AWARD WINNING!

AWARD WINNING!


The Gallery 37/Chicago Public Schools Advance Arts Education Program (AAEP) produces results worthy of recognition! The contents within this information packet will provide insight on the excellence in teaching and learning that is the standard of this outstanding program that provides training in the arts and preparation for careers in the arts and arts related fields.

Our students have earned highest honors in recognition of their commitment to meeting the challenge of intense and concentrated study in the arts that has earned them scholarships and admittance to the most prestigious colleges and universities in the country renown for their curriculums in the visual, culinary and performing arts.

We have included for your information a description of the Advanced Arts Education Program, and the thematic framework “Chicago Our Community: Identity, Existence, Change” that serves as the focus that threads throughout our eleven course curricula. Distinguished arts teaching organizations provide practicing artists to work in collaboration with Chicago Public Schools arts teachers recognized for excellence throughout the Chicago arts community. We have also included recognition of the accomplishments of our students and a listing of high schools our students attend for their academic studies, a copy of our Winter, 2000 newsletter, Inside the Gallery, and a Course Description Catalog.

Additionally, we provide OUTREACH opportunities in the visual, performing, and culinary arts for special education high school students, and students attending the Fine Arts cluster elementary schools and middle school students enrolled in the Pre-Baccalaureate programs in the elementary schools.










STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
CLASS OF 2000-2001


James Earl Johnson, King High School: Graphic Design student created the award winning Logo and Poster for the 2000 Chicago Public Schools High School Fair; awarded annually renewable $22,000 financial aid package to attend Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.

Brett Witt, Whitney Young High School: 3D Computer Modeling student awarded Outstanding Leadership Award for creating web site published and linked to Gallery 37 site: http://www.evl.uic/natt/G37/g37intro.html. Brett now attends the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, College of Engineering.

Amber Mohammad, Mather High School: Video Production student was awarded scholarship from 37 Friends and video production internship at Gallery 37 while studying at Columbia College.

Theodore Rainey, Whitney Young High School: Culinary Arts student completed internship at Charlie Trotter’s Restaurant and awarded $40,000 scholarship to the Culinary Institute of America, New York



College Board Advanced Placement Drawing & Painting Award (5=top score)

Nicholas Camargo Lincoln Park 5 AAEP 2001-2002
Nick Plattis Lincoln Park 5
Jessica Rosenbaum Whitney Young 5 Northern Illinois University
(Merit Scholarship)
DuJuan Marshall Julian 4 AAEP 2001-2002
Lisa Pereda Whitney Young 5 University of Massachusetts
Kyra Termini Whitney Young 5 Kansas City Art Institute
Merit Scholarship
Guy Majierek Lincoln Park 5 AAEP 2001-2002
Natasha Bolden King 5 Chicago State University
Jamie Solock Whitney Young 5 Carnegie Mellon University
Brian Lopez Lake View 5 Loyola University
Caitlin Cunningham Whitney Young 5 Maryland Institute of Art



Historic Printer’s Row Photography Competition

Rachel Dean Whitney Young Second Place
Johnny Torres Lake View First Place




Links Inc, Chicago
Outstanding Achievement in the Arts

Erica Hawkins Whitney Young Sculpture The Academy of Art, San Francisco
Richard Burr Gwendolyn Brooks Academy Theater Columbia College, Chicago


NAACP ACT-SO Arts and Academics Competition
New Orleans, La.

Natasha Bolden King Bronze Medal Sculpture Chicago State University
DuJuan Marshall Julian Gold Medal (2) Painting AAEP 2001-2002
Silver Medal Painting



Latino Art Beat

Brian Lopez Lake View Poster Contest Award $600
Painting $8000 scholarship Loyola University

Leonardo Chavez Hope Photography First Place
$4000 scholarship DePaul University

Brian Mata Farragut Sculpture First Place
Scholarship
Lorraine Bahena Curie Photography Second Place Columbia College




Chicago Public Schools
All City Art Exhibition

Caitlin Cunningham* Whitney Young $5000 Scholarship
Amber Mohammad Mather 600 Summer Institute Award Columbia College
Jamie Solock* Whitney Young 5000 Illinois Institute of Art
Justine Bursoni* Lincoln Park Merit Based tuition scholarship renewable annually
Illinois State University
Lisa Pereda* Whitney Young 5000 Scholarship Illinois Institute of Art

AAEP participants were awarded 8 Gold, 11 Silver, 8 Bronze, 14 Honorable Mention, and 4 Portfolio scholarships*.




The Great Frame Up Creative Self Expressions Show
BEST of SHOW

Shavonne Jones Gwendolyn Brooks Academy Photography AAEP 2001-2002
Andrea Cobb Lincoln Park Ceramics Sarah Lawrence College
George Urbita Lake View 3D Computer Modeling
Brett Witt Whitney Young 3D Computer Modeling
Lisa Pereda Whitney Young Painting
Caitlin Cunningham Whitney Young Drawing