Arts and Humanities Focus Program

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Arts and Humanities Focus Program
643 S. 25 Street

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Type Public magnet high school
Established1999
School board Lincoln Public Schools
PrincipalJames Blake
Faculty4 [1]
Grades 9-12
Nickname Arts [2]
Website arts.lps.org

Arts and Humanities Focus Program, commonly referred to as Arts, [2] is a focus program that specializes in art and the humanities. The school opened in 1999, [3] and is housed in a historic bottling plant along the banks of Antelope Creek in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. [4]

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Academics

The program's current regular activities include:

The Arts and Humanities Focus program has welcomed several speakers over the past six semesters, including actor and director Peter Riegert, New York mime Bill Bowers, DC Comics and Marvel Comics cartoonist Bob Hall, and director Rodney Evans.

Past speakers who have visited include author Daniel Quinn, author and activist Howard Zinn, and President of the ACLU Nadine Strossen.

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References

  1. "2007-2008 State of the Schools Report: A Report on Nebraska Public Schools". Nebraska Department of Education . Retrieved 2009-04-30.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. 1 2 "Arts" is used in the school's official website URL, for example.
  3. "Arts and Humanities Focus Program - About our Program". Lincoln Public Schools. Archived from the original on June 3, 2008. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  4. Rooney, Megan R. (February 7, 2005). "Focus program students find first Fridays important". Daily Nebraska. Archived from the original on June 14, 2011. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  5. Arts are Basic

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