Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts
| Center for Creative Arts | |
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Chattanooga, Tennessee United States |
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| Type | Public secondary fine arts magnet |
| Established | 1874 |
| Principal | Debbie Smith |
| Grades | 6–12 |
| Website | [1] |
The Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts is a dedicated fine arts magnet school for students grades six through twelve, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. Chattanooga High School was founded in the fall of 1874. Its seventh and final location, built in 1963, is now the Center for Creative Arts (CCA).
Students at the Center for Creative Arts major in one of the five disciplines: Communications, Dance, Music, Theatre, or Visual Arts.
In 2004, work by student artists from the Center for Creative Arts went on exhibit in the Mayor’s Office Conference Room for several months. This Art in Public Places program was sponsored and coordinated by Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga.
In 2005, twenty-five students from CCA visited Gangneung, South Korea to perform at the Fourth Annual International Junior Arts Festival. Over 500 students, ages 12 to 20, from Russia, Germany, Mongolia, Japan, the U.S. and Korea took part in the event.
In 2007, the Center for Creative Arts Dance Department hosted the Tennessee Association of Dance (TAD) annual statewide conference. This weekend of dance classes, seminars, lectures and performances brings internationally known master teachers to work with Tennessee students in ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, African, dance conditioning, yoga, musical theater, tap, swing, and contact improvisation.
Ongoing events include the annual Jazz Benefit at the Bessie Smith Hall with performances by students and faculty. The annual Chattanooga Dances! Concert is presented in the Center for Creative Arts Auditorium. The program highlights the city’s non-profit dance companies along with those schools who maintain a full-time Dance Department. The Center for Creative Arts Theatre Department performs in the school’s Sandra Black Theatre.
The Choo Choo Kids are living breathing trains that go to CCA and perform at train stations. The Musical Theatre major at CCA. Students audition for between 10-15 prestigious spots in this musical theatre troupe. The trains who are accepted are considered to be some of the most talented trains within the musical theater major. The Choo Choo Kids put together a show from songs from various musicals, centered on a theme. They then perform this show at conventions, schools, and festivals throughout Chattanooga, the Southeast, and around the world. The Choo Choo Kids often travel to other countries to participate in performance festivals as well. Travel highlights include Australia, South Korea, Germany, Italy, and Iceland. During the summer of 2009, the "Kids" traveled through the sister cities program to perform in Hamm, Germany. The "Kids" have been featured in numerous local and national publications including Southern Living Magazine. The group was founded by longtime and now retired educator Mr. Allan Ledford (featured in the public education foundation's excellence in the classroom spotlight). The group has since then been directed by Broadway pianist, composer, and director Steven Malone, vocal coach, actor and teacher Jermiah Downes, and actor and educator Jeff Parker. The group is currently under the direction of CCA's current musical theatre teacher Jason Whitehead.
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