Recent News
Recent News
Perpich Arts High School Graduation 2024
May 24, 2024
The Perpich Arts High School Class of 2024 graduated on May 24 in a ceremony at Ted Mann Auditorium on the University of Minnesota campus. The ceremony was also livestreamed on Facebook. Perpich is proud to announce that 100% of the Class…
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Perpich Studio Arts Presents “Quarter for your Thoughts” Curriculum Exhibition
November 12, 2021
Perpich Studio Arts students presented their curriculum exhibition, Quarter for your Thoughts, on Thursday, November 11th, 2021. The exhibition is showing in the Upper Gallery and Tony Basta Gallery through December 24, 2021. Quarter for your Thoughts features artwork by every studio arts…
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Company, the Perpich Arts High School Musical Theater Ensemble, Makes Debut with “Influenced! How Pop & Rock Have Shaped Broadway”
November 12, 2021
Company – the Perpich Arts High School Musical Theater Ensemble – excitedly made its debut with Influenced! How Pop & Rock Have Shaped Broadway. This musical theater revue explores how the shift of ‘popular’ music, after the Golden Age of Musical Theater,…
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Perpich Arts High School Literary Arts Students Present their Winter Lit Reading
November 11, 2021
Literary Arts students presented their winter lit reading on November 10, 2021. They shared a little bit of everything they’ve written this fall: memoir, poetry, fiction, gallows humor. The evening showed that yes, winter looms and the geese are heading south, but…
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Music Students Perform Sound Works Fall Concert
November 5, 2021
Music students performed in early November before a “full house” with COVID restrictions in place. The Sound Works 1 concert, featuring Music students from Perpich, treated the audience to an eclectic selection of performances, with everything from Mozart to Patsy Cline, from…
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Two Faculty Members Speak to Fifty-Six Museum Guides at Mia
November 5, 2021
Two Perpich Arts High School faculty members, Kathryn D’Elia (Visual Arts Instructor and Gallery Coordinator) and Craig Farmer (Art History Instructor) prepared presentations for the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) to support their museum guides in engaging with visitors of a high…
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New Library Materials – Diversity Picture Books – Fall 2021
Across the Bay – Carlos Aponte
All Because You Matter – Tami Charles; illustrated by Bryan Collier
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything – Annette Bay Pimentel; pictures by Nabi H. Ali
Another – Christian Robinson
Bears Make…
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New Library Materials – Visual Arts Picture Books – Fall 2021
Beautiful Oops! – Barney Saltzberg
The Day the Crayons Quit – Drew Daywalt; pictures by Oliver Jeffers
A Day With No Crayons – Elizabeth Rusch; illustrated by Chad Cameron
Harold and the Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines – Jeanne Walker Harvey; illustrated…
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New Library Materials – Music Picture Books – Fall 2021
The ABCs of My Feelings and Music – Scott and Stephanie Edgar; illustrated by Nancy Sosna Bohm
Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay – Susan Hood; illustrated by Sally Wern Comport
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln…
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Connect and Respond to the Arts of Dakota and Ojibwe People in Mankato
October 27, 2021
As part of the Professional Development on Location Series, the Perpich Center’s Professional Development and Resource (PDR) team led three tracks of professional learning opportunities in Mankato on October 26, 2021. The day centered around the theme of Connect and Respond to…