All of us at Snow City Arts are sad to share that we have recently lost an important member of our family. Katie Kurcz, a founding co-chair of our Auxiliary Board, passed away peacefully on Friday, May 12, after a long battle with cancer. Her contributions and dedication to our organization have had a profound [...]
The teaching artists at Snow City Arts have a saying, “Choice is voice.” The children they work with don’t have much say about what happens throughout their time in the hospital. Tests, treatments, doctor visits, meals, mobility: these decisions are made by the medical staff. So from the first thing the teaching artists say when [...]
Snow City Arts is thrilled to announce its newest hospital partnership, and its first venture outside the city of Chicago! We have recently started working on the pediatric unit at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois. Snow City Arts is the only organization of its kind working in the Chicagoland area. Since 1998, [...]
Thank you to everyone who made Gallery Night 2016 a smashing success! On September 9th, 400 attendees viewed the work of more than 150 students in visual arts, creative writing, media arts, music, and theater. This annual exhibition is the result of the hard work being done in Chicago’s hospitals every day of the [...]
