Tag: Buffalo School
sunday may 4th 2008
Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts
“We’ve been the best kept secret in Western New York for close to thirty years,” begins Kevin Kazmierczak, Principal of the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts (BAVPA). The school, which includes grades five through twelve, was founded in the late 1970’s as a college preparatory plan to attract students from all over the city, regardless of race or ethnicity. The BAVPA spent most of its time in a building on Clinton Street, and recently moved into a new facility on Masten and Ferry.
“The new facility physically supports our programs. In the old building, form did not follow function,” Kazmierczak said. “Once you go inside, you don’t know that you’re in the school. From the start, you can experience students' artwork.”
The programs at the BAVPA go beyond the arts, as the faculty strives to develop a curriculum that includes art-influenced academics, and conversely, finding academics--such as math and social studies--inside art projects. “It is fa…
