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CREATING PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY
CAPE is dedicated to the concept of bringing the lives of learners back into the lives of schools.
CAPE helps do this by building a professional community of teacher/artist teams through cross-school projects designed around the concept of emergent curriculum – compelling curricular themes that arise from the interest and experience of teachers, artists and students.


Chicago School Quilts



The Great Migration



CD produced during the Digital Playground Chicago Style project		 HUMBOLDT PARK BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ARTS SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE
As part of a city-wide program focused on community development through the arts, organization in Humboldt Park created the School Engagement Initiative (SEI), in which arts integration becomes a methodology for investigating the challenging issues of community development in neighborhoods subject to gentrification. SEI is co-managed by the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture and CAPE.

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THE GREAT MIGRATION PROJECT
A collaboration between CAPE and the Mississippi Arts Commission, in which teachers, artists and students exchanged visits and knowledge between Chicago and Mississippi to investigate the Great Migration.

Click the following to learn more about this project. The Great Migration will open in a separate browser window.		 CHICAGO SCHOOLS QUILT PROJECT
Quilting as curriculum. This initiative showcased curriculum content in all disciplines through the medium of traditional and contemporary classroom quilts. It was a collaboration among the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Art Institute of Chicago, and CAPE.

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DIGITAL PLAYGROUND CHICAGO STYLE PROJECT
A collaboration between CAPE and the Duncan YMCA Chernin Center for the Arts, using a model developed by musician Michael Cain in which New York based musicians and local artists collaborated with young people, using a wide range of technologies to compose and produce a CD of new music.

In this project, 4th through 8th grade Chicago public school students composed, produced, performed and engineered hundreds of original recording projects and several videos.

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