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Perpich Arts High School Graduation 2025

May 23, 2025

The Perpich Arts High School Class of 2025 graduated on May 23 in a ceremony at the Ames Center in Burnsville, Minnesota. The ceremony was also livestreamed on Facebook. Perpich is proud to announce that 100% of the Class of 2025 graduated. Danny…

  • Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, Accepted for U of M’s Global Perspectives of Civics Fellowship

     Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor

    October 16, 2023

    Congratulations to Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, who was accepted for the University of Minnesota’s Global Perspectives of Civics Fellowship this past summer. The multi-year selective fellowship brings together six high school educators from Minnesota and…

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  • Mary Harding, Dance Instructor, Presents at National Dance Education Organization Conference

     Harding (right) is pictured with Cleo Mack (Dance 1994) (left), Director of Dance at Middlesex County (NJ) Magnet School

    October 12, 2023

    Mary Harding, Perpich Dance Instructor and Dance Education Specialist, was a presenter at the national conference of National Dance Education…

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  • Perpich Students Shine at Portfolio Day 2023

     Media Arts and Visual Arts students showed their work to college experts and admissions professionals. Here, a student shows their work to an admissions professional from the University of South Dakota.

    October 10, 2023

    On Monday, October 9, students at Perpich Arts…

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  • New Library Materials – Non-Fiction Arts – Fall 2022

    100 Years, 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art – Ágnes Berecz

    African Artists: From 1882 to Now – commissioning editor, Rebecca Morrill; project editor, Simon Hunegs

    Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987 – Richard B. Woodward and Reuel Golden

    Architecture: A Visual History – Jonathan Glancey

    The…

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  • Franconia Sculpture Park Field Trip

    October 4, 2023

    Students from Studio Expedition, Sculpture, Darkroom Photography, and Filmmaking classes took a field trip to Franconia Sculpture Park on Friday, September 22nd, 2023. Also on the field trip were Khalid Ali, Media Arts Instructor; David Bowman, Media Arts Instructor; and Lindsey Schmitt,…

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  • Khalid Ali, Media Arts Instructor, Shares Film and Speaks to Students During Common Experience

     Khalid Ali, Media Arts Instructor

    October 3, 2023

    Perpich Media Arts Instructor, Khalid Ali, shared his film Squeegee and spoke with students during Common Ex on Monday, October 2nd. Common Ex is a series of presentations where students hear about the artistic…

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  • Minnesota State Senators Visit Perpich Center

    October 3, 2023

    Left to Right: Rebecca Bullen, Arts High School Principal; Reagan Greene, Education Policy Committee Legislative Assistant; Sen. Mary Kunesh (39); Emma Zellmer, Legislative Assistant to Sen. Kunesh; Sen. Bonnie Westlin (42); Sen. Liz Boldon (25); Sally Grans-Korsh, Board…

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  • Books in Celebration of Latinx Heritage Month from Perpich Library

    September 25, 2023

    September 15-October 15 is National Hispanic/Latine/Latinx Heritage Month! The Perpich Library is celebrating by highlighting books in our collection that focus on visual artists and photographers who come from, or whose ancestors come from: Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.

    All…

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  • Editors from Mankato State’s Lit Review Visit with Literary Arts Students

    September 25, 2023

    Editors and an advisor from Minnesota State University, Mankato’s undergraduate lit review, River Whale Review, visited with Perpich Literary Arts students.

    On the afternoon of September 22, two editors and an advisor from Minnesota State University, Mankato’s undergraduate lit…

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