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The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications." [2] It is located in the Madlener House in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. [3] As of 2018, the Graham Foundation has awarded over 4,400 grants. [4]
Applications are open for Mid-America Arts Alliance’s annual Artistic Innovations grant, a program that since 2012 has awarded more than $2 million to regional artists and creative organizations ...
Since 2010, the Coalition began to grow significantly in its programming and operations, guided by strategic planning initiatives and multi-year capacity-building grants. In 2011, the Coalition relocated to the West Loop neighborhood in downtown Chicago, which is home to many of the city's top contemporary arts galleries and artist-run spaces.
The Trust made a grant to the 1933 Century of Progress world’s fair in Chicago, which was visited by nearly 40 million people. [ 6 ] Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Trust funded multiple cultural institutions and projects, including a design for the downtown lakefront along Grant Park and the creation of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Marwen is a nonprofit organization that provides free arts education to Chicago students from under-resourced neighborhoods and schools. [1] It began as a one-room art studio in 1987, and today serves close to 900 students a year through after-school and weekend arts programming. [2] As of 2017, Marwen has served more than 10,000 students. [3]
Gallery 37 was created in 1991 by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs' Lois Weisberg and Maggie Daley, wife of the city's former mayor, Richard M. Daley.Its purpose is to attract artistically inclined city youth to work as apprentice artists at a vacant downtown lot known as Block 37, bound by State, Dearborn, Washington, and Randolph streets.
One of the "most prestigious art grants in the country," [2] their yearly Creative Capital Awards application is open to artists in over 40 different disciplines spanning the visual arts, performing arts, moving image, literature, technology, and socially-engaged art.
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