page_title: Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts
section_title: Famous alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts / Famous alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: pa theatre 2
context_page_description: The Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts is a magnet performing arts high school and part of Buffalo, New York's public school system. It serves grades 5-12 and requires students to apply in the field of their desired major concentration. Majors taught in the school are Dance, Media, Music, Technical Theater, Theater Arts, and Visual Arts.
  BAVPA is affiliated with several community arts/performance organizations and colleges, including Hallwalls, WKBW-TV, Buffalo State College, and the University at Buffalo.
context_section_description: Ani DiFranco (Class of 1986)
  Jesse L. Martin (Class of 1987)
  Robert Paterson (Class of 1988)
  Lucky Peterson
  Alexis Spight
  Sir John Barnett (Class of 2000)
caption: BAVPA's auditorium
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