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  • Eleanor Koster in frameroom

    Eleanor Koster (Visual Arts 2019) Curates “Lost & Found” Exhibition

     Eleanor Koster

    March 9, 2020

    Eleanor Koster (Visual Arts 2019) is a contractor at Perpich this year, working closely with the Studio Arts department. One day, while sifting through the frame room, Koster discovered boxes of artwork. “This can’t just sit here…

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  • Two Perpich Students Selected for Access/Print Teen Mentorship Program at Highpoint Center for Printmaking

    February 21, 2020

    Two Perpich students have been selected for this spring’s ACCESS/PRINT Teen Mentorship Program at Highpoint Center for Printmaking. Alexandra Alvarado (Media Arts 2020) and Frankie Palmer (Visual Arts 2021) make up two thirds of the three students selected for this season. They are…

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  • Faith Blackstone Organizes Black History 365 Event

    Faith Blackstone (Visual Arts 2021) organized and hosted a Black History Month event on February 6, 2020 in Chaska. Faith, a former student at Chaska, created this event after Chaska High School wouldn’t allow her to hang black history posters in the school’s halls….

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  • Artist Mark Rivard Speaks to Arts High Students

     Assistant Principal Rebecca Bullen with Mark Rivard

    Perpich welcomed artist Mark Rivard to Common Experience this week. Rivard is a professional fine artist, writer, educator, and entrepreneur. Working out of Minneapolis, Rivard runs the highly regarded arts educational platform Do Rad…

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  • Ramert & Ruggeri Experience National Unified Auditions in Chicago

    Every February, inside the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, the theater departments of several dozen colleges converge to hold the National Unified Auditions, a make-or-break, do-or-die audition week for anxious, hopeful theater kids. This year, two of our Perpich students were part of the…

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  • JEREMY LUNDQUIST AWARDED 2020 ARTIST INITIATIVE GRANT BY MN STATE ARTS BOARD

    Congratulations to Jeremy Lundquist, Visual Arts Instructor, for being awarded an Artist Initiative Grant by the Minnesota State Arts Board. Lundquist will create and exhibit a new series of large-scale etchings based on the minimal media coverage of the end and subsequent continuation of…

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  • Studio Arts Students Present “Weighted Blanket” and “Apples & Oranges”

    Perpich Arts High School Media & Visual Arts students presented Weighted Blanket and Apples & Oranges on January 30, 2020.

    The curriculum exhibition Weighted Blanket is showing in the Upper Gallery through April 3, 2020. Weighted Blanket features artwork by every studio arts student at Perpich….

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  • 2020 Minnesota Scholastic Writing Awards

    We are very pleased to announce the 2020 Minnesota Scholastic Writing Awards! Congratulations to the Perpich American Voices, Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention award winners and our hard working and inspiring faculty! With this list of impressive students, Perpich Literary Arts has…

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  • 2020 Minnesota Scholastic Art Awards

    We are very pleased to announce the 2020 Minnesota Scholastic Art Awards! Congratulations to the Perpich Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention award winners and our hard working and inspiring teachers! With this list of impressive students, Perpich ranks in the top 3…

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