On September 27, 2024, Snow City Arts hosted hundreds of guests from Chicago’s philanthropic, medical, corporate, and artistic communities at Gallery Night 2024: To Go Inside a TV! To Go Inside a TV brings together art created by young people navigating life in the hospital, framed by the theme of retro technology and nostalgia. The [...]
In 2023, Snow City Arts reached a remarkable milestone—25 years of fostering creativity and community engagement. This journey of a quarter-century was celebrated in grand style at the much-anticipated Gallery Night, where we invited members from every corner of the Snow City Arts community to share their thoughts on what our organization means to them. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0n_KMTJGEg Above, a video about Snow City Arts' Cam Busch NOAH Arts In Health Award-Winning program, Art Break, including impressive data on how this program impacts clinician wellness. Snow City Arts’ mission is to inspire and educate youth in hospitals through the arts. Through this work, we have existed in close proximity to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
