• 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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• MMIRI: Origin Stories

  by: Alexandria Eregbu

  • $5,752 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 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
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 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
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 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
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 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
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 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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