Category: News

Learn how COVID-19 is impacting Urban Gateways and how you can support our work. Stay healthy, stay well – and stay inspired during this challenging time!

Building our new Teen Arts Pass (TAP) App was a long and thoughtful process – and we’re thrilled with the result. Here, we tell the story behind this innovative new technology.

Urban Gateways has a new logo, a new mission statement, new colors…and a new organizational identity. Here’s the story of how it came to pass.

Urban Gateways’ new creative aging initiative, Crosswalk, brought together students as young as 16 and seniors as old as 94 at Montgomery Place, a senior living facility in Hyde Park. …

A new school year can mean new teachers, new classrooms, new friends, and a new box of freshly-sharpened number two pencils. Here at Urban Gateways, the new school year means …

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, donors, and sponsors, not to mention the performers, event staff, and volunteers who made the evening as fabulous as we had hoped it …

Traditionally, when we think about the arts, things like music, painting, and dance come to mind. What if we look at art differently, in terms of everyday life? What would …

If you’ve never before attended a New Arts Forum (Urban Gateways Auxiliary Board) event to support arts education, now’s your best chance yet: ARTINI 2014 is next Friday, November 14, …

Michigan Avenue strolls are a trademark of Chicago summers, and at the moment we can give you a pretty good reason to check out the Mag Mile the next time …

Maurice Elias, a professor at the Rutger’s Psychology department, reflects on the growing concerns involved with teaching at-risk youth and preparing teachers for urban schools. Of course, issues surrounding this …