In this blog post series, you’ll learn more about Snow City Arts’ amazing Teaching Artists! Every weekday, our TAs deliver arts education to children and young adults in inpatient and outpatient pediatric units at our partner hospitals. Through in-person and virtual workshops in creative writing, media arts, music, theatre, dance and visual arts, they [...]
Eighteen-year-old Rosie has created countless works of art with Snow City Arts since her first workshop at Lurie Children’s Hospital—when she was only three years old. Over the course of 15 years, she participated in hundreds of workshops in every artistic discipline we offer. Whether in her hospital room, the outpatient clinic, or virtually, working [...]
In this blog post series, you’ll learn more about Snow City Arts’ amazing Teaching Artists! Every weekday, our TAs deliver arts education to children and young adults in inpatient and outpatient pediatric units at our partner hospitals. Through in-person and virtual workshops in creative writing, media arts, music, theatre, dance and visual arts, [...]
In this blog post series, you’ll learn more about Snow City Arts’ incredible Teaching Artists! Every weekday, our TAs deliver arts education to children and young adults in inpatient and outpatient pediatric units at our partner hospitals. Through in-person and virtual workshops in creative writing, media arts, music, theatre, dance and visual arts, they actively [...]
Snow City Arts is thrilled to welcome two dynamic new individuals to our Board of Directors! Carlton Gibbs Carlton is a packaging engineer in the consumer goods space, where he works to transform consumer insights and problems into business solutions. Education has long been an important part of his family history, which contributed to [...]
On September 16, 2022, Snow City Arts hosted hundreds of guests from Chicago’s philanthropic, medical, corporate, and artistic communities at Gallery Night 2022: In the Long Grass, the first in-person Gallery Night in two years! Chicago’s Venue West was transformed into the Snow City Arts students’ gallery, where 78 works of art in a variety [...]
Teaching Artist Gabe Andres Receives 2022 Katie Kurcz Memorial Fund Award Gabe Andres, who joined Snow City Arts last summer, is a visual artist who blends painting and drawing with a wide range of media, including animation and music. Gabe is also a prolific collaborator with other artists, and believes strongly in the power [...]
Snow City Arts returns to Cook County Health with live and virtual programming to engage pediatric patients in arts-learning opportunities. Two full days each week, pediatric patients at Cook County Health will be able to engage with a Snow City Arts (SCA) Teaching Artist to explore their ideas, create new works [...]
Nylah has always had a passion for music, and her palette includes everyone from Rihanna to Elton John. Her love of music began in childhood, when she would listen to the radio while cleaning alongside her grandmother. She also fondly remembers watching music videos, and being so inspired to dance that she leapt up [...]
After a thorough search, SCA is thrilled to announce that Dan Kerr-Hobert will join Snow City Arts as Program Director in July 2021. Since 2008, Dan has been a Theatre Artist-In-Residence at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Rush University Children’s Hospital. He is an ensemble member of The [...]
