Though NOCCA students work with a master artist/teacher for three or four years, the opportunity to see a significant body of their teachers’ life’s work is still a rare treat. The retrospective of Visual Arts …
The GRAMMY Foundation selected NOCCA as a 2011 Signature School Enterprise Award Recipient, one of 36 nationwide. Created in 1998, the GRAMMY Signature Schools program recognizes the top U.S. public high schools that are making …
The NOCCA Institute funded 65 artist residences this past year, and NOCCA welcomed many more master artists into its classrooms who provided invaluable experiences to young artists developing their own voices and goals. The Artists-in-Residence …
The NOCCA Institute awarded over $130,000 in Term-Time and Summer Study Financial Aid in 2010-11. The Term-Time program, which helps students with department fees, supplies, required private music lessons, and travel to the Chicago Unified …
Visiting master artists tell students: build on your strengths. NOCCA’s great strength is its approach to teaching. Louisiana’s great strength is creativity. As an arts-training school, we approached the development of a new academic curriculum …
Donate Life, a short film produced by the Legacy Donor Foundation (LDF) in collaboration with NOCCA, is the story of a high school student named Claire, who needs a heart transplant. Viewers follow Claire’s journey …
By the fourth day of the summer session, everyone from NOCCA was in the kitchen. (It was pastry day!) It hasn’t taken long for Culinary Arts to become part of NOCCA’s heart and soul. We …
Sally Perry, Executive Director of The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Institute (The NOCCA Institute), has been accepted into National Arts Strategies‘ highly competitive Chief Executive Program. As one of 100 leaders in the …
The NOCCA Institute and the Lupin Foundation invite you to one of the best parties in a city known for its parties: ART & SOUL, benefiting the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Louisiana’s …
Join us in NOCCA’s intimate Nims Black Box Theatre on Monday, May 2 at 7:30pm as four outstanding classical musicians from across Asia join forces to support relief efforts in the wake of the recent …
Join us at NOCCA on Tuesday, March 22 as Chef Emeril Lagasse marks the launch of the Culinary Arts program at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts! The celebration begins as Chef Emeril unveils the new …
NOCCA’s “On the Edge” gallery series presents a Visiting Artist exhibition January 20 – February 25, 2011 Opening reception: January 20, 6pm – 8pm The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and The NOCCA Institute …
“Music is not a competitive thing. You must be constantly trying to help each other,” renowned Jazz drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts impressed upon jazz music students from NOCCA, Loyola, UNO and Tulane University. They had …
“An actor’s job is to excite, surprise, make one feel,” Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Blythe Danner honed in on as she critiqued the monologues of 12th grade Drama and Musical Theatre students preparing for …
Musical Theatre and Drama students could not have asked for a more experienced practitioner in their field with which to work than Jeff Passero. The New York City resident is renowned as a casting director, …
