Educational Opportunities

Highpoint’s Education and Community Programs are on the go in 2012!

Highpoint’s Education and Community Programs are on the go! This fall students from over twenty schools visited Highpoint for printmaking workshops as part of HP’s school partnership program. Two new school partners came to Highpoint for the first time: Lyndale Elementary School, located just a few blocks from Highpoint, serves a diverse population of students in grades K-5, many of whom are of East African descent. All of Lyndale’s 5th grade classes learned to make monoprints based on self-portraiture and landscape imagery in Highpoint’s studio classroom. Students greatly enjoyed mixing their own inks and learning to operate the big etching press.

Another new partner that brought students to Highpoint was Southside Family Charter School, a nationally recognized K-8 urban elementary school located in South Minneapolis. Over the course of four visits, each student in kindergarten through 6th grade visited Highpoint and got inky while making prints to take home.

This fall also marked the 4th year of the ACCESS/PRINT Project, a mentorship program that grants full scholarships for 8–10 teens each year. Five high school students from all over the Twin Cities metro area were selected to participate in the fall session, and spent over 70 hours learning different print processes and developing series of prints to be exhibited in the Highpoint galleries this spring. Some of the work produced by these students included large-scale relief prints, intricate drypoint etchings, graphic-based screenprints, and a three-dimensional print installation. The spring session of the ACCESS/PRINT Project is now underway, and a new batch of high school artists are currently developing print projects. Don’t miss the exhibition opening on April 27, 2012, showcasing the work of these industrious students!

We are looking forward to a new year filled with more opportunities to deliver quality hands-on printmaking opportunities. Be sure to check our calendar for upcoming events such as TWOxTUE: Second Tuesdays, a free monthly event that takes on a new form each month, our ever-popular Community Free Ink Days, and other programs and classes for printmaking enthusiasts of all levels.

Access/Print Teen Teen Program!

The ACCESS/PRINT Project is a mentorship program that grants full scholarships to 8-10 teens each year. Selected students learn different printmaking processes to develop a portfolio of work to exhibit in the galleries at Highpoint. Do you know a high school student who is serious about making art? We are currently in the midst of our winter/spring session, but applications for the Fall 2012 session are available on our website and will be due in early September 2012.