Gallery Night 2018: A Room Without Walls
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 Institute Chicago, where guests viewed the artwork of students, enjoyed an elegant 3-course meal, bid on unique silent auction experiences, and saw performances of student [...]
Tamara’s Artistic Beginnings
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 just six years old. Now an accomplished writer and visual artist, we wanted to know more about Tamara today and what she remembers from her [...]
Meet Student #1: Miguel
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 with kids in the hospital. He engaged with Miguel in a variety of ways, but quickly realized Miguel had a natural talent for drawing. Most [...]
Savannah’s Many Talents
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 the techniques of Jackson Pollock, and she experimented with different methods of applying and working with paint. "I like making paintings like that, because it [...]
Snow City Arts Celebrates 20 Years
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 event represented a discipline in which Snow City Arts works: Creative Writing, Visual Arts, Teaching Artistry, Theatre, Film, and Music. These events offered a unique [...]
Painting, Poetry, Music and More: Frankie Does it All
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 more than 250 workshops while in the hospital. Frankie, age 14, Fruit Groops Today, Frankie is 21 years old and still working with [...]