One of the most prestigious art schools in the country, founded in 1903 and located outside Boston. The students here are the elite: the best at whatever they do, be it dance, drama, music, visual art, or fashion. The atmosphere is competitive: students are encouraged to do their best but also to beat others. And everyone is ambitious: they know there are only so many roles in a play, so many musicians in a band or orchestra. And there is only ever one lead. Threatened with the closing of the school, these students will do anything to keep it open. Friendship means nothing when your future is at stake. Weatherfield may be an arts school, but it is still a high school - and this is what high school is about. Competition, drama, gossip, it's all here, but added is that desire to be the best.
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Topic: Weatherfield Academy for the Arts (Read 648 times)
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Weatherfield Academy for the Arts « Thread Started on Oct 31, 2007, 7:44pm »
Welcome to Weatherfield Academy for the Arts. Located outside Boston, Massachussetts, it was originally founded in 1903 by Charles A. Weatherfield. Charles A. Weatherfield, although not an artist of any sort himself, was a lover of the arts, and he married a young painter.
Weatherfield Academy started out as a single building with significant grounds outside Boston. Originally a day school, albeit one with a very long day from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm, dormitories and the option of boarding were made available in 1920. By this time, other buildings had been added as well - a separate cafeteria, a theater, and a gallery building. In the summer of 1924, Weatherfield underwent major renovations. The original building was converted into a dorm (Linsom Hall, after the school's first principal) and in addition to the rooms built in 1920 (Dusten Hall), two more dorm buildings were built. Smith Hall, designed for scholarship students, and Weatherfield Hall, named after the school's founder. Each of the departments was given its own building, named after the original heads of the departments - Vandellan Hall for art, Meyer Hall for music, Jacobs Hall for theater and drama, and Beech Hall for dance. The fashion department was not added until 1950, when one of the visual art students suggested that fashion design might also be considered art. This idea migrated its way through the student and faculty body until it reached the principal. In 1951, a new building began construction. It was completed in 1952 and named Miller Hall after the student who had suggested the addition of the fashion department.
Weatherfield's record soon became a prestigious one, afer several of its alumni gained quite an amount of fame in the world of art - principal cellist of the Boston Symphony, lead dancer in a production of Swan Lake, art on display in the Museum of Fine Arts. With the construction and conversion of its three new dorms in 1924, Weatherfield also began to offer scholarships - students would send in a sample of their work - a tape of a performance, a videotaped soliloquy, art work, clothes or sketches of clothes that they had designed - and then present themselves for an interview. The size of the student body increased dramatically, because of the dorms as well as the availability of scholarships.
It is now the 2007-2008 school year, and Weatherfield is undergoing construction again, attempting to build a new showcase facility which will include a larger theater with newer technology, a more modern, nicer, art gallery, and several lecture and conference rooms for students and teachers. Unfortunately, the school has not been able to raise sufficient money to completely pay for the new facilities. They have already spent a considerable amount of money on them that could have - and perhaps should have - gone to other causes. So, threatened with a possible imminent closing of the school and certainly with not having a new arts facility, the faculty have made a decision: to turn over the fundraising to the students who, with their desire to succeed in the world of art, will certainly, be willing to go all out to raise money. As additional incentive, the department that raises the most money will have a plaque inscribed with all of their names hung by the door of the building.
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