Chicago Cultural Alliance
The Chicago Cultural Alliance is a consortium of community-based ethnic museums, cultural centers, and historical societies in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Incorporated in 2006, the mission of the Alliance is to "connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago."[1]
Background[]
The Alliance began through partnerships with ethnic and cultural organizations established at the Cultural Connections program at the Field Museum in The Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC).[2] The Alliance brings together ethnically grounded organizations in order to build relationships amongst the ethnic communities in Chicago, as well as asserting their existence to the wider public. Kerstin Lane, the first Alliance Board President, described the reasoning behind the creation of the organization: "a lot of people in Chicago have no idea there are little jewels of ethnic museums all over the city. When these museums can go out and tell the city, state and others, 'We exist,' then each of them will be strengthened."[3]
Member organizations[]
Core members[]
The Core Members of the Chicago Cultural Alliance are:
- Arab American Action Network
- Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
- Bronzeville Children's Museum
- Chinese-American Museum of Chicago
- DANK Haus German American Cultural Center
- Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
- Irish American Heritage Center
- Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
- National Hellenic Museum
- National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
- Polish Museum of America
- Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
- South Side Community Art Center
- Swedish American Museum
- Turkish American Cultural Alliance
- Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
- Ukrainian National Museum
Partner institutions[]
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The Partner Institutions of the Chicago Cultural Alliance are:
- American Writers Museum
- Chicago History Museum
- Chicago Public Media
- Chicago Botanic Gardens
- Garfield Park Conservatory
- Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
- National Public Housing Museum
- Newberry Library
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- The Field Museum
- TimeLine Theatre Company
Activities[]
Advocacy and outreach[]
The advocacy and outreach work has included collaborating with several other Chicago-based arts and culture organizations in the Arts Power Chicago campaign to inform the 2011 Chicago mayoral candidates about the significant role that arts and culture plays in Chicago's neighborhoods and in its international image.[4]
References[]
- ^ CCA | Our Mission | Chicago Cultural Alliance Archived October 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2011-03-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Featured Articles From The Chicago Tribune". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
- ^ "Making a fist for the arts". wbez.org.
External links[]
- Museum organizations
- Organizations based in Chicago
- Culture of Chicago
- Ethnic museums in Illinois
- Organizations established in 2006
- Cultural centers in Chicago