Arts Schools Network

Arts Schools Network (ASN) is a non-profit professional association founded in 1981.

In 1981, the Los Angeles Unified School District was planning to open a new school for the arts. The superintendent, assisted by Joan Boyette of the Music Center Education Division of Los Angeles, invited twelve arts school administrators to meet in Los Angeles in April 1981 to help in the planning. This was the first time these twelve administrators had all met together. They included leaders of the country’s most prestigious arts schools: James Nelson, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL; Daryl Chambers, Booker T. Washington High School for the Arts, Dallas, TX; William Dickinson, School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH; Gail Thompson, Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CN; Maurice Eldridge, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC; William Lawrence, English High School of Visual and Performing Arts, Boston, MA; Mary Martha Lappe, High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX; Karen Carroll, Hope High School, Providence, RI; Roger Jacobi, Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI; Richard Klein, LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, New York, NY; Thomas Tews, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans, LA; Jane van Hoven, North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC.

From this and subsequent meetings, a planning committee, chaired by Maurice Eldridge, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, was created to draft bylaws and appoint officers. The first annual conference, held in October 1983, was hosted by James Undercofler and the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT. Representatives from fifty schools attended.

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