A pilot Community Engaged Mural (CEM) program was launched in San Diego Unified this spring in a partnership between the VAPA Foundation, the VAPA Department, and Zamorano Fine Arts Academy. The program’s mission is to use the public art of …

On Saturday, June 1, Bell Middle School hosted “Arts in Paradise”, an event showcasing student talent and opportunities available in the Morse cluster. Students, parents, and community members from the neighborhood flocked to the event.

Rooms were filled with student …

The SDUSD Visual and Performing Arts Department has coordinated with UC San Diego to provide special campus tours and presentations for district students of the arts. Four half-day tours for music and visual art students took place this spring, with …

The VAPA Spotlight Awards celebrate some of the many successes happening in the visual and performing arts across our district, at all levels, and in all disciplines. These awards highlight outcomes that are aligned with the goals of VAPA’s strategic …

Nineteen San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) teachers will receive awards to underwrite visual and performing arts – VAPA – related activities and purchases funded by the VAPA Foundation’s 2018-2019 VAPA Enhancement Program. The VAPA Enhancement Program, or VEP, enables …

San Diego Unified students now have a new incentive to finish a four-year high school sequence of classes in the Visual and Performing Arts. The VAPA Foundation has generously presented VAPA graduation cords to seniors who have taken four consecutive …

SAN DIEGO (March 8, 2018) – Fourteen teachers from the San Diego Unified School District have been awarded a combined $11,000 in grants to pursue artistic projects with their students – in TK through high school – thanks to the …