IN-PERSON LEARNING
Enhancing the learning experience, face-to-face.
ART & PEACE PROGRAM
This elementary school residency program brings art into the classroom as a way of developing young minds and fostering new perspectives. Designed to provide hands-on material exploration otherwise unavailable at the partner schools, the Art + Peace Program uses art as an avenue to explore peace, mindfulness, meditation, and conflict resolution.
Program highlights:
- Visits to the Smart Museum of Art
- 8 school-based classroom sessions with a teaching artist and Museum docent
- Celebratory exhibition of student artwork at the Smart
For more information, please contact
Jason Pallas
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
jpallas@uchicago.edu
PROGRAM LAB
Our Program Lab provides opportunities for experimental activities to address critical issues within school communities.The Smart Museum’s public practice team works closely with a small group of school partners over a sustained period of time to pursue new museum practices for community engagement. Past practices that the Smart Museum has developed with Program Lab include a social justice and slam poetry club, deep collaborative experiences for merging school communities, and an artist-led project exploring abstraction, color, and personal trauma.These practices vary widely as they are developed in collaboration with Museum staff, school administration and teaching faculty, teaching artists, parents, and students.
For more information, please contact
Jason Pallas
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
jpallas@uchicago.edu
ARTISTIS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS
Court Education Initiative offers annual partnerships with South Side high schools to enhance existing theater arts programs or support the development of programs where none exist through in-class artist residencies by professional artists. Distinct from many other arts outreach programs offered across the city, Court’s Artists-in-the-Schools (AIS) Residences are designed in partnership with CPS teachers to facilitate the acquisition of both Theater Arts and Social Emotional Learning skills.
Through this program, students and their teachers are offered free access to Court’s productions, virtual programs, and learning guides in addition to ongoing in-class instruction and interaction with artist educators working within the professional theatre landscape across Chicago. Our residencies invite deep and persistent partnership with schools offering up to 24 weeks of engagement with both fall and spring learning tracks.
- The Fall learning track illuminates texts touching on a range of writers of color and invites students to interrogate those stories for meaning and resonance in their own lives through text exploration and interpretation.
- The Spring learning track focuses on the development of student-driven narrative work that is devised by students in the form of short scenes, monologues, prose, as well as modes of digital storytelling.
To learn more about the Artists-in-the-Schools residency program and how to join our program as a partner school contact:
Kamilah Rashied
Director of Education
krashied@uchicago.edu
