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Dedication Day 2023

September 19, 2023

Dedication Day 2023 was September 18. Dedication is a Perpich tradition where new students and faculty/staff are welcomed into the Perpich community. The ceremony featured speeches from seniors in all art areas: Elyse Ulmen, Dance; Rowan Hilden, Literary Arts; Grace Mathews, Media…

  • 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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  • 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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