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BAA Honors 2022
Thank you to all who supported Boston Arts Academy Foundation during BAA Honors 2022, a celebration of BAA's 25 years of impact in BAA's new, cutting-edge performing arts building.
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BAA Honors is Boston Arts Academy Foundation's signature annual event and largest single source of funding for Boston Arts Academy.
Thanks to all who joined us on Saturday, October 8, 2022 to celebrate 25 years of transformative arts education and raise critical funds to ensure Boston Arts Academy continues to offer educational equity and life-changing opportunities for generations to come!
We are grateful to everyone who attended, bid on the auctions, purchased raffle tickets, sponsored, and advertised in our program book. With your support, we have raised $2.3 million!
BAA Foundation hasn't hosted an event of this magnitude in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The generosity that came together in one building was immense, the company unbeatable, and the celebration breathtaking. To raise seven figures for our deserving students is incredible, and our gratitude is boundless. Further, to see the rich diversity of our BAA student body reflected in the faces of our BAA Honors leadership, honorees, and guests is deeply meaningful.
There are so many of you who put your heART into BAA Honors 2022, and we look forward to thanking each of you personally.
Check out the links below to view the Digital Program Book, Photo Album, Honoree and Honorary Chair Tribute video produced by our media partner NBC, a thank you to Sponsors, and more!
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Learn more about BAA
Boston Arts Academy (BAA) is the city’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts, serving students who reflect the diversity of Boston’s neighborhoods.
Boston Arts Academy serves as a laboratory and a beacon for artistic and academic innovation, preparing a diverse community of aspiring artists, scholars and global citizens to be successful in their college or professional careers and to be engaged members of a democratic society.
Learn more about BAA and the new school building at 174 Ipswich St!
Fast Facts on BAA
In 2020-2021 School Year:
53% of students lived in Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury
Students are accepted from all 23 neighborhoods of Boston
91% of the 482 students identified as Black, Latinx, Multiracial or Asian
56% of students come from economically disadvantaged families
35% entered 9th grade reading below grade level
33% spoke another language than English at home
17% have documented learning challenges, requiring additional instructional accommodations
97% were accepted to college
Programs:
30% of students participated in BAA's state-certified Career and Technical Education programs Fashion Technology and Design, and Visual Communications
30 juniors and seniors took classes at BAA and at local colleges, earning high school and college credit as part of BAA's Dual Enrollment program with the ProArts Consortium colleges
Summer Reading Program and Summer and Saturday Math Program were offered to help students achieve grade-appropriate reading levels and math proficiencies
Majors: Dance, Music, Theatre, Fashion Tech, Visual Arts
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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Lee Pelton
BAA Honors 2022 Honoree)
CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY
Lee Michael Kennedy
BAA Honors 2022 Honoree)
VISUAL ARTS
Bryan Rafanelli
BAA Honors 2022 Honoree)
FASHION
Kobi Halperin
BAA Honors 2022 Honoree)
MUSIC
Terri Lyne Carrington
BAA Honors 2022 Honoree)
TV + FILM
Latoyia Edwards
BAA Honors 2022 Honoree)
DANCE
Michaela DePrince
BAA Honors 2022 Honoree)
HONORARY CHAIR
The Honorable Martin J. Walsh
BAA Honors 2022)
CHAMPION
Mayor Michelle Wu
Champion Reception 2023)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE
BAA Honors 2023)
CHAMPION
Former Mayor Kim Janey
Champion Reception 2023)
HONORARY CHAIR
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
BAA Honors 2022)
CO-CHAIR
Denella Clark
BAA Honors 2022)
CO-CHAIR
Pamela D.A. Reeve
BAA Honors 2022)
EMCEE
Malik Yoba
BAA Honors 2022
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Questions? Contact: Caitlin Durkin at 617-406-9228 / cdurkin@baafdn.org.
Event lasts 6 hours
