Chicago Art for Black Futures

Chicago Art for Black Futures is a fundraising platform devised in June of 2020 to (a) raises funds for black lead organizations through the sale of prints, drawings, and lightweight flatworks or media and (b) promote artworks that uniquely challenge systems of oppression, offer a visuality which poses a reorientation of our current state, or shares language of care and healing.

The platform is evergreen, and built out as a collective tool for all of us to use in the years to come as a fundraising commons. We see the website/project as one that other organizing spaces around Chicago can host mission-aligned fundraisers, creating a more sustainable model of support within our network. If you are interested in administering a fundraiser or learning more, please let us know.

Chicago Art for Assata’s Daughters, June 2020 — Annas and Flatland

Chicago Art for Black Futures raises funds for black-led organizations through the sale of prints, drawings, lightweight flatworks and editioned media. Available artworks are those that  uniquely challenge systems of oppression, offer a visuality which poses a reorientation of our current state, or shares language of care and healing.

The goal is to raise at minimum $5,000 to support Assata’s Daughters, a Black woman, femme, gender non-binary, young person-directed organization rooted in the Black Radical Tradition. 

Chicago Art for Black Futures runs from June 9th - June 19th. A Juneteenth capsule organized by Adia Sykes is available on June 19th. 

Participating artist and scholars: Sampada Aranke, Rohan Ayinde, Dr. Daniel S Berger, Austen Brown, Huey Copland, Romi Crawford, Flatland, Maria Gaspar, Max Guy, Jazmine Harris, David Heo, Kelly Kristin Jones, Colleen Keihm, Julia Klein, Logan Kruidenier, Deanna Ledezma, Mev Luna, Jesse Malmed, Yvette Mayorga, Liz McCarthy, Salim Moore, Eileen Mueller, Sasha Phyars-Burgess, Joshi Radin, Chris Reeves, Ruby T, Breanne Trammell, José Santiago Pérez, Jen Delos Reyes, Kyle and Theo Schlie, Jenn Smith, Soberscove Press, Edra Soto, Tamara Becerra Valdez, Dan Miller & Aaron Walker, Anna Martine Whitehead, Maggie Wong

Chicago Art for Black Futures is organized by Stephanie Koch, Maggie Wong, Alden Burke, Curtis Miller and Chris Reeves (Flatland). Design is by Ally Fouts. Special thanks to Candor Arts for media production and Kate Zeller and Roman Susan for creative and organizational guidance.

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