#urbangateways

[williamkurk]

We rocked the super-small school today, but their energy was off the charts! Nothing like being reminded what 'pure energy' once I find myself engaging some energetic youth! #wklegacy #wke #🎹 #friday #roland #kids #outreach #urbangateways #time #life #art #lit #america #world #cray #weekend #chicago #chitown #igers #iphonesia #super #swag #youth (at Christian STEM Scholars Academy)

[mecolombo16]

Simply stunning. ME Colombo. #mecolombo #boutiquehotelsoftheworld #starclasshotel #colombohotel #urbangateways #urbanhotel (at ME Colombo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI7qpIYh3oj/?igshid=12uip9n27hjmm

[jamesjankowiak]

Link in bio. Last 24 hours to pick up this limited edition shirt designed by yours truly, and you’re supporting the arts organization that gave me my start 20 years ago @urbangateways @streetlevelchicago Thanks to everyone who already got one. Only 20 bucks! Grab one before the offer ends tomorrow. #fundraiser #urbangateways #oldschoolgraffiti #chicagograffiti #casperasc #aerosoulcrew #chicagoartists #supportthearts #teachingartist #chicagoyouth https://www.instagram.com/p/B_dLLyyl65P/?igshid=5d0xys2gknq2

[maryaspontlemus]

2019 marked my third year as a teaching artist for CoCre8!

Created and run as a partnership between Urban Gateways, the Smart Museum of Art, the Logan Center for the Arts, and Arts + Public Life, CoCre8 is an experimental model of collaborative arts education that brings together a cohort of high school students and educators, artists, and arts administrators to look at, talk about, and make art. Through engaging in these activities across monthly workshops in the spring and a weeklong intensive in the summer, the cohort seeks to dismantle traditional hierarchies and embrace multiple roles as learner, teacher, and maker. Collectively, participants explore the many ways in which art can help us think critically and creatively about our world.

The weeklong intensive culminates in the creation and public sharing of collaborative artworks, each developed by a group comprised of high school teachers and students and a teaching artist. By chance, I had the incredible opportunity to work as part of a group of women—Charnice, Dara, Esi, LaQuana, Nora, and me—who also (perhaps only partially by chance) had recently been experiencing or thinking a lot about rage. After discussing a range of work (including that of several youth poets, Leonardo Drew, and Gingarte Capoeira Chicago, which we encountered at the Smart Museum and the Logan Center), we decided to video-record ourselves as we performatively destroyed various objects that held symbolic meaning for us individually or collectively, and then constructed something new with the broken pieces and transformed material.

My group’s process resulted in Rage Remade, a multimedia piece. As our exhibition statement read:

We started out with a question of rage: what causes ours, and what if we let it out? A dozen plates, 6 political signs, 5 found poems, 4 books, 3 pieces of video equipment, 2 broken bottles, and 1 dome later, our rage was remade—built from the foundations of frustration, and transformed by our collective choices.

At the conclusion of the program, we and the three other groups were invited to install our final works in the Arts Incubator’s gallery, in a short exhibition that CoCre8 participants named “Art, ______.” Check out this Urban Gateways blogpost for more info about the exhibition and all four groups’ new works!

Images: Photos # 1, 2, 6, 7, and 9 are by me; # 3 and 4 by Alayna Kudalis; and # 5, 7, and 10 by Lucas Anti. Images show the multimedia artwork “Rage Remade” in progress and completed, with some images of just the artwork (part or all), of its final installation, or of people at the exhibition opening.

[kafiscoffeefix]

With @cocospicy on Monday event for #urbangateways supporting the arts. #lowerwestside #marshallsquare #littlevillage @lagunitasbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BynUm4vlw5V/?igshid=nmty4wc56tl6

[ptdesigner]

#sketch #urbangateways #penandink #landscapearchitecture #urbansketch

[unabashedlyelegantstranger-blog]

Thanks @jen89nicole for being my glam squad! #urbangateways #gala #latergram #aboutlastnight

[beblk]

When i say a village …. I mean village @cpaquettemusic @theomys @binkey1 @leslehonore @kleocommunitycenter @thefloatingmuseum @streetlevelchicago @urbangateways #soulel #blackandbrown #music #family #expochicago #publicperformance (at Greenline Cta) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2j79GGBQ1O/?igshid=p082rmot4huq

[cpsuccess]

Great project at Zapata Elementary!

[williamkurk]

In our #blackhistorymonth2019 scheduling finale, this school set a new bar in ‘participation’!! These kids were this hype at 8a/9a, and basically ambushed the floor, but somehow it was controlled anarchy lol! They danced to EVERYTHANG, and the disco segment was totally random, but we kept it going to take this all in! OWWWEEE...RAW ENERGY! To be young again lol! #kids #wednesday #evaam #turnt #lit #disco #discokids #future #rogerspark #insane #cray #wke #wklegacy #epic #bhm #woah #crying #evaam #urbangateways (at Rogers Park, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/BurSo8elxUO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cpuvj2kb2cvv

[williamkurk]

The second show didn't have as many teachers on the stage volunteering their talents...however, the one in the middle and on the right had a legit sing-off!!!! They set it off 😵😵🔥🔥! #culture #morning #love #time #chitown #chicago #wednesday #evaam #urbangateways #dusablemuseum #igers #iphonesia #yes #cray #february #bhm #lit #life #swag #super #roland #vr09 #blackpeople #wakandaforever #🙌 (at DuSable Museum of African American History)

[williamkurk]

Today was a double header at @dusablemuseum, and the early show was lit...but the second show was something special! We do our part to maintain the integrity of the culture daily. #edutainment #education #wke #wklegacy #evaam #wakandaforever #chicago #chitown #yes #roland #vr09 #swag #thursday #time #lit #life #america #super #real #music #artists #time #midwest #dusablemuseum #bronzeville #hydepark #urbangateways (at DuSable Museum of African American History)

[williamkurk]

We got a late-season / pre-summer presentation today, and these kids were super-lit!! The kids always make me feel like this is worth doing! #yep #kids #tuesday #swag #lit #wke #wklegacy #america #power #youth #epic #squad #turnt #rockin #evaam #urbangateways #roland #vr09 #southside #done #education #entertainment #history #maskoff #litty (at Roseland, Chicago)

[williamkurk]

"To air is not human" - (what they say bout' me in deez streets)! BALL IS LYFE SON!!! Our job is to not only educate the kids on the history of African-American music, but the importance of saying "JORDAN" when you j'ing it up! #ballislife #urbangateways #music #friday #weekend #lit #sun #march #basketball #fire #drill #putmeincoach #nba @chicagobulls holler at cha boy. #southside #wklegacy #wke #epic #repping #real

[williamkurk]

#March is officially here, and we still carrying out the work of keeping the history of African American music alive! This school was so lit lol!!! If you wanna see the chaos, gotta jump on my snapchat. #school #kids #wke #WKLEGACY #urbangateways #chicago #chitown #life #lit #living #children #keys #roland #vr09 #yes #future #america #southside #springter #swag #🙌 #😎 #💥 #bhm

[williamkurk]

Today was an epic day for #EVAAM (Evolution Of African American Music)! We did 4 shows today, and these kids wore us all the way out, but their energy is contagious!! Big ups to the bass homie/principal Jake Vinsel for sitting in on bass!! Oh...and the hair on that kid...that's his real hair!! #friday #lit #nuts #urbangateways #chicago #chitown #music #musicians #kids #future #chubbychecker #twist #fire #wke #wklegacy #artists #energy #crazy #insane #turnt #💥 #🙌 #😎 #weekend #february #bhm