{"id":107493,"date":"2021-08-02T23:02:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T03:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107493"},"modified":"2021-08-02T23:02:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T03:02:49","slug":"lehigh-valley-charter-high-school-for-the-arts-hosts-a-summer-pop-up-costume-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107493","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts hosts a Summer Pop-Up Costume Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Featuring the work of Tony-nominated designer, Michael McDonald<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>BETHLEHEM, PA\u00a0 (August 6, 2021)&#8212; The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) will host a Summer Pop-Up Window exhibit in its Corpora Art Gallery from August 6-23, 2021.\u00a0 \u00a0The exhibit will feature a sampling of designs by Tony Award-nominated costume designer, Michael McDonald.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>An Opening Reception will be held on Friday, August 6th from 5:30-7:00 PM as part of the Bethlehem Southside Arts District&#8217;s First Friday celebration.\u00a0 Guests can also view the exhibit anytime through the gallery&#8217;s 3rd Street windows while on their way to Musikfest&#8217;s\u00a0Main Stage or on their First Friday stroll.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>McDonald\u2019s Costume Design credits include: Broadway &amp; London West End: Hair (Tony , Drama Desk, and Hewes Award nominations); Off-Broadway: STRAIGHT (Theater Row) The Irish Curse (Soho Rep), A Perfect Future (Cherry Lane Theater), Jericho (59E59), Almost Home (The Directors Co.), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Lincoln Center); Regional:\u00a0La\u00a0Cage\u00a0Aux Folles (Goodspeed) God of Carnage, [Title of Show], Sex with Stranger &amp; Mama\u2019s Boy (George Street Playhouse). Oklahoma! And West Side Story Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival) Take Me Out (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Johnny Baseball,<br \/>\n(American Repertory Theater) All The Way, Dirty Blond, Spring Awakening, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Crowns (Zachary Scott Theatre)McDonald is on the design faculty at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at<span class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0<\/span>Rutgers University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>ABOUT THE LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (Charter Arts):<\/strong><u><br \/>\n<\/u><br \/>\nCharter Arts, opened in 2003,\u00a0 is an audition-based public charter school that provides a comprehensive curriculum for high school students, grades 9-12, who have a passion for the arts. \u00a0 Students major in one of seven artistic areas: dance, instrumental music, literary arts, production arts, theatre, visual arts, or vocal music.Charter Arts&#8217; rigorous curriculum fosters both academic and artistic excellence for its students. The school\u2019s impressive Future Ready PA Index ranking, Advanced Placement (AP) exam statistics, Keystone Exam statistics, SAT scores, prestigious artistic accolades, and graduation rate, are testaments to the outstanding education that Charter Arts provides.<\/p>\n<p>Charter Arts, is proud to continue its legacy as one of the most respected high schools for the arts in the nation.\u00a0 Charter Arts was one of only 349 schools in the nation to be named a 2018 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education.\u00a0 In 2020, the school earned the Title I Distinguished School designation for the fourth year in a row, placing it in the top 5 % of all Title I high schools in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Recently, Charter Arts was ranked as #1 Best Public High School Teachers in PA (out of 666) and #1 Best Charter High School in Pennsylvania on Niche&#8217;s 2021 Best Schools in America Rankings.\u00a0 The school is also one of only five high schools in the Lehigh Valley to make the Top 100 PA Schools list on U.S News &amp; World Report&#8217;s 2021 Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Charter Arts is located at 321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem PA 18015.\u00a0 To learn more, visit:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charterarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.CharterArts.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628041463481000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFFkxJlo_wUeahDBwhD-Q5oj6wgkw\">www.CharterArts.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information &amp; Image\u00a0Provided By:<br \/>\nAnn Gillette<br \/>\nManager of Public Relations and Media<br \/>\nLehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts<br \/>\n321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.CharterArts.org\"><strong>www.CharterArts.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Featuring the work of Tony-nominated designer, Michael McDonald BETHLEHEM, PA\u00a0 (August 6, 2021)&#8212; The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) will host a Summer Pop-Up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107493\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts hosts a Summer Pop-Up Costume Gallery<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MIchael-McDonald.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}