JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Twelve students from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville were celebrated for receiving the DuBow Family Scholarship Grants, enabling them to attend prestigious summer arts programs across the United States.<\/p>\n
The Developing Artist (DA) Foundation awarded more than $53,000 in scholarships to support these students\u2019 participation in intensive arts programs.<\/p>\n
The scholarship recipients attended a variety of programs, including the Guitar Foundation of America Convention, Brevard Music Center Summer Jazz Institute, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem Summer Intensive, among others.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Trinity Perry, who attended the Dance Theatre of Harlem Summer Intensive, described her experience as both technically and personally transformative. <\/p>\n \u201cI trained in ballet, pointe, modern and West African techniques,\u201d she said. \u201cI left feeling more confident in myself not just as a dancer but as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n Karish Kato, a participant in the Muny Summer Intensive, credited the experience with inspiring her to pursue further artistic education. \u201cThis intensive afforded me the opportunity to learn and grow alongside so many other talented teens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Students were nominated for the scholarship program by department leaders at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. Once accepted, they applied and auditioned for programs in their field of study.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Twelve students from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville were celebrated for receiving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,1040,17656,9408,1038,28,348,116,351,118,117,349,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-22888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-dcps","tag-debow-family-scholarship-grants","tag-douglas-anderson-school-of-the-arts","tag-duval-county-public-schools","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}