The CAPE Blog

How do you say goodbye to a school?  I frequently pondered this question, when I visited Pioneer Elementary last year. The school was in a state of physical and mental […]

We are pleased to be part of Gallery 400’s exhibition Learning Together: Art Education and Community, from September 5 through December 14. The exhibition centers the progressive art pedagogy of [...]

What does modern architecture, nature and West Chicago students all have in common? The Edith Farnsworth House! This historic floor to ceiling glass house was Dr. Edith Farnsworth’s weekend home. [...]

Graffiti and mural arts are becoming increasingly popular among CAPE after-school students. Through these highly collaborative art forms, students generate ideas together, then bring them to life [...]

In addition to the artists featured thus far, we are honored to host IntuiTeens at CAPE during WORKROOM! IntuiTeens is an initiative of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider […]

Betsy Zacsek and Niema Qureshi are artists exploring how physical computing can deepen our sense of play. Using materials originally discovered in our classrooms along with custom drawing tools, [...]

Since 2004 Jessica Mueller has been a teaching artist with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), working in Chicago Public Schools. Jessica holds an MFA from the School of the […]

CAPE’s after-school program currently serves two elementary schools is supported by funding from the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC), a program of the US Department of [...]

Asya Dubrovina (b. 1988 St. Petersburg Russia) is an artist and filmmaker who received her BA at Keene State College with a concentration of Visual Studies and Moving Image and […]

Fiorella Hilda Gomez Bermudez is Peruvian multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Wheaton, Illinois. Through performance and the re-activation of recycled materials, her work explores the [...]