A Road Together
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Applications Open!
Apply Before Friday, May 16
Through the ART partnership, the Field and MacArthur foundations support grant recipients in creating opportunities for more Chicagoans to dream and flourish through a vibrant and sustainable creative ecosystem.
ART is a grantmaking partnership between the Field Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. It is designed specifically for small and mid-sized arts and culture organizations with annual operating budgets up to $1 million.
To date, the partnership has committed $3.86 million in unrestricted, general operating funding for 131 organizations. In 2025, a total of 25 grants will be awarded, using a participatory grantmaking approach. Funding will range from $10K to $100K per year.
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Provide opportunities for more Chicagoans to dream and flourish through a vibrant and sustainable creative ecosystem.
Support small and mid-sized arts and culture organizations with unrestricted, general operating funding to achieve their missions.
Foster collaboration and representation across diverse creative disciplines, identities, and geographies through participatory grantmaking.
Impact to Date
$3.86M
funding committed
131
organizations funded
ART Grant
Recipients
Congratulations to this year’s recipients! Through this initiative, a total of 51 small- to mid-sized arts organizations will receive $1.6 million in funding. Curabitur blandit tempus porttitor. Vestibulum id ligula porta felis euismod semper. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur.
2024 Three-Year Grant Recipients
25 organizations will receive three-year grants. Grants range in size with a maximum grant of $100,000 per year.
- 18th Street Casa de Cultura
- 826CHI
- A Long Walk Home
- American Indian Association of Illinois
- American Indian Center of Chicago
- Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions Project
- Chicago Artists Coalition
- Chicago Dancemakers Forum
- D-Composed Gives
- Definition Theatre Company
- Elastic Arts Foundation
- Enrich Chicago
- Green Star Movement
- Haitian American Museum of Chicago
- Hyde Park Jazz Festival
- Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago
- Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
- Mezcla Media Collective
- Muddy Waters MOJO Museum
- National Cambodian Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial
- Open Center for the Arts
- Rome in a Day
- The Simple Good
- The WasteShed
- Uprising Theater
Application
Process
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Geographic
Priority Areas
for the Arts
The Field Foundation created a series of maps, outlining geographic areas where an analysis of quality-of-life factors indicates areas of greatest need.
A Road Together is a commitment to continuously be on a learning-to-action journey with Chicago’s creative community. Together, we are reimagining how a collaboration in the creative realm can enable a stronger and more sustainable arts and culture ecosystem in our city.
