Crowdfunding with a Match

3AP (3Arts Projects) is a unique crowdfunding platform with a built-in match that helps Chicago artists finance new creative work.
3Arts matches 1/3 of each project goal, charges no fees to artists, and offers mentoring and technical support.
3Arts will match your support!
  • Relay of Voices: The Great River Run

    • $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

    • $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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    • $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 …

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  • A Call to Love

    • $3,910 raised of $3,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 130% funded

    My language is music. It has helped me discover who I am as an artist, connect with others, and cope with loss. With this campaign, I’m issuing A Call to Love that is at once a gift back to my …

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  • Percussing Up a Storm

    • $5,122 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 102% funded

    With Percussing Up a Storm, I am creating the first recording dedicated to my original music for percussion instruments. I love composing for percussion because it has an energy unlike any other kind of music. I feel a kinship …

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    • $5,023 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 100% funded

    For the past decade, I have used embodied performance, multimedia arts, and my experience as an international development researcher to ignite dialogues around pressing social and political questions in my local and global communities. But this past November left me …

    Read more about Mycelial: Street Parliament
  • Beauty Breaks: Guild

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

    “Beauty Breaks: Guild” is an expansion of a project I’ve been developing for the past year that focuses on forging creative healing practices and affirmative dialogues around what it means to be Black, beautiful, and well. Working as a cross-disciplinary …

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  • To Love To Leave To Live

    • $11,370 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 227% funded

    I’m a musician, songwriter, and singer and over the past decade+ I’ve made my way throughout the western world as an independent, grassroots troubadour. To help promote my eighth release and fourth full-length album, To Love To Leave To Live …

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  • Futura: Past Forward

    • $6,137 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 123% funded

    I am working on a new collaborative multidisciplinary performance work, Futura: Past Forward, that applies principles of the Bauhaus modernist art movement to dance while also challenging notions of what constitutes choreography. This will be the next major work …

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  • Undercover Episodes

    • $7,867 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 157% funded

    Undercover Episodes is a performance series with a live original score and dynamic set and stage design intended to deepen and transform one’s experience of contemporary dance. In developing this work, I realized that part of what I love most …

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