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(Re)Visions of Chicago Public Schools

May 29, 2020 5:00 pm
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CPS Lives select Denise Waite and Chang-Ching “Casper” Su as 2024 EXPO Chicago Artists
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Organizers
- Suzette Bross (she/her)
  
  Founder & Executive Director
  
  suzettebross@cpslives.com
- Sophia Guadalupe Padgett Pérez (she/her/they/them)
  
  Artistic Director
  
  sophiapadgettperez@cpslives.com
- Vero Rose Smith
  
  Director of Development
  
  vsmith@cpslives.com
Board of Directors
- Molly Kelly
  
  President
- Michael T. Noonan
  
  Secretary
- Cheri Hubbard
  
  Treasurer
- Jenn Dixon
- Kelly Costello
- Yumi Ross
- Marielle Lifshitz
- Cyraina Johnson-Roullier
- Smita Shah
- Peter B. Smith
Advisory Board
- Susan Aaron
- Teri Boyd
- Nora Daley
- Tricia Van Eck
- Terry Evans
- Vikki Hood
- Karen Krehbiel
- Carrie Lannon
- Caroline Older
- Lori Smedley
- Gary Schechner
- Matt Siber
- Jan Tichy
- Jay Wolke
- Brooke Hummer
- Jeff Phillips
Background

CPS Lives is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit 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 322,000 students in more than 630 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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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 and community centers. By creating this relationship in a public space 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.

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Executive Director

Suzette Bross — Suzettebross@cpslives.com

Artistic Director

Sophia Guadalupe Padgett Pérez — Sophiapadgettperez@cpslives.com

Director of Development

Vero Smith — Vsmith@cpslives.com
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June 9, 2019

Janet Mesic Mackie & Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences

Project Overview

School — Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences
Neighborhood — Mt Greenwood
Medium — Photography

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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

Students:

Dario Figueroa, UI/UX Designer
Emily Gorski, Graphic Designer
Nick Rissmeyer, Graphic Designer
Andrew C. Shike, UI/UX Designer, Web Developer (current maintainer)
Devina Yoestong, Photographer & Designer