The School for Creative and Performing Arts
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The School for Creative and Performing Arts was founded in 1973 as part of the settlement of the Bronson desegregation suit against Cincinnati Public Schools. As the city’s public school system was being overhauled to afford all students an equal, free, appropriate and integrated education, the time was ripe to launch a truly unique school. This unique school would provid not only top notch academic instruction but also pre-professional arts training.
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The School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) is a magnet arts school in Cincinnati, Ohio and part of the Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS). SCPA was founded in 1973 as one of the first magnet schools in Cincinnati and became the first school in the country to combine a full range of arts studies with a complete college-preparatory academic program for elementary through high school students. Of the approximately 350 arts schools in the United States, SCPA is one of the oldest and has been cited as a model for both racial integration and for arts programs in over 100 cities.
Students must audition for admission; fewer than 20 percent of those who apply each year are accepted. SCPA is free to CPS students but also attracts tuition-paying students from outside the district and the state. The newly combined school will serve approximately 1,300 students in 2010, offering a curriculum designed to prepare students for professional careers in creative writing, dance, drama, music, technical theater, and visual art. The emphasis is on performance, and students in every field are required to perform or present their work in public regularly. Students compete successfully in arts competitions locally and internationally. On standardized tests, SCPA ranks second among Cincinnati public schools. Ninety percent of graduating seniors continue on to college, and those students receive one of the highest levels of scholarship funding in the city.
The new building, called the Erich Kunzel Center for Arts and Education, opened for 1,350 students in August, 2010. The million facility, bordered by Elm, Race, and 12th streets and facing Central Parkway, was designed by Moody–Nolan, a large minority-owned architectural firm known for its numerous design awards, and is the largest development project in Over-the-Rhine since Music Hall. Civic leaders have called construction of the school "key to renovation of Over-the-Rhine" and development plans for the area include the renovation of Music Hall, a new parking garage and public plaza nearby, and a major expansion of Washington Park.
A reflective stainless steel panel with a diapering pattern curves around the L-shaped building and an "urban curve" of zinc wraps the main theater at the front of the building, contrasting with the brick walls of the school, the design and materials of which reflect those used in the building's neighborhood.
" The Window Cleaner : A Sculpture by Allan Sly : Looking Up Capital House, Edgware Road, London, England, UK : Urban Art "
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The Window Cleaner [ Sculpture ]
By Allan Sly
Location: Capital House, Edgware Road, London, England, UK
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About the Sculptor:
Allan Sly
Born in Windsor, Berkshire, U.K. in 1951.
Studied Sculpture at the City & Guilds of London Art School from 1971 - 74, followed by postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Art, London, from 1974 - 77.
Awards include: The Beckwith Scholarship, British Institution Award, the Royal Academy of Arts Silver and Bronze medals for sculpture and the Elizabeth T Greenshields Memorial Foundation Award for figurative sculpture.
Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992 and is presently Senior Lecturer at Wimbledon College of Art.
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" The Window Cleaner : A Sculpture by Allan Sly : Looking Up Capital House, Edgware Road, London, England, UK : Urban Art "
Image by || UggBoy♥UggGirl || PHOTO || WORLD || TRAVEL ||
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The Window Cleaner [ Sculpture ]
By Allan Sly
Location: Capital House, Edgware Road, London, England, UK
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About the Sculptor:
Allan Sly
Born in Windsor, Berkshire, U.K. in 1951.
Studied Sculpture at the City & Guilds of London Art School from 1971 - 74, followed by postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Art, London, from 1974 - 77.
Awards include: The Beckwith Scholarship, British Institution Award, the Royal Academy of Arts Silver and Bronze medals for sculpture and the Elizabeth T Greenshields Memorial Foundation Award for figurative sculpture.
Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992 and is presently Senior Lecturer at Wimbledon College of Art.
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" The Window Cleaner : A Sculpture by Allan Sly : Looking Up Capital House, Edgware Road, London, England, UK : Urban Art "
Image by || UggBoy♥UggGirl || PHOTO || WORLD || TRAVEL ||
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The Window Cleaner [ Sculpture ]
By Allan Sly
Location: Capital House, Edgware Road, London, England, UK
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About the Sculptor:
Allan Sly
Born in Windsor, Berkshire, U.K. in 1951.
Studied Sculpture at the City & Guilds of London Art School from 1971 - 74, followed by postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Art, London, from 1974 - 77.
Awards include: The Beckwith Scholarship, British Institution Award, the Royal Academy of Arts Silver and Bronze medals for sculpture and the Elizabeth T Greenshields Memorial Foundation Award for figurative sculpture.
Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992 and is presently Senior Lecturer at Wimbledon College of Art.
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" The Window Cleaner : A Sculpture by Allan Sly : Looking Up Capital House, Edgware Road, London, England, UK : Urban Art "
Image by || UggBoy♥UggGirl || PHOTO || WORLD || TRAVEL ||
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The Window Cleaner [ Sculpture ]
By Allan Sly
Location: Capital House, Edgware Road, London, England, UK
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About the Sculptor:
Allan Sly
Born in Windsor, Berkshire, U.K. in 1951.
Studied Sculpture at the City & Guilds of London Art School from 1971 - 74, followed by postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Art, London, from 1974 - 77.
Awards include: The Beckwith Scholarship, British Institution Award, the Royal Academy of Arts Silver and Bronze medals for sculpture and the Elizabeth T Greenshields Memorial Foundation Award for figurative sculpture.
Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992 and is presently Senior Lecturer at Wimbledon College of Art.
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