Past School Partnerships

To view a listing of the schools we have worked with over the years click here.

Examples of Past Partnerships with San Miguel, Perpich, and Watershed

Highpoint has been partnering with neighborhood schools since it’s opening in 2001. We would like to highlight three such neighborhood connections with three distinctly different focuses on, and partnership experiences with, arts education at Highpoint.

San Miguel Middle School is a small school located in South Minneapolis who has been partnering with Highpoint since 2004. During the 2004–2005 school year San Miguel students visited Highpoint’s facility and created prints a total of nine times. The entire school experienced three types of printmaking including monoprinting, relief, and etching techniques. San Miguel will be visiting again in the 2006–2007 school year to continue and advance their printmaking experience in these three printmaking areas. Sister Mary Willette, principal at San Miguel commented about the partnership “We have loved our visits to Highpoint. What a gift it has been.” …and even used a student print as the art for the school’s holiday card.

Perpich Center for Arts Education is a creative arts high school whose mission is to improve education through innovative programs and partnerships centered in the arts. Perpich has been partnering with Highpoint since it’s opening in 2001 and has made visits to our facility every year since. Perpich visits include a smaller number of students (usually 15–18) focusing on one particular printmaking process (usually monoprinting) explored in different ways over the course of five visits. Perpich visits are sequencial and consecutive with each class building on the experience and information covered in the previous class culminating in the creation of complex large scale monoprints.

The last example of educational options available at Highpoint is our partnership with Watershed High School. Watershed has also partnered with Highpoint since 2001 and visits annually throughout the school year. Typically, Watershed visits are a one-day workshop exploring a single printmaking process. Student imagery is focused on specific outcomes related to artists, foundational elements, and/or subject matter specifically related to the current visual art units being studied.