May 20, 2020

Thirteen Fry Foundation Grantees Awarded the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund Grants

The State of Illinois, the City of Chicago, and arts funders have come together to provide immediate support to 501c3 organizations, individual artists, teaching artists, and arts administrators who are dealing with lost revenue or unrecoverable expenses due to COVID-19. In its first round, thirteen Fry Foundation grantees have been awarded Arts for Illinois Relief Fund (AIRF) grants:

Black Ensemble Theater Corporation

Changing Worlds 

Chicago Children’s Choir

Silk Road Rising

Lifeline Theater

Lookingglass Theater

Muntu Dance

National Museum of Mexican Art

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance

Red Clay Dance

Urban Gateways

Victory Gardens

Young Chicago Authors

This fund is administered by Arts Alliance Illinois in partnership with 3Arts and Arts Work Fund, who are the grantmaking partners responsible for administering grants to artists and arts organizations through AIRF.