The Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA) is a public, partially residential high school located in Birmingham, Alabama. The stated mission is to nurture impassioned students by guiding and inspiring them to discover and fulfill their individual creative abilities in an atmosphere distinguished by the fusion of fact and feeling, risk and reward, art and science, school and community. It provides career and technical education to students from grades...
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The Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA) is a public, partially residential high school located in Birmingham, Alabama. The stated mission is to nurture impassioned students by guiding and inspiring them to discover and fulfill their individual creative abilities in an atmosphere distinguished by the fusion of fact and feeling, risk and reward, art and science, school and community. It provides career and technical education to students from grades 7-12 and is a member of the Coalition of Essential Schools.
The six specialties of the school are music, visual arts, theatre arts, creative writing, math and science, and dance. The largest of these is math and science.
The school began in 1968 with a group of Birmingham arts community leaders who acquired discretionary funding from Governor Lurleen Wallace to support instructional programs based in community arts agencies after school. The Alabama Legislature formally created the school with a resolution in 1971. The school was initially...
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