Alliances & Advocacy , Arts & Culture , Homeless & Housing , Temporary Housing

3arts awardsthe 3arts awards offer unrestricted $25,000 grants and community recognition to ten chicago artists annually. Awardees are selected by five national jury panels that convene in chicago and are comprised of artists, curators, presenters, and leaders in their fields. The awards program is the entry point to multiyear support that includes project support and residency fellowships in an international network of artist communities. Each new cohort of 3arts awardees participates in make a wave, an artist-to-artist giving program in which they select another 10 artists to receive $1,000 grants. 3arts has distributed $3 million to 600 local artists in our first ten years. 3ap project support3arts artists and artists from partnering organizations are invited to participate in 3ap, a unique crowdfunding platform that supports the creation of 20 new arts works annually. 3arts pays for 1/3 of each project's funding goal, produces the project videos, and provides training in marketing and fundraising in a formal workshop and coaching sessions. To date, 3arts has supported 95 new art works. 3ap has a 100% success rate. 3arts residency fellowshipseach year, artists who have received a 3arts award are eligible for all-expenses-paid, month-long fellowships at one of four partner sites located around the country and in the south of france. Each fellowship includes a stipend and airfare supported by 3arts. Managed by the alliance of artists communities, 3arts fellowships take place at the camargo foundation in france; djerassi resident artists program in ca; the joan mitchell center in la; and the rauschenberg residency in fl. 3arts also offers a residency in partnership with the macdowell colony. Additionally, we provide customized, in-town residencies for artists with disabilities through a partnership with bodies of work and the uic's department of disability & human development.