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    CPS Lives Critique & Conversation @ Filter Photo – May 2019

    Filter Photo will host CPS Lives this spring for critique and conversation. Join us as the CPS Lives photographers share with the larger Chicago photography community work-progress projects created between Chicago artists…

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    CPS Lives Presents: Janet Mesic-Mackie & Eileen Ryan @ Sulzer Library – May 2019

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    Current Events

    Girls’ World Exhibition with Melissa Ann Pinney!

    Please Join us at Hofheimer Gallery (4823 N Damen Ave) for the opening of Melissa Ann Pinney and Judith Raphael’s exhibition “Girls’ World” from 5 to 8PM. There will be an Artist…

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    Feb 07

    John Preus’ ADAPTATION at The University of Chicago!

    Join the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the Smart Museum of Art in celebrating the opening of John Preus: Adapation, a site-specific installation at the Keller…

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    Jan 30

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    About CPS Lives

    CPS Lives is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization that pairs Chicago artists, designers, thinkers and makers with a Chicago Public School during the academic year to collaborate on a project, sharing the unique and individual story of each Chicago Public School.  Each story will be celebrated and exhibited throughout the city in local Chicago Public Library branches and other exhibition spaces, as well as existing on the CPS Lives social media and website as an accessible digital archive of public school history for students, families, community members, educators, administrators, policymakers & the general public.

    The Chicago Public School system is the nations third largest school district, serving over 400,000 students in more than 660 schools. The sheer scale and complexity of the Chicago Public School system renders it opaque to the general public, where stories of its successes and resilience remain untold. This project shows the power of public education in Chicago. Our artists produce artwork that provide a unique window into the Chicago Public School system, generating support and reinforcing belief in the Chicago Public School mission “to provide a high quality public education for every child in every neighborhood”.

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  • Contact Us

    Contact Us

    CPS Lives seeks to expand our knowledge of the space students inhabit through the work of our artists produced in the public schools.  The artists seek to enlarge our understanding of the places students inhabit and their worldview through the use of cultural processes.  How public spaces are enriched and developed through the presence of visual production increases the level of the students’ cultural literacy and becomes palpable to the larger civic community, both politically and culturally. This program creates ties to local communities through the exhibitions in their library branches.  By creating this relationship in the public space of a city library we come to understand the complexity and importance of the public school system and the increasing importance of these public sites, their value, their diversity.  The public sites of schools and libraries are not fixed and untouchable, but are dynamic and informed by us.

    We want to hear from you! Please feel free to email us…

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    Partnerships

    We proudly appreciate support from our partners.

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Scott Fortino & John L. Marsh Elementary

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Project Overview

  • School — John L. Marsh Elementary School

  • Neighborhood — South Side

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The CPS Lives website was a gift from Columbia College Chicago. The branding, design system, and website, was created by a team of multi-disciplined students as part of the College's on-campus Internship program.

Jo-Nell Sieren, Project Manger

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