• Spiderf*rt Press

  by: Deidre Huckabay

  • $5,051 raised of $5,000 goal
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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 101% funded

  Spiderf*rt Press publishes new, experimental books at the intersection of performance and literature. I founded the press last year with four collaborating editors. Now we are working toward the release of our first title: a book by the Chicago-based ...

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• Rhinestones

  by: Maria Vergara

  • $3,752 raised of $2,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 188% funded

  For the past five years I’ve been working with rhinestones to create mixed media artwork. Now, with this project, I am producing these pieces on a grander scale with much larger wooden panels. My rhinestone artwork is inspired by my ...

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• Order of Service

  by: Rae Chardonnay Taylor

  • $4,073 raised of $4,000 goal
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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 102% funded

  Order of Service is a personal and universal ode to an ancestral legacy in which sound and sacred space are tools for healing. It is a loving tribute to my grandmother, LaRuth Bush-Carr, whose voice and sound recordings will be ...

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• Pocket Con

  by: Elgin Bokari T. Smith

  • $5,469 raised of $5,000 goal
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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 109% funded

  Pocket Con is a free single day convention for Chicago youth that focuses on highlighting comics and illustration work by artists of color, particularly African American authors and artists, as well as comics with a primary character who is Black ...

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• 2019 3Arts Community Award

  by: 3Arts

  • $25,208 raised of $25,000 goal
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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 101% funded

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

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• Courageous Conversations

  by: Kenyatta Forbes

  • $3,110 raised of $3,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 104% funded

  Courageous Conversations is a project I’ve been developing over the last two years utilizing innovative gameplay to facilitate conversations centered around the construction of Blackness. As a Black woman in America, I feel this dialogue present at every level of ...

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• Chicago Neighborhood Family Portrait Project

  by: William Estrada

  • $5,850 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 117% funded

  As a community artist with more than twenty years of experience working in schools and arts organizations, I am excited to launch an expanded Chicago Neighborhood Family Portrait Project that will provide free family portraits to people in their neighborhood ...

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• Five Times a Day

  by: Fawzia Mirza

  • $18,201 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 364% funded

  With this campaign, my goal is to produce a short fiction film that blends my identities while pushing the stories we see of Muslim and queer women. The purpose of this film is to also challenge and propel my own ...

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• Beyond the Box

  by: Yoshinojo Fujima

  • $5,180 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 104% funded

  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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• ESCP

  by: Chihsuan Yang

  • $5,972 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 119% funded

  ESCP is an electric-acoustic performance duo that I started in 2016 with my good friend and long-time collaborator, Bob Garrett. For the past year and a half we have created and performed new compositions that explore the presence of music as ...

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