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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 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 […]

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, […]

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 [...]

We’re excited to share our most recent report for Youth Music exchange titled, Youth Music Exchange: An initiative of the Year of Chicago Music Curated by Chicago Arts Partnerships in […]

Last year, North-Grand High School’s teacher, Kristina Bowlus, and CAPE teaching artist Jennifer Mannebach quickly adapted their skills when they learned that the 2020–2021 school year [...]

Last year, our kindergarten, first, second and fourth graders at 21st Century Primary Center in Park Forest, Illinois, got the opportunity to design, discover, and play sounds at home. An […]

This past summer we had two CAPE Interns, Cady De Camara, and Sonia Peters, who published independent projects that detail their research interests, using data collected from class visits and [...]

As part of the DCASE Initiative for the Year of Chicago Music, CAPE is curating the Youth Music Exchange project! On Friday, May 14th, 2021, Girls Rock! Chicago and Jazz […]