3Arts

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

Meet 2024 Make a Wave awardee Mallory Raven-Ellen Backstrom! Mallory Raven-Ellen Backstrom (she/her) is an award-winning...
06/15/2026

Meet 2024 Make a Wave awardee Mallory Raven-Ellen Backstrom! Mallory Raven-Ellen Backstrom (she/her) is an award-winning playwright, author, illustrator, and teaching artist who writes fairy tales for sun-kissed women. As a world builder, Mallory’s passion for diverse representation, mindfulness, and mysticism resonates across the vast universe she weaves on the page, stage, and canvas. Windy City Reviews hailed her as a “craftsman of the English language” for her debut novel, Reasons for Being. Visit the link in our bio for more information about Make a Wave awardees!

06/07/2026

Meet 2025 3Arts Theater Awardee Nina Castillo-D’Angier! Nina (she/they/siya) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice combines immersive theater, production design, and interactive installation. Whether through large-scale installation, intimate encounters, or community-driven events, Nina’s goal is to use art to deepen empathy and open space for both grief and joy. Learn more about Nina and their work by visiting their 3Arts artist profile (link in bio).

06/07/2026

Meet 2025 3Arts / 3 Cheers Teaching Arts Awardee Tom Lee! Tom (he/him) is a teacher, puppet artist, designer, and director whose work often explores manipulated objects, miniatures, and figures in dialogue with animations and projections.  Tom teaches puppetry nationally and internationally and is co-director of the Chicago Puppet Lab which seeks to develop and empower new voices creating original work for the puppet theater in Chicago. Learn more about Tom Lee and his work by visiting his 3Arts profile (link in bio).

06/02/2026

Theatre Artist, Filmmaker, Actor, and Director Mary Tilden is raising funds for BUGGY: A Short Film. BUGGY tells the story of an ambitious theater major who finds out she’s pregnant the night before her final college performance. Buggy must find a ride to her abortion, endure the inane positivity of her understudy, and evade protestors...all before call time. Motivated by a recent six-week abortion ban in their home state, Hart Lang and Mary Tilden wrote BUGGY as a way to tell a character-focused story about a young artist’s pursuit of her dreams and the obstacles that arise as she navigates restrictive cultural forces and healthcare policies.

Funds collected through this 3AP campaign will support equitable pay for the film’s team and material production needs such as equipment and location costs.

TODAY is the last day to support the Community Award! The growing circle of support around this year’s Community Award c...
05/29/2026

TODAY is the last day to support the Community Award! The growing circle of support around this year’s Community Award campaign continues to grow!

Every gift continues to make a difference. While we’ve reached our goal, the campaign remains open until midnight tonight.

Any additional gifts will help extend the impact of this collective effort by supporting our responsive grant programs aimed to help artists navigate moments of crisis (3ER) or seize opportunities that can advance their careers (3-Opp).

Chicago is defined by the artists who live and work here. They are the heartbeat of our neighborhoods, shaping ideas into physical existence. Thanks to the generosity of the Community Award supporters, we will once again be able to honor and invest in an artist whose work strengthens our communities and enriches our city.

And thanks to the generous support of MSU Federal Credit Union, gifts to this year’s campaign were matched dollar-for-dollar up to $15,000, doubling the impact of contributions made along the way!

05/20/2026

Musician and Storyteller Shanta Nurullah is launching Reactivate OM MISSION!, a blend of theatre and storytelling that explores le***an history, Chicago history and the love story of two Black women, Shanta and her wife, Zahra Baker. Presented at the Den Theatre last summer, Shanta is seeking funds to restage the work, but on the South Side, where a large LGBTQ+ community doesn’t often see themselves represented artistically.

Contributions to this 3AP campaign with compensate the production’s director and technicians, pay for the venue rental, and marketing costs.

05/15/2026

A Collective Act of Support: The 2026 3Arts/MSUFCU Community Award Campaign is Here!

Chicago is defined by the artists who live and work here. They are the heartbeat of our neighborhoods, shaping ideas into physical existence. Each year, we invite you to join us in honoring one extraordinary artist with a $30,000 unrestricted 3Arts Award. Your contributions—from $5 and up—make this possible. Every gift counts. Donate via the link in our bio. ♥️

05/14/2026

Contact Zones Collective, composed of artists Nu A.M., Rozalinda Borcilǎ, and Lyn Rye, is seeking support for Contact Zones: Wake for Water, Earth, Metal. Contact Zones is a project of artistic and political engagement with sites that are being demolished for redevelopment. The Collective considers how the loss of beloved places can be met with creative practices of memory-making, collective grieving, and uplifting through the creation of a sound archive and original music.

Funds collected through this 3AP campaign will support the continued sound archiving, an album of original music with a website and booklet, and community events with sound-making, memory work, and skill shares from interconnected struggles against environmental racism and so-called development.

05/05/2026

Meet 2025 3Arts / Reva and David Logan Foundation Music Awardee Ariella Granados! Ariella (she/they), AKA Sparklmami, is a multidisciplinary artist that transcends mediums to build a world untethered to conventional structures. Having grown up singing in church, Sparklmami uses instinctual improvisation reminiscent of Brazilian jazz, experimental soul, Mexican bolero, and funk to express the sentient nature of being. Learn more about Ariella and their work by visiting their 3Arts artist profile (link in bio).

Chicago is defined by the artists who live and work here. They are the heartbeat of our neighborhoods, shaping ideas int...
04/28/2026

Chicago is defined by the artists who live and work here. They are the heartbeat of our neighborhoods, shaping ideas into physical existence. Each spring we invite you to join us in honoring one extraordinary artist with a $30,000 unrestricted 3Arts Award. Your contributions—from $5 and up—make this possible. Every gift counts.

Every year, ten local artists receive $30,000 no-strings-attached 3Arts Awards to support their artistic practices and careers. For over a decade, one of these awards, known as the Community Award, has been funded by people across Chicago (and beyond) joining together to honor an outstanding artist whose presence and work uplift our community. Donate today via the link in our bio!

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