• MMIRI: Origin Stories

  by: Alexandria Eregbu

  • $5,752 raised of $5,000 goal
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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 115% funded

  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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• The Franklin Collection

  by: Edra Soto

  • $6,242 raised of $5,000 goal
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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 125% funded

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

  by: Scheherazade Tillet

  • $4,150 raised of $4,000 goal
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    • 104% funded

  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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• we are, we are

  by: Matt Bodett

  • $5,047 raised of $5,000 goal
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    • 101% funded

  My project, we are, we are, seeks to change the conversation we have about mental health. Since having been diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder myself, in 2005, this project is both personal and deeply needed socially. Too often people with mental ...

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• Delinea Renda

  by: Brittany Harlin

  • $2,585 raised of $2,500 goal
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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 103% funded

  For the first time, I am creating a short dance film that will merge my choreography with poetry, prose, and musical composition. The title of the project refers to a fictional character and moniker of mine, Delinea Renda, which is ...

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• An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank

  by: Melissa Potter & Maggie Puckett

  • $6,639 raised of $4,000 goal
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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 166% funded

  An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank is a new publication that will tell the story of Seeds InService, a unique Chicago garden project where plant fibers are cultivated for art works, research projects, and public interventions. For the past five years ...

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• Block Zombies

  by: Leon DaVinci Kelsick

  • $4,029 raised of $4,000 goal
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    • 101% funded

  As a professional illustrator and animator, I’m excited to develop a short animated film called Block Zombies, which follows a young boy in Chicago whose school is in jeopardy of closing. I’ve had this idea in my head for over ...

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• Thread.City

  by: Stephen Flemister

  • $3,055 raised of $3,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 102% funded

  For the past 3 years, I’ve been developing Thread.City, a series of collaborative site-specific installations consisting of text-based conversational threads that directly reflect the times in which we live. I was initially inspired by the comment feeds that follow ...

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• What Makes It a Great Migration

  by: Maggie Brown

  • $6,435 raised of $5,000 goal
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    • 129% funded

  With this campaign, I am breathing new life into an original music composition I wrote that reflects on the history and impact of the Great Migration in Chicago neighborhoods. As a performing artist, educator, and poet, I’ve always been passionate ...

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• Chicago Stories

  by: Brandi Berry Benson

  • $5,153 raised of $5,000 goal
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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 103% funded

  Chicago Stories is a music project featuring newly commissioned works by Chicago composers inspired by the stories and experiences of fellow Chicagoans and their communities. It all started with a conversation I had with my Bach & Beethoven Experience (BBE ...

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