The CAPE Blog

Simply put: yes.  If you follow us on social media, read our newsletters, check out our annual reports, or come to CAPE events, you already know a lot about our work in schools across Chicago. [...]

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education is a part of the 2019 Chicago Architectural Biennial, collaborating on projects located at the former Overton Elementary School, located at 221 E 49th St, [...]

Convergence is CAPE’s annual exhibition of visual, digital, and performing art created by hundreds of public school students across Chicago. This year’s Convergence exhibition was held in May and [...]

At Hoyne Elementary in Archer Heights, music teacher Andre Porter is working with CAPE Teaching Artist Jessica Mueller to build on work he began with his students last year as part of [...]

National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year [...]

This spring at Pirie Elementary in the Chatham neighborhood, teacher Kira Jones and CAPE Teaching Artist Ellen Tritschler have been exploring kinetic energy, engineering, measurement, and [...]

It’s Mother’s Day and we want to share some odes to Mom, written by CAPE students at North-Grand High School. These poems and others were featured last fall at Odes and Tattoos, an [...]

At Murphy Elementary, teacher Sarah Ramirez and CAPE teaching artist Gina Lee Robbins have been working with their 4th grade students to explore history, social studies, and a variety of art [...]

At Goudy Elementary, in Uptown, 75 first-grade students have been working with Engineering Lab teacher Patty Whitehouse and CAPE Teaching Artist Margy Stover to design walls that bring people [...]

CAPE was recently awarded $2.3 million by the U.S. Department of Education, in the form of an Assistance for Arts Education Development and Dissemination (AAEDD) grant for CAPE’s STEAM [...]