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At High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology, a rich arts program with a strong studio and performance component is essential to our students' academic growth. Our visual arts studio curriculum emphasizes self-reflection and social commentary and includes basic studio art, mixed media, fashion, and design. Our students learn to work in a variety of media including pencil, charcoal, water color, collage, pastel, linoleum, and ink print. Students display their work in exhibitions. Courses that provide students with art-technology experience in our newly renovated computer labs include digital photography, graphic design, and yearbook. Performance-based courses include music appreciation, instrumental music, drama workshop, and musical theater. Student performances take place every year in our newly renovated, state-of-the-art auditorium, where we also screen full-length feature films. We have a long standing collaboration with Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Theater Development Fund (TDF) Open Doors Program, and the New York Theater Workshop. Students visit museums and theaters including Museum of Modern Art , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Brooklyn Historical Society. In the last few years, students have worked with the Thrive Collective and designed and painted large-scale murals throughout the school, reflecting themes of diversity, resilience, and community. During virtual learning, instruction in the arts continued online and in- person, and students continued to create on platforms such as Garageband, Photoshop, YouTube, and other video editing platforms.
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Programming for the 2020-2021 school year was particularly difficult because of remote learning. As a result, students attended fewer events in person and had less access to the normal performance opportunities available. In the coming year, we will resume more activities in person for the students while continuing to offer them work with some of the online platforms teachers made use of while the students were learning virtually.