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!
    • $6,010 raised of $5,000 goal
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      • 120% funded

    I am developing a new experimental dance piece called The Righteous Beauty of the Things Never Accounted For. This work explores Black Fugitivity, a concept that explores the ongoing and historical resistance to systems of oppression that Black people …

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  • Alivio y Asilo

    • $6,045 raised of $6,000 goal
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      • 101% funded

    Blending my art practice and lineage with Curanderismo, a traditional medicine system, I’m developing a project called Alivio y Asilo that introduces the curative properties of portraiture as a means of helping people move through trauma. This project focuses on …

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  • praise mother

    • $6,150 raised of $6,000 goal
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      • 102% funded

    It has been a childhood dream to create and cultivate my own majorette squad while conjuring dreams for communal liberation and support. praise mother is a community initiative and dance theater project highlighting stories of relationships between Black matriarchs and …

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  • The Future is Breath

    • $11,020 raised of $6,000 goal
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      • 184% funded

    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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    • $33,147 raised of $30,000 goal
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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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  • Vestiges of Time

    • $7,011 raised of $6,000 goal
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      • 117% funded

    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

    • $11,663 raised of $6,000 goal
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      • 194% funded

    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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  • Exhale: Live in Concert

    • $6,115 raised of $5,000 goal
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      • 122% funded

    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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  • BÁMBULA

    • $6,865 raised of $5,000 goal
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      • 137% funded

    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

    • $5,088 raised of $5,000 goal
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      • 102% funded

    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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