Blog Posts

For Chicago's West Point School of Music, the sound of the steelpan is also the sound of success for students in under-resourced neighborhoods.

Now serving an unprecedented third term as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, here's Jason Reynolds on why reluctant readers don't actually hate reading, they just hate being bored.

In this conversation for American Artscape, the late Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison shared her thoughts on the importance of failure as part of her writing practice.

Before there was the Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois, there was the Age of Phillis. Revisit our conversation with National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

For #ThrowbackThursday revisit our interview with Mohegan theater artist Madeline Sayet about the enormous growth in Native theater and the possibilities it offers, and the centrality and potency of story to her life.

Illustrator Marcos Chin talks about becoming more comfortable with bringing his full self to his work.

The National Native American Veterans Memorial on the grounds of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian offers a place for military veterans and their loved ones to gather, remember, reflect, and heal.

3Arts' UIC Fellowship program offers residencies for Deaf and disabled artists to explore disability aesthetics and create new work.