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Recent News

Perpich Arts High School Graduation 2026

May 22, 2026
The Class of 2026 took the stage at the Ames Center in Burnsville, Minnesota in a heartfelt and deeply personal graduation ceremony on May 22, 2026 that celebrated not only artistic achievement, but also community, resilience, and self-expression at Perpich Arts High…

  • Darrius Strong Visits Perpich as a Guest Artist in Dance

     Guest choreographer, Darrius Strong (left), with Mary Harding, Dance Instructor

    October 25, 2023

    Guest choreographer, Darrius Strong, worked with Perpich Dance students over several days in October to set a dance on them for their December dance concert.

    Darrius Strong is a highly accomplished…

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  • Haunted Tales from Perpich Library

    October 24, 2023

    Haunted Tales! The Perpich Library has been gearing up for spooky season by creating some scary good lists of nightmare novels and short stories with ghosts and haunted houses.

    All items on this list are available at the Perpich library. Click on titles…

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  • Walz, Flanagan Announce Appointments to Perpich Board

    October 18, 2023
    Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan announced the following appointment and reappointments to the Perpich Center for Arts Education Board of Directors. Joining the Board is: Rebekah Doyle. Reappointed to the Board are: Steven Anderson, Sally Grans Korsh, and Pasha…

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  • Students Present “Sketches & Observations” in the Neo-Futurist Tradition

    October 18, 2023

    Perpich Arts High School presented “Sketches & Observations” on October 16 and October 17, 2023. In the Neo-Futurist tradition, the sketches & observations from Feiffer’s People by Jules Feiffer and The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe were presented in random order….

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  • Missy Whiteman (Visual Arts 1995) Shares Artist Talk with Studio Arts Students

    October 17, 2023

    Missy Whiteman (Visual Arts 1995) joined Studio Arts students and faculty on Monday, October 16, 2023 for an hour-long artist talk about her recent work and practice. Whiteman is one of the visiting artists who attended the Mini Portfolio Day exercise in…

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  • 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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