Collaborating with Bertha Hope by Kim Clarke (con’t)

Kim founded and produced the Lady Got Chops Women’s History Month Music and Arts Festival. During the Haitian Crisis of 2010, our participants donated over $1,400 to Doctors Without Borders. The festival provided four scholarships in the name of Barry Harris and Lillithe Meyers.

As an educator, Kim was involved with Mickey Davidson’s Dance Rhythm Dance Troupe and the Napoleon Revels-Bey Educational Ensembles, bringing the history of Dance and Jazz to schools in the New York area. She collaborated on developing a study program with Bertha Hope and company to mentor Bronx high school girls, through Jazz Studies at the Women’s Academy of Excellence. Previously, Kim taught private students, most notably Reggie Hamilton and conducting workshops at Boys Harbor in New York, Guitar Institute of Technology in London, Feierwerk Jazztage und Blues Workshop in Munich, Germany, Engelsholm Workshop in Denmark. Also, Kim conducted workshops at Penn State University, Portland State University in Oregon, Reed College, Columbia Basin College, and Whitman College in Washington State.

Her honors include the 3rd Edition of The Queens Jazz Trail Home of Jazz Legends Past and Present Map produced by the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts in 2024. In 2019, she received the Queens Arts Fund Award by the Queens Council On The Arts, funded by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. In 2015, she received the Jazz Heroes Award by the Jazz Journalists Association for promoting Women in the Arts. http://kimclarke.mysite.com/bio1.html