Nancy Maes

More and more visitors are going to the Museum of Science and Industry. Attendance is up 24 percent compared with last year, and for good reason. There are more and...

Home where the art is "Grandfather," the painting by Lisa Ross-Miller pictured below, is one of 35 works by 23 woman artists in "Home is Where the Hell Is," an...

Some astronomers like to say that we are made of star dust. The theory is that ancient celestial explosions released the very elements that are found in the Earth and...

When children take a nature walk through the green landscape of the Oceanarium that replicates the temperate area of Southeast Alaska called the Inside Passage, they don't always know what...

When Chicago storyteller Shanta goes out to perform, she doesn't know what stories she'll tell until she sees the age of the members of her audience. One thing is sure,...

Artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist vividly remembers singing "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" when she was a child on the South Side of Chicago. The song was written by statesman James...

Take advantage of winter from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Lincoln Park Zoo during "Winter Wonderland." Free activities include tours to visit the Siberian tigers,...

At a time when there is an ever-growing number of outstanding illustrations for children's books, artist David Diaz has been named the recipient of the 1995 Caldecott Medal, an award...

At its residential summer camps, the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago puts children through the challenges of swinging through the air on ropes 20 feet off the ground, scaling up a...

The annual Ruth Page Dance Series at Northeastern Illinois University is always a good chance to sample the talents of some of the city's best dancers. The Festival of Dance...