Convergence 2023

 In Exhibitions, The CAPE Blog

Convergence brings together arts-integrated projects created by over 800 students from 33 Chicago Public Schools classrooms participating in CAPE’s Artist/Researcher Partners Program. We invite you to check it out!

It’s everything that kids get to see their artwork valued by adults in this way
-Madison Kisst, CAPE Teaching Artist

Convergence 2023

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Click here to Download the Convergence 2023 Booklet

 CAPE Convergence 2023 Exhibition: Foreground, Boone Elementary’s
“Adaptive Refuse;” behind are Waters Elementary projects “Fairytales” photobooths on stands,
with the “Heroes and Villain” puppets on right wall 

 

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Events:
-Open Late – Friday, May 19, 6-9pm. Join CAPE staff at this third Friday gallery reception, open to the public.
-Exhibition Reception, Saturday, May 20, from 4:00 – 7:00 pm.
-Thursday, May 25, Teacher/Teaching Artist Curriculum Share  5:00-7:30pm, CPDU’s provided.  Click here for more information and to RSVP. Download Flyer

Exhibition Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 11am – 5pm and by appointment via Mark@capechicago.org.

         

What is Convergence?
Convergence is CAPE’s annual exhibition of student artwork from our Artist/Researcher Partners Program.
Teacher/teaching artist teams assemble to display artworks and artifacts that capture the arts-integrated processes from over 33 classrooms in Chicago.
This exhibit celebrates the creativity of the young artists in the program and the collaborations the teachers and artists continue to develop and transform.

Featuring Artwork From: Bateman Elementary, Ray Graham Training Center, Water Elementary, Boone Elementary, Henry Elementary, Durkin Park Elementary, Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, Dever Elementary, Murphy Elementary, New Sullivan Elementary, Pasteur Elementary, Haley Elementary Academy, Taylor Elementary, Lake View High School, Vaughn Occupational High School, STEM Magnet Academy

              

Convergence 2023

Convergence brings together arts-integrated projects created by over 800 students from 33 Chicago Public Schools classrooms participating in CAPE’s Artist/Researcher Partners Program. Through the A/RP program, CAPE supports ongoing, long-term teacher and teaching artist collaborations in enhancing inquiry-based practices that engage students in deepening academic content learning through art-making.

Teachers and teaching artists co-curate Convergence, and have arranged the exhibition based on five themes they identified across the projects. Included in the Community and Connections theme, students across Chicago related poetic forms with emotions, explored links between materials and the environment through learning how Native American and first nation artists represent past and contemporary indigenous cultures and utilized social art practice as a form of social organizing.

Under the second theme of Identity, the classrooms’ projects range from students reflecting on the multiplicities of self by depicting different versions of themselves through digital photography to examining the various communities they encounter shape their identity.

Works comprising the theme of Adaptation investigate the environment’s influence in body movements and dance, animation to visualize the future, and creative processes wherein problem-solving, perseverance, and choice engender adaptive skills for different situations.

Grouped within the Technology theme are student investigations of translating color and shapes into music, employing engineering skills to create architectural head gear, and merging coding and music making in language classes.

The fifth theme is Perspectives and Stories wherein students produced creative research on social cultural connections between materials and messages, represented the intersection of their personal life with history, revealed how colors tell stories, and choreographed the patterns and functions of simple machines.

Spanish Translation

Convergencia (Convergence) es la exposición anual de CAPE de obras de arte de estudiantes de nuestro Programa de Socios Artistas/Investigadores (Artist/Researcher Partners Program). Los equipos de maestros y artistas docentes se reúnen para exhibir obras de arte y artefactos que capturan los procesos de artes integradas en más de 30 aulas. Esta exhibición celebra la creatividad de los jóvenes artistas en el programa y las colaboraciones que maestros y artistas continúan desarrollando y transformando.

Convergence reúne proyectos de artes integradas creados por más de 650 estudiantes de 33 aulas de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago que participan en el Programa de Socios Artistas/Investigadores de CAPE. A través de este programa, CAPE apoya colaboraciones a largo plazo entre maestros y artistas docentes para mejorar las prácticas basadas en la investigación que involucran a los estudiantes en la profundización del aprendizaje del contenido académico a través de la creación artística. Los maestros y los artistas docentes son co-curadores de Convergence y han organizado la exposición en función de cinco temas que identificaron en los proyectos.

Incluido en el tema Comunidad y Conexiones, los estudiantes relacionaron formas poéticas con emociones, exploraron los vínculos entre los materiales y el medio ambiente aprendiendo cómo los artistas nativos americanos y de las primeras naciones representan las culturas indígenas pasadas y contemporáneas, y utilizaron la práctica del arte social como una forma de socialización. 

Bajo el segundo tema de Identidad, los proyectos de clase incluyen estudiantes que reflexionan sobre las multiplicidades de sí mismos al representar diferentes versiones de sí a través de fotografías digitales, y examinaciones de cómo las diversas comunidades en las que se encuentran dan forma a su identidad.

Las obras del tema de la Adaptación investigan la influencia del entorno en los movimientos corporales y la danza, la animación para visualizar el futuro y los procesos creativos en los que la resolución de problemas, la perseverancia y la elección generan adaptaciones a diferentes situaciones.

Agrupados en el tema de Tecnología se encuentran investigaciones sobre la traducción de colores y formas en música, el empleo de habilidades de ingeniería para crear cascos arquitectónicos, la combinación de codificación y creación musical en clases de idiomas y la coreografía de patrones y funciones de máquinas simples.El quinto tema es Perspectivas e historias, donde los estudiantes produjeron investigaciones creativas sobre conexiones socioculturales entre materiales y mensajes, representando la intersección de su vida personal con la historia y revelando cómo los colores cuentan historias.Special thanks to Polk Bros. Foundation and Deloitte for their support of Convergence 2023.

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