• 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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  • • 3Arts matched
    • 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
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 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
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 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
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 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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• Relay of Voices: The Great River Run

  by: Victoria Bradford

  • $5,171 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 103% funded

  As a native of coastal Louisiana, I have seen the region and many of its people nearly devastated by natural and manmade disasters but also resilient and powerful in the collective efforts to rebuild and restore. When I left Louisiana ...

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• Encounter

  by: Monique Haley

  • $4,053 raised of $4,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 101% funded

  As a dancemaker and educator, I embrace the moments that take place on stages and in studios when we feel a sense of trust, community, and the power of the human spirit. I am also a mover who has always ...

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• Hypocrisy of Justice: Sounds From the Black Metropolis

  by: Dana Hall

  • $5,132 raised of $5,000 goal
  • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
  • • 3Arts matched
    • 103% funded

  With this campaign, I am excited to record my first large-scale extended musical work, entitled The Hypocrisy of Justice: Sounds from the Black Metropolis. In many respects, this project is the most realized synthesis of my varied creative identities as ...

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