K–12

Carol Ng-He

How does the experience of being a teaching artist enrich your own art practice?
Being a teaching artist in various venues profoundly influences and formulates my own art practice. In the past few years working in residency with different organizations not only opens doors for me to have an insightful experience of the communities where the school is situated, but also opens my inner-eye to see myself in relation to others. This journey of rediscovering and seeing myself betters my studio practice.
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Selected Artist Stories

Olivia Gude

Large-scale collaborative permanent public art is my medium of choice. I create community-based monuments that arise out of intensive collaborative processes with intergenerational groups of community members and with other professional artists.

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Selected Chicago Links

After School Matters (ASM)
Partners with the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Park District to offer teens hands-on job training in art, music, theater, dance, sports, technology, and communications.
Art Resources in Teaching (A.R.T.): Jobs and Volunteer Opportunties
Work or volunteer  for Chicago's oldest and largest educational organization.
CAPE: Chicago Arts Partners in Education
Advances innovative arts integration practices and policies to promote learning. Also provides professional development workshops and training, and information on funding and arts education advocacy for educators and students.
Chicago Academy for the Arts
Provides high school students with preparatory academic courses and art discipline programs.
Chicago Public Schools.
Careers at CPS: teacher recruitment, non-teaching careers, job openings and online applications.
Urban Gateways: Artist Opportunities
Instructions for applying to an artist residency program.
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Selected Illinois Links

IASA: Illinois Education Job Bank
Whether you are looking for a job or are seeking qualified applicants to fill existing permanent, interim, full-time or part-time vacancies, the Illinois Education Job Bank is the state's premier online job bank.
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