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education through exploration

Community Moves is Side Street Studio Arts' education and outreach arm. Through visual and performing arts programming and education, Community Moves helps young artists develop creative problem-solving skills, find their voice through artistic expression, and build a foundation for well-rounded and responsible citizens. Focusing on performance, media, and the visual arts, Community Moves provides on-site in-school and after-school programming in partnership with Elgin area public schools, free of charge to the school's families. Since 2012, Community Moves has worked with up to 500 young artists per school year.

Community Moves also partners with local organizations to provide programming on location. These organizations have included the City of Elgin, the Downtown Neighborhood Association, Lords Park Zoo, The Boys and Girls Club of Elgin, and the Elgin Police Department.

For more information on how to bring Community Moves programming to your organization,
contact Nick at communitymoves@sidestreetstudioarts.org or 847-429-2276.

Free Art Kits

Side Street Studio Arts is getting free art kits to families in our area for in-home use during this difficult time.

Simply fill out the form, and a kit will be delivered to your door in days (deliveries are not made on rainy days). The delivery address must be within 10 miles of Side Street Studio Arts, located in downtown Elgin.

NEW INFO:

We are adapting our Brown Bag Art Kits to help kick off the school year. Kits will now focus on art supplies needed for school for pre-school, elementary, and upper grades, including a few additional school supplies, as well as additional creative options.
And, we are able to build Brown Bag Art Kits for adults! Are you an individual or organization that works with adults who would like to receive an assortment of creative supplies? For families or individuals, fill out the form below. Businesses and organizations, email us HERE, and we will do our best to fill your requests.

Please note, while some supplies are new and some are gently used or donated, all have been disinfected.

To donate to SSSA in support of this project, visit us HERE.

To purchase supplies from our Amazon Wish List in support of this project, click HERE.

If you have any questions or wish to donate used supplies, please email us HERE.

We will keep this up as long as our supplies last!