Category: Urban Gateways Artists
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Student artists reflect, react, retell the tales of Chicago violence
On “The Interrupters” Let he that is without sin cast the first stone But if he is causing harm to the harmful then who is wrong? Constantly what do …