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| name = Arts and Humanities

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| established = 1999

| type = [[Public school (government funded)|Public]] [[Magnet school|magnet]] [[High school|high school]]

| schoolboard = [[Lincoln Public Schools]]

| principal = JohnJames NealBlake

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| grades = [[Ninth grade|9]]-[[Twelfth grade|12]]

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'''Arts and Humanities Focus Program''', commonly referred to as '''Arts''',<ref name="artsnickname"/>, is a [[Focus programs in Lincoln, Nebraska|focus program]] that specializes in [[Art|art]] and the [[Humanities|humanities]]. The school opened in 1999,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arts.lps.org/about/index.html |title=Arts and Humanities Focus Program - About our Program |publisher=Lincoln Public Schools |accessdate=2009-05-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603105247/http://arts.lps.org/about/index.html |archivedate=June 3, 2008 }}</ref>, and is housed in a historic bottling plant along the banks of [[Antelope Valley Project|Antelope Creek]] in [[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]], [[Nebraska]], United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailynebraskan.com/2.3976/focus-program-students-find-first-fridays-important-1.995815 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614165514/http://www.dailynebraskan.com/2.3976/focus-program-students-find-first-fridays-important-1.995815 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 14, 2011 |title=Focus program students find first Fridays important |last=Rooney |first=Megan R. |date=February 7, 2005 |publisher=Daily Nebraska |accessdate=2009-05-09 }}</ref>

== Academics ==

The program's current regular activities include:

* An entry in Lincoln's [[First Friday (public event)|First Friday]] art gallery exhibitions on the first Friday of every month, where the students show off their newest work.

* Several visits to the [[Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery]]

* TheOccasional occasional visitvisits to an academic lecture forum or welcoming of a guest lecturer to the program

* A partnership with the Arts are Basic<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060206142013/http://www.unl.edu/artsarebasic/ Arts are Basic]</ref> Aesthetic Education program

The Arts and Humanities Focus program has welcomed several speakers over the past six semesters, including actor/ and director [[Peter Riegert]], New York mime [[Bill Bowers]], [[DC Comics]] and [[Marvel Comics]] cartoonist Bob Hall, and director Rodney Evans to name a few.

Past speakers visitedwho have includedvisited include author [[Daniel Quinn]], author/ and activist [[Howard Zinn]], and President of the [[ACLU]] [[Nadine Strossen]].

==References==

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