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Town Hall II: Sustaining Our Institutions Post-COVID
Special Two-Hour Edition
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Please join the African American Arts Alliance for Town Hall 2 on December 1, 2021, 6:00 - 8:00 PM. We have planned a dynamic discussion with some of Chicago’s leading grantmaking foundations and art funders on how to best access their resources and discuss funding across organizational and artistic sustainability. Since the pandemic shutdown, grantmaking foundations and art funders have navigated the crisis with new grants and funding opportunities helping to replace loss incomes suffered by many artists and organizations.
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TOWN HALL II will allow our funders to discuss last summer’s social justice movement, COVID-19 shutdown, and recovery, and what cultural institutions need to know about grant seeking in 2022 and the impact of investing specifically in leaders of colors (BIPOC) at cultural institutions across the city.
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Foundation Panelists include:
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Arts Work Fund
​Anita Alexander - The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
Ellen Wadey - Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
Kalena Chevalier - City of Chicago DCASE
Meg Leary - Walder Foundation
Mia Khimm - Joyce foundation
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Moderator:
Angel Idowu, Channel 11, PBS Arts Correspondent
AAAA MISSION & VISION
The African American Arts Alliance (AAAA) is a service organization that provides resources in the form of workshops, programs and special events in support of the vision and mission of African American arts organizations, artists and organizations serving African American cultural communities for nearly thirty years.
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OUR MISSION
Is to increase public awareness, interaction, communication and development of African American arts organization, individual artists within the city of Chicago”.
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THE ALLIANCE VISION
is that African American Arts organizations and Artists of all genres and styles are respected, promoted and preserved.