Welcome to Dreyfoos School of the Arts!The Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts was founded in 1989 as the premier arts high school in the School District of Palm Beach County, the nation's eleventh largest school district which serves a county geographically larger than Rhode Island or Delaware. With a current enrollment of 1,325 students, the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts offers its students intensive study within their art area and a rigorous college preparatory academic curriculum. The innovative program has led to the school receiving a multitude of awards and recognitions on all levels, local to international.
Let us not lock up our art. What is boundless needs no walls, and while museums serve to gather our art so that more people may enjoy it, that does not mean that our art exists only within that shell. Art can soak through the skin, till we are dripping with it, forming messy puddles of paint on the floor. It is our emotion personified, given a physical form we can run our hands across. In me, my art began, but it does not stay there. It needs to fill all the available space. My art, boundless as it is, does not confine itself to the finish-ed piece. There is art, to be sure, in the final work; art that polished the rawness of life, till a diamond glistens. But there is also art, hidden art, in the process. The way to cradle a camera till the light beams curve inside the lens, eager for capture, is art. The way images and sounds are molded and shaped, melted down and recast into something more than themselves, is art. The sleepless night, tears in the dark, and the euphoria of the piece sprouting mad energy of its own as my hands sculpt words feverishly, is art. I create that energy, feed others with it, and nourish myself as well. That is art. So, it is all art, words and images, movement and sound. I cannot narrow its scope. To create a world, where the footsteps echo passion, to create a world, a piece of time that is approachable and impenetrable, that is art. A prism in reverse.
“Critical Art” by Diana Lizardi, Class of 2002
Dreyfoos School of the Arts © 2007
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501 South Sapodilla Drive, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
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Phone: 561. 802-6000
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