New school, new arts facilities

A report on the new Gull Lake High School building from PAF's staff liaison, Robin Nott:

The new high school, opening on August 12, will be providing Gull Lake fine arts students with improved learning environments. Each of the three fine arts disciplines (Music, Theatre, and Visual Art), will move in to wonderful new classroom facilities this fall. Gull Lake Visual Art students will be enjoying two new art studios, a painting and drawing studio and a sculpture and ceramics studio. Each studio is very large and well equipped with plenty of natural light. There is also a student art gallery located between the two studios, visible from the hallway.

Our vocal and instrumental music students will be moving into state-of-the-art facilities. Both rooms offer ample space, and plenty of well-designed support spaces, including storage, practice rooms, offices, and a recording studio. The acoustics and design of the classrooms will provide optimum responsiveness for music education.

Our Theatre (Performing Arts Company) students will be moving into a wonderful new arena "black box" theatre. The 3600 sq. ft. arena theatre includes state-of-the-art lighting and sound equipment for our students to employ in theatre production. The theatre will double as the Communications/Theatre Arts classroom during the day. There is a technical support space attached to the arena, for limited scene construction and makeup. This theatre will be suitable for music concerts, plays, and other performance art events like our Spring Showcase. Our annual state tour competition play will continue to perform on the old high school traditional stage, in the new middle school.

The community still lacks an auditorium to showcase the talents of our students, but great strides have been made with the new high school's new arts education facilities.