HYDE PARK — The South Side Community Art Center has received $300,000 from the Alphawood Foundation to dramatically increase its work on the South Side.
Over the next three years, the art center will use the grant to hire more people, fix up its historic building at 3821 S. Michigan Ave. and expand its hours and programming.
The art center led by Maséqua Myers was founded in 1940, is the oldest African-American art center in the country and the last surviving art center of 110 created during the Works Progress Administration.
“With this grant, we hope to make it possible for the center to develop much needed basic infrastructure to continue and grow its amazing programming,” said Jim McDonough, executive director of the Alphawood Foundation. “It is a measure of our confidence in Maséqua Myers and her team that they can build on the rich history and solid foundation of the center to continue to tell the stories of the South Side and the city of Chicago for another 75 years.”
Myers said the grant provides the art center with a chance for real sustainability.
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