Fine & Performing Arts Academy

The Fine & Performing Arts Academy will allow our students to explore and refine their specific skills and interests in the arts. There are four distinct concentration paths that will allow our students to best prepare for post-secondary readiness in their given artistic career:

• Performing Arts
• Fine Arts
• Digital Design
• Dramatic Arts 

A key component of the academy experience is for each student to maintain and be recognized for their out of school participation in artistic events, such as NYSSMA festivals, art exhibitions, musicals and drama productions. These experiences are key real-world developmental components to the refinement of what students are learning in curricular courses. Students will also experience shadow days connected to the Long Island University School of Performing Arts or School of Visual Arts, Communications and Digital Technologies and opportunities to collaborate with professional musicians and artists (master classes), which will allow them to develop a sense of the next steps in their artistic career. 
 

• Performing Arts Concentration: Instrumental and vocal students will have the opportunity to reach their personal best as musicians through participation in rigorous performance ensembles. All students will be required to participate in after school ensembles on and off campus.
• Fine Arts Concentration: Creative arts students will have the ultimate opportunity to develop their own artistic voice, vision and artistic process. Through rigorous, progressive course opportunities and public exhibition opportunities, students will prepare for post-secondary life as an artist.
• Digital Design Concentration: Students will explore the world of digital design through a range of courses in photography, computer graphics, and marketing and design. Each of these courses learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to enhance their artistic development. Students will have the  opportunity to advance their photographic skills through the use of DSLR cameras while honing their editing skills in a state-of-the-art Apple computer lab. Through rigorous, progressive course opportunities and public exhibition expectations, students will prepare for post-secondary life as an artist in the digital domain.
• Dramatic Arts Concentration: Students will explore various roles in theatre arts. Whether on the stage or designing elements for the stage, students will have an opportunity to develop theatrical skills. Leveraging Baldwin High School’s extensive, high quality co-curricular musicals and drama productions, students will weave their artistic and theatrical curricular experiences into extensive preparation for a post-secondary portfolio for theatrical life.