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Supporting the Illinois Arts Sector for 60 Years
SMU DataArts Names Illinois Sixth Most Vibrant Arts State
Arts Impact in Illinois
$36.1B
of our state's gross domestic product was contributed by arts and culture in 2022 - Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Dept of Commerce
216,227
Illinois jobs were in arts and culture (2022)
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
22
grants totaling $862,855 were directed to Illinois school districts in developing arts and foreign language curricula in partnership with the Illinois State Board of Education (FY2024)
$29.1B
in revenues to state and local government are delivered by Illinois arts nonprofits in 2022 - Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6)
29
local arts councils partnered with IAC through its Local Arts Network to support statewide arts programming (FY2024)
100%
of all legislative districts throughout Illinois receive free access to local and regional news, public affairs and arts programming through IAC support for Illinois Public Radio and Television (FY2024)
Featured Fellowship Recipient
Kelly Kristin Jones uses photo-based interventions and counter monuments to unsettle well-worn imperial attributes and consider alternative vocabularies. Following a trail of found decorative objects, doctored historical records, and vernacular imagery, Jones considers the role white women play in shaping stories in the service of whiteness. Addressing the violence of both medium and myth, Jones uses her own body to climb, carve, and collapse racially coded objects and photographs. Kelly Kristin Jones was raised on the West Side of Chicago and received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including a 2022 Individual Artists Program Grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, a 2021 Illinois Arts Council Grant, a 2019 Chicago Artists Coalition HATCH residency, a 2019 LATITUDE residency, and a 2019 Luminarts Cultural Foundation Project Grant. She was a featured artist in the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial and the 2023 Chicago Humanities Festival.
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