The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation announced Snow City Arts as one of five recipients for the inaugural Digital Changemaker Grant, an initiative to support and propel the usage of technology in diverse and engaging ways. Snow City Arts was selected from a competition of 96 applicants across the country to receive $100,000 to [...]
September 24, 1982 – May 12, 2017 "Katie dedicated her career to building awareness for arts organizations and cared deeply about the role of artists in our world. We are so happy in this moment to be able to honor her memory by supporting the work of four amazing Snow [...]
Snow City Arts have been approved for a $15,000 Grant for Arts Projects award to support our work to engage young people during their time in hospitals through the arts. Snow City Arts is among 1,073 projects across America totaling nearly $25 million that were selected during this first round of fiscal year 2021 funding [...]
Donate today, to bring learning opportunities and creativity to young people like Aiden in the hospital or isolating at home in 2020/2021! “It’s not just like I’m drawing. People learn from my drawings, too. I usually draw dinosaurs that no one really knows about. It’s not just drawing, it’s more like you ask questions to [...]
“Everything with Aiden has a meaning, and I’m glad you can see that in his artwork.” As this year draws to a close, these words from Sachet Walker, the mother of one of our students, continue to echo in my mind. I can’t help but wonder what meaning twelve-year-old Aiden has found in [...]
Program Director Veronica Stein and Teaching Artist Dan Kerr-Hobert had an exciting time sharing about our work at Snow City Arts with students in the Arts In Health track led by Susan Imus at Columbia College Chicago. One of a handful of programs in the country allowing students to minor in Arts in Health, Columbia's [...]
The National Endowment for the Arts Blog highlighted the work Snow CIty Arts has been doing since march, 2020 in its October 20 post, Arts and Health in the Time of COVID 19, by Beth Beinevenu. " Despite the dire circumstances, many organizations are finding silver linings at this time. For SCA it is [...]
Teaching Artist and painter Monica Acosta led a packed virtual house on October 17, 2020, in this intergenerational painting workshop with our partner Wheaton Public Library. The lesson is online and can be completed with some basic materials at home! This was the third Arts Dupage Month celebration we have participated in and was made [...]
On September 18, 2020, Snow City Arts hosted hundreds of guests from Chicago’s philanthropic, medical, corporate, and artistic communities in our first ever virtual Gallery Night 2020: ACTIVATING ART. Following a short public showcase on YouTube Live (click here to see the artchive), a 60 minute ticketed event streamed on Zoom included student interviews, a [...]
Danielle comes to Snow City Arts from Leo Catholic High School, where she served as the Registrar until mid-July, 2020. Prior to that, Danielle worked for Metropolitan Services in job development and for four years was a Program Manager with the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence. Danielle founded Postparty, a safe-space community following the birth [...]
