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Boston Arts Academy (BAA) is the urban center's only public loftier schoolhouse for the visual and performing arts, serving students who reflect the diversity of Boston'due south neighborhoods.

Our Mission

Boston Arts Academy serves as a laboratory and a beacon for artistic and bookish innovation, preparing a diverse customs of aspiring artist scholars to be successful in their college or professional careers and to be engaged members of a autonomous society.

1998

Boston Arts Academy was founded when a committed group of educators, parents, and public officials likewise as the presidents of the fellow member colleges of Boston's ProArts Consortium recognized the need for a public arts high school in Boston. BAA was established equally a pilot schoolhouse and the city's first full inclusion high schoolhouse – a place that admits students based solely on arts auditions without regard to prior bookish, behavioral, or learning challenges.

2005

BAA launched its award-winning literacy intervention program, Summer Reading, which has since served over 400 BAA struggling readers and trained dozens of teachers, interns from local colleges and universities, and volunteers.

2009

BAA won the National Schools of Stardom in Arts Didactics Award from the Kennedy Center Brotherhood for Arts Education.

2013

BAA was recognized as the Outstanding Arts School by the Arts School Network.

2014

The STEAM Lab was opened to establish a maker space/artists' studio/fabrication laboratory so students could explore the connections between the arts, science, and math, while incorporating new technology into their projects.

2015

BAA was featured in Ken Robinson'due south book, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution that's Transforming Didactics.

2016

BAA was a Silver Recognition Recipient from the Schools of Opportunity and won the Signature Enterprise Schools Award from the GRAMMY Foundation.

2018

Ground was broken July 1 for structure of a new $125 million facility at 174 Ipswich Street, leading to relocation of both Boston Arts Academy and the Boston Arts Academy Foundation.

2021

Mayor Martin J. Walsh and City Council President Kim Janey, city and state officials, and members of BAA and the BAA Foundation, raised the final steel beam into place to complete the new building in a Topping Off Ceremony. Prior to the ceremony, BAA students, caregivers, faculty, staff, and customs leaders contributed notes and decorated the beam, forever embedding their letters in to the steelwork of the schoolhouse itself.

A community campus

Starting in the 2022-2023 school yr, BAA will be housed in a new land-of-the-art facility, encompassing 153,500 square feet and increasing chapters for the schoolhouse by more than than 15 percent. The new facility volition provide meliorate rehearsal studios, loftier-tech way and fine art studios, gymnasium, dance studios, a cutting-border STEAM lab, a rooftop recital hall, and professional theatres. Many of the spaces will exist equipped with the latest technologies used by big-proper noun artists and headlining entertainers.

This 5-story facility, while catered to the student experience, volition also provide space rental options for local artists and performers. In this manner, BAA tin go along to develop a community learning environment where our students tin can not only create and compose their own original work simply likewise be inspired through working artists in and around Boston.

We are pleased to be working with city of Boston Mayor'due south Office, the Massachusetts School Edifice Authority (MBSA), the city of Boston, and the Boston Public Schools to make the new BAA building a reality. Perkins Eastman and Wilson Butler Architects besides as the structure firm Lee Kennedy Co., Inc. are the designers and builders the beautiful new facility.

Since its founding, Boston Arts University has successfully fostered a culture of pupil achievement for Boston youth with unprecedented results. We believe that the arts help young people find their voices, build creative trouble-solving skills, and appoint in meaningful ways with their communities leading to success in college and careers. Our arts curriculum encourages innovation, creative risk-taking, and professionalism.

BAA accepts students based on their commitment to their art and non their academic, behavioral, or learning history. Every mean solar day, BAA kinesthesia provide engaging, challenging curricula that connect to our students' artistic strength and outline clear learning targets that help students understand where they are, where they need to be, and how to get there. BAA students have the opportunity to develop their voices through leadership opportunities, restorative justice practices, and giving back to their communities.

We believe in a holistic education, not only challenging our students through a college preparatory curriculum and competitive arts curriculum but also addressing their social and emotional needs. BAA has a robust Health and Wellness program that includes on-site private and grouping counseling from licensed clinicians. This potent community and caring environs supports students to go Artists, Scholars, and Global Citizens, leaders in their communities. Our Shared Values are the guiding principles of BAA's pedagogy and learning environment:

Community with Social Responsibility

We believe in collaboration, participation and active engagement. Our students take roles, particularly leadership roles, within and exterior the classroom to support the health of each other, our community, and surround.

Diversity with Respect

We believe in seeking out and seeing other perspectives through empathy and thoughtful expression. Our students respect and collaborate with students from other neighborhoods, cultures, and majors.

Passion with Remainder

We believe in preparation, consistency, and the power of following through. Our students hold themselves to loftier standards rather it be through their academic work, arts written report, or being mindful of others.

Vision with Integrity

We believe in creative run a risk taking and setting goals that challenge the status quo. Our students own their own process, choices, and beliefs to make consistent progress toward where they want to get and who they want to be.

The Boston Arts Academy Board of Trustees serves as BAA'southward Schoolhouse Site Quango and sets the overall mission, philosophy, policies of the schoolhouse, and oversees the schoolhouse budget. Trustees also set the vision and strategic direction for the school, select and evaluate the Head of School, and work to support faculty and staff. The Lath is composed of representatives of ProArts Consortium institutions, BAA faculty members, caregivers, one student, and customs members with an impressive range of professional expertise. The Board meets at to the lowest degree four times during the school year.

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The Board Members

Sonya Alleyne, Community Rep
Krystal Banfield, Vice Chair/ProArts Rep
Nancy Bauer, ProArts Rep
Trayce Booth, Community Rep
Michael Bradley, Faculty Rep
Kelly Brilliant, Community Rep
Robert Chambers, Vice Chair/Community Rep
Carole Charnow, Community Rep
Ling-Se Chesnakas, Faculty Rep
Anne Clark, (Ex Officio)
Denella Clark, (Ex Officio)
Shaumba-Yandje** Dibinga, Family unit Rep
Sandra Gordon, Lifetime Trustee
Cecilia Mendez, Community Rep
William McLaughlin, Faculty Rep
Lisa-Maria Mehta, Family unit Rep
Catherine Morris, Customs Rep
Nicole Mullen, BTU Rep
Linda Nathan, Community Rep
Myran Parker-Brass, Chair
Mary Regan, Lifetime Trustee
Barbara Rodriguez, Family Rep
Stephanie Rodriguez-Ruiz, Family Rep
Richard Rudman, Legal Counsel
Noah Schneiderman, Community Rep
Kathy Sharpless, Community Rep
Kay Sloan, Lifetime Trustee
Dan Sullivan, Faculty Rep
Jim Supple, Customs Rep
Katie Umile, Community Rep

Our various kinesthesia and staff are committed to developing Artists, Scholars, and Global Citizens who invest in their own paths as well as the customs they alive in. Serving as models for our students, BAA's award-winning kinesthesia are educators every bit well equally artists and scientists who proceed to make pregnant contributions in their called fields and the greater Boston expanse.

To read faculty and staff biographies, please click on the faculty or staff photo where bachelor. To contact any kinesthesia or staff member, you may call the main function at 617-635-6470 for their email or electronic mail info@bostonartsacademy.org.