HFAA Hires Nationally-Ranked Firm to Enhance Arts-Integrated Curriculum |
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The Academy was founded in 2005 and became the first school in the state to adopt the A+ Schools model of arts integration. With the help of grant funding provided by the Kirkpatrick Foundation, the Academy has been able to hire Creative Generation to build on 17 years of success.
“As we continue to strive to provide a world-class educational experience, Creative Generation is going to propel us forward!” said Harding Fine Arts Academy Superintendent Taylor C. Stanton. “Their organization is going to refine and transform Harding Fine Arts Academy into a 21st century arts-integrated school."
In five phases over a year, Creative Generation will build a foundation of community-based collaborations, produce new curriculum, deliver a series of professional development workshops for teachers, and reflect on the process for future work. At the end of the program, Creative Generation will host a summer institute sharing its findings with teachers in the Oklahoma City area.
Professional development sessions will focus on increasing educational equity, empowering young people as leaders, promoting arts-based civic engagement, and how to center personal and community wellness in education.
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2nd Annual Alumni Classic |
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2nd Biannual Alumni Classic Volleyball Game
Thursday, September 29
6:00 pm
HFAA Gym, 3333 N Shartel Ave
Free for students and alumni | $5 entry fee for community members
Still got game? Join the Harding Alumni Association for the 2nd Biannual Alumni Classic as Alumni Firehawk play current students in a game of volleyball.
Concessions will be available. All proceeds from the event benefit the Harding Alumni Association.
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Firehawk Social & Fundraiser
Wednesday, September 21
5:30-8:00 | Come & Go
Bedlam BBQ, 610 NE 50th St
Attention Students, Teachers, Faculty, Alumni, Family, and Friends of HFAA, please join us for dinner and dessert at Bedlam BBQ for HFAA Parent Teacher Organization’s fundraising social event. Bring a football or frisbee to throw on the field, relax on the patio, or enter to win one of our many door prices.
10% of all proceeds will benefit the school!
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From left to right: Imani Carr, Julian Whitsitt and Navy Williams from Harding Fine Arts Academy's Little Shop of Horrors. |
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Imani is a very involved and successful student at Harding Fine Arts Academy. She is known for her acting abilities as well as her academic achievements.
Imani has received the African American National Recognition Award from CollegeBoard, the AP Scholars Award, the Superintendent Award for Arts Excellence Award for Drama, the Firehawk Award her sophomore and junior year as voted on by HFAA faculty, and has been on the Superintendent Honor Roll from freshman through junior year. She is a member of the International Thespians Society, is the past president of National Honor Society, is involved with Black Student Association and was involved with the HFAA volleyball team her freshmen through junior years. This fall, she will be playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, which the Drama department will be performing at One Act competition later in the semester. In the spring of this year, she was Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors.
Her favorite artistic discipline is drama. “It scares me but in a challenging way," said Imani. "When I’m on stage, I can become whomever I want to be and give life to characters in a script. The challenge of doing that well is scary but when it is done well, I feel really accomplished.”
She chose to attend Harding Fine Arts Academy because of its focus on arts-integrated education and she stayed because of the environment. To Imani, her fellow students and teachers are her greatest inspiration. They have provided an understanding and motivating learning environment that makes school fun and engaging.
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State of the Arts Magazine |
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Harding Fine Arts Academy Foundation released its annual magazine and report, State of the Arts, earlier this summer. Read the digital issue now.
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In Early May 2022, HFAA graduate known by her stage name, BriZee, released her first album called “Fight." BriZee attended Harding Fine Arts Academy her senior year in 2009. She attributes her success to the experience and arts-integrated curriculum she experienced as a student.
“This has been such a huge accomplishment for me, and I have ambitions to go from here,” she said.
Fans can visit the website at www.BriZeemusic.com and all of the music is currently streaming on all music platforms such as Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube and more.
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Naebeal L. "Bill" Shadid ‘59 |
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The youngest of four children, and the only son of Dorothy Tayar Shadid and Lamy S. Shadid, Bill was born in Oklahoma City on Christmas night 1940. This cherished son departed this earthly life at age 81, on Saturday, September 3, 2022, at his home, with his adoring family by his bedside.
An alumnus of Harding High School, Bill completed his studies at The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, graduating in June 1967. Aside from golf, fishing, playing cards with his “farm buddies”, Bill mastered all manner of self-taught handyman skills, which began as a young teen, when he, under the tutelage of his uncle, created his own soap box derby racecar.
In lieu of flowers, Bill’s family gratefully requests donations to be made to Flowers That Do Not Wither fund at St. Elijah’s.
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Accepted announcements include:
- Alumni events and gatherings
- Marriages
- Family births and deaths
- Career advancements and retirements
- Awards or honors received
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