Arcadia in the Media

Today in the ArtZany Radio studio Paula Granquist features Arts for Martin at Arcadia Charter School with Bob Gregory-Bjorklund and Sam Wilmot. Join Northfield’s performing artists - from all disciplines, all ages and all levels, novice to professional - for our fifteenth annual evening of reflection on the life and work of Martin Luther King.

As part of Arcadia Charter School’s Innovation Days, students visited four local assisted living facilities on Dec. 5. The students spent the day with residents, getting to know them while making holiday decorations and designing interactive artwork.

For Bob Gregory-Bjorklund, theater is more than art and it’s much more than the performances. It comes down to building relationships.

Gregory-Bjorklund has a history of performing, directing, teaching and guiding the Northfield youth through a variety of programs.

When it was all said and done, the students who were immersed in a variety of short works such as poetry, fiction stories and essays came out of the experience with a clear understanding of what the veterans and the families and friends of those groups go through.

Arcadia Charter School, which just celebrated its 10-year anniversary, has evolved into a creative incubator that encourages students to pursue their interests. 

When a group of Arcadia Charter School students were asked to do a service project this year, they thought local. “The reason we wanted to do a local project is because we wanted to profit something that we would be able to see what happened with what we did,” said Paul Wehling, 13.

At times heartfelt and other times hilarious, Arcadia students presented open letters they created during their time spent in workshops with nationally-known writer and rapper Dessa. During their time with Dessa, students worked on creative writing and spoken word.

In a time when teenagers are increasingly portrayed as lazy and unmotivated, students in Arcadia Charter School’s Heartsaver CPR class are providing the perfect remedy for this stereotype.

Arcadia Charter School, a grade 6-12 public charter school in Northfield (formerly ARTech), has been awarded the FY12 School Finance Award from the Minnesota Department of Education.

The Skeptics Club sounds like a cynical title but in fact, it is a group of students at the Northfield School of Arts and Technology who are dedicated to critical thinking.

Rachel Acosta, an eighth-grade student at ARTech, took the initiative and started the group.

Bob Gregory-Bjorklund is the arts coordinator and an advisor at the Northfield School of Arts and Technology, better known as ARTech.

Bob Gregory-Bjorklund and Ann Gregory-Bjorklund are the November 2011 recipients of the Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) "Making a Difference" Award.  The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth.

With a buzz of energy charging the air inside compact quarters of a grounded boat, 10 students from the Northfield School of Arts and Technology gathered alongside one another in the common area, their comfortable closeness reflecting many hours spent in each other's company.

NORTHFIELD — This fall, when the roughly 120 students at the Northfield School of Arts and Technology head back to class, their school will be partially powered by solar energy, thanks to a 2.8 kilowatt solar panel project that a group of students have seen through to fruition. Installation of the new solar panel system began on Monday.

NORTHFIELD - They edit, write, photograph, lay out and place to the web an entire newspaper. And they still attend class.

Four students from ARTech Charter School have been serving on the student editorial board of the Charter Vision Newspaper.