as Premier Arts Collective. The new mission focuses on creating and implementing experiential programs that offer healing and therapy through the arts and music to serve...

INAUGURAL PREMIER GOLF CLASSIC SLATED FOR MAY 19-20

The Premier Foundation, in association with Trump National Golf Club, Charlotte, presents the inaugural Premier Golf Classic to benefit the charitable programs of the Premier Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) foundation committed to serving the world’s impoverished....

MOUNT NEBO BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH TO HOLD DEDICATION OF NEW SANCTUARY

On Sunday, March 28, 2021, Mount Nebo Bible Baptist Church, under the direction of Reverend Charles Duplessis, will hold the day-long Sacred Place Dedication Ceremony for the newly-completed sanctuary at 1720 Flood Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. “The Premier...

2020 ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT RELEASED

The 2020 Premier Foundation Annual Impact Report was recently released. Click below to read about the lives touched and communities changed in 2020. 2020 Annual Impact Report

2019 ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT RELEASED

The 2019 Premier Foundation Annual Impact Report was recently released. Click below to read about the lives touched and communities changed in 2019. 2019 Annual Impact Report

LIVES CHANGED IN THE BAHAMAS

Take a look at how lives were changed in The Bahamas through the Premier Foundation’s partnership with D&S Aviation and Jackson Marketing. Thank you to the numerous donors that helped make this happen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jpz5cfwJ0c

FOUNDATION PARTNERS WITH JACKSON MARKETING TO COLLECT & TRANSPORT SUPPLIES FOR DORIAN RELIEF

The Premier Foundation is launching a donation drive throughout the Upstate of South Carolina to provide critical assistance to those left homeless by Hurricane Dorian. The drive, which runs from Saturday, October 19, through Wednesday, October 30, will culminate with...

OVER $150,000 COMMITTED TO HURRICANE DORIAN RELIEF EFFORT THUS FAR

As part of their continued work in the Bahamas, the Premier Foundation is making a significant impact in Nassau on the heels of Hurricane Dorian, providing essential relief for the evacuees displaced by the Category 5 storm. In partnership with D & S Aviation of...

FOUNDATION JOINS HURRICANE DORIAN RELIEF EFFORT

The Premier Foundation is deeply engaged with humanitarian organizations and the people living in the Bahamas. The organization has stayed in daily contact with their ministry partners since Hurricane Dorian was projected to hit the islands. The foundation is...

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Alison Hughey

Music Therapist

Alison Hughey’s greatest passion is guiding clients in connection, comfort and communication through music. Since studying music therapy at Converse University and earning her board certification in 2010, she has served clients from 18 months of age up to 103 years old and contributed to research in community mental health and dementia care. Alison wears multiple “music hats” as a worship leader, band member, and music & wellness workshop facilitator.

Jared Emerson

Jared Emerson is world renown for his captivating performance art and studio originals. His art has raised millions of dollars for charities and ministries around the world. Jared’s work with Premier Arts Collective allows him to use his gifts by engaging in interactive art classes and performances across the globe; using his art for healing, therapy and restoration for those who have experienced trauma and abuse.

Born in Michigan and now residing in Greenville, South Carolina, Jared’s personal mission has led him to perform and create art, in a vast array of media, for a large number of collectors, corporations, churches and charities, with his performance piece “Face of God” being the most requested.

Jared’s credits include: ReviveUs 2 with Kirk Cameron, Winter Jam concert tour, TEDx, K-LOVE, CBS Sports, Game Plan for Life, The 700 Club, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, NASCAR, Museum of the Bible, Coca-Cola, Michelin, Land Rover, Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Pistons, Family Christian Stores and countless others.

Jared’s success has made his artwork sought after by many celebrities and sports figures. His clients include: Carrie Underwood, Carson Wentz, Jack Nicklaus, Guy Fieri, Joe Gibbs, Willie Mays, Albert Pujols, Jimmy John, Forrest Lucas, Smokey Robinson and Joe Greene, to name a few.

For booking information, contact gene@premierartscollective.com

Anita Yeh Norrie

Art Therapist

Anita Yeh Norrie (MA-Art Therapy) is passionate about creating change and improving lives through the transformative power of creating art. A life-long believer in the therapeutic and cathartic power of art, she built her career around developing programs and relationships that encourage expression, and self-realization through creativity.

While an art and design business owner, she was the vehicle of expression for her client’s vision. As an art therapist, she has created therapeutic art programs for kids, for mental health programs and non-profits, launched and operated an open art studio for a community arts center, and led hundreds of people to live a better life through their own discovery of creativity and artistic self-expression.

Anita’s current work of art is Art Power!, the non-profit she founded in 2017 where she and her team are working to change the lives of underserved kids in Cozumel, Mexico, through their therapeutic, choice-based art studio.”

When not in the art studio, you can usually find Anita contemplating her next project while exploring tasty food stands and out-of-the-way eateries, wherever she may be.

Courtney Chandler

Art Therapist

Courtney Chandler is a registered art therapist, licensed professional counselor associate, trauma-conscious yoga teacher, and founder of HeARTS for Hope Therapy in Greenville, SC. She has a decade of experience offering expressive art therapy groups in mental health facilities, schools, detention facilities, and substance use treatment centers across the country. She loves supporting adults and teens as they navigate challenges of trauma and grief, using an integrative combination of art therapy, somatic psychotherapy, and EMDR. Motivated by the belief that everyone is innately creative and art is an expression of self-love and divine connection, she uses a holistic mind-body approach in her therapeutic practice, and feels honored to hold space for hope and healing.

Samuel Monterrosa

Samuel Monterrosa is the Director of Nu-Day Academy in San Salvador, El Salvador. He has been mentoring, coaching and advising students in music education for over 15 years. He is often asked how music helps. Samuel believes that for many children, music is opportunity. Music is the way out of a life of poverty and brokenness. Nu-Day Academy provides opportunities for youth to build their self-esteem through music.

Born and raised in San Salvador, Samuel believes all lasting achievement is rooted in developing good character and maturity through the daily exercise of personal responsibility. Samuel’s guidance at Nu-Day Academy has built an environment focusing on character skills.

Under Samuel’s leadership, Nu-Day Community Choir was formed. The choir has become a favorite to the entire country, performing on every national television station, at concerts and for the Salvadorian government. Samuel is also the baritone pillar in the youth band known throughout Latin America as One Love El Salvador.