Facility

ChiArts is proud to announce its new home at 521 East 35th Street in the heart of Chicago's vibrant Bronzeville community.

A neighborhood described as "a treasure trove of historical and cultural landmarks and experiences," Bronzeville was home to Louie Armstrong, Lorraine Hansbury and Ida B. Wells. Today, it stands out as one of the city's most progressive areas, rich with an abundance of educational and artistic institutions. Visit this marvelous place to live and work here.

The ChiArts campus underwent dynamic renovations over the summer of 2011.

This former primary school and administrative building came a long way to facilitate her 450 new residents. A school full of scholar-artists required many special accommodations, including new dance studios and sprung floors; sound-proof practice rooms; modified drawing, photography, design and sculpture studios; state of the art computer, keyboard and theatre production labs; and a completely re-engineered multipurpose performance hall. Custom-designed furniture allows our academic classrooms to transform into conservatory studios quickly and neatly. Students dine in a cafeteria modeled after an artistic teenager's bedroom and filled to the brim with donated items from our wonderful Arts Partners. Bright banners designed by Impact Business Signs decorate the building's exterior with powerful images from our four conservatories.

And then there is our lovely courtyard space.

Surrounded by the rest of our facility, this enclosed haven offers a safe garden area for students to learn and grow. Instructors may utilize one of the many landscaped corners to augment their students' educational experience. At any given point, one can find a class of stage combatants sparring, digital photography majors shooting the natural flora and fauna, or English students engaged in a Socratic seminar.

As always, it is the exceptional quality of our academic and arts instruction that makes ChiArts the breathtaking place that it is; however, we're certainly delighted-and think you might be as well-to have a place to plant our core values and make our garden grow.