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Guide to the Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School (CAPA) Records 1979-1999
Metadata Details
- Title
- Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School (CAPA) records 1979-1999
- Subject
- Bates, Beverly L, Bates, JoAnne L, Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Education--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, High schools--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Magnet schools--Pennsylvania, Public schools--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- The Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School Records include correspondence, exhibition and gallery programs, awards, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The majority of the correspondence is that of Beverly L. Bates and JoAnne L. Bates who were teachers at CAPA and coordinators within the art department beginning in the 1980s. Also included are memos and communication letters between other staff members of CAPA. In 1999, CAPA Celebrated its 20th anniversary and correspondence from the planning of the celebration and anniversary programs are included in the collection. The exhibition and gallery programs are from student and faculty exhibits shown at the school and at various Pittsburgh galleries. Newspaper clippings from Pittsburgh and regional newspapers showcase the work of CAPA students, and provide information about CAPA and its activities in the greater Pittsburgh community. Also included in the collection are grant documents and operational information relating to several grant-funded projects including the 1995 Story Hat Project, The Yurt Project in 1997, and the artist in residence program. The photographs depict CAPA faculty and students, as well as student and faculty art projects., Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School (CAPA) records, 1979-1999, MSS 936, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., JoAnne Bates Gift 1999 1999.0221, Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School (CAPA) is a public magnet school located in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa., that provides study in theatre, dance, visual arts, art, and music. Part of the Pittsburgh Public Schools system and serving 6th through 12th grades, CAPA originally existed as the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts and Rogers Middle School for the Creative and Performing Arts until a merger in 2009. The former was originally housed in a repurposed Baxter School and community center building located in the Pittsburgh Brushton neighborhood, and was opened in September of 1978 as a magnet school under Dr. Harry Clark. The first students to attend CAPA High School did so on a part time basis, attending classes at their home schools in the morning and at CAPA in the afternoon. Enrollment reached 75 students by the end of the first year but it was not until 1983 that the school introduced a full-time program from which students could earn their high school diploma directly through CAPA. The School has grown significantly and enrolls over 500 students with majors available in dance, instrumental and vocal music, literary arts, theatre, and visual arts. The school offers studies including mainstream, Pittsburgh Scholars Program (PSP) and Centers for Advanced Study (CAS) along with a full range of extracurricular student organizations. In 2003, CAPA moved into downtown Pittsburgh, providing expanded and updated facilities, as well as direct access to the Pittsburgh Cultural District., Gift of JoAnne Bates, Processed MSS 936 04/2013 M. Hall, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1979-1999
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, 1.0 linear feet
- Identifier
- oclc:840275290, pitt:US-QQS-mss936
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss936
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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