home schools attend in the afternoon or late-day as well as Academic Studio students who attend NOCCA for the full day.
In 2000, NOCCA moved to a campus in the
Faubourg Marigny neighborhood. Before that, NOCCA was housed for many years in an old elementary school building on Perrier Street in Uptown New Orleans.
Curriculum
NOCCA students receive pre-professional arts training in one of eleven different arts disciplines, and additionally may participate in a full-day academic program, the Academic Studio.
* Classical Instrumental Music
* Creative Writing
*Culinary Arts
* Dance
* Drama
* Entertainment Production Design
* Jazz
* Media Arts
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Musical Theatre
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Visual Arts
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Vocal music
Launched in the fall of 2011, NOCCA's Academic Studio is a full-day, diploma-granting attendance option. To enroll in the Academic Studio, prospective students must successfully complete an arts audition and be accepted into a Level I program in one of NOCCA's eleven arts disciplines.
Admissions process
NOCCA acceptance is by audition only.
Notable alumni
* Musician
Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews
* Musician
Jon Batiste
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* Artist
Gustave Blache III
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Early life ...
* Musician
Terence Blanchard
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed ...
* Dancer
Bella Blue
* Musician and actor
Harry Connick Jr.
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* Novelist and poet
Nicole Cooley
Nicole Ruth Cooley is an American poet. She has authored six collections of poems, including ''Resurrection'', ''Breach'', ''Milk Dress'', and ''Of Marriage''. Her work has appeared in ''Poetry'', ''Field'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Poetry Northwest'', ...
* Writer
Lolis Eric Elie
* Musician
Donald Harrison
* Actress
JoNell Kennedy
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Personal life
Kennedy was m ...
* Musician
Doreen Ketchens
Doreen Ketchens (born October 3, 1966) is an American jazz clarinetist who performs Dixieland and Trad Jazz. She has performed at concert halls, music festivals, and U.S. embassies, as well as in decades of weekly performances in Dixieland's tradit ...
* Actor
Anthony Mackie
* Musicians
Branford,
Wynton,
Delfeayo, and
Jason Marsalis
* Conductor
Paul Mauffray
* Musician
Paul Meany
* Musician
Jeffery Miller
* Rap Artist
3D Na'Tee
* Musician
Nicholas Payton
* Actor
Wendell Pierce
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* Musician
Nick Sanders
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In 1992 he rode around the world on a Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle.
On 9 ...
* Musician
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
* Filmmaker
Phillip Youmans
NOCCA Foundation
The NOCCA Foundation is NOCCA’s nonprofit partner, providing supplemental funding for NOCCA and advocacy for its world-class program. Some of the Foundation’s more notable endeavors include: a Student Success Program that pays for students’ classroom supplies as well as fees associated with important summer training programs across the country; an Artists-in-Residence Program that brings more than 100 professional visiting artists into NOCCA’s classrooms each year; the capital campaign for NOCCA’s current home and expansion projects like Press Street Gardens; a wide array of arts classes for adults; and concert, gallery, and literary events for the community. The Foundation also oversees rentals of the NOCCA campus, making it available to arts organizations, individuals, corporations, and other groups.
References
External links
Official websiteThe NOCCA Institute
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Art schools in Louisiana
Culture of New Orleans
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Schools of the performing arts in the United States
Educational institutions established in 1973
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