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!
    • $4,255 raised of $4,200 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 101% funded

    Inspired by early work by the WPA, "The Living News Project" is a new journalistic theater piece investigating homelessness in Chicago.

    Read more about The Living News Project SHELTER/CHICAGO
  • Haiku Festival

    • $5,307 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 106% funded

    Honoring the 10th anniversary of the Haiku Festival, which teaches poetry and promotes literacy for Chicago schoolchildren, this project will raise funds for a celebratory event featuring guest poet Sonia Sanchez.

    Read more about Haiku Festival
  • Songs My Mother Loves

    • $6,720 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 134% funded

    Celebrating the role of music in my life and my mother's creative influence, "Songs My Mother Loves" will be a new CD recording of favorite jazz compositions as a way of paying tribute and giving thanks. 

    Read more about Songs My Mother Loves
  • Oasis

    • $5,001 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 100% funded

    This new evening-length dance work is inspired by a Middle Eastern love story and the juxtaposition of desert and oasis, with the real world meaning that the "real" and the "fantastic" exist in the same stream of thought.

    Read more about Oasis
  • 57th Street Mosaic Underpass Mural

    • $5,078 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 102% funded

    This project will complete the second phase of a new public mural on Chicago's south side, engaging a nearby retirement community as well as elementary and high school students in the neighborhood. 

    Read more about 57th Street Mosaic Underpass Mural
    • $3,785 raised of $3,500 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 108% funded

    Aiming to help bridge the gap between the disabled and able-bodied, this fashion show and benefit will pair Chicago designers and models (disabled and able-bodied) to showcase garments that speak to the essence of the maker and wearer.

    Read more about Fashion Forward: Mixed-Ability Fashion Show
  • booker t. soltreyne

    • $3,026 raised of $3,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 101% funded

    Combining song, poetry, and interviews about race and politics, "booker t. soltreyne" is a new CD and archival project that reflects on how old pedagogies and processes of racism still exist in the Obama Era. 

    Read more about booker t. soltreyne
    • $4,249 raised of $4,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 106% funded

    Applying creative solutions to community health problems, this project will engage citizens and policy leaders in creating games, socio-dramas, and other educational materials as part of a new lending library of tools to support good health and well-being.

    Read more about Creating Tools for Community Health
  • Purging - Stop Animation

    • $3,598 raised of $3,500 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 103% funded

    This project will help me collaborate with two visual artists to produce a companion stop-motion animation video for our new single "Purging." 

    Read more about Purging - Stop Animation
  • The Marshfield Project

    • $3,170 raised of $3,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 106% funded

    "The Marshfield Project" is an experimental site dedicated to exhibiting, collaborating, and exploring the art, ideas, and projects from creative individuals who are not artists but have a passion for the creative process. 

    Read more about The Marshfield Project

 

3AP Presenting Partner:

  Joyce Logo

 Additional support provided by: 

Department of Cultural Affairs logo  Illinois Arts Council