Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education engages students, inspires teachers, and demonstrates impact by weaving visual, digital, and performing arts into classrooms across Chicago.

What Sets CAPE Apart

Our unique approach to engaging students, inspiring teachers, and demonstrating impact relies on three strategies: Partnerships, Arts Integration, and Research.

Partnerships

To bring traditional subjects to life through the arts, we pair professional teaching artists with Chicago Public Schools teachers for long-term classroom partnerships and training.

Arts Integration

To spark students’ passion for learning, we weave visual and digital art, music, theater, and dance into traditional subjects like science, math, history, and language arts.

Research

CAPE works with external researchers to determine the impact of our programs on students, teachers, and artists. This helps us refine our own work and that of our teaching teams and contribute new knowledge to the field

Partnerships

To bring traditional subjects to life through the arts, we pair professional teaching artists with Chicago Public Schools teachers for long-term classroom partnerships and training.

Arts Integration

To spark students’ passion for learning, we weave visual and digital art, music, theater, and dance into traditional subjects like science, math, history, and language arts.

Research

CAPE’s Impact

Research has shown that CAPE’s programs improve students’ critical thinking, creative problem solving, and self confidence, and leads to higher achievement in the classroom and on standardized tests.

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CAPE by the Numbers

CAPE has distributed 2,897 art supply kits to Chicago families since the pandemic began.

Last school year, CAPE’s programs reached more than 4,258 students in Chicagoland schools.

More than 110 classroom teachers are currently receiving training, support, and materials from CAPE.

60 professional teaching artists currently traverse Chicago to bring creative inspiration to CAPE students and teachers.

Stories and Updates

Get to Know Our Board: Richard Assmus

We hope you have been enjoying our Get to Know Our Board of Director’s blog series! This week we are bringing you up close and personal with our fantastic...

Convergence Exhibition 2020

Each year, we look forward to our annual Convergence exhibition that features the visual, digital, and performing arts created by students across Chicago. Due to Covid-19, our Convergence 2020...

CAPE welcomes Phillip Cotton and Kevin McGowan to the Board!

We are so pleased to welcome Phillip Cotton and Kevin McGowan to our Board of Directors! Take a look below to learn more about Phillip and Kevin: Phillip Cotton: As an...