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!
  • Contact Zones: Wake for Water, Earth, Metal

    • $6,180 raised of $6,000 goal
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      • 3Arts matched
      • 103% funded

    Contact Zones is a project of artistic and political engagement with sites that are being demolished for redevelopment. We consider how the loss of beloved places can be met with creative practices of memory-making, collective grieving, and uplifting. We will …

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    • $11,854 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 198% funded

    STRETCH GOAL!!! Thanks to the caring and generous support of the community, we have secured our first milestone goal! With 30 days left for the campaign, we are working towards a new stretch goal of $10,000. This will help us pay for an extra …

    Read more about RETENTION: a hybrid film / RETENCIÓN: un intento híbrido
    • $6,425 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 107% funded

    God/Is Sustenance is a multimedia performance and sculptural installation that celebrates and educates its audience on being stewards of the earth. The performance of God Is takes inspiration from African masquerade and devotional worship to honor personal divinity. Sustenance carries …

    Read more about God Is/Sustenance: A Multimedia Installation
  • Anna & Fredrick Douglass Pavilion

    • $7,026 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 117% funded

    The Anna and Frederick Douglass Pavilion is a transformative public space designed to honor the legacies of the Douglass Family while fostering cultural pride, inclusivity, and community engagement. The development of this project was inspired by a youth led campaign …

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  • Community Access Tickets to MUJERES

    • $7,010 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 117% funded

    A 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.  
     
    Choreographed by …

    Read more about Community Access Tickets to MUJERES
  • Freedom From and Freedom To

    • $6,390 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 106% funded

    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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    • $2,812 raised of $2,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 141% funded

    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: An Album

    • $8,530 raised of $6,000 goal
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      • 3Arts matched
      • 142% funded

    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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  • What We Carry: A Short Film

    • $7,328 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 122% funded

    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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    • $6,402 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 107% funded

    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 …

    Read more about Unlocked Voices: A Fall Creative Arts Campaign for Youth Inside the JTDC

 

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