• Bamako*Chicago Sound System

  by: Nicole Mitchell

  • $4,010 raised of $4,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 100% funded

  As a musician, I’ve dreamed for years about bringing two artistic communities together: Chicago’s modern jazz with the traditional sounds and instrumentation of Bamako, Mali. In 2014-15 I had the opportunity to collaborate with West African kora master, Ballaké Sissoko ...

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• Scene Study: Black Theater in Chicago

  by: Alana Arenas

  • $10,160 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 203% funded

  STRETCH GOAL! Heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped me reach my initial target. With time still on the clock and the considerable costs that a film production demands, I’m now aiming for a stretch goal of $10,000. Throughout ...

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• 2017 3Arts Community Award

  by: 3Arts

  • $25,191 raised of $25,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 101% funded

  Each year, we invite people from all across Chicago to join us in supporting a $25,000 3Arts Award that will be given to a local artist who is making important contributions to our city. We name this award in ...

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• Project Tool

  by: Onye Ozuzu

  • $5,486 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 110% funded

  Project Tool is a dance performance installation in which I will build a collection of sprung wood dance floors. What is learned physically, emotionally, and conceptually in the process of building will become the material that is used to craft ...

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• A Study in Rhyme & Song

  by: Sadie Woods

  • $5,175 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 104% funded

  A Study in Rhyme & Song is a mobile exhibition project with accompanying performance elements that draws upon research about sound-system culture, minstrel songs, and vaudeville traditions. At its core, I want to explore the history and continuing legacy of ...

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• Dancing Around the World

  by: Nejla Yatkin

  • $6,827 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 137% funded

  My life and my art are about embodying the "fleeting moment" that is inherent to dance: the moment that makes people feel alive in the act of creativity. Two years ago I embarked on a journey of a lifetime with ...

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• Protest Banner Lending Library

  by: Aram Han Sifuentes

  • $5,319 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 106% funded

  This is an urgent moment of crisis in our country. Protests are erupting every day across the United States against hatred, bigotry, xenophobia, misogyny, and in favor of human rights. Last year, as an act of creative resistance and solidarity ...

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• CRIMEDROUGHT: The Solution

  by: Mashaun Ali Hendricks

  • $5,233 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 105% funded

  With CRIMEDROUGHT: The Solution, my goal is to use visual arts, photography, and streetwear as tools to highlight the possibility of a crime and gun violence free city through applying the philosophy and practices of restorative justice. This project stems ...

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• Hear the Glow of Electric Lights

  by: Sarah Beth Woods

  • $5,042 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 101% funded

  Hear the Glow of Electric Lights is a video and photo-based series that investigates the choreographed performances and culture of 1960s American music groups featuring teenage girls and young women, with the intention of deconstructing the genre’s historical associations with ...

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• Shameless

  by: Jess Godwin

  • $5,542 raised of $3,500 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 158% funded

  I am on a mission to help young people find a sense of pride and empowerment in their self-image. This spring, I am producing a performance and a collaborative songwriting workshop for Chicago Public School students that gives voice to ...

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