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 [...]
Snow City Arts returns to Cook County Health with live and virtual programming to engage pediatric patients in arts-learning opportunities. Two full days each week, pediatric patients at Cook County Health will be able to engage with a Snow City Arts (SCA) Teaching Artist to explore their ideas, create new works [...]
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 [...]
How do you feel when you make art? When I’m making music I feel a unique sense of focus that often seems rare when I’m doing other things. I’m able to tune out the world around me and just listen to what I’m playing. If I’m writing a new piece of music, there is also [...]
The greatest “art gift” I ever received was a penmanship exercise. Let me explain. In the fourth grade, to practice our cursive writing, my teacher assigned us the task of copying out a poem in cursive. We were sent to our small school library one-by-one and looked for a poem to copy out. I saw [...]
How do you feel when you make art? When I make art, I feel just about everything at one time or another. Giddy. Bored. Hungry. Connected. Desperate. Graceful. Awkward. Like anything is possible and nothing is possible. It’s all moment to moment. I hate writing but I love having written. I love editing. Rehearsal is [...]
