• Thread.City

  by: Stephen Flemister

  • $3,055 raised of $3,000 goal
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    • 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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    • 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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• Masks & Myths: Devils & Dancers

  by: Pranita Nayar

  • $5,004 raised of $5,000 goal
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    • 100% funded

  It’s 1893 and Chicago bears witness to the World’s Fair. Crowds experience the great Ferris Wheel and classical marble architecture, teas and spices, and performers from around the globe including Sri Lanka, once considered the “jewel” of the British Empire ...

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• Therapeutic Braids

  by: Fatimata Traore

  • $514 raised of $500 goal
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    • 103% funded

  As a professional braider and teacher in the African tradition, I am very passionate about this craft and how it can beautify and empower people. With this campaign, I am raising money to organize a workshop to teach the craft ...

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• 2018 3Arts Community Award

  by: 3Arts

  • $25,710 raised of $25,000 goal
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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 103% 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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• Black Girl in Bathtub

  by: Marsha Estell

  • $6,010 raised of $5,000 goal
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    • 120% funded

  I plan to develop a screenplay and produce a short fictional film based on my 10-minute play “Black Girl in Bathtub,” which will stand as a creative call-to-action against the sexual exploitation of girls. It has always pained me ...

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• Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos

  by: Laura Kina

  • $7,268 raised of $4,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
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    • 182% funded

  I am illustrating my first children’s book, Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos. This is a bilingual feminist fairy tale set in Hawai‘i and Okinawa that illuminates an ancient tradition and pushes back against white normative standards of beauty ...

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• The TransAtlantic Project

  by: Vershawn Sanders-Ward

  • $5,025 raised of $5,000 goal
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    • 100% funded

  In 2007, I had the opportunity to travel to Senegal, West Africa to participate in a dance training at L’Ecole De Sables. It was there that I met an amazing choreographer/dancer named Jonas Byaruhanga, the founder and artistic director ...

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• stück 1998/anchor 2018

  by: Ayako Kato

  • $3,030 raised of $3,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 101% funded

  As a dancemaker, I have always been passionate about the collaborative possibilities between dance/movement and music/sound. While knowing that my work is not created in a soundless vacuum, an ongoing interest of mine is to explore the independence ...

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