• Heliocentric

  by: Ramah Jihan Malebranche

  • $5,300 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 106% funded

  Heliocentric is a collection of songs that explores the effects of my immigrant story on my interpersonal life since my mother and I fled from Haiti to the United States under the Duvalier Regime in the 1980’s. Written over a ...

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• Casa Radesti

  by: Irina Botea Bucan

  • $5,422 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 108% funded

  I have always wanted to be a host. When I was six years old my parents had to stop me from constantly inviting people into our apartment. As this desire never left me, I’ve now found a way I can ...

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• Tres Fridas

  by: Reveca Torres

  • $6,662 raised of $4,700 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 142% funded

  The goal of this campaign is to raise funds to exhibit the Tres Fridas project at Bridgeport Arts Center in Chicago during the month of September 2019. Tres Fridas is a collaboration between myself, Mariam Pare, and Tara Ahern. We ...

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• Requiem: A White Wanderer

  by: Luftwerk

  • $5,572 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 111% funded

  For many, the scale and magnitude of climate change is incomprehensible, leaving us feeling powerless to the imminent crisis. Our project, Requiem: A White Wanderer, uses a creative multi-sensory approach to address this emotional experience and allow us to see ...

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• Spiderf*rt Press

  by: Deidre Huckabay

  • $5,051 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 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
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 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
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 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
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 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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