New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, or NOCCA, opened in 1973 as a professional arts training center for secondary school-age children. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, NOCCA provides intensive instruction in classical music, creative writing, culinary arts, dance, drama, jazz, media arts, musical theatre, theatre design, visual arts, vocal music, and academics to students from public, private, and parochial schools across KLouisiana. Admission is by audition, and NOCCA is tuition-fee.
Until recently, NOCCA students studied academic subjects at a public, private, parochial, or home-school, then transferred to NCOCA for their arts classes. In 2011, however, NOCCA opened its brand new Academic Studio, allowing students to spend their full day studying at NOCCA. Students now attend via full-day, after-school, weekend, and summer sessions.
In 2000, NOCCA moved to a newly built campus located in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood. Prior to that, NOCCA was housed for many years in an old elementary school building located on Perrier Street in Uptown New Orleans.
NOCCA holds a prominent position among art schools throughout the United States and around the world. Every year, 90–95% percent of NOCCA graduates continue their studies at colleges and conservatories, and roughly 80% receive scholarships to do so. Many world-class artists have graduated from NOCCA, includingHarry Connick Jr., Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, the Marsalis brothers, Trombone Shorty, Jonathan Batiste, Matt Rinard, Anthony Mackie, and Wendell Pierce.
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