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Supporting the Illinois Arts Sector for 60 Years
Now Available
Opens: October 30, 2024
Deadline: December 18, 2024
Award Size: $4,000 to the Mentor and $1,000 to the Apprentice
Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Folk Arts Mentorship (FAM) grant supports the mentoring relationship that develops between exemplary practitioners working with dedicated apprentices in ethnic, folk, and traditional arts.
Opens: September 25, 2024
Deadline: November 20, 2024
The Illinois Arts Council’s (IAC) Creative Accelerator Fund (CAF) provides crucial support to artists with a goal of strengthening the creative workforce that composes a significant portion of Illinois’ economic activity.
Opens: September 16, 2024
Closes: January 17, 2025
Illinois Statewide POL Contest: March 17, 2025
A partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the state arts agencies, Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition for high school students across the country.
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
eliza myrie is an artist and educator based in Chicago. myrie’s work engages questions of labor, language, and site through personal histories, race and class. Primarily a sculptor and printmaker, dimension, volume, and an examination of how representation and subjectivity are realized or ignored via physical and conceptual processes are central to her work. myrie received her MFA from Northwestern University and was a participant at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The Whitney Independent Study Program. She has received awards from Artadia, The Propellor Fund and has been a resident at Bemis Center, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Arts + Public Life at The University of Chicago. Myrie is a co-founder of the Black Artists Retreat [B.A.R.] and a lecturer at School of the Art Institute Chicago. She has contributed to publications with Sming Sming Books and MIT Press. Her exhibitions include the Kennedy Museum of Art, The Arts Club of Chicago; Gallery 400; Vox Populi; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; New Museum of Contemporary Art.
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