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Iowa Conservatory (ICON): a Co-Ed Private Boarding and Day Performing Arts school serving grades 9-12 and postgraduate gap year located in the cosmopolitan heart of downtown Iowa City! Do you desire pre-professional training or more arts in your day? You can be an ICON! Disciplines: Theatre Arts, Dance, Visual Arts, Musical Theatre, Music, Design & Production.
$41,000 (Deposit: $1000Annual Registration: $350Student Life Fee: $350Academic Fee ICCSD OLPOut of State Residents $7,635*Iowa Residents $0Boarding: pricing per bed per month unless otherwise noted2 bedroom - $8003 bedroom - $7003 bedroom (4 people) - $600Meals: Students bring their own lunch to campus, and boarding students cook at home in the care of residential assistants. Additionally, there is a student lounge with refrigerator and microwave available in the school building.*Out-of-state academic fees outlined here.)
ICON is located in a historic, tight-knit neighborhood community with renovated spaces in an expansive and newly constructed18k square feet, housed inside the charming Brewery Square building. Our space includes professionally designed dance, music, theatre, and visual arts studios, along with practice rooms, a costume lab, student commons, and academic classrooms.Just down the street is our very own James Theater, a performance space that readily transforms from black box to recital stage to theatre lab. ICON's partnerships throughout Iowa City and the surrounding area allow students to work in various performance settings, learning from professionals in all aspects of performing and visual arts. Student artists can work on stage or behind the scenes at multiple venues in the vibrant Iowa City arts scene. This includes the University of Iowa's Hancher Auditorium, The Englert Theatre, and the professional acting company Riverside Theatre. We cultivate the skills our students need to compete in the top 10% of artists entering college and/or other post-secondary artistic pursuits, opening doors to scholarship and professional opportunities. Network-building workshops, masterclasses, and seminars with special guest teachers and mentors from the industry broaden students' professional reach.
Our full-day in-person arts program is offered for the academic school year on a trimester schedule and includes an academic course of study through the Iowa City Community School District's Online Program. 9th-12th grades (+Gap Year) students attend classes M-F from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ICON offers SUMMER INTENSIVES with boarding availability!
ICON LIVING:
At Iowa Conservatory, we cultivate A Culture of Caring, designed to educate and care for the whole student. ICON's apartment-style co-op living within three blocks of the school. Each apartment houses 3-4 students, with a residential assistant overseeing no more than 10 students in each living space.
STUDENT LIFE:
Boarding students are supported by full-time residential assistants and rich student life programming. Our Student Life Director and Dean of Students oversee every aspect of student life, including opportunities to interact with the local arts community, social events for the student body, skill-building for successful independent living, and social-emotional learning. Our Student Life Team includes live-in residential assistants, school counselors, and learning coaches, all trained to respond to the unique needs of adolescent learners in a boarding school setting.
MEALS:
ICON students will bring lunch to campus from home. All boarding students are supported by residential assistants in successful at-home cooking of healthy meals. The neighborhood is peppered with a wide variety of affordable restaurants to choose from when boarding students are not cooking with their live-in chaperone and suite-mates after the school day is over.
HEALTH CARE:
In addition to our on-campus nurse practitioner, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics offer top-notch and quickly accessible care in their clinics for any arising student health needs.
Iowa Conservatory accreditations: Arts Schools Network Member, currently finishing ISACS certification
When is the application deadline for Iowa Conservatory?
The application deadline for Iowa Conservatory is Jan. 15 / rolling (applications are due on Jan. 15 but additional applications are reviewed year-round as space permits ).
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