Video first, explanation later. Featuring the students of Oak Terrace Elementary in Highwood: You might be wondering why an Urban Gateways program featured the Harlem Shake. Our Performance Programs Manager, […]
Do you know the New Arts Forum? NO? Where have they been all your life? New Arts Forum is our young professionals group/Junior Board – charismatic and fun to the
April 8-9, 2013 (that’s today! Is it already April, seriously?) is Arts Advocacy Day. What does this signify for you? This is the perfect opportunity to tell someone you know
Before you skip to the adorable videography below: 1st to 3rd graders at Beard Elementary in Norridge worked with teaching artists Jesse Avina (media arts) and Gwen Tulin (theater) on
Essential Residency Question: What personal qualities are you proud of? How can you use them to make a positive change in your life? Michael Jackson, Frida Kahlo and others converged
How an arts residency helped one student change his ways This story was shared with us by teaching artist Karen Light about one of her recent visual arts residencies with
Few things have been more fun for me lately than collecting these wonderful little Q&As with our artists. So, here for you are words from percussion teaching artist Jason Wolf.
March is, among many other things (Women’s History Month, Music in Our Schools Month, spring if we’re lucky), Youth Arts Month! What better moment than now to make you an
The Art for All Gala is tomorrow, March 8 at City Winery! If you have any experience planning benefits, you can probably imagine the scene around our office. We are
So we’ve been posting all these thought-provoking interviews lately, and don’t get us wrong, the input of our artists and partners can’t be beat for poignancy. But we thought it