This year’s 3Arts Awards go to painter Riva Lehrer, teacher William Estrada and others

The Chicago-based nonprofit 3Arts has presented this year’s 3Arts Awards, with a total of $620,000 in unrestricted funds going to 26 local artists. Along with 10 recipients of $30,000 grants for 2024, previously announced, the organization presented six $50,000 Next Level Awards in a ceremony Monday evening at the Harris Theater in Chicago. An additional 10 artists received $2,000 Make a Wave Awards. Winners of the newly announced Next Level Awards include: Rozalinda Borcilă, a Romanian immigrant, artist and activist whose work explores settler colonialism. She developed the experimental seminar, video and walking project “Underlying Miami: Sea Level Rise and Settler […]

Review: ‘Inheritance’ by Factory Theater is about brothers on an ominous fishing expedition

Transforming personal trauma into a supernatural element is a favorite trope of writers across many genres, including horror, fantasy, magical realism and speculative fiction. Embodying fear, grief or guilt in the form of a ghost, monster or some other form of spook can offer a vivid perspective into a character’s psychological state and give the […]