Category: Blog
A Two-Month Residency at Red Lodge Clay Center
By UG teaching artist Seana Higgins Greetings! My name is Seana (pron. SHAW-na) Higgins, and I am a teaching artist with Urban Gateways. For the past two months, I was …
Let’s talk Africa! Englewood students build cultural conversation through drums
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 …
See the impact of arts ed at Nuestro Center!
Our awesome Measurement and Documentation Manager, Carrie Rosales, is hard at work creating post-residency impact reports to showcase the amazing work of our teaching artists. We thought it was high …
Mays Academy residency churns out musicians and…zoologists?
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 …
The Top 10 Skills Children Learn from the Arts
We positively loved this ARTSblog post by Lisa Phillips, “The Top 10 Skills Children Learn from the Arts.” So we thought we’d keep passing it along. How to receive constructive …
Award-winning spoken word artist in action at Wentworth School
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. …
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Hip hop + music composition, two things we’re thankful for!
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 …
UG Student Filmmaker Examines Lawndale Violence
“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 …
pARTying for a cause was never better! Photos from ARTini 2012
October 19, 2012…it really was a night to remember. ARTini was truly a blast this year! Thanks to Lumen for hosting, plus DanceWorks and Chicago Improv Festival for performing – …