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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Read more about Community Access Tickets to MUJERESA shifting terrain of myth, memory, and reflection, MUJERES, PARA.MAR Dance Theatre’s first-ever full-length ballet, invites audiences to encounter the many selves of Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral through her Locas Mujeres poems.
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STRETCH GOAL!!! My heart is extremely full due to the incredible generosity of the community, we’ve fulfilled our first goal! With the remaining time, I’m working towards a final goal of $7,000. This will increase the pay to artists, cover …
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Co-developers Bernard Brown and J’Sun Howard invite you into Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves—a bold performance project that celebrates and archives the creative brilliance of Black, Brown, and Indigenous Queer communities. Through dance, music, film, and storytelling, this work …
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Black American Beauty is an album that shares memories from my POV, drawing from my own lived experiences with racism, fetishization, bullying, and self-hate. This is an album of live instrumentation and sonic excellence that tells a story of self-discovery …
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Set inside a local aid center in Chicago, What We Carry is a powerful short film about two women who sense a growing tension when an outsider disrupts the rhythms of their community space. As past and present begin to …
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Unlocked Voices is the continuation of the Stomping Grounds Literary Arts Initiative mission to uplift and support incarcerated youth by giving them the creative tools to express themselves, process their experiences, and imagine new futures. This campaign builds off the …
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The Beauty Project is an immersive theatrical engagement created in collaboration with theatre artists and beauty practitioners. These original short plays tackle the disentanglement of beauty and self-care from “the industry.” Led by theater makers, playwrights, and Second Site Collective …
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STRETCH GOAL! We are in deep gratitude for the incredible generosity of our community, we've reached our first milestone and are working towards our final goal of $10,000. Additional support will enable us to produce promotional materials, including a quality …
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Tiger Balm is a series of intergenerational interviews conducted by artists of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora working in the United States. These conversations connect two artists at different points of their careers and life practices in a familial …
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Solar Eulogy is the 4th solo studio album for Allen Moore. It is a cathartic exploration – a way for me to confront and release the internal conflicts that arise from societal expectations and my own mental health challenges. It …
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