Arts of Life Awarded $30,000 Grant from DCASE

Arts of Life is proud to receive a $30,000 grant through the City of Chicago’s 2024 CityArts Program. The general operating grant invests in all Arts of Life’s programs in Chicago, including the Chicago Studio and South Side Satellite Studio.

This longstanding grant program through the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) will support 185 Chicago nonprofit arts organizations of all sizes and across all artistic disciplines. In more good news, the CityArts Program increased its equitable distribution of funds across the city, with 48% of grantees located on the South and West sides this year, compared to 35% in 2021.

“Chicago’s diverse arts and culture community is one of the reasons that we’re the greatest freakin’ city in the world,” shared Mayor Brandon Johnson. “Investing in our creative economy is essential to our city’s growth and success.”

“The annual CityArts Grant program is a core example of DCASE’s mission in action,” shared DCASE Commissioner Clinée Hedspeth. “Our arts organizations transform the landscape of Chicago through their artistry and invention, and receiving direct governmental support is a crucial part of their sustainability.”

To Read More About DCASE’s CityArts Program, click here.

We congratulate our fellow 2024 grantees:

• 3Arts, Inc.
• 773 Dance Project
• 826CHI
• A.B.L.E. – Artists Breaking Limits & Expectations
• About Face Theatre Collective
• Access Contemporary Music
• Aguijon Theater Company
• Albany Park Theater Project
• American Indian Center, Inc.
• Annie B. Jones Civic Arts Center
• Apparel Industry Foundation, Inc.
• Art on Sedgwick
• Arts + Public Life, University of Chicago
• Asian Improv aRts: Midwest
• Audience Architects NFP (See Chicago Dance)
• Ayodele Drum and Dance
• Ballet Folklorico de Chicago
• Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
• Beverly Arts Center Black Alphabet
• Black Ensemble Theater Corporation
• Black Girls Dance
• C21 Women’s Ensemble
• Cedille Chicago
• Center for Immigrant Resources & Community Arts
• Chicago Architecture Foundation
• Chicago Art Department
• Chicago Artists Coalition
• Chicago Artopia
• Chicago Blues Revival
• Chicago Children’s Theatre
• Chicago City Theatre Company (Joel Hall Dancers & Center)
• Chicago Composers Orchestra
• Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium (Cultural Access Collaborative)
• Chicago Dance History Project
• Chicago Dancemakers Forum
• Chicago Film Archives
• Chicago Fringe Opera
• Chicago Human Rhythm Project
• Chicago Industrial Arts and Design Center
• Chicago Jazz Philharmonic
• Chicago Kids Company
• Chicago Latino Theater Alliance
• Chicago Metamorphosis Orchestra Project
• Chicago Multicultural Dance Center
• Chicago Public Art Group
• Chicago Public Media
• Chicago Sculpture International
• Chicago Sinfonietta, Inc.
• Chicago Theatre Group, Inc.
• Chicago Underground NFP Corporation
• Chicago West Community Music Center
• Cinema/Chicago
• CircEsteem
• Clinard Dance
• Collaboraction Theatre Company
• Community Film Workshop of Chicago
• Community TV Network (CTVN)
• Contextos
• Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange (CCRX)
• Crossing Borders Music Collective D-Composed Gives
• Deeply Rooted Productions (Deeply Rooted Dance Theater)
• Definition Theatre Company
• Design Museum of Chicago
• Enrich Chicago
• Ensemble Dal Niente
• Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater
•  Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
• Firebird Community Arts
• Forward Momentum Chicago
• Free Lunch Academy
• Free Street Theater
• FreshLens
• Chicago Friends of the Gamelan, Inc.
• Full Spectrum Features
• Fund for Innovative TV (Media Burn Archive)
• Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance
• Gene Siskel Film Center
• Gf Productions
• Gilloury Institute (Silk Road Cultural Center)
• Good City Group Guild Complex
• Haitian American Museum of Chicago
• Hearing in Color
• Hell In a Handbag Productions
• Heritage Museum of Asian Art
• High Concept Labs Ho Etsu, Inc
• Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
• Hyde Park Art Center
• Hyde Park Jazz Festival
• Hyde Park School of Dance
• Illinois Arts Alliance
• Illinois Council of Orchestras
•  Imagination Theatre, Inc.
• International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago
• Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
• Invisible Institute
• Jazz Institute of Chicago
• Kalapriya Foundation, Center for Indian Performing Arts
• Kartemquin Educational Films
• Khecari
• Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago
• Kurdish Cultural Center of Illinois Lampo
• LATITUDE INC
• Lawyers for the Creative Arts
• Live the Spirit Residency
• Lucky Plush Productions
• Making A Difference Dancing Rhythms Organization
• Marwen Foundation
• Mexican Folkloric Dance Company of Chicago
• Muddy Waters Mojo Museum Inc.
• Muntu Dance Theatre
• Musical Arts Institute
• National Cambodian Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial
• National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
• National Public Housing Museum
• National Veterans Art Museum
• NON Op
• OH Art Foundation
• One City at VanderCook College of Music
• OTV Open Television
• PARA.MAR Dance Theatre
• People’s Music School, Inc.
• Perceptions Theatre
• Pilsen Center for Cultural and Contemporary Arts
• PlayMakers Laboratory
• Prison and Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
• Proboscis Theatre Company
• Project Onward
• Public Media Institute
• Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
• Raven Theatre Company
• Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc
• Red Line Service Institute
• ReinventAbility Roman Susan Art Foundation
• Serendipity Theatre Company (2nd Story)
• Sisters in Cinema
• Sixty Inches From Center
• Snow City Arts Foundation
• Soft Cage Films
• Somos Arte
• Sones de Mexico Ensemble
• Sophia’s Choice
• South Asia Institute
• South Chicago Dance Theatre
• South Shore Drill Team & Performing Arts Ensemble
• South Side Community Art Center
• Steppenwolf Theatre Company
• Storycatchers Theatre
• Strategy for Access Foundation
• Swedish American Museum Association of Chicago
• Teatro Tariakuri
• Teatro Vista Theater With A View
• Territory NFP
• The Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions Project
• The Center for International Performance and Exhibition (HotHouse)
• The Chicago Cuatro Orchestra Project
• The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center
• The Gift Theatre
• The Happiness Club
• The Illinois Humanities Council
• The Joffrey Ballet
• The Kehrein Center for the Arts Foundation
• The Miracle Center
• The Poetry Center
• The Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
• The South Side Jazz Coalition
• Theatre Y
• Third Coast Percussion
• Thompson Street Opera Company
• Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
• Uniting Voices Urban Gateways
• Vicarious Theatre Company
• Villapalooza, Inc.
• Voice of the City
• Water People Theater
• West Point Fellowship, Inc.
• Windy City Performing Arts
• Woman Made