Everything Has Meaning: Aiden’s Story
“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 the midst of the pandemic, as a child who already spends much of his time isolated in a pediatric unit and at home. When we [...]
Snow City Arts Presents at Columbia College
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 program provides educational training for artists seeking to harness the value of the arts in healthcare contexts. Susan is a pioneer in the evolving field [...]
NEA Spotlights Snow City Arts’ Virtual Learning
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 in the form of new opportunities to reach children who are isolated by the virus. In addition to reaching more hospitalized students through these virtual [...]
Zen Principles in Art Making: A Painting Workshop
Teaching Artist and painter Monica Acosta led a packed virtual house on October 17, 2020, in this intergenerational painting workshop with our partner Wheaton Public Library. The lesson is online and can be completed with some basic materials at home! This was the third Arts Dupage Month celebration we have participated in and was made possible through the support of the DuPage Foundation. Snow City Arts students from Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital are also featured in this online virtual [...]
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A Successful Gallery Night 2020: Activating Art!
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 virtual gallery of SCA student works from all of our six disciplines. Ninety-nine works by seventy four students was featured and can now be seen in [...]
Meet Development and Communications Associate Danielle Patterson!
Danielle comes to Snow City Arts from Leo Catholic High School, where she served as the Registrar until mid-July, 2020. Prior to that, Danielle worked for Metropolitan Services in job development and for four years was a Program Manager with the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence. Danielle founded Postparty, a safe-space community following the birth of her own daughter at Rush Hospital, to help new moms cope with the challenges of parenthood and to promote much-needed dialogue about maternal health [...]