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The Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy is committed to the challenging task of providing a multidimensional atmosphere for its creative and academically talented students. It recognizes that it must offer a qualitatively different program from the basic curriculum, and that this program must provide opportunities for students to study creative processes and creative people.
S.A.S.A.’s Living Arts program is designed to promote art, in all its forms, as a functional and important part of life. All students, regardless of their major area of interest and concentration, participate in a series of lectures, demonstrations and performances in order to develop their talents as both creative producers and intelligent consumers of artistic and scientific endeavors. Written student evaluations of each presentation help the coordinator formulate future program content.
Through programs conceived and presented by students themselves and through exposure to the creative ideas and skills of staff members or visiting experts and artists, Living Arts establishes a rich climate of understanding and appreciation for the creative connections among the arts, sciences and humanities.
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Program Goals for Living Arts.
News & Announcements
Congratulations, Mrs. Nash, MI Youth Arts Festival 2010 Arts Administrator of the Year!
Retiring Principal Janet Harris Nash was named the MI Youth Arts Festival Arts Administrator of the Year for 2010, receiving her award at the MYAF annual Festival at Western Michigan University on May 14.
Mrs. Nash was deeply honored to be named as the "MYAF Arts Administrator", a recognition granted for the first time ever by the MYAF organizational board. The MYAF is a state-wide convocation in May of each year for some of the most talented and promising youth artists and teachers from high schools around the state.
Of particular joy to Mrs. Nash was the honor coming in a year when over 25 SASA students qualified to attend the MYAF as student finalists in areas of dance, visual arts, creative writing and music. Many of her students and SASA parents and faculty were in the audience to offer applause highlighting their appreciation and recognition as she was called to the stage of Miller auditorium to receive her award following the MYAF honorees' dinner. Mrs. Nash gratefully thanked the MYAF Board, their Board Member Ruth Ann Knapp who nominated her, the administration of the School District of Saginaw, her SASA community, and her husband, Jack, and her two children, Philip and Gretchen, for supporting her years of efforts on behalf of the arts in Saginaw. She noted that the arts program at SASA has now grown to serve students from over 5 counties in mid-Michigan, and has continued to do so in spite of rising milege costs and other economic hardships for many parents and students. "We may have science and mathematics and industry to thank for much of what has made this country great," she said, "but it is the humanities and the arts that bring joy to our souls to enrich our lives and sustain our hearts."
Congratulations Mrs. Nash, from all of us at SASA, and best wishes to you in all your future experiences in retirement!
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