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Supporting the Illinois Arts Sector for 60 Years
The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) and Illinois Humanities are proud to present Illinois Arts & Humanities Month. Throughout October, we encourage all Illinoisans to establish, deepen, and expand their relationships with the arts and humanities. Together, we celebrate the vital role that the arts and humanities play in our individual and shared community life. Learn More.
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Open: September thru October
All Illinois Arts Council grant recipients are required to complete and submit a final report. FY24 final report materials, instructions and deadlines can be found on the IAC final report landing page.
Opens: September 25, 2024
Deadline: November 20, 2024
The Illinois Arts Council’s (IAC) Creative Accelerator Fund (CAF) provides crucial support to artists with a goal of strengthening the creative workforce that composes a significant portion of Illinois’ economic activity.
Opens: September 16, 2024
Closes: January 17, 2025
Illinois Statewide POL Contest: March 17, 2025
A partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the state arts agencies, Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition for high school students across the country.
Arts Impact in Illinois
$36.1B
of our state's gross domestic product was contributed by arts and culture in 2022 - Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Dept of Commerce
216,227
Illinois jobs were in arts and culture (2022)
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
22
grants totaling $862,855 were directed to Illinois school districts in developing arts and foreign language curricula in partnership with the Illinois State Board of Education (FY2024)
$29.1B
in revenues to state and local government are delivered by Illinois arts nonprofits in 2022 - Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6)
29
local arts councils partnered with IAC through its Local Arts Network to support statewide arts programming (FY2024)
100%
of all legislative districts throughout Illinois receive free access to local and regional news, public affairs and arts programming through IAC support for Illinois Public Radio and Television (FY2024)
Featured Fellowship Recipient
Max Guy (b. 1989 McAllen, Texas) lives in Chicago, Illinois. Guy works with paper, video, performance, assemblage, and installation and uses fast, ergonomic ways to make poetry of the world, filtering it through personal effects. He received a BFA in 2011 from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in 2016 from Northwestern University. Guy has exhibited nationally and internationally at the Drawing Room at The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery 400, Good Weather, Prairie, Apparatus Projects, Produce Model, and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; AND NOW (Dallas); Jack Shainman, Nicola Vassell, Laurel Gitlen, Kai Matsumiya (New York); Romance (Pittsburgh); Each Modern (Taipei), Krannert Museum of Art (Urbana-Champaign); Malmö Museum of Art (Malmö, Sweden); What Pipeline (Detroit); and Galeria Federico Vavassori (Milan).
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