Category: Blog
On a blustery day in Lakeview…
We were out in style, painting a mural with folks at the Lakeview East Festival of the Arts (September 9). Urban Gateways teaching artist James Jankowiak got the mural going …
Check out this recently discovered YouTube gem…
Amazing, the things you find lurking around the internet. For example, unbeknownst to us, some wonderful advocate of ours posted the video below back in November 2011. So, whoever you …
Young Chicago actors tackle London drama in Tusk Tusk
Talented young actors, a talented young playwright, and a talented Urban Gateways teaching artist? Sounds like a recipe for beauty. Urban Gateways theater artist Jen Green has a daring and …
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer…
Time for our favorite program documentation of the week: Check out this colorful Tumblr by Urban Gateways artist Karen Light! She’s got a visual arts residency going at Woodson Charter …
“I fell in love with dance” – Mastering African music & movement in Washington Park
Enjoying our deluge of (if we do say so ourselves) awesome program videos? Good, because it only gets better: Videography volunteer Rebecca Kahn whisked up this documentation of Urban Gateways …
EPIC Upperclassmen Help Ease New Freshmen’s Nerves
By Jamie Kostecki Just last night I dreamt that I couldn’t remember my locker combination, and then my locker was nowhere to be found. I’m five years out of high …
For the wine lovers, the music lovers, the Arts Ed lovers…
For all you wine connoisseurs out there: Why is wine on tap a great idea? According to David Lecomte of City Winery, the fabulous wine/music/food venue opening in Chicago next …
When We Talk About Violence, Where Does Art Fit In?
By Anna Joranger Concerning my intense start to a recent workday: Skimming the many e-newsletters weighing down my inbox, my attention was completely taken over by this article in the …
Hernandez Students Define “Community” Through Photography
By Anna Joranger What do you get when you stick a masterful media artist into 6th and 7th grade classrooms? In the case of Albany Park’s Hernandez School, the answer …
Where Words Meet Addiction: Part 4
By Anna Joranger: Continued from Part 3. …Falling can be good, like falling out of any bad thing you are going through. Like the leaves falling out of the tree, …