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Information about applying to a Creative and Performing Arts program and the audition process
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Center for the Visual and Performing Arts
About CVPA
The Center for the Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) is a rigorous four-year high school arts program created and funded by Prince George's County Public Schools to provide interested and highly motivated high school students with pre-professional training in Dance, Music, Theatre, Media and the Visual Art. CVPA students are from throughout Prince George's County, and are selected through an application and audition process.
Once selected, students declare an arts major and complete up to twenty credits in the arts while concurrently meeting their academic high school requirements at Suitland High School. This level of rigor and artistry is rewarded each year when graduating students are awarded millions in scholarship monies and go on to attend some of the most prestigious conservatories and universities.
Today alumni of CVPA are working among some of the most respected arts organizations such as The Alvin Ailey Dance Company, The Royal Ballet and Broadway. As well as exhibited in some of the world's most exclusive galleries.
Components of CVPA
- Academic Excellence
- Artistic Growth
- Superior ratings at district and state level performance assessments
- Students earn more than $8 million dollars in scholarships
- Adjunct faculty provide private and small group applied lessons
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Colleges and Universities Attended by CVPA Alumni
- Alabama State University
- AMDA New York
- Anne Arundel Community College
- Aveda Institute
- California College of Arts
- Cleveland Institute of Art
- Coastal Carolina University
- Coppin State University
- Deleware College of Art and Design
- Drexel University
- Full Sail University
- George Mason University
- Gordon College
- Hampton University
- Hofstra University
- Howard Community College
- Maryland Institute College of Art
- Montgomery College School of Art and Design
- Morgan State University
- Norfolk State University
- North Carolina A & T State University
- North Carolina Central University
- Prince George's Community College
- Roanoke College
- Salisbury University
- Shaw University
- Shenandoah University
- South Carolina State University
- Spelman College
- Syracuse University
- Towson University
- University of Hartford
- University of Hartford (The Hartt School of Music)
- West Texas A & M University