Boston Arts Academy
Boston Arts Academy (BAA) is a collaborative project between the Boston public schools and the ProArts Consortium, an association of six internationally known institutions of higher learning. Each specializes in the visual arts, performing arts and architecture: Berklee College of Music, Boston Architectural College, The Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BAA is the City of Boston's only public high school for the visual and performing arts, serving approximately 415 students whose diversity is reflective of all of Boston?s neighbourhoods. Admission to the school is through an audition process that is academic-blind. Students engaged in over ten hours of arts training weekly in one of the following arts majors: instrumental or vocal music, theatre, dance or visual arts study a full college preparatory curriculum. The school graduates students who are holistic thinkers, and disciplined, well-trained artist-scholars who are aware of the world and their responsibility to engage in it.
Charged with being a laboratory and a beacon for artistic and academic innovation, Boston Art Academy prepares a diverse community of aspiring artist-scholars to be successful in their college or professional careers and to be engaged members of a democratic society.
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Boston Arts Academy
174 Ipswich Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
www.bostonartsacademy.org