Unity Collaborates With Grammy Award Winner Common To Make Education More Accessible
October 11 2021 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Chicago-based school, Art In Motion, founded by
Common, to receive grant from the Unity Charitable Fund
Unity and Common to co-launch brand new Unity
for Humanity “Imagine” Grant
Unity (NYSE: U), the world’s leading platform for creating and
operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content, announced today
a partnership with Emmy, Grammy and Academy Award-winning artist,
actor, author and activist, Common.
As part of this partnership, Unity will provide grant funding
and educational software licenses to Common’s Chicago-based
creative arts school, Art In Motion (AIM), to support its
programming and the integration of Unity into the school’s
curriculum, providing students with access to RT3D development,
preparing them for the jobs of tomorrow. Additionally, Unity and
Common are co-launching a brand new extension of the Unity for
Humanity grant: The “Imagine” Grant, awarded to the project that
best inspires audiences to “Imagine a Better World.”
“This partnership directly embodies a belief that Unity and
Common share, which is that education should be accessible to all -
that every student regardless of zip code, has an opportunity to
achieve their fullest academic and artistic potential,” said
Jessica Lindl, Vice President, Social Impact at Unity. “We are
thrilled to be working with Common to provide increased access to
real-time 3D development tools and to inspire the next generation
of learners to create content rooted in making the world a better
place.”
Founded by Common in 2019, Art In Motion is a student-centered,
arts-infused school on Chicago’s South Side. Its focus is on
culture and social-emotional learning, coupled with the middle
school to high school model, while working to nurture, celebrate,
and share the creativity, culture, and the originality of its
vibrant students and community. Through this partnership, Unity
aims to further democratize access and remove barriers to
education, so that more students can convert learning RT3D skills
to real-life economic opportunities in tomorrow’s job market.
“We are focused on creating a school that expands opportunities
for our students. At Art In Motion, we are teaching our students to
be creators, leaders, and world-changers. We are grateful for this
partnership with Unity to support our vision,” says Grammy and
Academy Award winning artist, Common.
This collaboration comes one day prior to the 2021 Unity for
Humanity Summit, a virtual, one-day event on October 12th, which
celebrates creators around the world who are using RT3D to make a
positive impact on society and the planet. Common will be speaking
during the keynote, alongside Dr. David Washington, Chief Impact
Officer at HiDef. At the event, attendees will hear about Common’s
work with Unity to co-launch and judge the new extension of the
Unity for Humanity Grant: The “Imagine” Grant, submissions for
which will run from October 11th through December 3rd 2021 and can
be entered here.
To register for the Unity for Humanity Summit, please visit
here.
About Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and
operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game
developers to artists, architects, automotive designers,
filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come
to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software
solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and
3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented
and virtual reality devices. The company’s 1,800+ person research
and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by
working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the
latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators
were downloaded more than five billion times per month in 2020. For
more information, please visit www.unity.com.
About Art In Motion
Art In Motion (AIM) is a tuition free school of choice. Founded
in 2019, AIM currently serves grades 7-10. The school cultivates a
strong learning and working culture, and actively embeds artistic,
cultural, linguistic, and social emotional learning supports
throughout the instructional day. Strong relationships are at the
foundation of the AIM model; each student meets regularly with a
mentor. Art In Motion supports each child in becoming an engaged
and curious learner, a confident self-advocate, and a creative
problem-solver by setting high expectations and nurturing a
positive culture that honors diversity, collaboration, and optimism
through the arts.
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