Together, these partners guide the development of the Burroughs Residency, ensuring the program remains grounded in Chicago’s diverse cultural ecosystem. Through shared dialogue and collaboration, the RAC helps shape a residency model that celebrates local histories, nurtures artists across disciplines, and strengthens the networks that sustain Chicago’s creative landscape.
The RAC’s contributions reflect Floating Museum’s ongoing commitment to co-creation, reciprocity, and building structures that make artistic practice a shared civic act.
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Englewood Arts Collective uses art projects and place-based engagement to disrupt segregation and invest in communal creativity. We’re committed to shifting narratives about Chicago’s South Side—especially Greater Englewood—with positive representation, meaningful conversations, creative interventions, and community-driven solutions that create tangible ways for people to consider and engage with historically disinvested areas. Creative Placemaking. Collective Power. ︎︎
With creativity at the center of everything we do, SkyART provides free, safe, open spaces where people are empowered and connections are made. Since its inception in 2001, SkyART has grown and expanded tremendously while remaining committed to providing young people with free, high-quality arts programming in a safe, accessible space. That commitment, shaped by an abiding responsiveness to community needs, has guided our growth and has continually positioned SkyART as a trusted center for creativity and community, within and beyond our South and West Side studios in Chicago. ︎︎
Founded in 1940 through the WPA’s Federal Art Project, SSCAC is the nation’s only remaining Black art center of its kind. Located in the heart of Bronzeville, the Center preserves and celebrates Black cultural and artistic legacy through exhibitions, education, and intergenerational programs. For over 85 years, SSCAC has served as a sanctuary and launchpad for Black artists on the South Side and beyond. ︎︎
SpaceShift is a creative hub for collaboration and experimentation. We are a collective of artists, cultural workers, and change makers rethinking the ways in which we work, live, and create. SpaceShift was launched because we believe existing systems, structures, and spaces need to be overhauled and reimagined. We embrace radically transparent processes and open-source collaboration. Our practice centers communities and connects people, ideas, and resources in all things that we conceptualize, design, and create. ︎︎
Urban Growers Collective (UGC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded under the leadership of Erika Allen in 2017. UGC operates 8 urban farms totaling 11 acres primarily located on the South Side of Chicago; a 30-acre peri-urban farm in Chicago Heights established in 2024, and is a strategic partner in the 9-acre Green Era Campus renewable energy facility and hub for urban agriculture in Auburn Gresham. These farms are production-oriented, growing over 23,000lbs of produce each year available farmers markets, in our Collective Supported Agriculture program, and via our Fresh Moves Mobile Market buses. They also serve as spaces for UGC staff-led education, training, leadership development, healing and creativity. ︎︎