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KAREEM BANDEALY (2011 3Arts Awardee), ROBERT SCHLEIFER (2013 3Arts/Siragusa Foundation Awardee), BETHANY THOMAS (2019 3Arts/Restoration Hardware Awardee), and WAI YIM (2022 Make a Wave Awardee)

Now through December 31, Goodman Theatre brings back a holiday tradition with their …

3Arts announces inaugural recipients of $50,000 grants for Teaching Artists, largest award for teaching artists in the world!

Chicago teaching artists Miguel "Kane One" Aguilar and Regin Igloria—along with visual artists Dianna Frid, Edra Soto, and Dorian Sylvain …

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JESS GODWIN (2016 3Arts/Restoration Hardware Awardee) 

Jess just released a new 50-minute short musical film and performance entitled dreamer. available on her website. “After a year of songwriting celibacy, she was compelled to drop everything and …

3Arts announces ten artists each receiving $30,000 unrestricted grants at annual 3Arts Awards Celebration

Acclaimed local artists & past 3Arts Awards recipients performing at the For the Love of Artists themed celebration include grammy award-winning opera singer Will Liverman and …

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OMER ABBAS SALEM (2022 3Arts/SIF Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Awardee)

Abbas was recently named one of the 2023 Audible Emerging Playwrights. “The Emerging Playwrights Fund is a program that invests in and nurtures emerging playwrights …

DORIAN SYLVAIN (2020 3Arts/Southwest Airlines Community Awardee)

On August 5, Dorian and her three sons participate in a public talk at the MCA Chicago about the meaning of art and family across generations. Titled Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark …

3AP (3Arts Projects) is a unique crowdfunding platform with a built-in match that helps Chicago artists finance new creative work.

Since 2012, the program has supported more than 180 projects, distributed more than $1 million to Chicago artists, …

REGIN IGLORIA (2011 3Arts Awardee) and LAURA KINA (2021 Make a Wave Artist)

Now through May 6, both Regin and Laura have work on view at the Riverside Arts Center. In One Ends Another Begins Regin presents …

15th Annual 3Arts Awards Celebration grants nearly half a million dollars to Chicago’s women artists, artists of color, and Deaf and disabled artists

Awards event on November 7th is FREE for the public to attend via YouTube Live and includes …

$60,000 of project support awarded for Chicago-area artists

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (September 16, 2022): The Ignite Fund, supporting the creation and public presentation of new visual arts-based projects by Chicago-area artists and artist-led collectives, today announced its inaugural cohort …

By Mike Scutari, Inside Philanthropy

Inside Philanthropy Funder Spotlights offer quick rundowns of the grantmakers that are on our radar, including a few key details on how they operate and what they’re up to right now. Today, we take a …

By Mike Scutari, Inside Philanthropy

In a piece on the Pop Culture Collaborative’s blog, cultural producer Claudia Alick argued last fall that “disabled artists have not received funding on the same levels as abled artists and institutions.”

This statement doesn’t …