During the summer of 2018, eighteen Chicago high school juniors and seniors were hired to intern with seventeen professional arts organizations and creative businesses throughout the city as part of […]
Olivia is a 7th grader who has been developing her drawing skills at Marwen. She is learning techniques for drawing with charcoal in our Speedy Sketching class and has had […]
Owen is an 11th grader, who has taken several art classes at Marwen, found his passion in oil painting. These classes Portraits Through the Multiverse and Bold Brushstrokes: Oil Painting […]
Marwen’s New Emerging Teaching Artist (META) Cohort is Singular in Chicago…and Perhaps in the U.S. It’s really important that we support the next generation of emerging artists of color in […]
Meet Titus, a 7th grader and future animator attending Marwen. Titus shares a bit of his Marwen experience and what makes Marwen magical. You can support young people like Titus […]
In Summer 2020, teaching artist Sarita Garcia (she/her) collaborated with fellow artist Janet Lopez (she/her) and young artist Ash Vásquez (they/them/his) on one of Marwen’s first-ever virtual arts courses. Titled […]
Fifteen-year-old Nakiya’h Longstreet shares how he broke out of his comfort zone with the help of relationships he built at Marwen. When Nakiya’h signed up for courses at Marwen in […]
We invited journalist Elise Schimke from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism to interview alumas Joselyn Corona and Lizbeth Rangel about life after Marwen. Joselyn Corona and Lizbeth Rangel attend the […]
“Marwen has done so much for me. Honestly, without Marwen, I probably wouldn’t be going to college, and I wouldn’t feel like I could take art as a career. I […]
“Marwen is not a place where people are going to judge you for who you are. You can be open about it, and you’re going to fit right in. There’s […]
