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  • Perpich Hosts BIPOC Authors and Illustrators Book Fair

    August 11, 2026

    On August 10, Perpich Center hosted the 2nd Annual Book Fair: Celebrating BIPOC Authors and Illustrators. The afternoon event featured guest speakers MN State Senator Mary K. Kunesh and author/spoken word artist/program administrator Bao Phi. Several book sellers such as Black Garnet…

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  • Summer Music Professional Development Workshops 2026

    August 10, 2026

    Over 100 music educators attended a series of five professional development workshops last week, hosted on the Perpich Center campus. The sessions appealed to a wide variety of educators, including elementary classroom teachers, arts administrators, general music teachers, band, choir, and orchestra…

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  • Theater Educators and Directors Reconnect to the Practice of Play

    August 7, 2026

    At this year’s annual, day-long Theater Director and Educator Conference – “Empowerment Through Play-Filled Learning, Leadership, and Mindsets” – guest presenters Malia’Kekia Nicolini and Christopher Beaulieu of Play Pathways Initiative deeply engaged participants from across the state in a pedagogy of play….

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  • Act One and Perpich Center for Arts Education Bring VR Arts Immersion™ To Minnesota Students

    August 3, 2026

    Act One, an Arizona nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that students have access to meaningful arts experiences, is expanding the reach of its innovative VR Arts Immersion™ program through a new collaboration with Perpich Center for Arts Education in Minnesota.

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  • Dr. Stephanie Lein Walseth Highlights Minnesota Theater Education Practices on National Stage

    July 27, 2026
    Dr. Stephanie Lein Walseth, Perpich Center for Arts Education’s Theater Education Specialist, represented Minnesota’s theater education community at the Educational Theatre Association’s Theatre Education Conference (TEC) in New York City, held July 21–25, 2026. As a presenter at the conference, Stephanie joined…

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  • A Note from our Executive Director, Allegra Smisek – July 24, 2026

    July 24, 2026

    Greetings from Perpich Center for Arts Education!
    Summertime at Perpich is energizing. Our campus is alive with creativity as young artists discover new passions through summer camps, educators from across Minnesota gather to learn and grow together, and our staff uses this season…

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  • New Picture Books from Perpich Library

    July 16, 2026

    The Perpich Library has a large, wonderfully diverse picture book collection for teachers to use in their classrooms. Every year we add several new titles. Here are a few of our favorites from this year! Click to see all of our newest…

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  • Theater Educators and Directors Get a Crash Course in Tech and Design

    July 2, 2026

    On June 30th, theater directors, tech directors, and set builders from Hermantown to Mankato, Rogers to Red Wing, gathered at Monkey Wrench Productions in Golden Valley (and later at Perpich Center) for an intensive, hands-on workshop day focusing on a myriad of…

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  • A Note from our Executive Director, Allegra Smisek – June 26, 2026

    June 26, 2026

    Greetings from Perpich Center for Arts Education!
    This month, we welcomed nearly 60 students in grades 6 through 10 to campus for the first week of Perpich Summer Camp. Throughout the week, our studios, rehearsal spaces, and classrooms buzzed with creativity as students…

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