SkyART
SkyART offers a broad range of free visual art programs to young people in the South Chicago neighborhood, balancing individual empowerment and collaborative action with community-building and experimentation.
SkyART is one of the key cultural partners forMel Chin’s Chicago Fundred Initiative: A Bill for IL.
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Toward Common Cause exhibiting artist Mel Chin inaugurates the Civic Arts Church at Sweet Water Foundation as headquarters for the Chicago Fundred Initiative: A Bill for IL. Presented on the 12th anniversary of the Fundred Initiative, Chin will be joined by Sweet Water Foundation Executive Director Emmanuel Pratt and participants from the Smart Museum and SkyART teen…
Engage in the themes of Toward Common Cause through a weeklong exchange between teachers, educators at multiple Chicago museums, and artists at the center of the exhibition. This Summer Teacher Institute offers participants—classroom teachers at any grade and any subject matter, teaching artists, and cultural educators from arts or community-based organizations—to engage deeply with the…
I think what art can provide is an option that has not been considered before, and I think that's important because those options might be the liberating factor that is necessary to understand how to cope with what is going around us.