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Rush Children's Hospital
www.rush.edu/patients/children/index.html
Snow City Arts operates at Rush through the generous support of the Rush University Medical Center Woman's Board.
Within the auspices of Rush Children's Hospital itself, Snow City Arts' Artist-in-Residence program is fully integrated into the patient setting with the encouragement and support of Child Life Services. These caring professionals know the who, where, when, and why of each patient's arrival, and they actively work with Snow City Arts to make effective connections between Artists-in-Residence and young patients. Teamed with the guidance and expertise of Child Life Services, Snow City Arts is able to have a stronger impact on the children we serve.
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John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County
www.cchil.org
Snow City Arts Foundation operates at John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County through the generous support of the County Care Foundation, the charitable arm of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services.
Snow City Arts Foundation began working with young patients at Stroger Hospital in 2003, integrating its program into the hospital's 50 bed pediatric unit. At Stroger, Snow City Arts' programs are directed primarily at the hospital's school-aged patients between the ages of 4-18 who are admitted as inpatients.
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Children's Memorial Hospital
www.childrensmemorial.org
Through the generous support of the Children's Memorial Foundation, Snow City Arts is pleased to partner with Children's Memorial Hospital, Illinois' only and number one freestanding hospital exclusively for children. By working side by side with Child Life Specialists and the Department of Family Services, Snow City Arts offers innovative, arts-based educational programs to some of Chicago area's most critically ill children.
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Columbia College Chicago
www.colum.edu/ocap
One of the leading cultural institutions in Chicago for more than 100 years, and the country's largest Arts and Media college with more than 9,000 students and 1,100 faculty members, Columbia College has opened its doors to the children of Snow City Arts. Through their Urban Missions program our children now have access to countless departments and resources throughout the university. Our young people are able to meet and work with faculty and students on original projects, attend Columbia's High School Summer Institute, and even qualify for scholarships to the university.
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Fulcrum Point New Music Project
www.fulcrumpoint.org
Trumpet virtuoso and conductor Stephen Burns is the Artistic Director of the Fulcrum Point New Music Project in Chicago. Fulcrum Point New Music Project's strengths are its multi-disciplinary concert performances and educational programs that are inspired and influenced by popular culture, including, folk, rock, jazz, blues, Latin and world music. Fulcrum Point and Snow City Arts have teamed on various educational endeavors, both for and by children, including a multi-media performance of Maurice Sendak's and Randall Woolf's Where the Wild Things Are at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Medtar
www.medtar.com
Thanks to Rex Jones and Medtar Inc., Snow City Arts is able to provide young patients with guitars so they can continue their music studies. Through Medtar, Jones and his team take donated guitars--acoustic and electric--and refurbishes them. He, in turn, donates the guitars to Snow City Arts and its young musicians. Now, when our children learn to play while in the hospital, they take home a guitar so they can continue to learn. We'll find free music lessons near their home. If you have an old, or "previously loved" guitar, Rex will fix it up like new and give it to us so we can put music in the hands of children in the hospital. So go ahead, tell Rex about a guitar you can donate. E-mail medtar@comcast.net for more information.
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