Professional Learning Community Programs

A platform for educators, students, teaching artists, and administrators to learn and share strategies and tactics that encourage inquiry, ensure agency, and empower students to find their voice.

Multi-Site Field Trips

Spend an art-filled day at the University of Chicago! The Amplify partners offer a variety of high-quality performance and visual arts education opportunities for teachers and their school classes.

CoCre8

A collaborative effort to create an innovative creative learning community for teachers, teaching artists, teens, and artists across Arts + Public Life, the Logan Center, the Smart Museum, and Urban Gateways to look at, talk about, and make art.

Design Apprenticeship Program

A design-based mentorship and skills building initiative that encourages teens and young adults to invest in improving their communities’ physical and social conditions. By developing skills in carpentry, landscaping, and design, these young leaders aid in the positive transformation of Washington Park, Woodlawn, and the Garfield Boulevard corridor.

Community Actors Program

An introductory performance program utilizing Theater of the Oppressed, participatory theater, and performance as tools for community building and social change. Sixteen teens work together to create theater productions and related events responding to a community issue or specific site.

Teen Arts Council

A group of student leaders who collaborate with the Arts + Public Life initiative to develop creative skills, leadership experience, and opportunities for their peers to engage with the arts. The Council members work with university staff and local partners to develop projects at the intersection of arts administration and community engagement.

Intergenerational Theater of the Oppressed

The Intergenerational Theatre of The Oppressed Project (ITOP) seeks to offer a safe, welcoming and creative environment for participants across the spectrum of age to engage in a community discovery process through the medium of theater. Specifically, this program utilizes exercises and techniques from the Theatre of the Oppressed canon to allow participants to examine and analyze real-life issues and situations through theater, image-making, and play.

High School Matinee Program

Bringing classic theatre to Chicago-area high school students through discounted weekday performances of Court's main stage productions. Each performance is enhanced by pre-performance study guides and post-show discussions with members of the cast and artistic staff.

Artists in the Schools Program

Annual partnership with several south side high schools that enhances existing theater arts programs or implements programs where none exist through in-class artist residencies by professional actors, directors, and designers; free tickets to Court’s Student Matinees; and performance workshops, culminating in the annual High School Performance Festival.

Guided Tours and Group Programming

Meaningful and enriching K–12 student learning experience through the Oriental Institute’s renowned collections of artifacts from the ancient Middle East (10,000 BC – AD 650), including objects from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syro-Anatolia, Israel, Iran, and Nubia.

Oriental Institute Teacher Professional Development Workshop Series

Teacher Professional Development Workshop Series

Youth and Family Programming

Exciting hands-on workshops the whole family can enjoy.

Educator Pass Benefits

K-12 educators receive special membership rates.

Logan Center School Matinees

Matinee performance series offering diverse performances for K–12 youth developed through partnerships with UChicago Presents, the Office of Civic Engagement, Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, and others.

Logan Center Family Saturdays

A monthly series of workshop days and quarterly full-day Family Saturday Festivals in Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer. Family Saturday Festivals include special guest performers, film screenings, drop-in activities, art workshops, and more for ages 2–12.

The University of Chicago Presents: Jazz at the Logan

Inspiring the next generation of Jazz musicians by inviting students and teachers from schools that participate in the Jazz Links Jazz Masters Residency and students in the Jazz Links Youth Ensemble and Jazz Links Student Council to concerts and artist conversations in the Jazz at the Logan Series. In addition, each year, the Logan Center and Jazz Institute of Chicago invite students and teachers from schools that participate in the Jazz Links Jazz Masters Residency to an exclusive school matinee performance of master musicians.

Think It, Make It, Screen It

A summer filmmaking program for ages 12 and up, co-presented by the Logan Center, Arts + Public Life, and Faithful Few

The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Young Critics Program focuses on providing a platform for students to critically examine performances presented in our school matinee program and to craft valuable and engaging written responses. The program pairs teaching artists with teachers and 5th–8th grade students. With the support and guidance of teachers and teaching artists, participants create blog posts reflecting on their experiences witnessing artistic performances, portraying the unique perspective of each student.

Smart Museum Tours

We can welcome up to 45 students at a time for docent-led, inquiry-based explorations through our galleries. We will work in close consultation with you to ensure that the nature and timing of the tour best meets your needs.

Professional Development

Designed for educators and teaching artists, professional development workshops explore how arts-based practices can best support learning in, and out, of the classroom.

Smart Museum Family Days

Held on the first Saturday of every month, the Smart’s free family activities are designed to inspire children to think about and respond creatively to art and the world around them.