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.
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With this new and immersive art installation, I am celebrating the enormous vision of Speculative Fiction writer, Octavia E. Butler. Just as Octavia used writing to be able to see herself, her legacy in doing so has allowed so many …
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Become a champion of Chicago artists by supporting the 2023 3Arts Community Award campaign.
Every contribution, from $5 and up, will collectively fund a $30,000 unrestricted award to honor an outstanding artist whose presence and work uplift our community.Any …
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I’ve been selected to attend a 12-week residency program this summer at a ceramic center in the Netherlands and couldn’t be more thrilled. The medium of clay, with its impressionable surface, has recently allowed me to expand on my interest …
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GREENHOUSE is an album recording and placemaking collaboration that aims to inspire growth and healing. With their transparent frames letting light and nutrients in, greenhouses create an atmosphere for plants to bloom. I believe that people, in the same manner, …
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Since releasing my debut solo album Exhale in 2021, I have dreamed of organizing a live concert that features a larger ensemble and an educational component. My hope is to exemplify the diversity of string music that embraces and expands …
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I am creating the first-ever musical devoted to Bomba, Puerto Rico’s oldest surviving music and dance form established by the island’s African descendants. Drawing from the Congo word that means “re-remember,” BÁMBULA will be an inspired history lesson come to …
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Alight is a performance piece that tells a story of an isolated artist seeking inspiration to create. The work meditates on finding comfort in ourselves and our place in the universe, particularly from an Asian American perspective. I am assembling …
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I am developing a multidisciplinary performance event that aims to gather artists and audiences together for an afternoon of whimsy and childlike wonder: A Day in a Park. After experiencing so much isolation and hardship, many of us can …
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Using interviews and archives, I am writing a memoir about Hale Smith, “the world’s most famous unknown composer.” Hale Smith’s music was recorded and performed by countless luminaries. Readers will laugh, cry, and revel in Hale’s illustrious life in this …
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For years, it has been my dream to create an interdisciplinary performance event that memorializes Chicago’s historic Jazz in the Alley movement. Told through a new dance opera artform that I’m developing, Memoirs of Jazz in the Alley will celebrate …
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