For years, Snow City Arts has been proud to receive support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). That’s why we were thrilled when Adam Kampe, a media specialist with the NEA Magazine, asked to do a special feature on Snow City Arts. The first issue of 2019 was going to be on “the [...]
“Wow. I. Am. Awesome!" Darius posing for his self-portrait. This was 18 year old Darius' response as the frame was peeled back from the white t-shirt, revealing the silk screen print he had just made. The image, a detailed silhouette of himself that he had composed and printed in black ink onto a [...]
Bears coach Matt Nagy wore Snow City Arts branded shoes at the game on December 5th, 2019 as part of their My Cause My Cleats initiative. Check it out on the Bear’s website AND on NBC Sports!
Thank you for celebrating 20 years of Snow City Arts with us at Gallery Night 2018! Our annual student exhibition and gala fundraiser looked back at the work created by students in Chicagoland hospitals since 1998. On Friday, September 7, Gallery Night 2018: A Room Without Walls returned to The Ballroom at The School of the Art [...]
As a part of our yearlong 20th Anniversary celebration, Snow City Arts has had the opportunity to reconnect with many former students. Earlier this Spring, at our Visual Arts Exhibition, Allie Spicer, one of our Visual Arts Teaching Artists, met up with Tamara, who created a painting more than 10 years ago when she was [...]
In the summer of 1998, Miguel was just 12 years old. As a patient in the pediatric dialysis unit, he found the long hours of sitting and getting treatment to be lonely and boring. One day, teaching artist and Snow City Arts' founder Paul Sznewajs walked into the unit and introduced himself as someone working [...]
Savannah is 10 years old, and although she's spent time in more than 20 workshops with Snow City Arts' teaching artists, we found her to be an already talented artist. Painting has always come naturally to her, and she particularly likes creating abstract works. Attending to this interest in abstraction, she was recently introduced to [...]
A Room Without Walls ONE YEAR, SIX SHOWS, TWO DECADES OF SNOW CITY ARTS Snow City Arts has been providing arts education and creative inspiration to youth in Chicagoland hospitals for over 20 years! We celebrated our 20th anniversary with A Room Without Walls, a year-long series of special events around Chicago. Each [...]
It was nearly a decade ago when Frankie first became a student with Snow City Arts. Since then, he’s worked with our teaching artists to write poems, make films, paint paintings, perform music, take photos and more. Much more. All told, Frankie has created more than 40 different works of art with SCA while attending [...]
For most of us, a lifetime of going to the hospital every three weeks would be an emotionally daunting task. Yet that’s the reality of students like Ajianette, who has been coming to the hospital for regular treatments for 12 of her 13 years. Ajianette, age 10, Chicago LOVE Nearly eight years ago, [...]
