The CAPE Blog

An Exhibition of artwork from 40 schools in 4 locations Join us to meet the students, teaching artists, classroom teachers, and families of CAPE 2022! Exhibitions, Receptions and Hours [...]

STEAM Ahead: Arts and Science Learning from Park Forest-Chicago Heights School District 163 This exhibit highlights the STEAM-focused CAPE collaboration with Park Forest-Chicago Heights District [...]

The 2021-2022 CAPE SCALE After-School program students, teachers and teaching artists celebrated their End of Year Exhibition at the Hairpin Arts Center on May 11, 2022. The show run is from [...]

The 2020-2021 CAPE Impact Report reveals a year of growth and continued opportunity for new partnerships in the Chicagoland area. Read the report here, or request a copy be sent to you by [...]

Announcing a New CAPE Online Resource to Celebrate Student Work – CapeConvergence.com Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education is pleased to announce a new site, CapeConvergence.com, which [...]

The Art of Self-Portraiture:  CAPE students in West Chicago, IL, explore the art of self-portraiture during a time of masks and COVID-19 Spring 2022 This year, 3rd to 5th grade students at West [...]

Marc Fischer, one of CAPE’s most innovative teaching artists, has been working with the Barack Obama School of Leadership and STEM SD163 in south suburban Chicago Heights.  In this post, Marc [...]

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

As our students grapple with the impact of the pandemic and learn to process their emotions, one classroom at Pioneer Elementary School learns about emotional healing through positive and [...]

We are very excited to share the expansion of after-school programming at Turner Elementary in West Chicago, Illinois. We got the chance to speak with Maurice McDavid, Turner Elementary [...]