3Arts Awards Grants to Multiple SAIC Community Members

Top from left: Charles Bledsoe, Lili-Anne Brown, Caitlin Edwards, Associate Professor Andres L. Hernandez (MA 2004), and Emily Hooper Lansana. Bottom from left: Andrés Lemus-Spont, Cat Mahari, Shanta Nurullah, David Rhee, and Derrick Woods-Morrow (MFA 2016). Image courtesy of *The Chicago Crusader*

Top from left: Charles Bledsoe, Lili-Anne Brown, Caitlin Edwards, Associate Professor Andres L. Hernandez (MA 2004), and Emily Hooper Lansana. Bottom from left: Andrés Lemus-Spont, Cat Mahari, Shanta Nurullah, David Rhee, and Derrick Woods-Morrow (MFA 2016). Image courtesy of *The Chicago Crusader*

3Arts has announced this year’s 3Arts Awards: grants designed to uplift Chicago-based “women artists, artists of color, and Deaf and disabled artists.” The awards are separated into three categories—3Arts Awards, Next Level/Spare Room Awards, and Make a Wave—which combined name more than 20 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) community members as recipients.

SAIC community members populate all three grant categories. In the 3Arts Awards category, 3Arts’s main award category, Derrick Woods-Morrow (MFA 2016) and Associate Professor Andres L. Hernandez (MA 2004) received $30,000 awards.

In the Next Level/Spare Room Awards category, three women visual artists were chosen out of a pool of past 3Arts Award winners to receive a grant of $50,000, with Associate Professor Tirtza Even and Associate Professor, Adj. Aram Han Sifuentes (MFA 2013) named as two of the three recipients.

The Make a Wave category invites previous 3Arts Awards recipients to select artists to receive a surprise grant of $4,000, and many SAIC community members were also honored in this category.

Congratulations to all SAIC community members who received a 3Arts award this year.

3Arts Award
Andres L. Hernandez (MA 2004, Art Education)
Derrick Woods-Morrow (MFA 2016)

Next Level/Spare Room Awards
Tirtza Even (Film, Video, New Media, and Animation)
Aram Han Sifuentes (MFA 2013, Liberal Arts)

Make a Wave
Karen Azarnia (MFA 2008, Painting and Drawing)
Kim Chayeb (BFA 2015)
C. C. Ann Chen (MFA 2002, Liberal Arts)
Kristiana Rae Colón (MFA 2009)
Isaac Couch (MDes 2021)
Jory Drew (BFA 2014)
D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem (MFA 2004, Low Residency MFA)
Maria Gaspar (Contemporary Practices)
Gretchen Hasse (MFA 2002)
Laura Kina (BFA 1994)
Rodrigo Lara (MFA 2013)
Jaclyn Mednicov (MFA 2016, Continuing Studies)
Jessica Mueller (MFA 2018)
Sherwin Ovid (BFA 2007)
Pegah Pasalar (MFA 2019)
Mary Patten (Film, Video, New Media and Animation)
Moises Salazar Tlatenchi (BFA 2021)
Moki Tantoco (BFA 2014)
Brenda Torres-Figueroa (MFA 2004)
Ava Wanbli (MFA 2019)
Sandie (Chun-shan) Yi (BFA 2005, MA 2005, Art Therapy and Counseling)