Each year we ask for feedback from artists who have been supported through our programs to ensure that we are responsive to contemporary issues and fully activating our mission. In two recent surveys, we hoped to learn more about the ...

In 2018, new artworks by 20 Chicago artists will be supported on 3AP (3Arts Projects).

3AP is a unique online crowdfunding platform that has a built-in match to help Chicago artists finance new creative work. In addition to matching 1 ...

ANNOUNCING CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP WITH HIGH CONCEPT LABS

CHICAGO, IL — 3Arts and arts incubator High Concept Labs (HCL) are thrilled to announce a continued partnership that connects artists supported through 3AP (3Arts Projects) to HCL’s Sponsored Artist Program. For HCL’s ...

Nearly 100 Chicago artists receive $330,000 in unrestricted awards at 10^th annual 3Arts Awards celebration

Anniversary celebration honored 10 artists with $25,000 cash grants along with $1,000 awards given to 83 artists as part of a ...

For this year’s EXPO CHICAGO at Navy Pier, 3Arts and 6018North are presenting VIP: Very Important Platforms, a democratic lounge space located on the floor above the fair with interactive installations that, literally and figuratively, call on visitors to take ...

Meet the artists who have been selected to receive 3Arts Residency Fellowships at some of the most beautiful artist communities near and far.

Each year, artists who have received a 3Arts Award are eligible to apply for all-expenses-paid, monthlong fellowships ...

ARTS ISSUE 2017 | MUSIC | SOUTH CHICAGO

JoVia Armstrong brings music education to her neighborhood

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3Arts celebrates 10^th anniversary with unprecedented peer-to-peer giving program MAKE A WAVE, honoring more than 80 Chicago artists

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Jess Godwin Wins 2016 3Arts Award

Posted by Albert Williams

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Jess Godwin ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, has won a 2016 3Arts Award ...

Chicago Defenders Arts  & Culture Editor Candace Hunter is Awarded the Prestigious 3Arts Award

By Kai EL´ Zabar

Candace Hunter, artist and Chicago Defender’s own Arts & Culture Editor has been busy creating art, exhibiting art, talking about are ...

3Arts, a nonprofit grantmaking organization based in Chicago, has named this year's ten recipients of the 3Arts Awards, which are presented annually to women artists, artists of color and artists with disabilities working in dance, music, theater, visual arts or ...

Ten Chicago artists receive a total of $250,000 in unrestricted awards tonight at 9^th annual 3Arts Awards

Over $2 million awarded to nearly 400 Chicago artists over nine years

CHICAGO, IL (October 3, 2016)–3Arts is honored ...

You may not know the name Frank Waln. I could tell you that he’s a 26-year old Sicangu Lakota rapper from the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. I could tell you that he’s an award-winning artist, a globe-trotting emcee and producer. I ...

A & AH faculty member Fo Wilson is the recipient of a 2015 3Arts award. Presented to women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilitiesworking in the performing, teaching, and visual arts, 3arts awardees are selected through a nomination ...

“Artists have very critical eyes, ears and mouths,” says Fo Wilson, visual artist, Art & Art History associate professor, and a winner of this year’s 3Arts Award. “It’s part of our human disposition to look at and examine the ...

CHICAGO: 3Arts announced the 10 recipients of its 8th annual 3Arts Awards. The nonprofit organization recognizes female artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities for their accomplishments in the fields of performing, teaching, and visual art. Rewarded for their theatrical work are actors Allen Gilmore and ...

Hyde Park resident Allen Gilmore is the recipient of a $25,000 unrestricted grant, awarded by 3Arts, an organization supporting local artists-especially women artists, artists of color and artists with disabilities.

As part of its 8th annual 3Arts Awards, the ...

Fo Wilson is an artist/designer, educator, independent curator, and writer. Her current studio work uses constructed space and furniture forms to create experiences that reposition historical objects and/or aesthetics in a contemporary context and offers audiences new ways ...

A local nonprofit has chosen ten Chicago artists to watch this year.

The organization 3Arts, which awards artists working in arts education, performance, dance and the visual arts, is giving out $250,000 to these ten local artists Monday night ...

CHICAGO, IL (October 5, 2015)–3Arts is honored to announce the ten recipients of its 8^th annual 3Arts Awards, presented to women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts ...

Harold’s Chicken Red. Ultrasheen Blue. Pink Oil Moisturizer Pink. Currency Exchange Yellow.

Perhaps you chuckled. If you did, then you’re familiar with the culturally historical colors of Chicago’s black community. And if you’ve noticed that those very colors are popping ...

Sophia Nahli Allison, a 2014 photojournalism alumna, has been selected as a recipient of a $25,000 grant from 3Arts, a nonprofit that advocates for artists of color, women artists and artists with disabilities. 

Each year, 3Arts selects 10 ...

The co-founder of an Evanston nonprofit was awarded a $25,000 grant Friday for her work teaching and choreographing circus acts in theatrical productions.

Chicago-based 3Arts, an organization that supports female artists, artists of color and artists with disabilities,  ...

Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of The Actors Gymnasium Sylvia Hernandez-Distasi is among several recipients to receive the 3Arts Award that recognizes the commitment of women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities by awarding winners with a $25,000 ...

On Monday night, the Chicago nonprofit 3Arts announced the ten winners of its annual awards for women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities. The cash prize going to each awardee was upped this year to $25,000; previous ...

Chicago nonprofit 3Arts has increased the amount of its annual unrestricted awards for women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities to $25,000, effective with the 7th annual 3Arts Awards tonight, Oct. 6, 2014. Ten Chicago-area artists working ...

Chicago nonprofit 3Arts has increased the amount of its annual unrestricted awards for women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities to$25,000, effective with the 7th annual 3Arts Awards tonight, Oct. 6, 2014. Ten Chicago-area artists working ...

Chicago nonprofit 3Arts has increased the amount of its annual individual artist awards by 67% to $25,000; 10 Chicago-area artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts received a total of $250,000, dancer Darrell Jones and choreographer ...

Monday night at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) was a big night for ten local artists, thanks to the support of Chicago's 3Arts. The charity, devoted to supporting women artists, artists of color and artists with disabilities, hosts ...

Ten Chicago-area artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts will receive a total of $250,000 in 3Arts Awards tonight, Oct. 6, during a celebratory gathering to be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art. And this year’s ...

3Arts, the local non-profit organization that supports women artists, artists of color and artists with disabilities, announced the recipients of its 2014 awards at a ceremony at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Monday night. Each of the 10 recipients ...

CHICAGO, IL (October 6, 2014)—Chicago nonprofit 3Arts has increased the amount of its annual unrestricted awards for women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities to $25,000, effective with the 7th annual 3Arts Awards tonight, Oct. 6 ...

Chicago vocalist, Dee Alexander, has been singing jazz since she was a little girl and with the help of a local nonprofit, she has recorded another album.

Songs My Mother Loves pays tribute to Alexander’s mother. The CD has many tracks ...

Actions can speak louder than words. That’s what actor, teacher and photographer Robert Schleifer, who is deaf, demonstrates to his many acting and singing students. It’s also something that the Highland Park resident plans to show through his translation of ...

On September 3, the nonprofit organization 3Arts announced that visual artist Riva Lehrer was one of the first two recipients of a newly created artist fellowship residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) that will support “the creation ...

3Arts announced today the creation of two 3Arts Fellowships at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), unprecedented artist residencies focused on supporting the creation of new work by local artists with disabilities who are actively engaged in raising awareness ...

The local nonprofit organization 3Artsannounced the creation of two 3Arts Fellowships at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), unprecedented artist residencies focused on supporting the creation of new work by local artists with disabilities who are actively engaged in ...

There are not many residencies for artists and or writers with disabilities. Mostly residencies are for everybody, but a nonprofit organization has partnered with a university to provide unprecedented residencies.

3Arts announced today the creation of two 3Arts Fellowships at ...

CHICAGO, IL (August 11, 2014) -- 3Arts announced today the creation of two 3Arts Fellowships at theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), unprecedented artist residencies focused on supporting the creation of new work by local artists with disabilities who are actively ...

Vocalist Dee Alexander, a 3Arts awardee, will perform at 1 and 7 p.m. today at the University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts. Alexander's show is a celebration of her latest release "Songs My Mother Loves ...

Many musicians attribute their taste in music to their parents. Few pay tribute to them in as literal and beautiful methods as acclaimed Chicago singer Dee Alexander. Seasoned in blues, gospel and soul music, Alexander's true niche is jazz ...

Acclaimed Chicago vocalist and 2012 3Arts Awardee Dee Alexander will present songs from her new album “Songs My Mother Loves” in two concerts slated for the evening of Friday, August 1, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. The ...

Dee Alexander has earned international acclaim, but fame has eluded her. Her great new album, Songs My Mother Loves, might change that.

Chicago jazz singer Dee Alexander is internationally recognized as one of the most gifted and versatile vocal stylists ...

A Chicago actress with multiple sclerosis is on a mission to help other artists with the same disability. It has been 23 years since Mierka Girden, 44, was diagnosed with MS. She dealt with depression and sadness but realized that ...