For Rosie, Snow City Arts has been a lifelong source of joy and comfort
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 with Snow City Arts has helped Rosie cultivate her deep, life-long love for visual art and get school credit for the skills she’s learned. [...]
Get to know SCA Teaching Artist Trent Lunsford
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 actively engage young patients, transforming hospital rooms into arts studios. We are so proud of their amazing, tireless work, and we hope that you [...]
Get to Know SCA Teaching Artist Gabe Andres
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 engage young patients, transforming hospital rooms into arts studios. We are so proud of their amazing, tireless work, and we hope that you get to [...]
A warm welcome to our newest board members!
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 his interest in Snow City Arts and its impact on students through art and education. Carlton serves on the development committee and is excited to [...]
Gallery Night 2022 showcases student artwork and honors Child Life specialists
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 of mediums by 57 students were prominently displayed throughout the space. 3D-printed recreations of students’ sculptures were displayed as table centerpieces, Teaching Artists read student [...]
2022 Katie Kurcz Memorial Fund Grantee
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 of art to build community. With his Katie Kurcz Memorial Fund (Kurcz Fund) project, he aims to create similar opportunities for our students at the [...]