Mission: ProArts Consortium The Professional Arts Consortium, (ProArts) is an association of six Boston institutions of higher education dedicated to the visual art, performing arts and architecture. Its members include Berklee College of Music, the Boston Architectural Center, The Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, Massachusetts College of Art, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. ProArts coordinates programs among its members to expand educational opportunities and resources for participating institutions and works to enrich the arts and arts education in Boston and throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In June 2000, ProArts received the Outstanding Collaborative Arts Award from the Massachusetts Alliance for Arts Education for the Consortium’s work in developing the Boston Arts Academy in collaboration with the Mayor, the Boston School Committee, and the Superintendent of Schools. From its vision of an academy for the arts in the mid-1980’s to the present day, ProArts and the presidents of its member colleges have worked to shape a unique partnership that has brought public and private sectors together to address the development of resources, pedagogy, and governance for the Boston Arts Academy. It has proven to be a collaborative model well-suited for meeting the difficult challenges of raising funds for a pilot school, of teaching academics and the arts in an urban setting, and of improving students’ chances of qualifying for college entrance. The member institutions of the ProArts Consortium are proud of their role in making this dream possible and continue to be inspired by what the BAA staff, faculty, and students are achieving. ProArts has helped foster these accomplishments by donating course instruction, faculty development, facility sharing, curriculum enrichment, administrative assistance, equipment, and scholarships for students at Boston Arts Academy.