Alumni Spotlight: Deleah Silva

Deleah graduated from LACHSA in 1998 from the Theatre program. Her love for LACHSA runs so deep that she currently has 3 children attending! We were able to ask her a few questions about LACHSA around her tremendously busy schedule: - Tell us a little about your time at LACHSA LACHSA was only 10-12 grade

By |2024-12-12T18:39:34+00:00December 12th, 2024|Categories: Alumni, Arts Education, Cinematic Arts, Current Students, Education, Interview, LACHSA Alumni, LACHSA student artists, Music, News, Parents, Theatre|Comments Off on Alumni Spotlight: Deleah Silva

How Kamal Sinclair’s Dance Background Helps Her Imagine New Futures

By conventional standards, LACHSA Alum Kamal Sinclair has had upwards of a dozen different careers. She’s been a dancer, a producer, a choreographer, a director, a creative advisor and an executive director, among other sundry positions. Today, she is a member of the executive leadership team at the Guild of Future Architects, which is designed

By |2022-02-02T04:40:55+00:00February 2nd, 2022|Categories: Arts Education, Education, LACHSA Alumni, LACHSA student artists|Tags: , , |Comments Off on How Kamal Sinclair’s Dance Background Helps Her Imagine New Futures

‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’ Music Video From L.A. Performing Arts High School Focuses On Mental Health

Tick, Tick...Boom! is a passionate film that deals with the mental health struggles of the late Rent director Jonathan Larson as he tried to create musical theater greatness in the 1990s while working at the Moondance Diner in New York and feeling like a failure because he was about to turn 30 without having a breakthrough hit

By |2022-01-31T16:32:18+00:00December 3rd, 2021|Categories: Arts Education, Cinematic Arts, Current Students, Diversity, Education, LACHSA student artists, Media, Theatre|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’ Music Video From L.A. Performing Arts High School Focuses On Mental Health

Tick Tick Boom is a Sound Louder Than Words for LACHSA Students

The cast and crew, from left, Liana Bartolome, 16, Sam Karpinski, 17, Randy Damas, 18, Leilani Patao, 18, Benji Tucker, 18, Vivian Wolfson, 17, Elton McCrudden, 15, Pascal Connolly, 15, of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Louder Than Words” High School Edition, a piece for “tick, tick…Boom!” pose at LACHSA in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 30, 2021.

By |2023-10-26T00:06:43+00:00December 3rd, 2021|Categories: Arts Education, Cinematic Arts, Current Students, Diversity, Education, LACHSA student artists, Media, Music, Theatre|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Tick Tick Boom is a Sound Louder Than Words for LACHSA Students

2 portraits of young men face off — and show a story about race in the history of art

There's a face-off at the Huntington Museum of Art near Los Angeles. The contenders are Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century painting Blue Boy and Kehinde Wiley's very 21st-century Portrait of a Young Gentleman. The two young men are sportily dressed and look directly at visitors; they even stand the same way. But there is one major difference. They remind me of trading

By |2022-01-31T16:39:12+00:00November 10th, 2021|Categories: Arts Education, Diversity, LACHSA Alumni, Visual Arts|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on 2 portraits of young men face off — and show a story about race in the history of art

Nicole Lam – A Concert Pianist and A Mezzo-Soprano Opera Singer

Clairbourn graduates are SCHOLARS who are grounded in the values of honesty, respect, responsibility, spirituality, and citizenship. Nicole Lam was a part of the Clairbourn Class of 2017. She recently graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) as valedictorian. This fall, she will be attending Yale University, majoring in applied mathematics while

By |2022-01-31T16:43:27+00:00November 10th, 2021|Categories: Alumni, Arts Education, Diversity, Music|Tags: , |Comments Off on Nicole Lam – A Concert Pianist and A Mezzo-Soprano Opera Singer

LACHSA Dance Legend Don Martin 

Donald R. Martin (1931- 2021), a highly regarded Los Angeles-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher who taught for 15 plus years at Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, passed away peacefully at his home in West Hollywood on July 4th. Mr. Martin was a student at Jefferson High in South Central LA in the

By |2022-02-01T06:09:54+00:00July 9th, 2021|Categories: Arts Education, Dance, LACHSA Faculty|Tags: , |Comments Off on LACHSA Dance Legend Don Martin 

Student Athlete of the Week: Assata Gaines

Originally published at the Los Angeles Sentinel By Amanda Scurlock sports writer, published July 1, 2021 Assata Gaines, a graduating senior from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), earned a full scholarship to attend NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Gaines not only looks forward to studying dance at the university

By |2022-02-01T06:11:39+00:00July 1st, 2021|Categories: Arts Education, Dance, LACHSA Alumni|Tags: , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Student Athlete of the Week: Assata Gaines

Inglewood dancer earns full scholarship to NYU

Hard work paid off when 17-year-old Assata Gaines from Inglewood found out she earned a full-ride dance scholarship to NYU. INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- An Inglewood dancer just earned a full-ride to New York University, but it didn't come without hard work and sacrifice. 17-year-old Assata Gaines always knew she wanted to dance, but when

By |2022-02-01T06:13:46+00:00June 22nd, 2021|Categories: Arts Education, Dance, Diversity, Education|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Inglewood dancer earns full scholarship to NYU

‘Opening the Door Wider’: With Upcoming Admissions Decisions, Top-Ranked L.A. Arts School Puts Equity in the Spotlight

Nyla Joseph has felt at ease in front of a camera ever since appearing in a public service announcement six years ago. But her dreams of becoming an actor were frustrated because her South Los Angeles middle school lacks a theater program. And her mother was leery of internet scams promising to turn her daughter into the

By |2022-02-01T06:15:19+00:00April 9th, 2021|Categories: Alumni, Arts Education, Cinematic Arts, Current Students, Diversity, Equity, LACHSA student artists, Scholarships, Visual Arts|Tags: , , |Comments Off on ‘Opening the Door Wider’: With Upcoming Admissions Decisions, Top-Ranked L.A. Arts School Puts Equity in the Spotlight
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