Category: See Our Impact

This morning I am loving this article on the BBC concerning music – which types of music please us, which don’t, and why. Here’s what researchers in Australia figured out: …

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 …

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 …

Is it really already 2013? Where did 2012 go? While it definitely flew by, it was also filled with tons of amazing Urban Gateways moments that were highlighted here on …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Carson Elementary – Gage Park Clara Barton Elementary – Auburn Gresham EPIC Academy – South Chicago Fairfield Academy – Marquette Park Greeley Elementary – Lakeview Mays Academy – Englewood The …

“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 …