Announcing our 2024 ART Grant Recipients
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 “A Road Together” (ART) grants! Through this initiative, a partnership between the Field Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundations, 51 small to mid-sized, Chicago-based arts and culture organizations will receive $1.6 million in funding for their work serving historically marginalized communities.
Celebrating our Three-Year ART Grant Recipients
Through the ART initiative, 25 organizations will receive three-year grants. A panel of Chicago artists and cultural leaders recommended this cohort from more than 110 proposals using a participatory grantmaking process—ensuring representation from a wide array of creative disciplines, identities, and geographies. Grants range in size with a maximum grant of $100,000 per year. ART grant recipients will receive unrestricted, general operating funds to help the organizations achieve their missions.
American Indian Association of Illinois
American Indian Center of Chicago
Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions Project
Haitian American Museum of Chicago
Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago
National Cambodian Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial
Celebrating our One-Year ART Grant Recipients
Through the ART initiative, the Field Foundation staff selected 26 organizations to receive one-year grants. Among this group, grants range between $10,000 and $50,000. ART grant recipients will receive unrestricted, general operating funds to help the organizations achieve their missions.
Africa International House USA
Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Foundation
Collaboraction Theatre Company
National Museum of Gospel Music
Richard Tran
Field Arts Program Officer
“A Road Together is a commitment to continuously be on a learning-to-action journey with Chicago’s creative community. Together, we are imagining how a collaboration in the creative realm can enable a more equitable, diverse, and sustainable arts and culture ecosystem in our city.”
About “A Road Together “
In April 2023, the Field Foundation, in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation, launched a grantmaking program designed specifically for small and mid-sized arts and culture organizations with annual operating budgets up to $1 million and with a strong commitment to serving historically marginalized communities.
This initiative—which we call A Road Together (ART)—is rooted in the belief that arts and culture organizations—including social service groups and those organizing for social change—are vital to Chicago’s identity, economy, and social fabric. Through the ART partnership, the Field and MacArthur foundations support grant recipients in creating opportunities for more Chicagoans to dream and flourish through a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable creative ecosystem.
To date, the partnership has committed $3.86 million in unrestricted, general operating funding for 131 organizations—all of which have annual budgets of less than $1 million.
The ART application portal will re-open for new grant applications in mid-April of 2025.
We’re incredibly excited about this program and look forward to our conversations about A Road Together and the many possibilities to shape a more creative, just, and equitable society in Chicago.
Field Foundation Heat Maps: Art
The Field Foundation has created a series of heat maps outlining a geographic study area where less than 20% of the residents identify their race as white. We have analyzed quality of life indicators, including access to arts and culture in these areas. The data depicts disparities across race, parallel with geographic regions of Chicago. These are the barriers we are working to dismantle.
