J. Wallace James Arts Academy

The school houses a visual arts studio, dance studio, and production and performance areas. Kindergarten - 5th grade students with no previous art or music instruction are welcome.  The music program includes vocal and choral training, music appreciation, and instrument training.  Students have many different opportunities to learn an instrument, including: strings, piano, band, and guitar.  J. Wallace James also offers theater production, drama, dance, and visual art instruction.  Students explore all aspects of visual art, including: drawing, painting, printmaking, pottery, and sculpture.

Students who fulfill all entrance requirements receive pathway priority to L.J. Alleman Middle Middle School Arts Academy.  Students must still apply.

Corporal Michael Middlebrook Arts Academy

CPL Middlebrook Elementary is the newest site for a Visual and Performing Arts Academy.  Students will receive exposure to visual arts, theatre, dance, piano, band and vocal chorus. Students have many different opportunities to learn an instrument, including: piano and various band instruments.  The program is offered to kindergarten to fifth grade students.  Specialists in the area of visual and performing arts are members of the professional staff.  The program offers a K-2 exploration period with six week rotations.  Third graders get to pick four disciplines to focus on for nine week rotations.  Fourth and fifth graders choose one art discipline and focus on that area for the remainder of their time at Middlebrook.  The zone for this new academy will be students living East of the Vermillion River.  Students completing the program will have pathway priority to LJ Alleman Middle School Arts Academy.

Courses offered:

• Visual Arts
• Theatre
• Dance
• Piano
• Band
• Vocal/Chorus

K-2 exploration period (6 week rotation)
3rd grade pick 4 disciplines (9 week rotation)
4th-5th choosing art discipline

Arts Academy at LJ Alleman

The Arts Academy at LJ Alleman Middle School offers classes in visual arts, dance, drama, strings, guitar, band, piano, and chorus.  Auditions are required to apply and for placement, but prior experience is not required.  Audition requirements are posted on this website.                                                      

Selection is awarded randomly by lottery and students from J. Wallace James who fulfill all entrance requirements receive pathway priority.   L J Alleman students who successfully complete the middle school curriculum and fulfill  academy requirements receive pathway priority to Comeaux High School's Performing Arts or Visual and Applied Arts Academy.  Students must still apply.

LJ Alleman prepares students for academic success while enriched by the arts.  The LJ Alleman Arts Academy has a long history of providing quality arts and academic education to fulfill the dreams of students.

Visual & Performing Arts Academy at Comeaux High

The Academy of Performing Arts at Comeaux High School offers specialized training for students interested in music, and theatre.

Exploring the Arts

High school students interested in dance, piano, strings, chorus, band, drama and guitar will want to check out the High School Performing Arts Academy. Auditions are required for placement, but no prior experience  is required.

Students in this academy receive curriculum infused with the arts. Studies show that children who are exposed to the arts do better in school, so consider applying today.
 

The Academy of Visual & Applied Arts at Comeaux High

OVEY COMEAUX HIGH SCHOOL
This academy offers specialized instruction to students with an interest in careers in the visual and applied arts. The visual arts including design, drawing, painting, print making, sculpture, ceramics, and photography, along with the applied arts of graphic design, digital media, various levels of Adobe credentialing, are the focus of our rigorous and creative curriculum. Art History and Art Criticism, and Advanced Placement Studio Portfolio courses in 2 Dimensional, 3 Dimensional, and Drawing are also offered at the Academy of Visual and Applied Arts.
Careers in the visual and applied arts include: graphic artist, illustrator, set designer, potter/ ceramics artist, painter, photographer, camera operator, architect, cartoonist, art appraiser, industrial designer, web designer, director, story board designer, museum professional, art critic, and many others.
The Academy of Visual and Applied Arts curriculum is based on the standard TOPS recommended curriculum, which equips students with the skills they need to seek higher education and/or enter the workforce.

Leonard Bernstein Artful Learning And Lincoln Center Education, New York
The AVAA at Ovey Comeaux High School utilizes the Leonard Bernstein Artful Learning curriculum to create art infused lessons for students following the composer’s philosophy, which was that children will achieve more if they are excited and engaged in their learning.

Selected OCHS Core faculty have also been involved in intense arts integration training utilizing the Lincoln Center Education programs designed for educators throughout the United States and the Global Community. Bernstein Artful Learning and Lincoln Center Education, both based in New York, provide the best in arts integration methodologies for our faculty which is realized in the Ovey Comeaux High School classrooms.

In our academy, the arts are integrated across the curriculum, meaning that designated integration teachers use the arts to teach all subjects. Academy of Visual and Applied Arts students take classes in teams or cohorts and share core curriculum teachers. This enables Team teachers to meet weekly to discuss student progress and address specific student needs, as well as schedule enrichment activities such as field trips to local Art Museums, exhibition opportunities, community service projects, and cross curricular projects.