Background

In 1973, Playwright Useni Perkins founded the Black Theatre Alliance. This organization instilled the value of community collaboration as a means of achieving collective success. In 1997, a group of Chicago's leading African American Artist and arts organizations came together and formed a new organization, incorporating as The African American Arts Alliance of Chicago. This organization embraced the history of the Black Theatre Alliance while expanding their scope to include all diverse groups of artistic mediums. The Alliance was formulated as a service organization to address the specific needs and concerns of Chicago's African American arts community.

Services

The African American Arts Alliance of Chicago provides the following services for arts organizations and individual artists;

-Various workshops themed on organizational development. Our workshops afford knowledge and skills to enable organizations to grow, develop, and to address capacity building issues.

-One-on-one contact program designed to connect organizations and individual aftist with professionals in the field who offer  advisement on specific topics, ie audience growth and marketing.

-Black Arts Month (every October) provides an opportunity for organizations and individual artists to showcase talents and artistic expression.

-Organizations gain futher web exposure and visibility via our web presence.

-The Alliance organizes and distributes a bi monthly community events calendar to grow networking connections and cross-discipline awareness within the Black Arts community.