Mark Diaz (CAPE): Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
@ SAIC | MacLean Center
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, July 18th, at 6PM
Description: Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) was founded in 1992 as an effort to connect schools and arts groups in Chicago. The organization has since evolved to focus on building the pedagogical and collaborative skills of teachers and teaching artists by developing sustained partnerships among teachers and artists, by working with external researchers to analyze, evaluate, and publish results, and by serving as a flexible, responsive partner to schools.
CAPE’s work is to increase academic success, critical thinking, and creativity through research-based, arts-driven education. CAPE collaborates with schools that serve low-income students of color in order to build equity and improve access for the arts in communities that lack resources to do so. CAPE teaching artists partner with K-12 teachers and artists in three school districts: Chicago Public Schools, West Chicago Public Schools (SD33), and Park Forest/Chicago Heights School District (SD163), reaching 4,000 students per year. In CAPE classrooms, teachers and artists collaborate on developing engaging learning projects that weave the arts and academics, building students’ knowledge and capacities in both areas. Rather than providing scripted curriculum, CAPE’s model of arts-integration provides a framework for teaching and learning that is adapted to each classroom’s needs and interests.
CAPE’s students, who are 90% African-American and Hispanic and 76% low-income, reside in neighborhoods that are challenged by economic, social and racial inequities. CAPE addresses these challenges by providing high-quality, long-term programs that enable teachers and teaching artists to go beyond the traditional curriculum to include issues of importance to students such as community issues, personal expressional, future planning, or social justice issues. This approach personalizes learning and inspires students to feel agency over their education and investment in their school community.
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