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Puerto Rican Arts Alliance

Chicago, Illinois

Grants

2018 (1 year 11 months)
$50,000

Founded in 1988, the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance is dedicated to preserving Puerto Rican culture by maintaining traditions, showcasing arts, providing education, and cultivating pride in the Puerto Rican community. Offering programs across Chicago, it works to bring new awareness to artistic expressions of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. With this International Connections Fund award, the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance collaborates with the Center for the Advanced Studies on Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico to help to rebuild the artistic vitality of the island as it recovers from Hurricane Maria in 2017.

2012 (1 year)
$40,000

To support a music exchange program with Puerto Rico.

2009 (3 years)
$75,000

To support board development, technology upgrades and program development related to moving to a permanent facility in 2010 (over three years).

2008 (1 year)
$25,000

To support the expansion of the Taino Project.