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Celebrating 25 years of artistic and academic excellence.
A Center of Excellence in the Visual and Performing Arts, at Miami Dade College - May  2012

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NEW WORLD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS AMONG AMERICA'S TOP HIGH SCHOOLS...AGAIN!

NWSA hits a high mark this year with U.S. News and World Report earning the prestigious Gold Medal Award. Claiming 17th place in the Sate of Florida and 186th among all high schools in the nation, NWSA is again nationally recognized for its outstanding and rigorous academic program. In partnership with Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research (AIR), U.S. News and World Report analyzed the International Baccalaureate (IB) as well as the Advance Placement (AP) tests scores of 22,000 high schools in 49 states, including the District of Columbia, to rank each school. Congratulations New World School of the Arts for consistently placing among our nation's top high schools.

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NWSA IS HOME TO TWO MORE PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS IN THE ARTS - THIS TIME IN VISUAL ARTS AND IN THEATER 

Earning two of the twenty US Presidential Scholar in the Arts this year, New World School of the Arts once again brings the Presidential Scholar in the Arts awards home, and this time it represents two of its arts divisions. Kelley Kessell, from music-theater at NWSA was nominated in the category of Pop Vocal for her impeccable delivery of "At Last" during YoungArts. The coveted nomination for Jessica Suhr, a visual artist, was the result of her photo-painting artwork reminiscent of her youth in her native Venezuela. Both scholars will have the opportunity to invite a professor from the institution to join them as they travel to Washington, June 16-19 to receive their award from the hands of President Barack Obama.

 

Kelley Kessell Presidential Scholar"This is a special year for New World School of the Arts, as we celebrate our Silver Anniversary and this is the perfect culmination to our academic season. Over 25 years New World School of the Arts has established a reputation for excellence artistically and academically and we couldn't be more proud for two more of our students to receive this important national distinction," said Jeffrey Hodgson, Provost at NWSA. "Their accomplishments demonstrate the passion, creativity and pursuit of excellence we see in all of our students, and the mission of our school, to train the future leaders of the arts.  Bravo to these fine young talented artists!"



 

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AND THE GATES MILLENNIUM SCHOLARSHIP GOES TO NWSA DANCER JAVIER ARANZALES

Javier Aranzales, a senior in the high school dance program was among the 1,000 students nationwide to receive the 2011 Gates Millennium Scholarship Award (GMS). The scholarship will provide him a full scholarship to undergraduate and graduate school, as well as Doctoral-level studies. Aranzales will be attending Harvard University to pursue a career in pre-med and neurobiology. Grateful for the coveted honor he comments, "Being a Gates Millennium Scholar means that financial burdens will not get in the way of following my heart. It also means being part of a community of dreamers, leaders and achievers - rising above our status of minorities." Javier was also admitted to other universities such as Amherst, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, and the University of Florida and received numerous scholarships including the Ford Salute to Education.

 

Javier was born in Bogota, Colombia and is the oldest of four siblings - three boys and a girl. He credits his siblings with the inspiration to pursue a career in the medical field, "Struck by the complexity and the beauty of the brain, passionate about human personality, development, and relationships, and inspired by my baby siblings, I am pursuing a career in Pediatric Neurology."

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$100,000 GRANT FROM THE HEARST FOUNDATIONS AUGMENTS SCOPE OF TSAI PROGRAM AT NWSA 

New World School of the Arts has received a second three-year grant from the Hearst Foundations to support the Talented Students in the Arts Initiative (TSAI), a collaboration of the Surdna Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which offers access for highly talented students to enhanced arts education allowing them to fulfill their potential and pursue careers in their chosen art form. With support from the Hearst Foundations, NWSA's TSAI program includes: a Master Artist program, bringing master artists to the school for short and long-term residencies; an Executive Internship program providing students with real life experience in local and national arts organizations; a Mentorship program focusing on the support and growth in both peer mentoring and community outreach; the Make Art Work lecture series, which brings students and the community face to face with professionals in the art world for a dialogue on the business of art; and the Visual Arts College Honors Program (NWSA-VAHP) an intensive program modeled on the centuries-old tutorial systems at Oxford and Cambridge Universities that aims to provide carefully selected students the opportunity for intellectual development in a unique setting, through individualized attention, academic challenge and travel opportunity capable of stimulating their artistic and intellectual growth.

 

"The range of activities supported by the Hearst Foundations clearly enhances the training and mission of New World School of the Arts. These opportunities provide an added dimension that gives our students a competitive edge and the best opportunities for successful careers and futures.  We are deeply appreciative of the support we receive from the Hearst Foundations and continue to see outstanding results in our students due to their generosity.Hearst Foundations logo

 

 

Jazz Ensemble 2012NWSA JAZZ ENSEMBLE SHINES IN DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE

Once again the NWSA Jazz Ensemble is represented in the 35th Downbeat Magazine's Annual Student Music Awards. The awards, considered one of the top student music competitions in the world, offer categories for junior high, high school and university music students and bands. Each December, hundreds of students, ensembles and schools apply by sending in recordings to vie for their place in fifteen categories representing five difference divisions. Top jazz musicians in the country adjudicate the entries looking for creativity, improvisation, musicianship, technique, balance, sound quality, excitement and authority to reward the stellar soundtracks. This year's awards are documented in the June 2012 issue of Downbeat Magazine, where NWSA's accomplishments are highlighted in three different categories [pg 92].

In the Jazz Combo Category, New World School of the Arts High School Jazz Combo One won the "Performing Arts High School Outstanding Performance" while in the Jazz Soloist Category, Antonio Madruga [Piano] became the "Performing Arts High School Winner." In the Jazz Soloist Category, David Leon [Alto Saxophone] won the "Performing Arts High School Outstanding Performance."

 

 

NWSA HONORS MOTHER'S MONTH WITH A POEM BY THEATER FACULTY DAVID KWIAT, FROM HIS PUBLISHED COLLECTION OF POEMS - "A TRAVELER IN RESIDENCE"

 

PARENTAL ENLIGHTENMENT

As a boy my mother allowed me to stand over

the water-filled kitchen sink,

and strike matches to my heart's content

until it was the most boring, stupid thing one could possibly

think of doing --

I would then drain the sink, pick up the soggy cardboard stems,

throw them in the garbage and go to bed.

And I am grateful to say; that is why I have never been in grave

danger of becoming an arsonist.

Thanks Mom.

David KwiatDavid Kwiat has been a professor in the Theater Division at New World School of the Arts since 1989. He is the recipient of an Endowed Teaching Chair and his many performances in South Florida have earned him two Carbonell Awards: "Best Actor" and "Best Supporting Actor." David authored John Barrymore: Confessions of an Actor, which he has performed at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival, The King's Head Theatre in London and throughout the United States. He also penned A Traveler in Residence - a collection of poems from which this one was borrowed.  
 

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NWSA ALUMNI...TELL ME ABOUT IT

NWSA Alumni, New World School of the Art's 25th Anniversary Celebration will culminate this month with the creation of the 2011-2012 Magazine and you can be part of it! All you have to do is participate in d�melo, [tell me about it] where in fifteen words or less, you answer this question - What did coming to NWSA mean to ME. Only sixty-two quotes will be included in this keepsake commemorative edition of the NWSA Magazine, and we want YOU to be featured. Along with your thoughts, please tell us the year you graduated and from which program and art division. Submit your quote directly to the NWSA Marketing Department by clicking on this link.

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