October 26, 2023 //

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, …

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July 23, 2018 //

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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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November 23, 2015 //

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.

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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January 30, 2015 //

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 …

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