In the May 2010 CAPE Communiqué:				CAPE's Mission CAPE advances the arts as a vital strategy for improving teaching and learning by increasing students' capacity for academic success, critical thinking and creativity. CAPE's Vision CAPE works toward a future in which: • students are valued as creators of culture in our society; • teachers, artists and students work collaboratively to develop and share innovative approaches to teaching and learning in and through the arts in our public schools; • teachers, artists, school administrators and parents recognize the arts as a key element in transforming schools into vibrant, creative and successful learning communities; • professional colleagues and partners regularly communicate and share their practices and research in order to continually improve and evolve the field of arts in education; and • policy makers, business leaders and all citizens value the arts in education as essential to a just and equal society, a thriving economy and an inclusive democratic culture. Board of Directors Mel Smith, President Paula S. Carlin      Vice President P. Loreen Mershimer      Treasurer Jeffrey A. Byrnes, Secretary Richard M. Assmus Frank Baiocchi Christine K. Buck Gerald Cadoree Phillip J. Cote Dawnmarie Domingo Carol P. Eastin Sean D. Egan, Ph.D. Nancy Jones Emrich Stephen Flisk Kurt Johnson Kylie M. Sorden Elizabeth Swanson Jan Ellen Woelffer Donate to CAPE With your financial support, CAPE can bring its extraordinary teaching and learning philosophies and methods to educators and children throughout Chicago. Your gift will enable CAPE to continue to be an effective advocate for positive change in Chicago's public schools. For the third consecutive year Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America's largest independent evaluator of charities. Follow this link to donate to CAPE. CAPE Board President Mel Smith visitng a classroom at Veteran Partnership school Daley Academy.
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	Don't miss the extraordinary showcase of art and learning at CAPE Convergence 2010, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education's annual exhibition celebrating student artwork from schools participating in the CAPE Veteran Partnerships Program, May 24-28, 2010 at the Insitute of Design at IIT. Convergence 2010 will feature a reception and performances on May 26, with a Creativity Forum on May 27. Click for additional information on Convergence 2010. - - - - Uthando is the Zulu word for love. In the CAPE after school SCALE project Uthando=Love, Waters Fine Arts School's 3rd-6th graders became dollmakers, creating fabric dolls to be donated to the KwaZulu Natal children of South Africa. One in five KwaZulu Natal children have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS and poverty. Many of these children do not have toys or dolls to play with. Waters staff and students volunteered their time to make a difference in the daily lives of some of these children by sending our dolls, made with our love, to them to play with. This work was supported by CAPE and The Oppenheimer Family Foundation in collaboration with Patricia Reyes-Okulinski (SCALE teaching artist), Nancy Beza (classroom teacher), Nadine Zelle (music teacher), Amy Vecchioni (visual arts teacher), and Holly Hutto and Naomi Fothergill (Waters Fine Arts School parent volunteers). Click to view short videos Uthando=Love (part 1) and Uthando=Love (part 2). - - - - Toast to CAPE, our organization's annual fundraiser, celebrated – in style – the great work being done in Chicago Public Schools. Sponsored by the Chicago Tribune Foundation, the 5th Annual Toast to CAPE took place on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at the new and luxurious Hotel Palomar Chicago. Over 130 guests enjoyed the drinks and hors d'ouevres served by the excellent hotel staff while bidding on the more than 60 items available at the event's silent auction. Board Member Dawnmarie Domingo served as the event chairperson and CAPE's Education Director Scott Sikkema displayed his talents as master of ceremonies.
	Just a few of the revelers at the Toast: (top, from left) Board members President Mel Smith, event chairperson Dawnmarie Domingo and Richard Assmus; (above, from left) Michael Baiocchi, Judith Baiocchi, Frank Baiocchi (Polk Bros. Foundation), Sydney Sidwell (Lloyd A. Fry Foundation) and Nikki Will Stein (Polk Bros. Foundation); (at right) teacher Phil Cotton and teaching artist Margy Stover.
	- - - - On Sunday, May 16, 2010, the Chicago Arts Educator Forum (CAEF) presented the first in a series of workshops for members on writing for publication, convened by Merissa Shunk of Adventure Stage Chicago and Nicole Losurdo of the Auditorium Theatre, and facilitated by Cynthia Weiss of Project AIM of the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago and Arnold Aprill of CAPE. The workshop included materials provided by Gail Burnaford of Florida Atlantic University and Jane Hudak of Governors State University. Topics covered included purposes for publishing, places to publish, titles as catalysts for writing, and genres for writing for publication. The response was enthusiastic, and all participants got started on a wide range of intriguing articles.
	The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) and CAPE collaborated to conduct a workshop on documentation methodologies for Canadian Art Gallery Educators (CAGE) – a group of museum and gallery educators from across Canada that meets annually to share effective teaching strategies. Thirteen of our colleagues from our neighbor to the north convened at the MCA on Mother’s Day to experiment with modes of documentation: video, sketching, mapping, still image, and sound recording. The participants assumed the identity of different audiences: ten-year olds, teenagers, interested adults, teachers, and parents; and documented the exhibit Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out from their persona's perspective, gaining new insights into their educational programming, and into how their sites are experienced by different audiences. - - - - On May 8, 2010, the Department of Educational Foundations and Inquiry of National-Louis University organized an internal professional development day presented for and by department faculty on the role of technology in the evolution/devolution of democratic culture. Nicholas Burbules, a nationally preeminent scholar in the field of Philosophy of Education, was the guest speaker, addressing complex issues on the use of information technology in education. CAPE artist Morris Bowie (above) and CAPE Founding and Creative Director Arnold Aprill were invited speakers, addressing how arts education and new technologies can intersect to build democratic culture in the 21st Century.
	Burley Elementary teacher Todd Medintz and artist Mike Bancroft unveiled their Veteran Partnership project at their school wide Explore More curriculum fair.  Todd's 7th grade class dug into our material economy, assembling a series of sculptures and videos that detail the processes in which our household items are made.  Portions of their work will be on exhibit at this year's Convergence. - - - - Design Seminar schools are nearing the completion of their first year. Whittier's team of 1st graders (above), lead by teacher Amy Clark and artist Laura Riebock, studied and interpreted animals that transform from one stage to another, such as tadpoles to frogs and caterpillars to butterflies. The students then created movements and presented their performance to parents and other classrooms. Stockton School's Bradley Balof and artist Michelle Alba exhibited their students' photography project along the walls of the school's main hallway (below).  The students explored self-portraiture in analyzing truth in images and how meaning is created.

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