Past School Partnerships

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.

As part of our continuing mission to provide quality art-making experiences to communities without access to the arts, Highpoint also established a new partnership with the youth programs at the Little Earth of United Tribes community. Little Earth, founded in 1973, is the nation’s first urban housing complex with American Indian preference. Over the course of four visits to Highpoint’s studio classroom, elementary and middle school students learned different printmaking processes including monoprinting, drypoint, and relief printing. Students also had the opportunity to display their prints in an exhibition at the Little Earth of United Tribes gymnasium.

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.