New academy teaches inner-city students: Make art, go to college
UCLA Newsroom covers the School of the Arts and Architecture's FORM Academy
UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture's FORM Academy initiative helps students from underserved high schools get a feel for college life.
"The Sculpture Lab in UCLA’s Broad Art Center was abuzz with activity last month when 30 students from underserved high schools throughout Los Angeles made art and got a taste of the college-going experience with faculty, students and alumni from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
The students were the inaugural class of FORM (Fabricate, Originate, Reimagine, and Make) Academy, a new community outreach program created by Barbara Drucker, the school's associate dean of community engagement and arts education and professor of painting and drawing, in collaboration with architecture professor Ben Refuerzo, associate dean of equity, diversity and inclusion.
Drucker, a longtime advocate for arts education, is also the founding director of the school's Visual and Performing Arts Education Program, which provides a wide range of education courses, internships, projects, and public presentations for L.A. students and the community at large."— Joanie Harmon, September 8, 2016
Read the full article at the UCLA Newsroom website.