Our Vision
To irrevocably change the racist systems in the arts so that BIPOC(Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Arts, BIPOC Arts Organizations, and BIPOC People Thrive.
News & Updates
A bit about Just Praxis…
The Just Praxis Circle is an initiative of the Imagine Just Community program. It is a collectively led and diverse coalition of artists, cultural producers, and creatives. This is a container for living out our transformative, liberatory values and shifting power and agency to those historically excluded from making decisions about the solutions, interventions, and resources people and communities of color need within the arts and culture space. This circle includes grantees of the Imagine Just Community-Advised Fund for BIPOC Arts Organizations and an Imagine Just Artist Fellow.
This Is Our Stone Soup Year: Embracing Collective Power in Repressive Times
By our Exeuctive Director, Nina Sanchez
"In this moment of escalating political and ideological repression, we are being tested—not only in our values, but in our imagination. . The instinct of self-preservation is strong. Faced with shrinking resources, targeted attacks on truth-telling institutions, and intensified surveillance of marginalized communities, it can feel safer to circle our own wagons, to protect “our” people, “our” cause, “our” institution. But this instinct, however understandable, is not neutral. It is a reflex rooted in the myth of white supremacy…”
We have released our Report “Funding Equity: Crisis to Sustainability”
Funding Equity follows Enrich Chicago’s 2018 study, A Portrait of Inequity, which illustrated that Chicago arts funding was not fully inclusive of BIPOC arts organizations.
Funding Equity shows that the picture has changed since A Portrait of Inequity. In 2020-2023, the scale and nature of BIPOC arts organizations’ presence in the foundation funding pool was strikingly different from 2013-2015. Additionally, it includes a new framework for understanding how foundation practices can be supportive of BIPOC arts organizations.
With a multidisciplinary approach, TDC, along with our community partners and steering committee have constructed an incredibly robust and cohesive report that is sure to be a valuable resource to all of us within Chicago’s Arts and Culture Sector.
Enrich Chicago Featured in the News
Click here to view a compilation of the coverage from our newest report, Funding Equity: Crisis to Sustainability
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