Category: Urban Gateways Artists

Before you skip to the adorable videography below: 1st to 3rd graders at Beard Elementary in Norridge worked with teaching artists Jesse Avina (media arts) and Gwen Tulin (theater) on …

Few things have been more fun for me lately than collecting these wonderful little Q&As with our artists. So, here for you are words from percussion teaching artist Jason Wolf. …

The Art for All Gala is tomorrow, March 8 at City Winery! If you have any experience planning benefits, you can probably imagine the scene around our office. We are …

So we’ve been posting all these thought-provoking interviews lately, and don’t get us wrong, the input of our artists and partners can’t be beat for poignancy. But we thought it …

Here we go again with another Teaching Artist Q&A, if you haven’t seen it, check out our conversation with Carol Weston last week. This time we were so excited to …

The scoop: The Four Layer Players, composed of approximately 10 students from Michael Riendeau’s after-school percussion residency at EPIC Academy, will perform at Urban Gateways’ Art for All Gala on …

Time for another Teaching Artist Q&A! We had such fun interviewing visual artist Karen Light the other week – and we think you enjoyed it, too – so now we …

Because we work alongside countless incredible teaching and touring artists, and because every one of them has so much to say and share, we’re starting to feature artist Q&As from …

Talk about jam-packing a whole lot of awesome into a teaching artist residency…This fall at EPIC Academy in South Chicago, Urban Gateways artist Samantha Hill outlined the basics of graphic …

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 …