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Join us during Bridgeport Art Walk for an evening of screenings at the Practices in Proximity exhibition. Participating artists will discuss their process of creating moving image works through [...]

Dear Friends, Since last year, CAPE has been one of many after-school program providers across the state of Illinois fighting to maintain funding.  In 2023, the Illinois State Board of […]

On Thursday, October 10th Chicago Tribune journalist Ikram Mohamed met parents of CAPE students at Telpochcalli School in Little Village. Read Ikram’s article here. Telpochcalli is one of [...]

CAPE teaching artists Betsy Zacsek and Niema Qureshi began working together after discovering that they used the same technology in the classroom. They began discussing ways that technology can [...]

At North-Grand High School, we use music classes as a catalyst for academic and social change and development. As an example, students are expected to maintain good standing grades across […]

Installed as part of Practices in Proximity, Greg Ruffing and Brandon Alvendia’s Standards Variance is a group exhibit of speculative proposals around what is possible for urban space (empty [...]

In the Fall of 2023 CAPE teaching artist Kayla Anderson created with their first year college art students a workbook of prompts called Index to Inspiration, named after an old […]

The Governor of Illinois has proclaimed today, October 24, 2024, Lights on Afterschool Day! JB Pritzker enthusiastically endorses LOA and is committed to the education of youth in the state. […]

Let’s spark dialogue about exchange as part of creative practice on Friday, November 22 from 5:30-7:30 PM! Join “Proximities: conditions of exchange,” for presentations by exhibiting artists in [...]

Publishing is at the core of my creative practice. Since the late 1990s I’ve worked on or self-published over two hundred works—from double-sided sheets of paper to  booklets to newspapers and [...]