3Arts

3Arts 3Arts is a nonprofit supporting artists in the performing, teaching, and visual arts in Chicago.

09/10/2026

Meet 2025 3Arts / HMS Fund Visual Arts Awardee Leasho Johnson! His practice combines charcoal, homemade paints, and dyes, creating works that straddle the line between precision and improvisation. Raised in Sheffield, a small town on the outskirts of Negril, Johnson uses his experience growing up Black, gay, and male to explore concepts around identity within the post-colonial condition. Learn more about Leasho Johnson and his work by vising his 3Arts profile (link in bio).

Meet the nine 2025 Make a Wave awardees who are boldly shaping Chicago’s performance landscape.Rooted in storytelling, e...
09/01/2026

Meet the nine 2025 Make a Wave awardees who are boldly shaping Chicago’s performance landscape.
Rooted in storytelling, experimentation, and collective care, their work honors ancestral memory, sparks connection, and reimagines what the stage can hold.
Click the link in our bio to learn more about these incredible theater-makers transforming the stage and making waves across the city. ✨🎭

08/25/2026

Meet 2025 3Arts Teaching Arts Awardee Victoria Boateng! Victoria (she/her/they/them) is a dynamic African drummer, autism self-advocate, and educator who uses the djembe as a powerful tool for awareness, healing, and representation. Diagnosed with autism at the age of three and nonverbal until the age of seven, Victoria found her earliest voice not in words, but in rhythm. Music became her sanctuary, and ultimately her calling. Learn more about Victoria and their work by visiting their 3Arts artist profile (link in bio).

08/19/2026

Meet 2025 3Arts Theater Awardee Rammel Chan! He is an actor, comedian, and playwright, who is passionate about creating comedy that punches up, elicits laughter, sparks empathy, and ignites fires. The eldest child of Chinese-Filipino immigrants, Rammel grew up on a military base abroad before moving to Michigan where he fell in love with theater. Since then, he has performed on stages across Chicago, on our screens, and his plays have been produced at numerous residencies and festivals. Learn more about Rammel and his work by visiting his 3Arts artist profile (link in bio).

Meet the nine 2025 Make a Wave awardees who are energizing Chicago’s visual arts community. This dynamic group of photog...
08/10/2026

Meet the nine 2025 Make a Wave awardees who are energizing Chicago’s visual arts community. This dynamic group of photographers, sculptors, designers, and educators use visual language to question power, celebrate identity, and imagine new worlds. Click the link in our bio to learn more about these visionary visual artists making waves across Chicago. ✨🎨🖼️

08/07/2026

Bharatanatyam Artist Laksha Dantran is creating Laksha’s Indian Classical Dance Debut, a dance project that renders the beauty and strength of a non-binary artist of color through the choreography of her personal story. Laksha’s return to the full bharatnatyam performance tradition as a transwoman includes written poetry, and a vocalist accompanied with a percussion artist, string artist, and Nattuvanar (a conductor with cymbals.Laksha’s student will also showcase their first performance with live musicians on stage.

Support for this project will fund Laksha’s Indian Classical Dance Debut and lay the foundation for her larger dream of creating a dance school rooted in both artistic rigor and inclusion.

07/29/2026

Dancemaker J’Sun Howard is seeking support for Chicago House Kobe, a long-term artist residency and retreat in Kobe, Japan, developed by J’Sun Howard and Mario LaMothe. Growing out of an ongoing artistic exchange between Links Hall in Chicago and Dance Box in Kobe, the residency will provide Chicago artists with a space to rest, reflect, and develop work through sustained international exchange. As Links Hall has closed, this project carries forward part of its legacy while creating new pathways for artist-center collaboration between Chicago and Kobe.

Contributions to this campaign will support the purchase and establishment of the residency space in Kobe.

07/18/2026

New media performance artist Ava Wanbli is creating We Live in Every Pixel; an archival documentary film and interactive video game presenting the stories, perspectives, and desires of transgender people in Chicago. At a moment when transgender existence is being actively erased socially, and legislatively, this project will create a tangible, living network of material and community support. Both the film and the interactive game space will offer opportunities for resource-sharing and public dialogue, building connection across communities in ways that outlast any single screening or event. Planned to launch in 2027, We Live in Every Pixel demonstrates agency in archiving transgender lives.

Donor contributions will directly fund the production of both the film and the game. This includes film crew costs, production support, game development, and fair compensation for the trans artists, organizers, and community figures involved.

07/06/2026

Meet 2025 3Arts / MSUFCU Community Dance Awardee Wendy Clinard! Wendy (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, educator, relationship builder, and the founding artistic director of Clinard Dance, established in 1999. Her work is rooted in flamenco but extends across contemporary performance and community-centered practice, pioneering a unique style that emphasizes rhythm, improvisation, and dialogue with music, text, and visual art. Learn more about Wendy and her work by visiting her 3Arts artist profile (link in bio).

Meet 2024 Make a Wave awardee Ash Busse! Ash Busse (she/her) is a Chicago-based cultural worker, art educator, and teach...
07/02/2026

Meet 2024 Make a Wave awardee Ash Busse! Ash Busse (she/her) is a Chicago-based cultural worker, art educator, and teaching artist. Specializing in spray paint and graffiti, Ash transforms these often-misunderstood mediums into powerful tools for self-expression and creativity. By integrating graffiti into her curriculum, her teaching offers students a unique and inclusive approach to artmaking, breaking down barriers and challenging conventional perceptions. Visit the link in our bio for more information about Make a Wave awardees!

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3Arts C/o Impact House 200 West Madison Street
Chicago, IL
60606

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Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
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