Bethany Collins Named Recipient of the 2024 Next Level Award

Alexander Gray Associates congratulates Bethany Collins on receving the 2024 Next Level Award. The 3Arts's press release follows: 

The 3Arts Next Level Awards offer our past award recipients the opportunity to receive second awards at a higher level, reflecting our organization's belief that one-time investments are not always enough for artists to build lasting momentum, and that they thrive with continued support at critical junctures as their practices and careers evolve.

In 2024, the Next Level program will provide six $50,000 awards to artists working in the following categories:

• Next Level Teaching Arts Awards: With support from Good Chaos adn the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 3Arts honors three teaching artists. In 2024, these awards were open to artists in the Chicago metropolitan region who had received a past 3Arts Award in Teaching Arts or a 3Arts/Bodies of Work Residency and whose practice is in teaching arts.
• Next Level Visual Arts Awards: With support from an Anonymous Donor at the Chicago Community Foundation, 3Arts honors three women visual artists. In 2024, these awards were open to women visual artists in the Chicago metropolitan region who had received a past 3Arts Award, a Make a Wave Award in 2017-2020, or a 3Arts/Bodies of Work Residency.