Begin your Bridgeport Art Walk at CAPE on Friday, October 18 from 5:30-7:30 PM! Join “Proximities: in conjunction with others,” in the current exhibition Practices in Proximity. Meet the exhibition's artists who creatively explore collaboration through arts practices and education. With special performances by Flor Flores, Alberto Aguilar, Jessica Mueller and family, a group reading […]
Join us during Bridgeport Art Walk for an evening of screenings at the Practices in Proximity exhibition. Participating artists will discuss their process of creating moving image works through collaborative practices. Exhibition curator Josh Rios will facilitate an artist conversation followed by an audience Q&A, exploring the question: "How can moving image and video work—which […]
CAPE is excited to host the one-weekend-only pop-up exhibition Publication Survey / Life Savings by Public Collectors, administered by longtime CAPE teaching artist Marc Fischer! Visit us in Bridgeport at 1010 W 35th Street, Suite 697 on Saturday and Sunday January 25-26 from 12-5 PM for an expansive exhibition of 90 Public Collectors publications that […]
CAPE is excited to host the one-weekend-only pop-up exhibition Publication Survey / Life Savings by Public Collectors, administered by longtime CAPE teaching artist Marc Fischer! Visit us in Bridgeport at 1010 W 35th Street, Suite 697 on Saturday and Sunday January 25-26 from 12-5 PM for an expansive exhibition of 90 Public Collectors publications that […]
CAPE presents two special exhibitions featuring the creativity and diversity of Chicago Public School students! Transparencies is an exhibition that questions "How do students create a window installation to reveal relationships between environments and social interactions?" This exhibition invites you to look at and look through student artworks displayed in the many North and East-facing […]
CAPE presents two special exhibitions featuring the creativity and diversity of Chicago Public School students! Performativity is an exhibition that questions "How does documentation illuminate the creative processes and embodiments of students’ performative works?" Collecting recordings, narratives, and objects from various CAPE performance-based classes, this exhibition shines light on the practices, events, and expressions that […]
CAPE is honored to host Snow City Arts Spring Snowcase, an exhibition that celebrates the incredible creativity of Snow City Arts' young artists. This spring event features an inclusive collection of artwork created by SCA students while they were in the hospital or participating in SCA programs. The Snow City Arts Spring Snowcase is more […]
CAPE’s afterschool SCALE (Supporting Communities through Arts Learning Environments) Program in Chicago and West Chicago takes place in 6 schools. With over 230 participating student artists and adult community members, Perspective(s) invites you to take part in a dialogue sparked between Chicago’s diverse communities. Featuring afterschool students from Arthur R. Ashe Jr. School, Douglas Taylor […]
This exhibition of CAPE’s in-school Artist/Researcher Partners Program brings together the artworks of over 1,370 students from 21 Chicago Public Schools. Convergence investigates academic content learning through artmaking strategies and invites viewers to participate in and explore inquiry as a creative practice. Featuring students from Douglas Taylor Elementary, Durkin Park Elementary, Gillespie Elementary, Jacqueline B. […]
How does research help us understand the dynamics between teacher and artist collaborations? “Moments, Movements, and Manifestations” invites us into the evolving story of CAPE’s Collaboration Laboratory Program (CoLab)—a two-year initiative that brings new schools and teaching artists into CAPE’s network of arts-integrated teaching and learning. CoLab was started in 2002, and is now in […]
Get a sneak peek at The Light of Day Art Project before anyone else at Curators Gone Rogue's exclusive Collector's Preview event, or join us during open hours! Collector's Preview Join us for an exclusive sneak peek at the stunning artworks featured in this art fair, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM on November 8. $10 tickets, purchase […]
Becoming Infinite is an exhibition of celebration, reflection, and artistic emergence—honoring the young visionaries of the RE:ALIZE program as they share works in progress, dreams in motion, and glimpses of futures not yet written. Through visual art, performance, sound, and storytelling, these students explore the beauty of becoming—of shaping identity, challenging boundaries, and imagining beyond […]
CAPE works toward a future in which students and communities are empowered by the integration of the arts into their lives, in realization of their academic, creative, and personal development.
