Category: ArtsEd News
Healing Trauma through the Arts in Chicago and Beyond
Urban Gateways Executive Director Eric Delli Bovi takes a look at how Urban Gateways and other arts organizations are helping program participants heal trauma through creativity. This blog was originally published by the Americans for the Arts ARTSblog.
Diversity in Arts Participation: Current Overview and Efforts for Progress
What diversity (or lack therof) in the arts looks like today; what we should be doing to make improvements; and what those improvements will do for our creativity and our society.
The Importance of the Personal: “The Children of Willesden Lane” and the Holocaust
My mother likes to tell the story of when I was 8 and our family went on a trip to Washington DC. Mom wanted to visit the United States Holocaust …
STEM to STEAM: The Role of Arts Education in Preparing Students for the Future
“The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.” – Mae Jemison
Arts and Community Mental Health: Improvement of Self-Worth and Management
There’s a reason why arts programs are beneficial to Chicago communities and our youth. A 2013 study published in the Journal of Health Psychology shows individuals with long-term mental health …
Arts + Culture = Economics + Happiness
Arts educators are constantly hunting for the latest quantitative research showing how dramatically the arts affect human growth and development – not because they doubt the arts’ qualitative merits, but …
The Top 14 of 2014
Happy New Year! 2015 dawns full of exciting things for Urban Gateways – we’re participating in Turnaround Arts: Chicago, we’re hosting our annual Art for All Gala on March 20 …
Party for arts education at Parliament Chicago
If you’ve never before attended a New Arts Forum (Urban Gateways Auxiliary Board) event to support arts education, now’s your best chance yet: ARTINI 2014 is next Friday, November 14, …
Chicago’s Arts Education Plan: Where is it now?
If you’re wondering what ever happened to the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Arts Education plan two years after its lauded unveiling – you’re probably not the only one. The good …
Comedy: The Forgotten Art
From television to movies, comedies have only grown in popularity from year to year. Still, most people would not necessarily consider comedy to be an art form. Since it has …