Urban Gateways Collection
Inclusive Dates
circa 1966 – 2001
Abstract
Films, videos, and audio related to the Chicago-based youth arts organization's activities from the 1960s to the early 2000s. This includes films and videos made for the purpose of fundraising, event documentation, media made by Urban Gateways participants, and some collected educational films.
Collection Items
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Items with Viewable Media
- 10th Anniversary Annual Mtg May 6, 1971 (Audio)
- About the Children: School Reform Year IV
- Acting is the Art
- Acting is the Art
- Adventure Art &
- Adventures in Arts and Learning
- Adventures in Arts in Learning 2-20-80
- Adventures in Arts & Learning
- Aileycamp news segment ABC news; NBC; CBS 1995
- Alternate swimming -2 black
- Art Safaris: Showcase of Urban Gateways Performing Artists in the 1970s
- Arts Alive #1
- Arts Alive #2
- Arts and Alternative in Education (Schools)
- Arts Fare - 1978
- Arts for the Handicapped
- Arts for the Handicapped - 6-19-78
- Arts Safaris
- Beach
- Body Dynamics for senior Citizens
- Build a City - Rebuild a City Work Print
- Bus Ride to Playground
- Bus Unloads
- Bus View Approach SCL
- Carnival 99 Gala Footage April-May 1999
- Channel 5 WMAQ TV The Weekend Edition Urban Gateways Program 4:30 News 11-5-87
- Clemente Film Project A Way Out Tape #3
- Clyde Listen
- A Coat of Many Colors
- Coat of Many Colors P2
- The Color and Fire
- Color and the Fire
- Dance of Strangers - Dance with Objects Before Going to tV- Roof Dance Travel sequence ? TV Victims
- Entenmanns/Urban Gateways Good Mornin Muffin Kick Off
- Exploring
- Gateway to Imagination WTTW 3-20-89
- Gateway to the Imagination
- Get w/ steve to identify element
- Good Schools: Work In Progress CPS Program 1
- Happenings (Rhode Island Arts Festival)
- Houses drinking
- Introduction: The World Changes
- IYPC 1992
- Joy of Physical Freedom
- Joy of Physical Freedom
- Marshall Fields PR Urban Gateway Benefit CBS-WBBM TV Chicago 4-3-98
- Memorandum Part 2
- Memorandum Produced by WMAQ
- Nature Parade - signs
- NBC 5 Chicago Urban Gateways 3-13-91 (Audio)
- NBC PSA 2001
- NEA National Medal of Art Cenemony at the White Hosue 10-5-95
- Not Me Mama Park sequence
- One edited
- Performance at Daley Center 2-1-93 WMAQ channel
- Playing Ball
- Powers of Ten
- Preparation tape for Alice In Wonderland (Audio)
- Preparation tape for Alice In Wonderland (Audio)
- Preparation tape for Alice In Wonderland (Audio)
- Program 2 Structure and Leadership
- Program 3 The Bottom Line
- Purdue University Public Affairs Video Archives Natl Arts and Humanities Awards - Statement 10-5-95
- Purwin? film made at Eienstein School
- Robbie Talks
- Roof Dance with Children Build a City; Rebuild a City Etc.
- Seeing Things
- Seeing Things
- Seeing things (Bonnie Hartenstein)
- Sound of Jamaica Workshop Daley School 11-94
- Spirit Movement (Dance)
- Strange Planet Dance - Moon Dance
- Stranger’s New Worlds
- Summer gateway
- Summer Gateways
- Summer Gateways
- Summer Gateways
- Summer Gateways
- Summer Gateways #2
- Summer Gateways 66
- Summer Gateways Knocking scene - Flower dream sequence 66
- Summer Gateways Master Mix
- Summer Gateways Opening sequence
- Summer Gateways originals
- Summer Gateways Rejects
- Summer gateways Surplus
- Summer Gateways Tracks for Credits
- Summer Gateways Tracks for Credits
- Summer Gateways Tracks for Credits
- The Three Rs ? Arts
- Tracking Extra - Good
- Tunnel In Park (blossom)
- Unloading Bus
- Untitled
- Untitled (Audio)
- Untitled
- Urban Gateway
- Urban Gateway Chart Masters
- Urban Gateway Gala 4-30-99 Field tape dub Fox 32 Tape 1 of 2
- Urban Gateway Gala Tape 2 Fox Chicago Story
- Urban Gateways B-Roll footage 11-4-94
- Urban Gateways Builders Program 2-3-79 WMAQ TV
- Urban Gateways Camp Film
- Urban Gateways Day Camp Summer 1970
- Urban Gateways Dialogue: Camp Film
- Urban Gateways First Summer Master
- Urban Gateways Fundraising Cassette
- Urban Gateways Fundraising Film
- Urban Gateways Fundraising Film 1976
- Urban Gateways Fundraising Film 1976
- Urban Gateways Fundraising Film - edited version
- Urban Gateways Fundraising video 1994
- Urban Gateways Interview
- Urban Gateways Interview Ronne Hartfield for Harris Bank 2-88
- Urban Gateways Libby on This Week on 32 9-24-2000
- Urban Gateways NEA White House Ceremony 5-9-95
- Urban Gateways NEA White House Ceremony 5-9-95
- Urban Gateways NEA White house Ceremony Continuous loop 5-9-95
- Urban Gateways NEA White house Ceremony Continuous loop 5-9-95
- Urban Gateways PSA Suzuki
- Urban Gateways PSA Willie Galt 12-87
- Urban Gateways Public Service Announcement (Audio)
- Urban Gateways Roll 1 (Audio)
- Urban Gateways Sleeping beauty and Peter and the Wolf (Audio)
- Urban Gateways Sleeping beauty and Peter and the Wolf (Audio)
- Urban Gateways Sleeping beauty and Peter and the Wolf (Audio)
- Urban Gateways Visit to Artist: Hunt and Ginzel
- Urban Gateways White House Ceremony
- Urban Gateways WMAQ Chicago 5
- Urban Gateways WMAQ TV Chgo 5
- Voyage of the Hummingbird: Trinidad and Tobago
- W.O. 42539 "Arts Alive" 1-23-78
- WCIU 26 - Urban Business Review Guest: Libby Lai-bun Chiu 9-2-98
- World Changer
- WTTW 35th Anniversary Celebration: A video Remembrance 1990
Collection Identifier
C.2015-13
Extent of Collection
74 reels of 16mm film, 8 reels of Super 8mm film, 27 VHS cassettes, 11 U-matic, 1 Betacam, 1 Betacam SP, and 11 1/4" audiotapes.
Language Of Materials
English
Custodial History
Donated by Urban Gateways via Executive Director Eric Delli Bovi in 2015.
Use Restrictions
Chicago Film Archives holds the copyright to the media in this collection.
Creators
Urban Gateways
(was created by)
Urban Gateways was founded in 1961 by Jessie Woods, Charles Burns, Dr. Raymond Jerrems, Connie Williams and Helen Kolar. The organization sought to address the inequitable distribution of artistic exposure in Chicago-area schools, especially lacking for inner-city youth. The early Urban Gateways team focused on providing neighborhood schools with free tickets to attend musical recitals, orchestra concerts, operas, and theater productions. By 1964, Urban Gateways annually served 50,000 children in 25 schools, mostly by organizing school trips to arts performances and exhibits. In the 1970s, Urban Gateways implemented teacher workshops to educate teachers about utilizing arts in the classroom. In 1974, it began its artist-in-residence program. In 1983, the organization launched its Arts for Learning Program, which provided customized packages of creative resources to Chicago schools. President Bill Clinton awarded Urban Gateways the National Medal of Art in 1995 for its excellence in arts programming and as a national leader in arts education.