Category: In the Classroom

That’s right, even more videos and photos of Urban Gateways dance residencies. Just in case you weren’t already feeling antsy in your seat today! This time around we’re visiting our …

Where: Mays Academy, Englewood Who: Fifth and sixth grade students What: After-school dance residency with UG teaching artist Kim Schomburg Suffice it to say, I am chuckling disruptively at my …

Talk about jam-packing a whole lot of awesome into a teaching artist residency…This fall at EPIC Academy in South Chicago, Urban Gateways artist Samantha Hill outlined the basics of graphic …

Teaching artist Judy Petaque recently spent eight weeks working with 1st and 2nd grade students with Autism and Attention Deficit Disorders at Daniel C. Beard Elementary School. This is just …

Wow, check out the concentration on their faces (photos below)…after all, these Kershaw Elementary 6th-8th graders were learning from the expert, UG teaching artist Josh Guy. Also possible that they …

Englewood has a new sound thanks to teaching artist Amy Lowe. During her after-school music composition residency, Amy first exemplified songwriting technique by using students’ written dreams and aspirations to …

Teaching artist Avery Young – incidentally, also the recent winner of a 3Arts Award (go Avery!) – has been slamming up a storm at Wentworth School in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. …

And the lucky students of Mays Academy get both. Check out these Flickr sets featuring Mays after school programs with UG teaching artists Kim Schomburg and Amy Lowe! (We’re thankful …

“I hope they think about how children handle problems [like violence and bullying]… I want viewers to see that in certain neighborhoods, children especially don’t really have a foundation or …

Check out the latest from teaching artist Karen Light‘s residency at Woodson Middle School in Bronzeville, where students are tackling color theory and self portraits. After discussing the color wheel …