Arts Conservatory for Teens on Tampa Bay’s Morning Blend….
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As the nonprofit Arts Conservatory for Teens (ACT) celebrates its annual Champions for ACT Breakfaston the St. Pete Pier Thursday, the organization marks its 10th anniversary. That’s a decade of improving the lives of teens by using the arts to prepare students for high school graduation, higher education, and the workforce.
The brainchild of Dr. Alex Harris and co-founded with Herbert Murph, Shelia Reilly and Derek Berset, ACT has impacted over 13,000 local teens since its inception. It attracts philanthropic and private support because the transdisciplinary curriculum works. With a 100% high school graduation and 90% college placement rates, ACT has found that sweet spot of motivation, support, skills training, and leadership training for some of our county’s most at-risk students….
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St. Petersburg-based musician and educator Alex Harris started the Arts Conservatory for Teens more than a decade ago to offer “world-class” training and performance opportunities in music, theater, dance, film, art, leadership and entrepreneurship.
With an eye on career development and improving the lives of teens through arts education, ACT is not a typical after-school program. It targets underserved school systems and at-risk communities, using the arts as a catalyst to prepare students for high school graduation, higher education and then local jobs. ACT is designed to enhance students’ problem-solving skills, self-esteem, and critical thinking skills through intensive creative study….
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The 9th Annual Champions for ACT Breakfast at St. Petersburg Pier on April 21 was an inspired success. Arts Conservatory for Teens (ACT) CEO and Co-founder Alex Harris PhD and his wife Emily welcomed 240 guests attending. Deputy Mayor Stephanie Owens extended her welcome, speaking for herself and for City of St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch….
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ACT's ART Exhibit Installation focuses on raising awareness of the importance of each person's responsibility to contribute to sustainability. The title of the Arts Exhibit that is developed by our students and Artist-in-Resident, Aiden McKahan is EARTH IN ME. The title reflects and amplifies the inseparable reality of human existence and planet earth. We are Earth, Earth is Us.
The upcoming event is, Arts Conservatory for Teens' Art Installation, EARTH IN ME, Wednesday, February 2, 2022, at the Hermitage Luxury Apartment Gallery, Downtown St. Petersburg, FL.
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Students from the Arts Conservatory for Teens (ACT) performed with such passion and talent at the group’s recent fundraiser that the early morning crowd kept getting on its feet and clapping along.
Alex Harris and Herbert Murphy started and run ACT, a before- and after-school program that instructs teens in dance, singing, drama, band, coding and video production. Approximately 700 students a year go through the program. Participating students have a 100% high school graduation rate, and 90% go to the military or attend college, some on arts scholarships.
Contact ACT to book these talented teens for your event.
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ST. PETERSBURG – Alex Harris and Herbert Murphy launched the Arts Conservatory for Teens (ACT) in 2012 with a mission “to educate, empower, and enrich the lives of youth and teens in order to foster healthy, productive, and responsible citizens.”
Seven years later, ACT has continued to touch the lives of thousands of students and families, educators and community partners and boasts a 100 percent high school graduation rate and 90 percent college placement rate for its involved youth.
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