Category: See Our Impact
“I have changed a lot” Arts-Wired’s Positive Impact on Fairfield Students
To say the kids at Fairfield Academy had a good 2011-2012 school year would be an understatement… because they had an awesome one! Thanks to law firm Jenner & Block’s …
Elementary School Students Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Hooked on Cuba!
Last month we posted a fantastic interview with Zachary Himelhoch that made us so excited for Hispanic Heritage Month, and definitely got us Hooked on Cuba! UG touring group ZJH …
ARTicipating the school year at EPIC Academy
By Anna Joranger In designing an artist residency for the 2012 Urban Gateways summer program at EPIC Academy, teaching artist Adil Mansoor opted for something fresh and challenging. He decided …
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 …
“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 …
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, …
Going Green at Greeley – with a bright and art-filled community garden!
By Jamie Kostecki Greeley Elementary 1st through 6th graders got their Green on during Sonja Henderson’s awesome residency in early July. The students channeled their green thumb by planting tomato …
Where Words Meet Addiction: Part 3
By Anna Joranger: Continued from Part 2. …The myth of Persephone struck Maia as a relevant theme for her workshop. “It’s about loss and redemption, transitions, being trapped in the …