Category: Get Involved
Interested in becoming a Teaching or Touring Artist?
Join the Urban Gateways Teaching and/or Touring Artist Roster! Deadline EXTENDED to October 30th! Urban Gateways hires Chicago’s most talented professional artists in music, dance, theater, literary arts, visual arts, …
Announcing the Logo Design Contest for Teen Arts Leadership Summit!
Spread the word: Any Chicago-area teen age 13-19 is invited to envision and submit a design for our Teen Arts Leadership Summit logo!
A Happy Hour that Inspires
Associate Board member Lauren discusses why she got involved with Urban Gateways and how you can support arts education, starting with Happy Hour on May 24.
Notes from the Associate Board: Why Artini?
Associate Board member Erin Matthew takes to the Urban Gateways blog to tell you why you should attend Artini 2016 – and why she’s been a steadfast supporter of Urban Gateways programs.
Why Choose Urban Gateways’ Associate Board?
Associate Board Member Colin Moore discusses why he got involved: Great times with great people, clear results, and the opportunity to see Urban Gateways’ impact firsthand.
Utilizing Your Community as a Classroom
Executive Director Eric Delli Bovi writes for Americans for the Arts’ ARTSblog about the importance of getting students out of the classroom to expand their learning; the good old-fashioned field trip is key.
The Internship
Today, while posting our internship description on various job-searching sites, I was able to take a moment to reflect on my own time working as an intern at Urban Gateways. …
The New Arts Forum’s Summer Event: Why TASK?
Urban Gateways’ Auxiliary Board, the New Arts Forum, is trying out a brand new summer fundraiser this year – a TASK Party. Join us on July 19, and learn more …
Class is in Session
Cast your mind back to when you were a kid in school. For me it was parochial school in Des Plaines and Arlington Heights, with the old wooden desks, and …
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 …