• Prom Send Offs: The Rites of Passage for African American Girls

  by: Scheherazade Tillet

  • $3,855 raised of $4,000 goal
  • 19 Days 04:28:52 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 96% funded
    • 4% to go

  I’ve long been aesthetically intrigued by and visually interested in capturing various stages of Black Girlhood in my work.  “Prom Send Offs” is a new body of photographic work in which I document how African-American girls in Chicago celebrate ...

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• The Franklin Collection

  by: Edra Soto

  • $575 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 30 Days 04:28:52 LEFT
  • • 12% funded
    • 88% to go

  Five years ago, I co-created The Franklin artist-run project space with my husband in the backyard of our home in Garfield Park. Since then, more than 100 artists have presented site-specific works for the visiting public. Perhaps lesser known to ...

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• MMIRI: Origin Stories

  by: Alexandria Eregbu

  • $380 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 45 Days 04:28:52 LEFT
  • • 8% funded
    • 92% to go

  MMIRI: Origin Stories is a short experimental film that offers a fresh interpretation of the creation story, drawing on traditional West African tales and a contemporary fantastical imagination. Storytelling and image-making have always been central components to who I am ...

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• Beyond the Box

  by: Yoshinojo Fujima

  • $620 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 56 Days 04:28:52 LEFT
  • • 12% funded
    • 88% to go

  As a contemporary performer trained in the centuries-old art form of Japanese classical dance, I have an ambitious goal of expanding this legacy practice with new performance techniques and modern ideas of identity. Beyond the Box is a series of ...

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