Crowdfunding with a Match

3AP (3Arts Projects) is a unique crowdfunding platform with a built-in match that helps Chicago artists finance new creative work.
3Arts matches 1/3 of each project goal, charges no fees to artists, and offers mentoring and technical support.
3Arts will match your support!
  • Taste the Wild Summer

    • $6,435 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 107% funded

    STRETCH GOAL! Thank you so much to everyone in my community who contributed to this campaign!!! I can't believe we've made it this far! We reached our first milestone to cover the cost of promotional material with our initial goal of $6,000. With time …

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  • Camo Coat v2: The Garden Collection

    • $8,225 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 137% funded

    Afrofuturity opens portals to ever-unfolding constellations of possibility in representation and empowerment. 2024 heralds the start of Octavia Butler’s prophetic sci-fi novel, Parable of the Sower, a text by which I’ve long been inspired in teaching and practice. In …

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    • $5,479 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 110% funded

    A traditional play reading with actors stuck behind music stands hardly ever shows us enough. I am partnering with The Story Theatre to produce a fully lived-in staged reading of my play, Modern Women, with rehearsal time, blocking, costumes, …

    Read more about Modern Women: A Production Reading with The Story Theatre
  • Sunset 1919

    • $6,183 raised of $4,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 155% funded

    Sunset 1919 is an annual community Art ritual. It is performed in honor of Eugene Williams, a Black teenager killed at the former 29th Street Beach—due north of the current 31st Street Beach—for crossing an imaginary racial line on the …

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  • Queens of Composition

    • $7,555 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 126% funded

    As a vocalist and educator, I have dedicated much of my career to researching and performing works by Black American composers, particularly women who have made great contributions to Classical Music. With the Queens of Composition, I will produce …

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  • HALF

    • $7,075 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 118% funded

    Inspired by a lack of representation about multicultural relationships and stories, I’m embarking on a new short film project called HALF. The story follows Sri, a queer Indonesian-Lebanese Muslim American who is often made to feel like the wrong …

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  • Oak Leaves

    • $6,745 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 112% funded

    Oak Leaves represents my most ambitious work to date, painting a replica of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. This idea and project are monumental in scale, so I plan to begin by focusing on two iconic figures, The Libyan and Cumaean …

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    • $37,362 raised of $30,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 125% funded

    STRETCH GOAL! Any additional contributions past $30,000 will fuel 3ER and 3-Opp, our responsive grants for artists in the 3Arts network facing unanticipated needs.

    Every contribution, from $5 and up, will collectively fund a $30,000 unrestricted award to honor …

    Read more about 2024 3Arts/MSUFCU Community Award
  • Ballet Unboxed

    • $8,034 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 134% funded

    Ballet Unboxed is a series of workshops and classes designed to welcome dialogue about and exchange ways of learning and experiencing Ballet. In collaboration with a cohort of dance educators, we hope to lead participants through transformative movement practices and …

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  • Instructions for Playing

    • $7,000 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 117% funded

    Instructions for Playing is a genre-bending concert program to be performed by Hot Second, a new duo consisting of myself (percussion) and Dylan Feldpausch (violin). The concert will feature two world premiere compositions, as well as existing classical works and …

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