High School of Art and Design

The High School of Art and Design is a Career and Technical Education high school located at 1075 Second Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets in Manhattan, New York City, New York.

It is operated by the New York City Department of Education. Founded in 1936 as the School of Industrial Art, it moved to its present location in the center of the city's design district in September 1960, and offers a traditional academic education, augmented with advanced courses in the professional arts. Ninety percent of its graduates continue on in post-secondary education.

Students at Art and Design receive two periods of art instruction per day, choosing from among four art majors: cartooning and animation, architecture, illustration (which includes fashion illustration and medical illustration), and new media (which includes digital photography and filmmaking). Applicants must take an entrance exam and present a portfolio to be accepted.

Art and Design's Kenny Gallery, named for the school's founding principal John B. Kenny, hosts monthly art exhibits of student work, in addition to the annual display of Region 9's best student work and the annual faculty art show and sale. The ground floor art gallery faces Second Avenue and is open to the public. The school has a weight room, a library and a{ black box theater where the Roundabout Theater Company works with students on drama. The theater was donated by the Friends of Art and Design (FAD).

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Notable alumni

This is a list selected by the school's Alumni Association.

Faculty includes

References

  1. ^ a b c d Tweti, Mira. "School's Alumni and Staff Feel Its Art Emphasis Is Neglected", The New York Times, December 5, 2001. Accessed October 29, 2007. "Graduates include the designer Calvin Klein, the singer Tony Bennett, the playwright Harvey Fierstein and the filmmaker Ralph Bakshi."
  2. ^ a b Schiro, Anne-Marie. "Bill Haire, 60, Fashion Designer Who Specialized in Sportswear", The New York Times, May 2, 1995. Accessed February 10, 2008.
  3. ^ Antonio Lopez & Juan Ramos, Smithsonian Institution, http://latino.si.edu/virtualgallery/antonio/bios.htm, retrieved 2009-12-04 
  4. ^ Kastner, Jeffrey. "ART/ARCHITECTURE; An Energetic Imagist Who Dances With Chance", The New York Times, August 19, 2001. Accessed November 19, 2007.
  5. ^ Donadoni, Serena. /story.asp?id=143 "Hormonal pyrotechnics 101: Amy Heckerling on life, love and other high-school explosives."], Metro Times, July 26, 2000. Accessed February 10, 2008. "Few filmmakers are as in touch with their inner teenager as Amy Heckerling, even if her own experience is diametrically opposed to those of the California teens in her best films. The Bronx native attended the High School of Art and Design in nearby Manhattan, where she focused on photography, and eventually moved on to New York University to study film."
  6. ^ Contributor's Notes, Eclectica magazine, October / November 2005. Accessed August 6, 2008. "Eljay Persky grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village, attending the High School of Art and Design."
  7. ^ Le Marie, Nicole. "Hot on Prada's heels, the divine Marc Jacobs", The Independent, February 25, 2007. Accessed April 18, 2008. "Since graduating from the New York High School of Art and Design in 1981 and moving on to the Parsons School of Design, the New Yorker has gathered accolades galore and is now artistic director for Louis Vuitton."
  8. ^ "Femmes Fatales: An Installation by Lady Pink, The Galleries at Moore. Accessed July 24, 2008.
  9. ^ Yahoo News Who really posed for the Heisman Trophy Retrieved September 22, 2010

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