Art on Sedgwick, Chicago, Illinois, Art on Sedgwick’s public programming series “Intersections” explores migration, place, erasure, and other themes that are resonant in Chicago’s Near North Side Cabrini Green neighborhood, $42,100
Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, “Never So Free: Black Queer Art + Assembly in Chicago” is a salon and program series that brings together a small intergenerational cohort of Black queer artists to research and develop projects about the rich history of queer Black arts spaces in Chicago, $43,000
Comfort Station, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago-based artist Edra Soto crafts an outdoor installation next to the cultural hub Comfort Station in the Logan Square neighborhood in northwest Chicago, $40,000
Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, the third annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival features design-literacy programming and pays tribute to the weeklong Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot, $22,000
Embarc, Chicago, Illinois, Embarc brings Chicago Public School high school students to various Art Design Chicago exhibitions to provide them with insights into Chicago’s rich art and design legacy and the city’s museums and galleries and to offer exposure to careers in the visual arts and design, $100,000
Folded Map, Chicago, Illinois, the fourth Englewood Music Fest features a maker’s space known as the Arts Village, $50,000
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) on Chicago’s South Side is introducing the series “Let’s Talk About Art,” a five-week program offering the 65+ community an opportunity to safely learn together, celebrate, and discuss projects and exhibitions that are part of Art Design Chicago, $10,000
Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, Chicago, Illinois, Lawndale Pop-Up Spot takes the lead in the community art installation segment of a multi-organization project, “Reimagining 16th Street,” intended to transform the 16th Street corridor in North Lawndale, $20,000
Mobile Makers Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Mobile Makers Chicago (MMC) organizes the “Strength in Community Pop-Up,” a mobile classroom initiative that actively involves youth ages 8–18 in design activities that foster discussions about space, place, belonging, and positive community change, $35,000
My Block My Hood My City, Chicago, Illinois, to support “Downtown Day,” a daylong program that invites approximately one thousand youth (ages 13–22) to explore downtown commercial and cultural spaces and gain exposure to a variety of careers, $60,000
OPEN Center for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois, to support “The Stories of One LAWNDALE” project, through which ten to twelve youths in the center’s Urban Film Course delve into the history and current landscape of the South and North Lawndale communities on the West Side of Chicago, $50,000
Project Osmosis, Chicago, Illinois, to support “Design Explorers—Art Design Chicago 4.0,” a program that provides opportunities for high school students from communities underrepresented in the design fields to work with design and branding professionals and instructors who come from the same communities, $50,000
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Chicago, Illinois, to support Tonika Johnson’s Folded Map project, a photography and video series that addresses the legacies of redlining and the inequity it created between the North and South Sides of the city, $46,650
Sixty Inches From Center, Chicago, Illinois, Sixty Inches from Center is hosting the reimagined Chicago Archives + Artists Festival, a multi-day event that serves as a platform to promote awareness of cultural archives, $30,000
The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, The Newberry Library hosts three collaborative public programs that foreground overlooked and underappreciated aspects of contemporary arts in Chicago and strengthen relationships between the Newberry and stakeholders across Chicago’s contemporary art scene, $20,000
The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, Illinois, to support A Tale of Today: Materialities, an exhibition challenging conventional interpretations of the Gilded Age–era Nickerson Mansion by inviting a diverse group of contemporary artists to develop new work offering a critical response to materials used in its construction and decoration, $20,300
Window to the World Communication, Chicago, Illinois, WTTW News produces and presents a series of eight to twelve digital stories about art and design in Chicago in conjunction with Art Design Chicago, $50,000