Media Arts Student Receives Merit Award In National Competition
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) Media Arts student and Mandeville High junior, Nick Ramey was notified by the National YoungArts Foundation that he has been chosen as a 2014 YoungArts Merit Award Winner in Cinematic Arts. The YoungArts program has been identifying, recognizing and inspiring America’s most outstanding young artists since 1981. As a Merit awardee, Nick has placed at the top 5% of the applicant pool.
NOCCA provides arts training in Classical Music, Creative Writing, Culinary Arts, Dance, Drama, Jazz, Media Arts, Musical Theatre, Theatre Design, Vocal Music, and Visual Arts to high school students across Louisiana. Admission is by audition, and tuition is free. Interested students should visit www.nocca.com and to download an application for the 2014-15 school year.
For more information on the National YoungArts Program, please visit http://www.youngarts.org/.