Campus Connection: Engaging College Students

in the Arts

The Arts Engagement Exchange (AEE) is an initiative of the Chicago Community Trust and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs supported by the Wallace Foundation.

Nicole WetzellMarketing Associate

Auditorium Theatre

Overall, Chicago Loop student spending was

$60,000,000

Source: Chicago Loop Alliance, Higher Education in the Loop and South Loop An Economic Impact Study, 2009

Students spent

$4,534,400

on cultural eventsSource: Chicago Loop Alliance, Higher Education in the Loop and South Loop An Economic Impact

Study, 2009

BACK-TO-SCHOOL EVENTAn Evening With Michael Price:

Writer/Producer For The Simpsons

Devon de MayoDirector of Arts Education

Northlight Theatre

Co-Artistic Director

Dog & Pony Theater

Susan Mathieson Mayer

Director of Communications

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Panel 2:

Developing College Student Audiences