/tags/booker-t-washington-high-school-for-the-performing-and-visual-arts Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts en-US Copyright Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:30:00 GMT /arts-culture/2025-02-14/dallas-musume-restaurant-partners-with-booker-t-washington-students-for-omakase-dinner The downtown Dallas restaurant blends fine dining with original student artwork. Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:30:00 GMT /arts-culture/2025-02-14/dallas-musume-restaurant-partners-with-booker-t-washington-students-for-omakase-dinner Zara Amaechi /arts-culture/2024-03-08/a-special-gift-dallas-playwright-njoki-mcelroy-remembered-for-her-commitment-to-racial-awareness The Booker T. Washington alumna was the first African American to receive her Ph.D from the Department of Performance studies at Northwestern University. Fri, 08 Mar 2024 15:39:19 GMT /arts-culture/2024-03-08/a-special-gift-dallas-playwright-njoki-mcelroy-remembered-for-her-commitment-to-racial-awareness Zara Amaechi /arts-culture/2023-11-28/dallas-felipe-velez-fuses-welding-and-abstract-art-into-decorative-functional-furniture A welding workshop at Booker T. Washington inspired him to start his company AperZaper in 2014. Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:32:09 GMT /arts-culture/2023-11-28/dallas-felipe-velez-fuses-welding-and-abstract-art-into-decorative-functional-furniture Stephanie Salas-Vega /arts-culture/2023-07-13/as-nonprofit-photography-center-closes-founder-expected-dallas-to-do-more-for-arts In our series on the arts and the economy, we ask why the Dallas Center for Photography is closing its doors. Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:28:41 GMT /arts-culture/2023-07-13/as-nonprofit-photography-center-closes-founder-expected-dallas-to-do-more-for-arts Michelle Aslam /2018-11-03/roy-hargrove-grammy-winning-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-49 Hargrove first emerged in the late 1980s, at a cultural moment when his precocity and poise amounted to a form of currency in jazz, quickly earning the approval of the genre's elders. Sat, 03 Nov 2018 15:36:00 GMT /2018-11-03/roy-hargrove-grammy-winning-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-49 Nate Chinen /arts/2017-06-14/these-five-young-men-were-bullied-for-being-dancers-now-theyre-headed-to-juilliard Every year, Juilliard, the renowned fine arts school in New York, admits only a dozen male dancers. This fall, five of them will come from a single school… Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:00:11 GMT /arts/2017-06-14/these-five-young-men-were-bullied-for-being-dancers-now-theyre-headed-to-juilliard Stephanie Kuo /arts-culture/2014-06-13/after-36-years-at-booker-t-dance-icon-lily-cabatu-weiss-takes-final-curtain-call The last few weeks have rocked the North Texas dance community. Choreographer Bruce Wood died suddenly. Ann Williams retired from that Dallas Black Dance… Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:00:00 GMT /arts-culture/2014-06-13/after-36-years-at-booker-t-dance-icon-lily-cabatu-weiss-takes-final-curtain-call Courtney Collins, Rick Holter /arts/2012-11-09/at-w-t-white-a-new-approach-to-arts-education Booker T. Washington High School may be Dallas best-known arts high school. But it’s not the only place where DISD students can receive an advanced… Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:31:54 GMT /arts/2012-11-09/at-w-t-white-a-new-approach-to-arts-education Stephen Becker