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THE MISSION OF THE ARTS PROGRAM IS TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR CONSERVATORY AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE AS ARTISTs.
SPCPA provides comprehensive training in Theatre, Musical Theatre, Dance, Music, Creative Writing, and Visual Arts. All arts classes are taught by current working professional artists and focus on technique, practice, study and the creation of original work. Through master classes and J-Term, students have the opportunity to engage with many artists and arts organizations in the Twin Cities and beyond.
Congratulations to SPCPA 9th grader, Maddy Bulk, a Scholastic Art and Writing Award winner! Maddy has been awarded a GOLD key in the Flash Fiction category for her story, ICY WATER, and an Honorable Mention in the Science Fiction & Fantasy category for her story, COUNTING THE STARS. More info about these awards: www.artandwriting.org/awards/
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Congratulations to SPCPA students Sofia Rose Nagberi and Francisco Englund for their tremendous achievement in the 2025 Scholastic Arts Awards! Both of these fine artists from SPCPA have been awarded regional Silver Key awards for paintings they submitted to this well-established and highly competitive arts competition. These awards are adjudicated anonymously and are based on the core values of originality, skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision.
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Instrumental Music students culminated their semester with an energetic and expressive concert during the day for students, and after school for parents, friends, and family!
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A number of the Creative Writing students culminated their semester yesterday with readings of their own material in SPCPA's Lab Theater for students in other arts disciplines. It was an engaging and heartfelt hour, well delivered-bravo to all involved!
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Super exciting news! SPCPA is thrilled to announce that we are recipients of a substantial MN State Arts Board Education Grant! This grant will allow 11th and 12th grade dance students during spring semester to travel to TU Dance Center where a TU artist will choreograph a piece that will perfom in May at the spring TU Dance concert at the Barbara Barker Center for Dance. 11th and 12th grade Visual Arts students will walk a few blocks once each week in the spring to the MN Museum of American Art to learn how to curate an exhibition. And 11th and 12th grade Theatre and Musical Theatre students in the fall will walk over to Park Square Theatre for a Stagecraft class in Park Square's scene shop and theaters. Thank you MN Museum of American Art, Park Square, TU Dance, and the MN State Arts Board! More details soon.
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What an amazing opportunity 🩷
Lucky students 🩷
Wow this is AMAZINGGGG!!! Such lucky kids 🤩 loving it.
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Christopher Robin Sapp, part of the cast from the current touring production of Les Misérables playing at the Orpheum Theatre (Minneapolis, Minnesota), stopped by SPCPA yesterday to deliver 2 master classes for Vocal and Musical Theatre students! He worked with individual students on their 32-bar audition cuts. Thanks Christopher!
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YAY!!! ❤️❤️
BSU put on phenomenal performances last Friday. Senior co-leaders TyJon Mason and Illiana Taylor emceed the entirely student-produced show, which featured vocal, dance, and instrumental pieces, as well as an intermission that welcomed alum to the stage.
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Yeesss Juno and Mereti! Great job on your duet!!
So proud of you all!
SPCPA is bringing the literary journal back! Next semester, we'll start a club to help solicit, produce, and celebrate creative works by SPCPA students in every grade. In the meantime, please follow @theconservatoryjournal on Instagram to see how you can submit your work already. More information soon!
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We were thrilled to have Rodney Cottier with us yesterday for a Master Class with 11th and 12th grade theatre and musical theatre students. Rodney is the Associate Director with LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art). He has directed 25 plays from Shakespeare’s canon and worked at Shakespeare’s Globe as Master-of-Fight on several productions, including Mark Rylance’s Hamlet, as well as at the Royal Opera House, English and Welsh National Opera, the National Theatre Studio and many regional theatres. Thank you, Rodney!
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