3Arts Awards marks 15 years with nearly $500,000 in grants to women, artists of color and artists with disabilities
Chicago Tribune: Peregrine Bermas was having a not-so-stellar day before the call about being awarded a $30,000 grant from 3Arts, a nonprofit grant-making organization that has distributed $5.8 million in funds since 2007 to more than 1,800 artists — the majority of whom were women, people of color and artists with disabilities — came through. [...]Chicago High School for the Arts featured on Fox TV
Fox TV: Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) is Chicago’s first and only public high school offering pre-professional arts training. ChiArts seeks to remove tuition and other barriers that exist for Chicago’s youth and create a space for them to develop their talent, hone their skills, and thrive as creators, thinkers, and community members. [...]Chanel DaSilva, Being the First Black Woman Choreographer at the Joffrey Ballet, Returns
Crain's Chicago Business: Making the leap to choreograph for a company as large as the Joffrey -- as Chanel DaSilva has-- is a feat for any artist. For women and people of color, It's especially rare. Read the full article HEREArtists offer helping hand for emotional, mental healing in advance of World Mental Health Day
“What to Send Up When It Goes Down” is a 90-minute series of vignettes that meld music and parody to create a safe space for collective healing. the play is about Black people, for Black people and written by a Black person — New York playwright Aleshea Harris — to help Black communities heal from [...]The Chicago Philharmonic to perform ‘Black Panther in Concert’ this weekend at The Chicago Theatre
Terell Johnson, executive director of The Chicago Philharmonic, previews this Saturday's performance of "Black Panther in Concert." View full segment HERE‘Quamino’s Map,’ a world premiere opera in Chicago, explores the ‘burning desire’ for freedom
Belizean-born composer Errollyn Wallen learned of this historical episode in 2000 while reading S.I. Martin’s “Incomparable World: A Novel,” which looks at the imagined lives of three of these exiles in 18th-century England.“It explores different types of Black experience in London in a very vivid time,” Wallen said. “I vowed then that I would one [...]‘Art unfolding’: Leading American Composer Jennifer Higdon Tackles New Instruments, Breaks Boundaries
Jennifer Higdon is one of the leading American composers, having won Grammys, a Pulitzer, and many other awards from other leading music organizations. Now, after learning a new instrument, she she’s excited for the upcoming American premiere of her new mandolin concerto at the Chicago Philharmonic. Click here for the full article. (Photo by Noah Frick-Alofs)Neon and Light Museum Opens in River North
Chicago Tribune: Signage. Practical, functional. Tells you when to walk, points you to a door. But in River North, signage is the main attraction at the Neon and Light Museum, a pop-up exhibition with dozens of light-based artworks from artists as close as a few blocks away from the exhibition space to as far away […]
Fall Fashion 2021: Bold Moves
Chicago Magazine: Oversize knits, mixed patterns, and unexpected shapes anchor the return of fashion this fall. The ultrachic dancers from the Joffrey Ballet give us a master class on how to take comfort into the cool zone. Check it out here.