NOCCA

The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts | Riverfront is a world-class educational institution that has been changing the lives of young people since 1973.

Every year, this pre-professional arts training center provides intensive instruction in dance, media arts, music (classical, jazz, vocal), theatre arts (drama, musical theatre, theatre design), visual arts and creative writing to students from public, private and parochial schools across Louisiana through school-day, after-school, weekend and summer sessions. NOCCA was founded by a diverse coalition of artists, educators, business leaders and community activists who saw the need for an institution devoted to our region's burgeoning young talent. And because admission criteria are based solely on ability, NOCCA | Riverfront's student body cuts across boundaries of race, sex and socio-economic background.