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Supporting the Illinois Arts Sector for 60 Years
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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 and instructions can be found on the final report landing page.
Opens: July 10, 2024
Deadline: Open Deadline
Chicago Metro Catalyst grant funds have been fully expended. Applications are still being accepted from IAC’s Northern, Western, Central, Eastern, and Southern regions.
Creative Catalyst Grant offers support to Illinois artists and non-profit organizations for arts-related projects, programming, events, and/or professional development.
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
Brad Temkin’s (American, 1956) work is held in numerous permanent collections, including those of The Art Institute of Chicago; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Amon Carter Museum; Eastman Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. His images have appeared in such publications as Aperture, Black & White Magazine, TIME Magazine and European Photography. He has received numerous grants and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in 2007. Temkin has published 3 books: Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens (Center for American Places) 2005; Rooftop (Radius Books) 2015; and The State Of Water (Radius Books) 2019. He has taught at Columbia College Chicago since 1984.
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