$225,000
2021 • 3 years • Culture, Equity, and the Arts in Chicago
The ChiArts Foundation supports the Chicago Public High School for the Arts, Chicago’s first public high school dedicated to the arts. In addition to a rigorous academic curriculum, students learn from artist-led courses in five conservatories: creative writing, dance, theatre, music, and visual arts. The school reflects Chicago’s racial diversity. Incoming classes include a mixture of talented and motivated students with little or no artistic training and students who have years of formal training. In addition to educational and artistic instruction, each student receives one-on-one post-secondary counseling services. This award provides general operating support to the ChiArts Foundation as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s Culture, Equity, and the Arts program.