FREE Art Reception: Winter Student Exhibit Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts
FREE Art Reception: Winter Student Exhibit Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts
The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Visual Arts Department's Winter Student Exhibit will open with a FREE Reception on November 1, from 6-8 PM in the school's Corpora Gallery as part of the Southside Arts District's First Friday celebration. The exhibit will be on display through January 17, 2025.
This much-anticipated annual exhibition offers an opportunity to view a variety of impressive student work. The exhibit features a diverse array of mediums as it showcases emerging talent and highlights the students' commitment to their craft. Through their work, these young artists explore powerful themes of identity, connection, and emotion, offering fresh perspectives on the world around them.
The visual arts program of study at Charter Arts provides a well-rounded, structured, and classical fine art education. Approached as an academic as well as artistic discipline, the sequence of courses inspire students to form connections across the curriculum. Students progressively build conceptual understanding as they work to advance skills in drawing, painting, sculpture, digital design concepts, photography, art history, and professional practices.
Over the course of study within the visual arts program, students develop a portfolio expressive of their active studio participation, work ethic, personal inquiry, passion for art, and dedication to skill advancement.
The department hosts both professional and student exhibitions in the school’s Corpora Gallery throughout the year.
ABOUT THE LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (Charter Arts):
Charter Arts is an audition-based public charter school that provides a comprehensive curriculum for high school students, grades 9-12, who have a dedicated passion for the creative and performing arts. Students major in one of seven artistic areas: dance, instrumental music, literary arts, production arts, theatre, visual arts, or vocal music.
Charter Arts' rigorous curriculum fosters both academic and artistic excellence for its students. The school’s impressive Future Ready PA Index ranking, Advanced Placement (AP) exam statistics, Keystone Exam statistics, SAT scores, prestigious artistic accolades, and graduation rate, are testaments to the outstanding education that Charter Arts provides.
Charter Arts is ranked #1 Best Charter High School in PA & #1 Best Public High School Teachers in PA on Niche's 2025 Best Schools in America Rankings. Charter Arts was one of only four Lehigh Valley schools to make The Top 100 Public High Schools in PA on U.S. News & World Report's 2024 Best Schools.
To learn more about the Charter Arts Visual Arts Department and the school, prospective students and families are invited to attend a Fall Open House event on November 16th or contact the Charter Arts Admissions Office. For more information, visit www.CharterArts.org.--