School Partnerships
Highpoint has partnered with metro area schools since it’s opening in 2001. Highpoint serves young artists in 3rd grade and up. 60% of these schools come to Highpoint at no cost thanks to the generous funders of our education and community programs.
Students often arrive at Highpoint with little to no knowledge of printmaking and many no longer have art programs at their schools. They are given the professional instruction, tools and equipment to create hand-made artwork all their own. The classroom at Highpoint is a place for young people to learn to explore and trust their artistic strengths through the incredibly versatile medium of printmaking.
Schools with strong visual art programs rely on Highpoint to broaden students’ knowledge of printmaking in a professional studio setting. The Arts High School at Perpich Center for Arts Education visits Highpoint every year with senior visual arts students to drive their study of monoprinting to a new level. With a large classroom studio, professional atmosphere and high quality materials and equipment, Highpoint offers a place where these young emerging artists see their work grow and thrive.
If you are an educator looking for more information on partnering with Highpoint please visit our Information for Educators Page on this site or contact Johanna Winters at 612.871.1326 or info@highpointprintmaking.org.
Many Thank Yous
A few notes of thanks to our former Education staff and interns, who have been an essential part of the education programs at Highpoint. Many thanks to our 2010-2011 education crew: Yoshi Coryne, Megan Frauenhoffer, Page Guggemos, Tom Woodling, Bekkah Olson, and Angie Owens. A new addition to the team was Nico Dregni, our high school teen mentor for the Access/Print Project (and a former Access/ Print student himself!). Also, we would like to welcome the 2010-11 Education Fellow Joe Moore to Highpoint. And a special thanks goes to our former Education and Community Programs Manager, Elizabeth Flinsch-Garrison, for her four years of commitment to the Education Programs at Highpoint. Without the incredible amount of work contributed by these dedicated people, the growth of our programs would not be possible. Thank you!