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Creating Community – The LHS Art Department

Through diverse visual art courses and experienced teachers, Lexington High School's Art Department helps students explore different mediums and find their art interests.  LHS offers a wide range of...

Student Engagement and Faculty Assistance: LHS Art Teaching Assistants

At Lexington High School, a great emphasis is placed on the Visual Arts Department. Classes ranging from ceramics to video game design, are part of a larger selection that allow students to explore different...

LHS’s Newest Art Course: Video Game Design

The 2022-2023 Program of Studies at Lexington High School features a new semester-long visual arts course: Video Game Design. This course allows students to work together as a team making a 2D game using...

Bringing Back the Rock Room: Using Art to Decrease Stress

The Rock Room is a space that helps Lexington High School students and teachers reduce stress and straighten out their thoughts as they paint rocks and work on creative projects. Beginning in 2017, participants...

Fall Play: The Tempest

This year, Lexington High School’s fall play, a production of William Shakspeare’s The Tempest, was held from Nov. 17-19. The play follows the story of Prospero, a sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan,...

Mr. Cassedy Accepts Music Teacher of Excellence Award

On Oct. 19, Jared Cassedy, the Lexington Public Schools K-12 Performing Arts Coordinator and Lexington High School Wind Ensemble Conductor, received the Country Music Association (CMA) Foundation’s Music...

Artist of the Issue: Phoebe Tian

At just three or four years old, Lexington High School senior Phoebe Tian started her journey to become a musician. DNA talent-testing, initiated by her mother, revealed that Tian, who would always tap...

Behind the Song: A Cappella Groups

The a cappella groups at Lexington High School have grown into tight-knit communities through their countless rehearsals, performances, and practice sessions. The next performance in which all of the LHS...

LHS Drama Department Hosts Winterfest

On Feb. 11 and 12, Lexington High School hosted Winterfest—a showcase featuring student-created works. In previous years, a group of students called the Emerson Troupe wrote an original piece and performed...

Students in the illustration club drawing during a studio day. Photo by Angie Xu

LHS Illustration Club Hosts Pop-Up Art Store

From Dec. 20 to 23, Lexington High School’s Illustration Club opened a pop-up art store in the display room by the LHS main entrance.  The shop was open to all students and visitors during lunch...

Cellist Gabe Lee. Photo by Natalie Schroder

Artist of the Issue: Gabe Lee Wins LHS Concerto Competition

Gabe Lee, a junior cellist in Lexington High School’s Chamber Orchestra won the 2021 LHS Concerto Competition, and will perform his winning piece with the Chamber Orchestra in Nov. 2022. The Concerto...

Family Holiday Fundraiser Concert Returns

On Dec. 10, the Lexington High School Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra performed together at the annual Family Holiday Fundraiser Concert.  Started by the late orchestra director Janet Haas, the...

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