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Announcing 2018 3Arts Awards
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Judges

Music
Alvin Singleton ,  Caroline Girgis ,  Jim Hirsch

Visual Arts
Candida Alvarez ,  Naomi Beckwith ,  Sarah Urist Green

Teaching Arts
Cynthia Weiss ,  Frank Baiocchi ,  Paul Sznewajs

Theater
Abel Lopez ,  Henry Godinez

  • Alberto Aguilar Multidisciplinary Artist

    I will write this biography using 167 words but will not discover this number until it is complete. From this point forward he will be speaking in third person. Alberto Aguilar is a Chicago based aartist that was born there ...

  • JoVia Armstrong Music Siragusa Foundation Awardee

    Daringly innovative, percussionist and educator JoVia Armstrong is a well-traveled musician and a Sabian-endorsed artist. Detroit-bred, she is winner of the 2014 Best Black Female Percussionist of the Year through the Black Women in Jazz Awards. She received the 3Arts ...

  • Kareem Bandealy Actor

    Kareem was born in Karachi, Pakistan, brought up in the USA, and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from the University of Central Florida.  His Chicago theatre credits include: Rock ‘N’ Roll, Gas for Less, King ...

  • Regina Harris Baiocchi Composer

    Regina is a poet, author, and composer whose music has been performed by Detroit and Chicago Symphony orchestras, US Army Band, and internationally-acclaimed artists. Performances include concerts in Paris, Rome, and Bari, Italy, as part of Festival Incontri Musicali di ...

  • Regin Igloria Visual Arts

    Regin Igloria maintains a multidisciplinary studio practice in Chicago, IL, which revolves around teaching and serving as an arts administrator. In 2010, he founded North Branch Projects, a community bookbinding project based in the Albany Park neighborhood, which allows him ...

  • Lisa Lindvay Photographer Chandler Family Awardee

    Lisa’s current photographic series depicts the lives of her father, sister, and two brothers as they take on the burden of her mother’s deteriorating mental state. Her photographs show the complexity of family, and explode the myth of domestic bliss ...

  • Norman Long Sound Artist

    Norman is a local sound artist/designer/composer born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. He has exhibited and performed in galleries in Chicago, Ithaca, NY, London, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His current work focuses on ...

  • Nicole Mitchell Composer

    Nicole Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist, composer, bandleader, and educator. Having emerged from Chicago’s innovative music scene in the late 90s, Mitchell makes music that celebrates contemporary African American culture. Inspired by the idea of bridging the familiar with ...

  • Ami Saraiya Singer/Songwriter

    Ami is a veteran of the Chicago music scene.  Her songwriting is often described as magically surrealist in flavor and uniquely combining elements of chamber pop, blues, and gritty soul.  Before she released her first solo album, Archaeologist, Ami was ...

  • Alison Siple Costume Designer Merrill Lynch Awardee

    Alison is a freelance costume designer who has been working in Chicago for 12 years. Recent projects: The Great Fire (Lookingglass), Sophocles Seven Sicknesses (Hypocrites), Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis) and Pirates of Penzance (Hypocrites).  ...

  • Jacqueline Williams Actor

    Jacqueline is a Chicago-based actor who works in theatre, film, TV, and is also a voice-over artist.  She was last seen at in HOT L BALTIMORE at Steppenwolf Theatre, where she also performed in THE BROTHER SISTER PLAYS (both ...

  • Mirtes Zwierzynski Visual Artist

    Mirtes is a visual artist, muralist, and teaching artist. She was born in Brazil and has lived in Chicago since 1981. Her studio work, through either individual or collective exhibitions, has been extensively shown in the Chicago area. She has ...

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