The Creative Chicago Expo is coming up and we’re going to be there. Are you?
Stop by our table at the Expo to chat about your plans, projects, or Awesomeness in general. Want more information on how to get one of our $1000 grants? Have an awesome idea, but you’re not sure if it qualifies for [...]
This past Monday, several trustees and I dropped by the Nasty, Brutish & Short Puppet Cabaret to hand over a wad of cold cash to February grantee Lacy Campell. We were blown away by the preview of her show, [...]
Read more →Wordless, but no longer silent. Our February grant will go towards the composition and recording of an original score for the wordless play The Story Story. Convinced that language divides people more than it connects them, theatre artist Lacy Campbell has devised a new theatre piece that uses puppets, projected images, and now original music to tell [...]
Read more →AF Chicago is proud to introduce its newest grantee: Paco Barba.
Paco is a photographer who plans to use handmade images of urban life in a cultural exchange between youths in the the US and Brazil. Collaborating with local youth centers, Paco will offer workshops that teach kids in underprivileged neighborhoods, how to make pinhole cameras [...]
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Behold the latest addition to our rapidly growing collection of awkward pictures of Chris handing out money to grantees.
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Felix Jung, poet and tech geek, plans to make boring QR codes so much more awesome. His idea: ask people to record videos of themselves reading a favorite poem and upload them to YouTube. Felix will then distribute QR codes around Chicago, which will randomly call up one of the submitted poetry readings when scanned. [...]
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Chicago trustee Chris McAvoy awarded the October grant to Sacha De’Angeli in front of a packed house at Pumping Station One on Tuesday evening. Soon no hobby scientist, evil genius, or preschooler will be without a scanning-tunneling electron microscope!
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