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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 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 [...]

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 idea so [...]

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 Institute of Chicago met [...]