“Traveling bard, musician and art teacher helps kids in hospitals take center stage.” Snow City Arts teaching artist Emmy Bean is featured in the Chicago Sun Times as part of their Hardest-Working Voices in Healthcare series. Emmy has been working with Snow City Arts for three years and as an interdisciplinary artist has shaped many of the [...]
Thank you to all who came to Gallery Night 2019 to celebrate another amazing year with Snow City Arts! This year’s Gallery Night featured a sit down dinner catered by Food for Thought, a silent auction with amazing packages, and an extended program emceed by NBC’s Lisa Parker with live performances by Snow City Arts [...]
What do you enjoy most as a teaching artists? I enjoy observing a student move from apprehension to confidence. Then the student connects with a lesson and takes it to a level far greater than I would have imagined. Monica is the newest member of the Snow City Arts teaching artist team and so we thought [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On Friday, September 8th, the Snow City Arts community celebrated, viewed student artwork, bid on silent auction packages, met our students, and supported arts learning in Chicagoland hospitals! Gallery Night 2017: A Balloon on the Moon returned to the Ballroom at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The VIP hour for the evening began at [...]
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 [...]
