June 6, 2013–Rio Grande Sun newspaper
New Mexico School for the Arts is proud to announce that five young students from Moving Arts Espanola (MAE) have been accepted for the 2013-14 school year at NMSA, a statewide charter high school located in Santa Fe, dedicated to assisting passionate young artists in developing their full potential through a rigorous mastery arts and academic education.
Sienna Sullivan-Ginn, Eduardo Maes and Saul Romero have been studying dance at MAE and are looking forward to practicing under the tutelage of NMSA’s Dance Department Chair, Adam McKinney. Visual Arts student AmeliaH Ortega will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of methods and mediums under the direction of NMSA Visual Arts Department Chair, Cristina Gonzalez. Jimmy Toomey will jump right into the NMSA Theater Department, led by Theater Department Chair Joey Chavez.
Students must audition for acceptance at NMSA, and it’s a rigorous process. Students are accepted based on their passion, promise and aptitude.
“We’re honored to have helped facilitate a pathway for these talented students to move on to NMSA,” says MAE program director, Roger Montoya. “There is zero high-school arts education here in Espanola, so we develop our program with the intent of these students continuing on to NMSA.”
NMSA is the natural “next step” for students from MAE. Moving Arts Espanola (MAE) is an outreach program under the umbrella of the New Mexico Dance Coalition that offers quality training and pre-professional performances and exhibitions for young dancers, singers, actors and visual artists. For more information, visit www.movingartsespanola.org.
NMSA accepts applications from students throughout New Mexico. Admissions have closed for the upcoming 2013-14 school year. Applications for 9th through 11th grades will be accepted for the 2014-15 school year, later this summer. For more information, visit www.NMSchoolfortheArts.org or call(505) 982-6124.
New Mexico School for the Arts welcomes five new students this fall from Moving Arts Espanola: Sienna Sulllivan-Ginn , Saul Romero (front); Eduardo Maes (back left) AmeliaH Ortega, Jimmy Tourney.