If you’ve been working within the Chicago Public Schools system for a while, you know how tough it is to access the kinds of resources and programs that your students deserve. Especially when it comes to the arts, you probably feel like the last priority. At IPaintMyMind, we understand...
Jun 22, 2020This school year has been about as irregular as it could get. From the Teachers Strike to Covid-19, it’s been a difficult year for teachers, as well as students and families. Navigating e-learning has been a process, mostly because it has involved so many different moving parts. The Digital...
Jun 13, 2020Thank you so much for your interest and application to be part of the 20/21 Shared Walls Program by IPaintMyMind, our incredible art engagement program. We are so happy to inform our community that the following schools have been ACCEPTED for the 20/21 school year, beginning in September 2020!!...
Jun 11, 2020If you’re at home struggling to fend off boredom, you’re not alone. Students just like you are sitting around wondering what to do, and how to get creative and engaged with something while you’re stuck at home. And even in non-quarantine times, these 11 Youtube art documentaries are great...
Jun 08, 2020Starting last year, the Blick Lincoln Park store has been generously supporting our mission to transform people & spaces through the power of art. As an organization that frames a lot of art, it’s always great to have partners who not only can help us source those frames, but...
May 04, 2020Covid-19 has really thrown a wrench in education, and we’ve been keeping in touch with our partners schools and teachers to help with any pressing needs and support e-learning efforts. We’d been cooking up Artist Q&A videos before that, initially to help connect artists from all over the world...
May 01, 2020For most of us, doing our part during this trying time simply means staying in our apartments or houses. But in a tremendous way, people are helping others, from inside their homes, endure inside of their homes. We’ve seen a fitness instructor leading a workout on a rooftop, Yo-Yo...
Mar 20, 2020The struggle of being an art teacher includes a unique blend of external doubt and internal friction. Art teachers share the same classroom and behavioral challenges that other elementary and secondary educators face while combating a similar stigma that troubles humanities departments across higher education–a skepticism about its value...
Feb 17, 2020Hey everyone, Roxy here. I’m writing you because I have some cool news and a great opportunity to pass along to other CPS educators and schools! I recently accepted an invitation to become a member of the Board of Directors of IPaintMyMind, a local nonprofit arts organization that I’ve worked with...
Feb 05, 2020Hey everyone, Roxy here. I’m writing you because I have some cool news and a great opportunity to pass along to other CPS educators and schools! I recently accepted an invitation to become a member of the Board of Directors of IPaintMyMind, a local nonprofit arts organization that I’ve worked with...
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