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The celebration, which took place on September 30, 2022, featured an interview with Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at...

On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, in conjunction with The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz (Institute), will host...

The ensemble teamed up with the Duke Ellington School of the Arts to celebrate neglected 20th-century composer William Levi Dawson On...

Dear Ellington Community, Not surprisingly, in the days since our local NBC affiliate aired its investigative report into allegations of...

Sculptor Martha Jackson Jarvis and her daughter, fellow sculptor Njena Surae Jarvis, received an email this week. It was a congratulatory...

Dear Ellington Community, As we have previously shared, the local NBC4 affiliate has continued its investigative report concerning...

Official Statement Regarding Forthcoming NBC4 Investigative Report from Duke Ellington School of the Arts Project Dear Ellington Parents...

Official Statement from Duke Ellington School of the Arts Chappelle Theatre Naming Update Recently, Dave Chappelle, via his Instagram...

For almost 50 years Duke Ellington School of the Arts has been the leader in arts education in the District of Columbia. Our mission is...

2021: When Makiyah Hicks was young, her uncle, Jamal Hazel, was killed in her District Heights neighborhood in southwest Maryland. Her...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 26, 2021 DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS WINS BID TO HOST 2024 ARTS SCHOOLS NETWORK CONFERENCE Event Will...

The 2021 graduating class at D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts defied the odds and worked together to get through a difficult year...

Post-independence Senegalese playwright Abdou Anta Kâ deftly wrote that “one had to find inspiration in myth to write today and...

WASHINGTON – Millions of people around the country have suffered devastating consequences due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Not surprisingly,...

The Bowser Administration recently released the 2020 DC School Report Card, which includes graduation rates and several other updated...

Congratulations are in order for our students, faculty, families and staff! Once again, Duke Ellington School of the Arts has been...

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The String Orchestra, under the direction of Ms. Heather Haughn, invited DESA’s musical partners to participate in a video for the...

The dancers of Duke Ellington School of the Arts make an artistic IMPACT on the world through their art. Click here for direct article....

Chappelle honored Ellington students after his Kennedy Center honors On the first Tuesday of 2020, PBS aired the star-studded festivities...