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!
  • Feeling First: A Recipe for Inspiration

    • $4,395 raised of $4,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 110% funded

    I am producing an all-in-one vegan cookbook and sound design/breakbeat vinyl album that celebrates the interdisciplinary pairing of food and music. This project speaks to a new creative investment in self-care that is not only sustainable but nourishing to the …

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  • 20'something: The Live Experience

    • $4,466 raised of $4,000 goal
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      • 3Arts matched
      • 112% funded

    Next year in support of my debut album 20’something, I am producing a live concert that will give audiences a multisensory and boundary-pushing experience. This will be my first full-length album, and it will take listeners on a journey …

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  • aMoratorium

    • $5,125 raised of $5,000 goal
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      • 3Arts matched
      • 102% funded

    For over a year and in different iterations, I have been collaborating with dance artists Solomon Bowser, Dedrick "D. Banks" Gray, Damon Green, and Orlando DeLeon to develop aMoratorium, a response and tribute to visual artist Charles Wilbert White. …

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    • $8,777 raised of $5,000 goal
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      • 3Arts matched
      • 176% funded

    Throughout my career it has been my privilege to collaborate with many of Chicago’s most accomplished and respected artists. My long and fulfilling relationships with such organizations as the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, The Chicago Jazz Orchestra, …

    Read more about Alexander McLean Project: It's All About Love
  • I'm Fine

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

    For years I’ve been making experimental films with deeply personal themes, as well as intimate social issue documentaries. In 2017, I began a new project addressing some mid-life existential questions in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Peter Carpenter. Through the lens of …

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  • The Sandra Delgado Experience

    • $7,835 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 157% funded

    It’s time to sing! The Sandra Delgado Experience (SDE) is a music project that focuses on fresh versions of Colombian folkloric music and original songs inspired by traditional Colombian rhythms, woven together with storytelling. The SDE will exist as both …

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  • Raising an Invisible Monument

    • $6,342 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 127% funded

    For several years I’ve been researching and teaching curriculum that focuses on the history of youth organizing for civil rights during the 1960-70s in Chicago. The important role that middle and high school students played in the movement is relatively …

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  • Search Party

    • $6,445 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 129% funded

    For the past two years I have been collaborating with a group of women and queer artists to develop SEARCH PARTY, a live dance work that challenges and reconstructs the boundaries we face by exploring agency, freedom, and expectation. …

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  • Always Greener

    • $7,620 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 152% funded

    Always Greener is a groundbreaking new musical that asks what people with disabilities want rather than what they need. This musical aims to dispel any myths about disability that are perpetuated on stage, and to put people with disabilities back …

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  • Heliocentric

    • $5,300 raised of $5,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 106% funded

    Heliocentric is a collection of songs that explores the effects of my immigrant story on my interpersonal life since my mother and I fled from Haiti to the United States under the Duvalier Regime in the 1980’s. Written over a …

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