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Since 1981,The
Chicago Academy for the Arts has served as one of five private,
independent, college-preparatory arts high schools in the United
States. In addition to a traditional high school curriculum, students
are given intensive training in one of these six arts fields: Music,
Visual Art, Dance, Theater, Musical Theater, and Media Arts. Each
day, students spend five hours in academics and three hours in their
chosen art major, all of which include classes in theory, history,
and technique.
The Chicago Academy for the Arts is designed to maximize each students
potential to communicate through the arts. The Arts Academy strives
to prepare students to think critically, to be capable of independent
thought, and to acquire the skills both of analysis and synthesis.
The training of the mind to connect separate elements and to establish
relationships between them is fundamental to an artists development.
The Arts Academy is located one mile west of the Water Tower in
downtown Chicago. In addition to traditional academic classrooms
and labs, the Arts Academy building contains a variety of performance
and arts training studios, including a music recording studio, film/video
studio with editing system, piano labs and practice rooms, four
theater studios, a 60-seat proscenium black box theater, theater
shop and costume stock, three dance studios, four visual-arts studios,
a fully equipped sculpture facility, and a visual-arts gallery.
Each department maintains a regular schedule of public exhibitions, publications, recitals, or performances.
Application deadline:
Academic testing and audition/portfolio
reviews are held 2 times each year in the fall. The applications
and application fee are due one week prior to these dates.
Need-based financial aid:
May be applied for after an admissions
decision is reached. Application and essay deadline apply.
Transportation:
Easy access to CTA; buses provided
to and from Union and Northwestern stations.
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Address:
1010 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Contact:
Admissions Office
Phone:
(312) 421-0202
Fax:
(312) 421-3816
E-mail:
generalinfo@
chicagoartsacademy.org
Web:
www.chicagoartsacademy.org
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