Announcing our 2024 ART Grants
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 “A Road Together” (ART) grants! Through this initiative—a partnership between the Field Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation—51 small to mid-sized, arts organizations will receive $1.6 million in funding.
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
“We orient our participatory grantmaking panel to think critically about what supporting a robust arts ecosystem looks like. That means thinking strategically about geography, creative discipline, and what will complement the ART portfolio.”
Richard Tran
Field Foundation
Director of ART & Leadership Initiatives
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.
This initiative, 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 and sustainable creative ecosystem. To date, the partnership has committed $3.86 million in unrestricted, general operating funding for 131 organizations.
The ART application portal will re-open for new grant applications in mid-April of 2025.
