News
3AP Impact Study
published: May 25, 2023
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, …
Read More...May Artist News
published: April 28, 2023
NEWS:
AVERY R YOUNG (2012 3Arts/Merrill Lynch Awardee)
avery was recently announced as the Inaugural Chicago Poet Laureate, a new program launched by the Chicago Public Library, DCASE, and the Poetry Foundation. The program “aims to increase awareness of …
Read More...April Artist News
published: March 23, 2023
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 …
Read More...March Artist News
published: Feb. 24, 2023
NEWS:
BARAK ADÉ SOLEIL (2016 3Arts/Denise & Gary Gardner Awardee)
Barak was recently welcomed as the new Director of Emerging Curators Institute (ECI), which aims to foster critical dialogue around curatorial practice and provide opportunities for Minnesota-based emerging curators. …
February Artist News
published: Feb. 8, 2023
News:
HALENA KAYS (2012 3Arts Awardee)
Halena was recently interviewed in Hollywood Soapbox about her direction of Do You Feel Anger? produced by the Circle X Theatre Company in Los Angeles. “The show, which is running at the Atwater Village …
Read More...January Artist News
published: Dec. 19, 2022
News:
LILI-ANNE BROWN (2021 3Arts/Stan Lipkin & Evelyn Appell Lipkin Awardee) and RON OJ PARSON (2021 Make a Wave Artist)
Lili-Anne is celebrated as a finalist for the 2022 Zelda Fichandler Award, which “recognizes directors and …
Read More...PRESS RELEASE: 2022 3Arts Awards
published: Oct. 24, 2022
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 …
Read More...Announcing Inaugural Cohort of Ignite Fund Grantees
published: Sept. 16, 2022
$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 …
Read More...Funder Spotlight: How 3Arts Supports Undercapitalized Artists in the Chicago Area
published: Nov. 18, 2021
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 …
Read More..."Striving Toward Equity." How a New Funding Initiative Reimagines Support for Disabled Artists
published: March 1, 2021
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 …
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