Category: ArtsEd News
Next Thursday: Have a cocktail, immerse yourself in the arts (it’s free!)
Next Thursday (Sept 11, 6-8pm), Urban Gateways is thrilled to bring you Around the Arts, the second annual iteration of our free September supporter events. Yes, that’s correct, it is …
New Ingenuity report highlights progress in Chicago arts education
Visual and performing arts education isn’t going down without a fight. Arts education demands to be recognized and overall, I think society wants to support that. I believe that most …
On happiness, creativity, and “giving childhood back to children”
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to …
Why we love spoken word (LTAB registration now open!)
What’s fast, furious, and socially charged? Spoken word. We love what it does for Chicago, for our students, for the arts community, and for anyone who has anything to say …
Top 13 of 2013
2013 was a busy and fruitful year for Urban Gateways. We successfully merged with A.R.T., we served nearly 70,000 students, we added incredible new teaching and touring artists to our …
The power of Banksy street art
Many of us have probably heard of Banksy in one context or another. It is impossible to read art news without stumbling over at least one article about this graffiti …
Guest Blogger Jessica Taylor: Working with Eric Booth at the National Guild Conference
Jessica Taylor works at Merit School of Music, participates in Urban Gateways’ Junior Board (New Arts Forum), and contributes her skills as an all-around advocate for arts education in Chicago …
Is It More Than a Picture?
This week, we’ll take a look at an artistic discipline that our students use, that we use to document our students, and that you probably use more frequently than you …
Build Your Neighborhood: The ArtAround App
Co-written by Anna Joranger and Ilona Polinovsky Ever walked by a mural painted on the side of an El station, a sculpture gracing a street corner in your community, an …
Engaging communities, one art piece at a time – Announcing the Shaw Artist Commission
Pictured here: Urban Gateways artist Mirtes Zwierzynski works to install a mosaic mural at Pershing West Middle School. Urban Gateways artists have frequently developed community- and school-based art pieces; the …