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executive director's message
presidential proclamation
steve jobs obituary
asn happenings and gatherings
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bak middle school, sarasota fl

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In 2002, our school was renamed the Bak Middle School of the Arts as a result of a very generous $1.5 million bequest by Mrs. Dora Bak of Palm Beach. She wished to leave a lasting legacy in honor of her late husband, Richard Bak. Dr. Richard Bak was born in Vienna in 1884. He earned his degree in Modern Languages and International Economics, and later a doctorate in Philosophy, from the University of Wurzburg. A renowned economist and statistician, he specialized in international markets, finance and economics.

 

Learn more about Dr. Bak.

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Bak Middle School of the Arts (MSOA) is a public magnet arts middle school located in West Palm Beach, Florida. The school's campus was formerly that of Dreyfoos School of the Arts (DSOA), which was moved to its current campus in downtown West Palm Beach in 1997. 

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Bak offers eight conservatory level arts concentrations in: Band, Communications, Dance, Keyboard, Strings, Theatre, Visual Arts, and Vocal Music. Students are accepted to Bak through rigorous arts auditions without regard to prior academic performance or aptitude. Despite this, Bak has always been an "A" rated school with students consistently scoring amongst the highest in the County and State on standardized (FCAT) tests. The school has also achieved high honors throughout the state and nation for its artistic achievements. Bak serves approximately 1,350 talented artist-scholars in the sixth through eighth grade from across Palm Beach County. 

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2011

arts schools network board of directors

President
Ralph Opacic, Ed.D. (2011)

Executive Director
Orange County High School of the Arts
Santa Ana, CA

 

1st Vice President
Tim Wade (2011)
Vice President of
Student Affairs
Interlochen
Center for the Arts
Interlochen, MI

 

2nd Vice President
Craig Collins, Ed.D. (2011)
Principal
Harrison High School
for the Arts
Lakeland, FL

 

Secretary
Rory Pullens (2011)
CEO, Head of School
Duke Ellington School
of the Arts
Washington, D.C.

 

Treasurer
Bill Barrett (2011)
Executive Director
Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design
San Francisco, CA
 
Immediate Past President
Denise Davis-Cotton, Ed.D. (2011)
Principal and Founder, retired
 
Detroit School of the Arts
Detroit, MI 
 
 

Directors
 

R. Scott Allen, Ph.D. (2012)Principal, Houston High School for Performing and Visual Arts, TX 

 

Douglas Ashcraft, D.M.A. (2012)

Dean of the Arts, Idyllwild Arts, CA

 

Kim M. Bruno (2012)   Principal
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
New York, NY 

 

Jackie Collins (2012)

Principal, Idaho Arts Charter, Nampa, ID

 

Jackie Cornelius (2011)

Executive Director of Fine Arts, Duval County Public Schools; and Principal, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville, FL

 

Patricia Decker (2011)
Director of Recruitment
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
New York, NY 
 
Dorothy Marshall Englis (2011)
Chair, Conservatory of Theatre Arts Webster University
St. Louis, MO  
 
David A. Flatley (2012)
Executive Director
Center for Community Arts Partnerships
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL  
 
Roy Fluhrer, Ph.D. (2011)
Director
Fine Arts Center
102 Pine Knoll Drive
Greenville, SC
 
Donn K. Harris (2011)
Executive Director
Oakland School for the Arts
Oakland, CA
 
Suzy Highland, Ed.D. (2012)

Academic Counselor, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, LA

 

Pamela Jordan (2012)      Head of School, Chicago Academy for the Arts, IL 

 

Carol Kim (2012)
Vice President of International Relations
CalArts
Valencia, CA


William Kohut (2012)
Principal, Denver School of the Arts, CO

Mary Martha Lappe ASN 1981Founding Director
Executive Director, HSPVA Friends
The High School for Performing & Visual Arts
Houston, TX
  
Terri Milsap (2012)
Principal, ChiArts, IL

Scott M. Rudes, Ph.D. (2012)
Principal, Orange Grove Middle Magnet School of the Arts, Tampa, FL

Tom Sherry (2011)
Architect, AIA, LEED, AP, Design Principal
Hamilton Anderson Associates
Detroit, MI
 
George Simpson (2011)
Principal, Los Angeles County High School
of the Arts, CA
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Walt Whitman

1809-1892

 

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

 

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
Out of the Ninth-month midnight,
Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child
leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,
Down from the shower'd halo,
Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they
were alive,
Out from the patches of briers and blackberries,
From the memories of the bird that chanted to me,
From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,
From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,
From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in the mist,
From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,
From the myriad thence-arous'd words,
From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
From such as now they start the scene revisiting,
As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurriedly,
A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,
Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,
Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
A reminiscence sing.

 

Once Paumanok,
When the lilac-scent was in the air and Fifth-month grass was growing,
Up this seashore in some briers,
Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together,
And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
And every day the she-bird crouch'd on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing
them,
Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.

 

Shine! shine! shine!
Pour down your warmth, great sun.'
While we bask, we two together.

 

Two together!
Winds blow south, or winds blow north,
Day come white, or night come black,
Home, or rivers and mountains from home,
Singing all time, minding no time,
While we two keep together.

 

Till of a sudden,
May-be kill'd, unknown to her mate,
One forenoon the she-bird crouch'd not on the nest,
Nor return'd that afternoon, nor the next,
Nor ever appear'd again.

 

And thenceforward all summer in the sound of the sea,
And at night under the full of the moon in calmer weather,
Over the hoarse surging of the sea,
Or flitting from brier to brier by day,
I saw, I heard at intervals the remaining one, the he-bird,
The solitary guest from Alabama.

 

Blow! blow! blow!
Blow up sea-winds along Paumanok's shore;
I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me.

 

Yes, when the stars glisten'd,
All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop'd stake,
Down almost amid the slapping waves,
Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears.

 

He call'd on his mate,
He pour'd forth the meanings which I of all men know.

 

Yes my brother I know,
The rest might not, but I have treasur'd every note,
For more than once dimly down to the beach gliding,
Silent, avoiding the moonbeams, blending myself with the shadows,
Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights
after their sorts,
The white arms out in the breakers tirelessly tossing,
I, with bare feet, a child, the wind wafting my hair,
Listen'd long and long.

 

Listen'd to keep, to sing, now translating the notes,
Following you my brother.

 

Soothe! soothe! soothe!
Close on its wave soothes the wave behind,
And again another behind embracing and lapping, every one close,
But my love soothes not me, not me.

 

Low hangs the moon, it rose late,
It is lagging--O I think it is heavy with love, with love.

O madly the sea pushes upon the land,
With love, with love.

 

O night! do I not see my love fluttering out among the breakers?
What is that little black thing I see there in the white?

 

Loud! loud! loud!
Loud I call to you, my love!
High and clear I shoot my voice over the waves,
Surely you must know who is here, is here,
You must know who I am, my love.

 

Low-hanging moon!
What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow?
O it is the shape, the shape of my mate.'
O moon do not keep her from me any longer.

 

Land! land! O land!
Whichever way I turn, O I think you could give me my mate back again
if you only would,
For I am almost sure I see her dimly whichever way I look.

 

O rising stars!
Perhaps the one I want so much will rise, will rise with some of you.

 

O throat! O trembling throat!
Sound clearer through the atmosphere!
Pierce the woods, the earth,
Somewhere listening to catch you must be the one I want.

 

Shake out carols!
Solitary here, the night's carols!
Carols of lonesome love! death's carols!
Carols under that lagging, yellow, waning moon!
O under that moon where she droops almost down into the sea!
O reckless despairing carols.

 

But soft! sink low!
Soft! let me just murmur,
And do you wait a moment you husky-nois'd sea,
For somewhere I believe I heard my mate responding to me,
So faint, I must be still, be still to listen,
But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.

 

Hither my love!
Here I am! here!
With this just-sustain'd note I announce myself to you,
This gentle call is for you my love, for you.

 

Do not be decoy'd elsewhere,
That is the whistle of the wind, it is not my voice,
That is the fluttering, the fluttering of the spray,
Those are the shadows of leaves.

 

O darkness! O in vain!
O I am very sick and sorrowful

 

O brown halo in the sky near the moon, drooping upon the sea!
O troubled reflection in the sea!
O throat! O throbbing heart!
And I singing uselessly, uselessly all the night.

 

O past! O happy life! O songs of joy!
In the air, in the woods, over fields,
Loved! loved! loved! loved! loved!
But my mate no more, no more with me!
We two together no more.

 

The aria sinking,
All else continuing, the stars shining,
The winds blowing, the notes of the bird continuous echoing,
With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly moaning,
On the sands of Paumanok's shore gray and rustling,
The yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping, the face of
the sea almost touching,
The boy ecstatic, with his bare feet the waves, with his hair the
atmosphere dallying,
The love in the heart long pent, now loose, now at last tumultuously
bursting,
The aria's meaning, the ears, the soul, swiftly depositing,
The strange tears down the cheeks coursing,
The colloquy there, the trio, each uttering,
The undertone, the savage old mother incessantly crying,
To the boy's soul's questions sullenly timing, some drown'd secret hissing,
To the outsetting bard.

 

Demon or bird! (said the boy's soul,)
Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it really to me?
For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you,
Now in a moment I know what I am for, I awake,
And already a thousand singers, a thousand songs, clearer, louder
and more sorrowful than yours,
A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die.

 

O you singer solitary, singing by yourself, projecting me,
O solitary me listening, never more shall I cease perpetuating you,
Never more shall I escape, never more the reverberations,
Never more the cries of unsatisfied love be absent from me,
Never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before what
there in the night,
By the sea under the yellow and sagging moon,
The messenger there arous'd, the fire, the sweet hell within,
The unknown want, the destiny of me.

 

O give me the clue! (it lurks in the night here somewhere,)
O if I am to have so much, let me have more!

 

A word then, (for I will conquer it,)
The word final, superior to all,
Subtle, sent up--what is it?--I listen;
Are you whispering it, and have been all the time, you sea-waves?
Is that it from your liquid rims and wet sands?

 

Whereto answering, the sea,
Delaying not, hurrying not,
Whisper'd me through the night, and very plainly before daybreak,
Lisp'd to me the low and delicious word death,
And again death, death, death, death
Hissing melodious, neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart,
But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet,
Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over,
Death, death, death, death, death.

 

Which I do not forget.
But fuse the song of my dusky demon and brother,
That he sang to me in the moonlight on Paumanok's gray beach,
With the thousand responsive songs at random,
My own songs awaked from that hour,
And with them the key, the word up from the waves,
The word of the sweetest song and all songs,
That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet,
(Or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in sweet
garments, bending aside,)
The sea whisper'd me.

 

 

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executive director's message

Dear ,


Greetings members and friends!

 

Recently, Arts Schools Network hosted a conference call with arts high school guidance counselors and college advisors to explore what makes an effective recruitment effort by colleges and conservatories. Participants included:

 

  • Donn Harris, CEO & Artistic Director, Oakland School for the Arts, CA; and Chair, Leadership Committee, Arts Schools Network (moderator)
  • Kristy Callaway, Executive Director, Arts Schools Network (co-moderator)
  • Maureen O'Brien, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, (call host)

Contributors

  • Giselle F. Hendrie, Principal, Oakland School for the Arts, CA
  • Suzy Highland, Ed.D., Dean of Student Services & Instructional Programs, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts|Riverfront, New Orleans, LA
  • Heather McCowen Ph. D., Post Secondary Counselor, ChiArts , IL
  • Jacqueline Morrow, Counselor, Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, TX
  • Donald Put, College Counselor, Idyllwild Arts Academy, CA
  • Travis Springfield, Lead Counselor, Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, TX

Please see my summarized notes below about what the experts said what makes an effective recruitment effort by colleges and conservatories.

  • no more large bundles of print material, go online, get social, skype,
    quick response codes, etc.
  • all expenses paid for by college/conservatory for arts high school faculty for a campus visit with other job-alikes including observation of classes, walk through spaces, meet faculty, see dorms, cafes, resources, etc
  • puzzle piecematch students to colleges/conservatories (rural vs. city, traditional university vs. fine arts, ability levels and challenges, past experiences vs. new experiences/equipment, etc)
  • reach down and begin cultivating 9th, 10th and 11th graders
  • recruiters develop long term relationships with arts faculty
  • college/conservatory faculty co-teach or provide master classes for the current high school arts curriculum, interactions based on learning experiences for students
  • recruiters learn high school calendars of events and be respectful of their busy times
  • do not pull students from instructional time; make appointments or host open houses during lunch, after school, evenings, weekends
  • recruiters are able to portray campus life, admissions, financial aid, programs, succinctly
  • admissions processes at college/conservatory are clear, rigourous and students know who to 'go to' with questions
  • portfolio and audition development in advance of admissions' deadlines 

We hope you find this information helpful and we are going to be hosting more of these exploratory phone conference calls for members.  It's as easy as throwing out a topic and scheduling the date/time. "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death," Albert Einstein. Please let us know what you are curious about.

 

qr on your way

 

 

Sincerely,

Kristy Callaway

Executive Director

Arts Schools Network

[email protected]

presidential proclamation - october national arts and humanities month 

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Norman Rockwell's magazine covers are classic and recognizable portrayals of American life. A longtime advocate of tolerance, Rockwell was criticized by some for a painting now hanging steps from the Oval Office -- The Problem We All Live With. Inspired by the story of Ruby Bridges, this painting depicts a young girl being escorted to her newly-integrated school by United States Marshals. Today, the portrait remains a symbol of our Nation's struggle for racial equality.

 

Like Rockwell's painting, art in all its forms often challenges us to consider new perspectives and to rethink how we see the world. This image still moves us with its simple poignancy, capturing a moment in American history that changed us forever. This is the power of the arts and humanities -- they speak to our condition and affirm our desire for something more and something better. Great works of literature, theater, dance, fine art, and music reach us through a universal language that unites us regardless of background, gender, race, or creed.

 

Millions of Americans earn a living in the arts and humanities, and the non-profit and for-profit arts industries are important parts of both our cultural heritage and our economy. The First Lady and I have been proud to honor this work by displaying American art at the White House and by hosting music, dance, poetry, and film performances and screenings. The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, along with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services continues to recognize the skill and creativity of American artists, historians, and philosophers while helping educate and inspire our children through the power of the arts and humanities.

 

We must recognize the contributions of the arts and humanities not only by supporting the artists of today, but also by giving opportunities to the creative thinkers of tomorrow. Educators across our country are opening young minds, fostering innovation, and developing imaginations through arts education. Through their work, they are empowering our Nation's students with the ability to meet the challenges of a global marketplace. It is a well-rounded education for our children that will fuel our efforts to lead in a new economy where critical and creative thinking will be the keys to success.

 

Today, the arts and humanities continue to break social and political barriers. Throughout our history, American hopes and aspirations have been captured in the arts, from the songs of enslaved Americans yearning for freedom to the films that grace our screens today. This month, we celebrate the enlightenment and insight we have gained from the arts and humanities, and we recommit to supporting expression that challenges our assumptions, sparks our curiosity, and continues to drive us toward a more perfect union.

 

obamaNOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2011 as National Arts and Humanities Month. I call upon the people of the United States to join together in observing this month with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs to celebrate the arts and the humanities in America.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.

 

BARACK OBAMA

 

View proclamation.

 

Steve Jobs dies at 56

Apple's co-founder transformed computers and culture

steve jobs

oct 6 los angeles times

by david sarno, christopher goffard, and michelle quinn


His legacy of blockbuster products includes the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad. Meanwhile, Jobs' other firm, Pixar, revolutionized computer animation.

 

They called it the Apple I and set the price at $666.66 because Wozniak liked repeating digits. In the following year came the Apple II, which carried a then-novel keyboard and color monitor and became the first popular home computer. When the company went public in 1980, the 25-year-old Jobs made an estimated $217 million.

Whether pitching a product or wooing a job candidate, Jobs liked to paint what he was selling as part of a revolution, an idea that reverberates in Silicon Valley start-ups today.

In a Stanford commencement speech in 2005, Jobs spoke at length about mortality and its value as a force against complacency.

"Death is very likely the best invention of life," he said in the speech. "All pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

 

new york times - music  - critic's notebook - macarthur fellows
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october 3
by anthony tommasini

 

Two Chosen 'Geniuses' Reflect on Label

 

The MacArthur Foundation has never attached the word "genius" to its annual grants to exemplary scientists, scholars, researchers, writers, artists, composers and other creative Americans. The term "genius award" seems to have sprung up in the news media soon after the first grants were given, in 1981, and the nickname has stuck. The program simply provides a fellowship, with recipients (some 20 to 40 each year) receiving $500,000 each, no strings attached, paid in quarterly installments over five years.

 

mcarthur fellow Who is a certifiable genius? What exactly does that mean? Though the term is invoked in the arts probably more than in any of the other fields from which the MacArthur Foundation chooses fellows, you could argue that defining genius is a more elusive proposition in the arts than in the sciences. There are accepted protocols to certify that a physicist's research has broken new ground and has advanced understanding. Not in the arts. So what might the foundation be looking for when it evaluates musical accomplishment and potential?

 

 

On Your Way

thundersoul in theatres now 

documentary about an all black high school band in the 70s 

 

story of a band director and how he inspired the kashemere stage band  

 
tsAbout the Film
Presented by Jamie Foxx, THUNDER SOUL follows the extraordinary alumni from Houston's storied Kashmere High School Stage Band, who return home after 35 years to play a tribute concert for the 92-year-old "Prof," their beloved band leader who broke the color barrier and transformed the school's struggling jazz band into a world-class funk powerhouse in the early 1970s.
 
About the Band

In Houston, Texas in the late 1960s, musician and composer Conrad O. Johnson, widely known as "Prof", took a job as Music Director at the predominantly black Kashmere High School where he would go on to transform the school's struggling jazz band into a full-fledged funk powerhouse. The Kashmere High School Stage Band and their dynamic leader would soon become legendary and world-renowned.

In the early 1970s, national High School Stage Band competitions were fiercely competitive, strictly conservative, and almost entirely white. Not only did Prof break the color barrier and get his kids into these competitions, he flipped the status quo by rearranging all of his band's music into elaborate funk arrangements. He changed the band's look, encouraging them to embrace their own inimitable style. He then introduced the element of showmanship, with each section choreographing slick moves with their instruments-unprecedented at the time. Finally, he unleashed his band on the competition scene, where, against tremendous odds, they would go on to triumph again and again.

 

Read the full story.

 

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animating dreams

the ACME animation program

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high school students draw on the expertise of professional cartoonists

 

Every other Tuesday afternoon, from 2:30 to 3:30, Camilla Sanders-Avery's students at Carver High School, in Birmingham, Alabama, have a videoconference with some of the most successful animators in Hollywood.

 

The students display their animation projects and get immediate feedback from the experts. No sugarcoating here: "They tell you exactly what your work needs," says senior Eric Gates. "They don't hold anything back." The frank critiques can initially rattle kids accustomed to handing in assignments, getting a grade, and moving on. But many students rise to the challenge. Soon, they're revising their illustrations, storyboards, and film clips, laboring mightily to show the pros, and perhaps themselves, what they're capable of achieving.

 

"The feedback is invaluable," Sanders-Avery says. "As a teacher, you can say what students need to focus on in their education. But when they hear it from someone in the industry, they take it more seriously."

 

Read the full story.

 

acme2about ACME the not-for-profit

ACME is a program of The ACME Network, a non-profit organization. ACME Animation provides supplementary experiential learning and mentoring by peers and professionalsto students and teachers of Arts, Animation, Computer Technology, Digital Media, Humanities, and Technology programs to foster creative, leadership, innovation and 21st century skills. ACME registration is currently open to creative professional mentors wishing to participate in ACME Animation and to activate accounts for students and teachers in schools who are already enrolled in the ACME Network Program. ACME alumni wishing to return to ACME are welcome should email [email protected] for instructions on how to register.

 

http://www.acmeanimation.org/

calendar of events and gatherings

On Your Way

  

october 15 awards nominations closed

 

october 15 exemplary schools submissions closed

 

october 27-28 board of directors retreat, new orleans center for the arts riverfront, la

 

november 15 on your way online auditions closed

 

asn - getting it together january 23-29, 2012  conference arts works, making your way orlando, fl

 

spring/summer board retreat tba

 

october 15-21, 2012 conference chicago, chiarts, chicago academy of arts, columbia college

 

october 2013 conference new york city, nyu tisch, nyu steinhardt, laguardia

 

october 2014 conference denver, co, denver school of the arts

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MCAET
McCallum Fine Arts Academy
Memphis College of Art
Menlo School
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Minneapolis Public School
Mission School District
Mississippi School of the Arts
Muller Elementary Magnet School of the Arts
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
New Mexico School for the Arts
New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts Riverfront
New Rochelle High School
New School for the Arts
New World School of the Arts
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
North East School of the Arts
North Ft. Myers Academy for the Arts
Oakland School for the Arts
Omaha South High Magnet School
Orange County High School of the Arts
Orange Grove Middle Magnet School for the Arts
Overton High School
Oxbow School
Palm Beach County Schools
Palm Springs Unified School District
Parkview Arts/Science Magnet High School
Pennsylvania College of Art and Design
Performing & Fine Arts High School
Perpich Center for Arts Education
Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp
Philip Shore Elementary Magnet School of the Arts
Pine Forest Elementary School of the Arts
Pinellas County Center for the Arts
Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12
Plainfield Public Schools
Plumosa School of the Arts
PortfolioPrep
Power APAC
Professional Children's School
Progress Village Middle Magnet School of the Arts
Providence Conservatory for Visual and Performing Arts
Putney School
Ramon Cortines High School for the Visual and Performing Arts
Regional Center for the Arts
Riverside Performing Arts High School
Riverside Unified School District
Roberts Elementary, Houston ISD
Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design
Roosevelt University: Chicago College of Performing Arts
Rotella Interdistrict Magnet School
Rowan University
Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama
Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts
Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists
San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts
San Francisco Art Institute
Santa Fe University of Art and Design
Savannah Arts Academy
School District of Palm Beach County
School for Creative and Performing Arts
School of the Arts Foundation, Inc.
School of the Arts, College of Charleston
Seattle Academy of Arts and Science
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities
South Orange County School of the Arts Foundation
Southeast Center for Education in the Arts
St. Helena Elementary School
Steinhardt School/NYU
Strategic National Arts Alumni Project
Studio School
Surdna Foundation Inc
Swarthmore College
The Governors School for the Arts
The School of Arts and Enterprise
Toledo School for the Arts
Tri-Cities High School
UNC School of Arts
University of Evansville
University of Minnesota
University of the Arts London
USC Thornton School of Music
Virginia Beach City Gifted Education & Magnet Programs
Virginia Governor's School for the Arts
Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts
Walkerville Centre for the Creative Arts
Walnut Hill School of the Arts
Webster University Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts
West Metro Education Program
Westminster College of the Arts-Rider University
Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts
Whale Branch Elementary School
Whale Branch Middle School
William E. Doar Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts
William Paterson University
Youth Performing Arts School

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