Comfort Station selected for inaugural LoganArts cohort

We’re excited to share that Comfort Station has been selected as a member of the inaugural LoganArts cohort, a new initiative piloted by the Reva and David Logan Foundation to support small arts organizations doing bold, innovative work.

Through LoganArts, Comfort Station will receive $20,000 in general operating support, alongside professional development resources and a year-long cohort experience centered on learning, relationship-building, and exchange. As members of the inaugural cohort, we’ll also help develop, test, and refine the LoganArts model based on the needs of our organization, our community, and what we learn together over the coming year.

We’re thrilled to be doing that work alongside our cohort members: ACRE, AnySquared Projects, Asian American Arts Chicago, Boundary, Bridge, Compound Yellow, Crossing Borders Music, Cultivator, ILA Creative Studio, New Channels Initiative, Poor Farm Experiment, SWOP Chicago, The Story Theatre, Walls Turned Sideways, and Wild Yams

This opportunity comes at a particularly useful moment for Comfort Station. With our building closed for renovation and our programs operating in new ways across the city, this year has given us room to ask bigger questions about what we want the organization to look like when we return home. LoganArts gives us the chance to explore those questions alongside peers, learning from how other small arts organizations approach their work, sharing what we’ve learned, and bringing new ideas and relationships into Comfort Station’s next chapter.

The $20,000 in general operating support gives us valuable flexibility to invest in that work and sustain the organization through our closure as we prepare to return to our building in 2027. Just as importantly, LoganArts gives us something small arts organizations don’t always have enough access to: time and space to learn from one another. We’re looking forward to sharing knowledge, comparing approaches, building relationships, and thinking alongside organizations navigating many of the same questions we are.

We’re grateful to the Reva and David Logan Foundation for investing not just in individual organizations, but in the relationships between them, and for inviting the inaugural cohort to help shape what this program can become.