Snow City Arts Returns to Cook County Health
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 of art, and express their creativity all while learning. SCA's offerings will initially feature visual arts and music providing young learners with opportunities to draw, [...]
Feel The Beat With Nylah
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 on crates to practice her moves. These moments shaped Nylah's love for creativity and artistic expression. So, when Snow City Arts Teaching Artist Lenny introduced [...]
Snow City Arts Welcomes New Program Director Dan Kerr-Hobert
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 Neo-Futurists Theater, a long-time collaborator of Blair Thomas and Company, and the former Artistic Director of Sans-culottes Theater and Manifest Theatre. As a prolific writer, [...]
Snow City Arts Selected as a Digital Changemaker by the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation with a $100,000 Award
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 support virtual learning efforts and redefine how technology can be deployed through meaningful engagement with audiences and communities. Snow City Arts has been ahead [...]
2021 Katie Kurcz Memorial Fund Grantee
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 City Arts Teaching Artists who are making a difference in the lives of young patients in Chicago." ~Alex Cohan and Allison Green, on behalf of [...]
SCA Named National Endowment for the Arts 2021 Grant Recipient
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 in the Grants for Arts Projects funding category. “The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support this project from Snow City Arts,” [...]