NEWS: 

• Dee Alexander (2012 3Arts/Southwest Airlines Awardee) was honored last month with a Black Excellence: Lifetime Achievement Award by the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago.
• Tomeka Reid (2016 3Arts/Southwest Airlines Awardee) released her second album Old ...

3Arts to award $270,000 in grants to local artists: 'It’s very much a celebration of all artists in Chicago’

NEWS: 

• Halena Kays (2013 3Arts Awardee) is nominated for a Jeff Award as Director (midsize play) of “On Clover Road” at American Blues Theater (awards announced Oct 21).
• Amanda Williams (2014 3Arts/Stan Lipkin & Evelyn Appell Lipkin Awardee ...

NEWS: 

• Miguel Aguilar (2012 3Arts/Siragusa Foundation Awardee) was interviewed about his graffiti work on Windy City Live.
• Sophia Nahli Allison (2014 3Arts/Southwest Airlines Awardee)’s new documentary A Love Song for Latasha won “Best Short Documentary” at ...

Three cheers to the 3Arts Residency Fellowship recipients for 2019-20!

In 2019, 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 ...

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 111 projects, distributed more than $568,000 to Chicago artists, and maintained ...

By Kaci Watt, Staff Reporter

The dance world may emphasize classical styles such as ballet, but Dance Department adjunct professor Tosha Alston teaches young dancers the West African style. Alston’s artistry has earned her a $25,000 grant.

Alston received ...

By Gabriela Garcia, Editor-in-Chief

It was a long road, but Sandra Delgado has become a bona fide staple in Chicago theater, and she’s just now hitting her stride. Don’t’ believe us? Her face is painted on a mural at the Chicago ...

3Arts Awards 20 Chicago artists of color, artists with disabilities,
and women in the arts with unrestricted cash grants

Annual celebration honors 10 artists with $25,000 cash grants along with $1,000 awards given to 10 artists as part ...

By Ellen Braunstein, Special to Chicago Jewish News

Dianna Frid’s art can’t be easily absorbed on Instagram or a Tumblr feed. Her works take time to understand and process. The material she uses and the ideas she engages in are ...

Meet Ben LaMar Gay and Leida Garcia, Two Chicago Artists Receiving Cash Grants

The non-profit organization 3Arts has announced its latest round of cash grants to 20 Chicago artists of color, artists with disabilities ...

By GABRIELLA CRUZ-MARTÍNEZ
Contributing Writer

Hyde Park resident and visual artist Dianna Frid is one of the winners of the 3Arts Chandler Family Award.

Frid will be honored at this year’s 11th Annual 3Arts Awards ceremony on Nov. 5 at ...

3Arts awards are about the whole artist, and awardees revel in the freedom

The following artists have been selected for our next round of 3Arts Residency Fellowships taking place in 2019 at spectacular artist communities from France to Florida. These all-expenses-paid, monthlong residencies include $2,000 stipends and airfare. Domestic travel is generously  ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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

STARZ Pour ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...