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The Chicago Academy for the Arts application is now open! We invite you to submit your application for the 2019-2020 school year. Visit our website to begin. You will need to create a profile to begin the process. This will make it easy to save your application and continue later. To learn more about The Academy, please consult our Admissions Calendar for visiting dates, including Academic Nights and Department Open Houses. You can also register for our Fall Saturdays at The Academy program. Please note that the application is only open to students entering the 8th, 9th, or 10th grades in the fall of 2018. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts

Visual Arts and Media Arts Open Houses! There will be admissions events in conjunction with their exhibition and show on November 9 (VA) and November 17 (MA). Register on our website! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #visualart #film #animation #poetry

Amazing performance by Lila Thome (Music '21) at yesterday's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (and congratulations to her dad, Jim)! Beautiful performance, Lila! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #halloffame #cooperstown

Theatre and Musical Theatre Department Open Houses! Their fall shows are October 13 and November 10. Register online to attend the shows and stick around for open house discussions. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #theatre #musicaltheatre

Dance Department Open Houses! Register now to visit the Department's rehearsals on Saturday, October 13, and Saturday, November 3. Discussion with the Department Head Randy Duncan, dance faculty, and current families will accompany the event. The open houses will begin at 10 a.m. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #dance #ballet

The Academy is pleased to invite interested families to The Academy for the Music Department Open House on Friday, October 5 at 6 p.m. Families can attend a jazz and classical performance by Music Department students and discuss the Department curriculum with current families and faculty, including Department Head Rose Colella. Visit our website to register! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #music #jazz #classical

A few more at @jazz_showcase ! @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #jazz #jazzshowcase

A few photos from the May jazz concert at @jazz_showcase ! Photos by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #jazz #jazzshowcase

Registration is open for 2018-2019 Admissions Events at The Academy, including Academic Nights, Conversations with the Head of School, 7th Grade Preview Days, and Department Open Houses! Each arts department at The Academy has structured their Open House around one of their performances, exhibitions, or shows. This will give you an opportunity to see the work of current Academy students, in addition to information sessions with students and faculty. Our entire Admissions Calendar is on our website. We look forward to meeting you! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts

Registration for the Fall Saturday Program is now open! We invite families interested in The Academy to sign up for the ten-week intensive. Visit our website for more details. The Academy offers a ten-week Saturday program for students entering the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades in the fall. The 2018 fall program will feature five concentrations: Dance: Ballet and Modern, Media Arts: Explorations in Filmmaking and Animation, Music: Jazz Combo for Instrumentalists & Vocalists, Theatre & Musical Theatre: Shakespeare Scene Study and Technique, and Visual Arts: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture. The 2018 fall session will begin September 15 and conclude November 17. Each session begins at 10 a.m. and concludes at 12 p.m. #CAArts #SmartArtistsSmartArt

ICYMI: Miguel Lucero's (Media Arts '21) "Battle of the Seasons" from the 2018 Winter Juried Festival! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #animation

The Academy Jazz Quartet from this May's jazz concert at Jazz Showcase! This is a clip from "Witch Hunt", featuring Declan Beyer, Adam Chlebek, Micah Collier, and Ilana Weisbach. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #jazz @jazz_showcase

Part 2! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #summer

The 2018 Academy Summer Program is a wrap! It was a joy to have these kids as part of the Academy community last week. They worked extremely hard throughout the six-day intensive, and their dedication and passion were evident in the inspiring sketching, painting, dancing, singing, filming, writing, and acting we saw on Saturday. Our faculty is so happy to have had the distinct pleasure of working with these students. We hope they feel proud of what they accomplished working with their peers within the Academy curriculum. We hope to see you again soon! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #summer

A few photos of Ben Dicke (Theatre Department Chair) and Andy Robinson (Musical Department Chair) in "My Fair Lady" at @wagonwheelcenterforthearts ! Photos by Scott Michaels. #CAArts

"We all create: whether it be art, a business, a family or any other form of creation. And that’s enough to lessen the gap between what we perceive as “us” and “them”. We’ll never all agree on everything, but we all certainly have the capacity to understand one another." Isle Marquez from the @luminartsculturalfoundation Speech Contest! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts

"The truths art explores might not allow us to completely forget our predispositions and beliefs, but they do allow us to see things from a fresh perspective. The more art we observe and make, the more insight on different perspectives we gain. And the deeper we understand others’ perspectives, the more we may come to empathize with them." Leo Ritterhoff from the @luminartsculturalfoundation Speech Contest! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts

"The world needs such acts of community that are intrinsic to theatre and art. The listening, focus, and respect generated by such circles and communities are invaluable to how we treat others and make the world spin." Molly Bremer from April's @luminartsculturalfoundation Speech Contest! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts

"The artist’s ability to say the most difficult things in ways that can only be interpreted through our innermost selves, brings about an overpowering sense of empathy. And it is this empathy that allows artist and audience to overcome our private languages and speak truly to one another. That is, to speak together as one, and engage in a public language that recognizes the hardest truth to see in the simplest of way: we are all human beings." Gianna Rotkvich at this year's @luminartsculturalfoundation Speech Contest! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts Photo by @thomasmohrphotography

"Art is powerful. In any form, art can bring people together and, even for a little bit, help people see eye to eye." Grania McKirdie from the @luminartsculturalfoundation Speech Contest! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts