Dear Family, Friends, and Community,

It is with bittersweet love and gratitude that LYNX Project announces its closure on June 30, 2024, after eight exceptional years. This decision was not made easily and, due to various challenges, the Board of Directors has determined that this was in the best interest of the organization.

LYNX first started out when four students came together with a collective vision to bring art-song back to the communities. Over the years, the people that we met changed our lives, opened our hearts and ears, and helped transform our mission to what it is today. 

LYNX’s mission of amplifying diverse voices and connecting communities through song commissions, inclusive concerts, and innovative educational programming can be seen in our output. We’ve released an anthology of commissions in addition to a recording album, beautiful small things, held poetry classes for the primarily nonspeaking autistic community, as well as adapted to the changing digital landscape with the Composition of a City curriculum for students with a diverse range of learning needs. Our concerts have included a sensory relief area for our audiences, creating a welcoming space for those who walked through the doors.  

We are deeply and profoundly grateful to the poets who trusted us with their words, the composers who created magic, and the performers who brought it to life; they are the soul of the Amplify Series. We are also immensely indebted to those created and cultivated Composition of a City, empowering students within, but not limited to, the Chicago borders. These programmatic pillars would also not be possible without the generosity of our donors, funders, and volunteers.

The pursuit of our mission is never fully over — we believe that the arts are the threads that connect us in this tapestry of humanity. We encourage you to think about all the LYNX you have been a part of as well as those that you can help create by encouraging every voice to be amplified in the arts and beyond.

We want to celebrate LYNX’s legacy and invite you to our special culminating event in Chicago this spring, highlighting the communities we have built through the Amplify Series and Composition of a City. This event will be in-person and a livestream will be available as well. Stay tuned for a formal invitation and we hope you’ll be able to join us and give us the opportunity to thank you — for all you have done, the voices you have lifted, the music you have shared, and the community you have built.

As we close this chapter of LYNX, we leave you with this: how will you speak into the world?

With gratitude,
Team LYNX

#letscreatelynx