Minneapolis Institute of Art Field Trip

November 15, 2024

On November 14th, over 100 students in Visual Arts, Media Arts, and Art History and Museum Studies classes went on a field trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) to enjoy five exhibitions. The experience was organized by Craig Farmer, Art…

Year Two of the Elementary Art Cohort

November 14, 2024

Three times this year, a new Elementary Art cohort is meeting at Perpich. Members of this group range from a highly experienced visual arts teacher new to elementary grades to early career and inexperienced visual arts teachers to elementary classroom teachers who…

Perpich Arts High School Literary Arts Students Present “Time Flows Like a River” a Lit Reading

November 14, 2024

The Literary Arts Department of Perpich Arts High School presented their fall reading on Wednesday, November 13, 2024. The reading represented the culmination of months of work from new and returning writers. The writers shared poems, short pieces, stories, essays, and other…

Allegra Smisek to be Interim Executive Director of Perpich Center for Arts Education for Remainder of 24-25 School Year

November 11, 2024

We are happy to announce that we have a new member of the Perpich community. Allegra Smisek (smee-sheck) will serve as our interim executive director for the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year. Allegra’s start date will be 11/20/24.

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Perpich Arts High School Studio Arts Department Presents: “New Moon” Curriculum Exhibition

November 8, 2024

Perpich Studio Arts students opened their second exhibition of the school year on Thursday, November 7th, 2024. The exhibition is showing in the Perpich galleries through January 15, 2025.

Titled “New Moon”, the show features work made during the 1st Quarter by every…

Jennifer Mills (Music 2003) Composes and Documents a Creative Life

November 6, 2024

Jennifer Mills (Music 2003) is a writer and producer for the NPR show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Originally from Shoreview, Minnesota, Mills has been composing and documenting her creative life for decades, long before she moved to Brooklyn, New York. Her…

Perpich Students Attend Roger Guenveur Smith’s “In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat” at Penumbra Theatre

November 4, 2024

On October 23rd, Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, brought several students to Penumbra Theatre to see Roger Guenveur Smith’s “In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat”. Obie Award-winning actor, playwright, and director, Roger Guenveur Smith, returned to Penumbra with an intimate one-man show honoring his…

Nadia Oian Vust (Literary Arts 2025) Published in “The Beatnik Cowboy”

November 1, 2024

Congratulations to Nadia Oian Vust (Literary Arts 2025) who was recently published in the literary magazine “The Beatnik Cowboy”. Nadia had been looking at literary magazines for a long time, searching for places she could submit her work, but only recently began…

Perpich Arts High School Music Department Presents: 24/25 Sound Works I

October 28, 2024

The Music Department of Perpich Arts High School presented the first concert of the year on Thursday, October 24th with a repeat performance on Friday, October 25th. The concert was a culmination of the work created by students in their small ensembles…