News & Updates

Ingenuity is home to the Creative Schools Fund which provides grants to increase access to the arts for Chicago Public Schools students. Thanks to the generosity of private donors, this year 141 schools each received a grant to collaborate with a community arts partner for an innovative, teacher-designed project that directly impacted students and … Read More >

A Profile in Partnership: Communities In Schools of Chicago & Ingenuity

By Savannah Turner, Partnerships & Professional Learning Intern

As another budget-challenged school year approaches for Chicago Public Schools, the arts education community can find strength in partnership sustainability. Partnerships and their respective attributes vary depending on organizational values, but there are some qualities we see as … Read More >

Dispatches from the Teacher Institute

By Stephen Upchuck
Oct 6, 2015

Two large prep carts—entirely laden with scavenged 2-by-4’s, each sawed length-wise to create six bundles—blocked the doors to the MCA’s first-floor conference room. The 21 CPS teachers participating in a week-long professional development workshop as part of summer Teacher Institute gingerly negotiated the protruding poles to … Read More >

Steppenwolf Theatre Company has partnered with Multicultural Academy of Scholarship (MAS) in Little Village High School for eight years. The nature of this partnership has deepened and expanded each year in new ways.

In 2007, we started by bringing in teaching artists to conduct a short-term residency with drama teacher, eD Cisneros. A few years … Read More >