Bring OSP to your school
Bring OSP to your school or after school program!
We offer youth programming during the school day and for after school programs. OSP utilizes its SEL & Art Curriculum developed for K-8 and High School students, typically as a weekly group program for younger kids or during lunch periods or after school for high school students. After school programs are held on site at the school or another location can be arranged.
Youth
In-school artist residencies are led by our art therapists/teaching artists to guide students through weekly lessons using OSP’s own Art & Social Emotional Learning curriculum. All of the lessons are aligned with the Illinois Social and Emotional Learning Goals and the Illinois Visual Arts Standards.
During the “Into the Woods” lesson, students utilize found items from nature to create a sculptural landscape, exploring self-awareness, social awareness, and self-management skills.
We work with individual schools, Right at School and Y.O.U. to offer after school arts programming on site at your school. An art therapist/teaching artist will bring a variety of art materials each week so that students can explore different mediums and art processes.
After School Programs
Our after school programs allow for freedom of choice and expression within the parameters of provided materials. We aim to allow students artistic freedom and provide a safe space where they can fully be themselves.
High School drop-in programs and art therapy groups utilize our SEL & Art for High School & Mental Health Curriculum. These programs are aligned with the Grades 9-12 Illinois Social and Emotional Learning and Visual Arts Goals and Standards. Our facilitators will offer free-choice and project-based art experiences, which can be delivered in the classroom, during high school lunch periods, in after-school settings and as part of art therapy sessions.
High School Programs
In the Weaving Workshop: Imagine A Dream, students are asked to reflect on the following questions: Can I think about my weaving as a personal expression of the many threads of my life? Can I weave a concept of my dreams - education, work or other passions? Can I imagine my future?
Please contact us at info@openstudioproject.org or 847-475-0390 so we can learn more about your group and discuss the best ways that we can serve you.
OSP’s artist residences utilize our own Art & Social Emotional Learning Curriculum and is a valuable addition for schools that do not have the resources to offer a visual arts program to students or a supplement to any arts and SEL program to encourage children to build self-esteem and social skills through art-making. In-school artist residencies are led by our art therapists/teaching artists to guide students through the weekly lessons, which are aligned with the Illinois Social and Emotional Learning Goals and the Illinois Visual Arts Standards.
OSP works with schools either on a contract basis or through our partnership with Ingenuity, a collective impact for arts education in Chicago whose mission is to ensure that Chicago students have access to the arts as part of a well-rounded education. Ingenuity serves as a conduit to the Creative Schools Fund, which unites funding sources to support teacher-designed and led arts partnerships within Chicago schools. OSP has been a registered Ingenuity community partner since 2018. If you represent a CPS school, learn about how to apply for arts funding through the Creative Schools Fund here: Creative Schools Fund – Ingenuity (ingenuity-inc.org). For schools
