Events & Projects
Water’s Way
May 12, 2009
The Field Museum
Chicago, Illinois
Water’s Way is a special project designed to engage middle school students on concepts of water and global environmental issues. It developed out of a unique partnership between The Field Museum and CCAP’s arts integration program Project AIM and partnering Community Schools. The culminating performance reflected the students’ perspectives and their response to global water issues through film, music and dance.
Evidence V: Project AIM Curriculum Share
Wednesday, May 20 (4:00-7:00)
Columbia College Chicago, Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, Eighth Floor
Contact: Sadira Muhammad at smuhammad@colum.edu
This annual event brings together Project AIM teachers, artists, school leaders and supporters to discuss evidence of student learning by looking closely at student work in the arts. Participants will share focused presentations among small groups that allow an exchange of curriculum and project ideas. Evidence V will showcase the extraordinary arts-integrated teaching and learning that took place during the 2008-2009 school year at all Project AIM partner schools in Chicago and Evanston.
Talkin’ Back: Chicago Youth Respond
April 21-26, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
This annual exhibition of photography and creative writing is presented by CCAP and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago. It showcases the work of Chicago youth who respond to major issues and ideas impacting our communities with riveting personal reflection and aesthetic expression. Work featured is by students from: The Academy of Arts, Communication and Technology (ACT) Charter School, Curie Metropolitan High School, Herzl Elementary School, Juarez Community Academy, Pulaski Fine Arts Academy, and Sabin Magnet School. Learn more...
Mapping: Cartographies of Learning
2007-2008
Columbia College Chicago
Gallery 33
From prehistoric cave walls to satellites in space, human beings continually seek out the means and the vehicles to map—whether it relates to places, people or things. When mapmakers delineate land and water, time and history, or bodies and status, they can at the same time illuminate who they are through the process.
During the 2007-08 school year, students from eight Chicago public schools (ACT Charter School, Crown Community Academy, Hawthorne Scholastic Academy, Jenner Academy of the Arts, John B. Murphy Elementary School, Northside College Prep High School, South Shore High School, and Telpochcalli Elementary) worked with teachers and artists to engage in the ideas, issues and aesthetics of mapmaking. Organized by CCAP’s Project AIM and the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), this culminating exhibition represented the destination at the end of the journey; a cartography of learning. The maps exhibited represented students’ investigations of their neighborhoods, relationships, schools, and identities in an effort to decipher where they stood in the world.
May 12, 2009
The Field Museum
Chicago, Illinois
Water’s Way is a special project designed to engage middle school students on concepts of water and global environmental issues. It developed out of a unique partnership between The Field Museum and CCAP’s arts integration program Project AIM and partnering Community Schools. The culminating performance reflected the students’ perspectives and their response to global water issues through film, music and dance.
Evidence V: Project AIM Curriculum Share
Wednesday, May 20 (4:00-7:00)
Columbia College Chicago, Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, Eighth Floor
Contact: Sadira Muhammad at smuhammad@colum.edu
This annual event brings together Project AIM teachers, artists, school leaders and supporters to discuss evidence of student learning by looking closely at student work in the arts. Participants will share focused presentations among small groups that allow an exchange of curriculum and project ideas. Evidence V will showcase the extraordinary arts-integrated teaching and learning that took place during the 2008-2009 school year at all Project AIM partner schools in Chicago and Evanston.
Talkin’ Back: Chicago Youth Respond
April 21-26, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
This annual exhibition of photography and creative writing is presented by CCAP and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago. It showcases the work of Chicago youth who respond to major issues and ideas impacting our communities with riveting personal reflection and aesthetic expression. Work featured is by students from: The Academy of Arts, Communication and Technology (ACT) Charter School, Curie Metropolitan High School, Herzl Elementary School, Juarez Community Academy, Pulaski Fine Arts Academy, and Sabin Magnet School. Learn more...
Mapping: Cartographies of Learning
2007-2008
Columbia College Chicago
Gallery 33
From prehistoric cave walls to satellites in space, human beings continually seek out the means and the vehicles to map—whether it relates to places, people or things. When mapmakers delineate land and water, time and history, or bodies and status, they can at the same time illuminate who they are through the process.
During the 2007-08 school year, students from eight Chicago public schools (ACT Charter School, Crown Community Academy, Hawthorne Scholastic Academy, Jenner Academy of the Arts, John B. Murphy Elementary School, Northside College Prep High School, South Shore High School, and Telpochcalli Elementary) worked with teachers and artists to engage in the ideas, issues and aesthetics of mapmaking. Organized by CCAP’s Project AIM and the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), this culminating exhibition represented the destination at the end of the journey; a cartography of learning. The maps exhibited represented students’ investigations of their neighborhoods, relationships, schools, and identities in an effort to decipher where they stood in the world.