Each studio has its own dedicated teachers, classrooms, ensembles, and performances/exhibitions where students may showcase their work to the public.
The class of 2013 completed 20,000 hours of community service and its members, as a whole, were granted approximately $120,000 worth of scholarship money.
[citation needed] The Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, also known as FSSA, was founded in 2001 by singer and painter Tony Bennett along with his wife Susan Benedetto, and is named after the American musician and actor Frank Sinatra.
[2] The school was funded through a non-profit organization called Exploring the Arts (ETA).
It is now located in its own state of the art building near Kaufman Astoria Studios and Museum of the Moving Image.