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The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum

The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum

Weisman Museum Displays a Range of Exhibits, Artistic Collections

Weisman Museum Displays a Range of Exhibits, Artistic Collections

Emma Martinez Sutton, Perspectives Editor March 11, 2019

The University of Minnesota’s Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is impossible to miss with its metallic facade glimmering beside the Mississippi River. The Weisman is a free, educational museum located...

Exploring Doodling’s Dual Purposes

Bernadette Whitely and Julia Blum December 20, 2018

Many students have different methods to keep focused in a activities such as a long class discussion or a test. These mannerisms become automatic and natural to many students. Molly Liston ‘22, explains...

Elle McCarty

Predicting the future of Rockstar Games

Josh Power, Sports Editor November 30, 2018

People are familiar with the major video game corporations – Activision, EA, Nintendo – that have become name brands among gamers. Quietly, Rockstar Games has emerged as a successful studio,...

Lilli Herpers 19, Sierra Erdman Luntz 19, Henry Roach 19, and Tanner Parr 19 at the Walker Art Center for their Art History class

Art History Class Revitalized

Caroline Hardy, Student Life Editor November 29, 2018

Officially titled Art Now: 21st Century Art History, the “Art 21” semester class is currently running for the first time in four years. Visual arts faculty Bill Colburn designed the class after his...

The Martha Bennett Gallery Team together in the Gallery. Not pictured: Azalea Hallin-Graber 19

Getting Behind the Scenes of the Gallery

Zoe Wellik, Staff Writer September 30, 2018

Grade lounges and other seating areas are filled daily with the same routine of friends in the moments before class in the morning. However, between the original Northrop building and the science wing...

Ben Lee 19 ends year as National Student Poet representative, starts new chapter

Ben Lee ’19 ends year as National Student Poet representative, starts new chapter

Maya Chadda, Editor-in-Chief | Opinions Editor September 9, 2018

On August 30, Ben Lee '19, the 2017 National Student Poet representative for the Midwest region, traveled to Washington D.C to welcome the incoming National Student Poets for 2018 at the National Library...

Back to School Gallery Installation Opens

“Back to School” Gallery Installation Opens

William Lyman, Features Editor September 9, 2018

Returning to the Martha Bennett Gallery is the “Back to School” exhibition, curated by Sara Gregor ‘19 and Azalea Hallin-Graber ‘19. The installation features all forms of art created and submitted...

Newly structured arts courses

Newly structured arts courses

Josie Lagerstrom, Co-Editor-in-Chief May 1, 2018

Following this school year, all visual arts classes’ curriculum will be restructured to create more variety. Next year, the art department will offer a beginning level course for Drawing, Painting, Filmmaking,...

Zac Johnson 18

Seniors’ tattoos expressing the important motivations, realities of life

Josie Lagerstrom, Co-Editor-in-Cheif April 30, 2018

For seniors Zac Johnson ‘18, Lucy Graham ‘18, Max Owens ‘18, and Abbie Nelson ‘18, getting “inked” was not a decision made lightly. Tattoos, legal at the age of 18, and the more recent minimalist...

Bethke’s art portraying South African culture hung in the Martha Bennett Gallery spanning from February 21 to March 14.

Martha Bennett Gallery displays new prints

Josie Lagerstrom, Co-Editor-In-Chief March 16, 2018

The current Martha Bennett Gallery exhibit features work personal to art teacher Brian Sago. Karl Bethke, with his exhibit entitled “A Visual History of Rorke’s Drift,” was Sago’s printmaking and...

Frozen on Ice had performance from February 28 to March 4.

Frozen on Ice debuts at Target Center

Sarina Dev, Food Editor March 15, 2018

As a sixteen-year-old attending a performance targeted for toddlers, I was not expecting Disney on Ice presents Frozen to be as magical of an experience as it was. On Wednesday, February 28th at the Target...

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