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2025 3Arts Awards Celebration

3Arts

Performances

Nov 10 Mon 6:30PM

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Performance Run Time: 4 hours

This year’s 3Arts Awards Celebration marks our most ambitious investment in artists since the height of the pandemic, with more than $890,000 in grants supporting 63 remarkable individuals across Chicago and Southern Illinois.

For the first time, we are expanding the number of 3Arts Awards. Instead of our longtime tradition of 10 awards for Chicago artists, this year, 17 artists will receive a 3Arts Award: five additional awards in Chicago and two newly established awards for artists in Carbondale.

Together we’ll applaud:

Seventeen 3Arts Awardees, each receiving a $30,000 grant and selected by national jury panels.
Forty Make a Wave Artists, nominated by past awardees to receive $2,000 grants for their indispensable contributions to our city.
Six Next Level Artists, chosen by jury panels to receive $50,000 awards in a groundbreaking program that provides second awards to past 3Arts recipients.

The evening will feature dynamic performances by celebrated past awardees, including:

The Chicago Immigrant Orchestra (featuring 2024 Awardee Wanees Zarour)
Michel Rodriguez (2013 Awardee) and Jacinda Ratcliffe (2021 Make a Wave Awardee) with choreography by Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi (2014 Awardee)

Event Schedule

5:30pm – Welcome Reception
6:30pm – Awards Presentation & Performances
After Party – Immediately following, with a light dinner buffet, signature cocktail, and the chance to meet this year’s awardees.

Can’t attend? You can still support the artists by making a donation HERE.

Powered by Our Generous Supporters and Partners

3Arts extends heartfelt thanks to the 2025 Award Partners—The HMS Fund, The SIF Fund, Stan Lipkin & Evelyn Appell Lipkin, MSUFCU, The Reva & David Logan Foundation, and the estate of Alison Zehr. This year’s 3Arts/MSUFCU Community Award is made possible by 75 community donors who came together through a crowdfunding campaign. We are also grateful for the generous support of the Next Level Awards from an anonymous donor at The Chicago Community Foundation, Good Chaos, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and our Make a Wave Partner, The Siragusa Family Foundation. Finally, we thank our 2025 event sponsors: Presenting Partner, Allstate Insurance Company, and Lead Sponsors, Morningstar and Comcast.

About 3Arts

Founded in 1912 with a legacy of championing women artists, 3Arts is a nonprofit organization that supports artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts across the Chicago metropolitan area, including women artists, artists of color, and Deaf and disabled artists. Through unrestricted awards, project funding, residencies, professional development, and promotion, 3Arts empowers artists to take risks, experiment, and build momentum in their careers over time.

3Arts recognizes that art is essential to the wellbeing and vibrancy of our lives. Art fuels, expands, and deepens our intellectual and emotional capacities while helping us envision and communicate new possibilities and paths. It has the power to bridge gaps between us, help us see the world in which we live from a fresh perspective, and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human—here and now. Behind every work of art that sets this in motion is an artist. 3Arts is dedicated to the artists whose work shapes, shifts, and touches all of us.

Since 2007, 3Arts has supported more than 2,500 artists across all program areas, representing 66% women artists, 74% artists of color, and 17% Deaf and disabled artists working in the six-county metropolitan area, and distributed $8.2 million through our grantmaking. For more information, please visit www.3arts.org.

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