Perspectives
Fifty years ago, Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock anthem expressed the hopes and fears of a nation
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Before an exhausted crowd, Hendrix fused protest and horror with patriotism and optimism.
Chicago Election 2019
What do we do with all those campaign signs? Young Chicago artists have an answer
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The city normally removes campaign signs from public property, but otherwise they become eye sores that residents have to clean up themselves.
Perspectives
Haki Madhubuti reflects on 50 years of cultivating black arts
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The founder of Third World Press continues his lifelong mission of building sustainable black institutions.
Education
Can recent arts renaissance survive budget cuts?
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The last time CPS finances imploded, arts education took a devastating blow. Will three decades’ worth of organizing and policy change protect the arts now?
arts
Arts education report: More teachers and programs, but inequity remains
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Two years ago, when Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled an arts plan for schools, it was unclear how much arts instruction was already being offered to students – either by certified teachers or through partnerships with community organizations.
Now, schools and arts leaders know the answer: There are more teachers than many would have guessed, but they are inequitably distributed across the city and the total is far below the goals.
arts
For the Record: Arts education ratings
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As part of its arts education plan, CPS has rolled out the district’s first-ever effort to rate schools on the quality of their arts programs and linked the ratings to arts funding of $500 to 750 per school.
Catalyst Chicago
South Side children will be hurt most by plan to move ChiArts
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Our children on the South Side, who need a school such as ChiArts, will now most likely be displaced, just like the students from closed schools. CPS did not care to take this idea into consideration before they decided to move the school further to the Northwest Side instead of choosing the other, more centrally located option that had been in the works for years—a location at Malcolm X College.
arts
Arts education should focus on academics
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We will accomplish little if we only align our energies with social remediation. After all, if you don’t think arts educators should be held accountable for overall student achievement, why should they be working in a school?
arts
Putting dropouts back on track using the power of film
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The film projects are about issues that are personal to them, and producing the films gives students a chance to talk about the issues as they write a screenplay, shoot the film, edit it and present it to the public.
Catalyst Chicago
With equity at stake, district kicks off arts plan
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“We have forests and deserts,” says Mario Rossero, CPS’ director of arts education. “How do we learn from the forests and how do we direct more resources toward the deserts?”