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 […]
GO WITH YOUR GUT. BE CREATIVE. BREAK THE RULES. SHOW PEOPLE YOUR WORLD. The other week we told you all about Art Options, our summer arts apprenticeship program for high
Winter may be right around the corner, but Argentinean dance and music group, Che Malambo, was just getting warmed up when they made their North American debut at the Athenaeum
“One thing that is clear is that Chicago students have unique stories to share, and that we, the adults, should be active allies in producing and facilitating their stories.”
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
As the temperature drops, now seems an appropriate time to indulge in a little summer throwback. What better way than to re-visit one of our favorite summer programs? This was
We hope that you’ve taken this week to recover from your Halloween festivities, because ARTini is back in a big way – and who doesn’t want to party for a
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
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
“It is only in the gripping prose of a well-written tale, the quiet harmonic tickling of a sonata, the bold brush strokes of a watercolor, or in the tracks of