Foundation Visual Art & Design - Art and Creativity Class

Foundation Visual Art & Design - Art and Creativity Class

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For two days in March 2010, VFS presented an immersive 2-day educational experience, exclusively for the most creative and driven high school students in North America.

Find out more at vfs.com/standout

Foundation Visual Art & Design - Art and Creativity Class

Image by vancouverfilmschool
For two days in March 2010, VFS presented an immersive 2-day educational experience, exclusively for the most creative and driven high school students in North America.

Find out more at vfs.com/standout

Foundation Visual Art & Design - Art and Creativity Class

Image by vancouverfilmschool
For two days in March 2010, VFS presented an immersive 2-day educational experience, exclusively for the most creative and driven high school students in North America.

Find out more at vfs.com/standout

concept drawings. mad museum. bard high school green project.

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NJ - Jersey City: William L. Dickinson High School

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William L. Dickinson High School, at 2 Palisade Avenue, resting upon a hilltop overlooking downtown Jersey City and the New York Harbor, originally opened on September 6, 1906 as Jersey City High School. The Beaux-Arts structure designed by John T. Rowland was renamed in 1913 for William Dickinson, the superintendent who had advocated for creation of the school during his term from 1872 to 1883.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,991 students and 197 classroom teachers. The largest school in Hudson County, its student population is 48% Hispanic, 23% are Asian, 16% are Black/African American and 11% are White. Dickinson High School was the 295th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.

A testament to the school's age, the rear of the building is the site of a late 1800s-era cannon mount built to protect the Hudson River shoreline from early invaders. Given the location of the cannon and the associated technology of the time, its doubted that the cannon would ever have been effective as a defensive emplacement. While the cannon has since been removed, the original mounting remains and is now the site of a black-granite monument to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Notable alumni include The Duprees, a 60's rock group; Ed Franco, one of the "Seven Blocks of Granite" on the 1936 Fordham football team; Frank Infante, a bassist and guitarist in Blondie; Mary Teresa Norton, 13-term congresswoman from 1925 to 1951; Mary Philbrook; the first female attorney in New Jersey; Eddie August Schneider, who set the he transcontinental air speed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930; and Joe Sulatis, who played running back for the NFL's New York Giants from 1943 to 1953.

New Jersey State Register (1981)
National Register #82003275 (1982)