Art & Music

Our school community values the arts, and we are committed to making sure that every Chelsea Heights student has access to enriching and culturally diverse art and music curriculum, performances, field trips and programs. 

Visual Art

Chelsea Heights was proud to be a stop on the Saint Paul Art Crawl this fall, allowing us to welcome the community into our school to see work by professional artists and for our students to participate in a student art fair. 

Saint Paul artist Broderick Poole will be in residence at Chelsea for four weeks this fall. Broderick is an established local artist and business owner from the Rondo community. He is the illustrator of the book "Joy & Grandpa Johnson's Day in Rondo" and teaches youth art classes through CultureWin and Saint Paul Parks and Recreation. He'll meet with each class for two weeks in October 2024.

Now.Make.Art, founded and owned by Como Park resident Megan Flod Johnson, will be in residence at Chelsea in January and February 2025. They'll work with each class individually to create a Clay City, which students will brainstorm, plan, and create with their classmates. The schoolwide Clay City will be on display during the Winter Hibernation event in February.

Performing Arts/Music

Chelsea Heights is excited to partner with Class Notes this school year, a Minnesota Public Radio program that provides accessible, relevant, and innovative concerts and lesson plans to K-12 classrooms. Every classroom teacher at Chelsea Heights is incorporating Class Notes lessons into their curriculum to ensure that every student is exposed to music education and has the opportunity to foster a love for music from a young age. 

In addition to the classroom lessons, Class Notes is also sponsoring four concerts at the school this year:

• November 15, 2024 - Siama's Congo Roots
• January 17, 2025 - Son de Cuerdas
• March 14, 2025 - Alma Brasileira
• May 9, 2025 - Steam Machine