2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships
Leadership Initiatives

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

ILLINOIS

About Face Theatre Collective
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$7,000
To support the world premiere production of Fascination/Borderland by playwright and novelist Jim Grimsley. This project will consist of the fusion of the two plays: Fascination, about society's obsession with serial murder, and The Borderland, which looks at domestic violence.

Apple Tree Theatre (Eileen Boevers Performing Arts Workshop)
Highland Park, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support a co-production of Nilo Cruz's Two Sisters and a Piano. Directed by Henry Godinez, the play tells the story of two sisters under house arrest in Cuba and their struggle to live life fully.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$35,000
To support a curated film series. Pan-Asian Cinema: A Non-Western Aesthetic will showcase work from Asia and the sub-continent.

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: Ancient Indian Art of the Woodlands, with accompanying catalog.

Black Ensemble Theater Corporation
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support a tour of The Jackie Wilson Story by the company's new touring ensemble. Developed by Artistic Director Jackie Taylor, the piece depicts the successes and tragedies in the life of musical legend Jackie Wilson.

Center for International Performance and Exhibition
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support Explorations in Sound: The Innovative Composers Project. Jim Baker, Edward Wilkerson, Jr., and Michael Zerang will be offered year-long residencies to create new work and collaborate with other artists during 2003.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Bruce Adolphe for children and adults based on a Shakespearean theme. Witches, Wizards, Spells and Elves: The Magic of Shakespeare will be premiered during February 2003 at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$20,000
To support Migrations: Humanity in Transition and The Children of Sebastiao Salgado, a photographic survey. As part of its national and international tour, the exhibition will be presented in the main exhibit hall of the Chicago Cultural Center and at the Harold Washington Library Center.

Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$7,000
To support the development and production of a full-length play. Chicago Dramatists will present Only the Sound by resident playwright Jenny Laird, a participant in the play development program.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series places special emphasis on documentary and experimental work; the Onion City Film Festival presents experimental work.

Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$20,000
To support a double-bill production featuring Hans Krasa's Brundibar and Bohuslav Martinu's Comedy on the Bridge. In 2003, five performances of the operas will be given with a variety of outreach events that will focus on the historical and musical aspects of each opera.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$35,000
To support a professional development program for pre-professional musicians. The program prepares the 96 musicians of the Civic Orchestra to compete for positions in leading professional orchestras by offering coaching, mock audition seminars and master classes.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$90,000
To support MusicNOW, a series of concerts of the music of living composers, recorded for radio broadcast. The 13 concerts scheduled in the spring of 2003 will include works by eight composers including world premieres of two commissions.

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$12,000
To support the development of a new program called Writing Our World (WOW!). Using stories and poems written by children and collected by Child's Play's global writing exchange, the WOW! Show will be presented to young audiences around the country.

Cinema/Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the 39th Chicago International Film Festival. Over 60,000 people will see 125 films from around the world.

Columbia College (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$25,000
To support dance presentation projects. Artists and companies will be in residence offering community engagement and public education programs.

Court Theatre Fund
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support professional development for artists. The Resident Artists and Resident Apprentices programs include mentoring, workshops, residencies in schools and teacher training.

DC Productions, Inc.
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the production of a radio documentary series by Dan Collison. Homeplace will examine the meaning of home to Americans living in communities struggling to survive.

Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$60,000
To support the annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival and related media arts programs for children. Activities will include animation workshops, a media arts camp, media literacy courses, curriculum development and special exhibitions of films for children and their families.

Famous Door
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support productions of The Cider House Rules: Parts I and II. These two epic plays will be performed by an ensemble company sequentially and then in rotating repertory at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater.

Fennelly, Beth Ann
Galesburg, IL
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2003 Literature Fellowship (Poetry).

Goodman Theatre
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$60,000
To support the world premiere production of a new play by August Wilson, directed by Marion McClinton. Gem of the Ocean is the next play in Wilson's ambitious project chronicling each decade of the 20th century.

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$12,000
To support Poetry Multiplied, a reading series for 2003. Proposed participants include Jimmy Santiago Baca, August Wilson, Jessica Hagedorn and Cornelius Eady.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works and acquisitions during the company's 25th anniversary. The works will be presented during the company's spring engagement at the Ford Center of the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre.

Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$20,000
To support the Local Arts Network. The program provides statewide support and technical assistance for Illinois' more than 70 local arts agencies.

Independent Feature Project/Midwest
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$7,500
To support the 12th IFP/Midwest Independent Filmmaker's Conference.

International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the 19th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Over a two-week period, Chicago Latino Cinema (CLC) will exhibit the work of directors of Ibero or Latin American descent, as well as films directly related to Latino culture.

Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support the presentation of historic ballets from the Ballets Russes. The ballets include Les Noces, Parade and Le Sacre du Printemps.

Lawyers for the Creative Arts
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support the expansion of pro bono legal and arts mediation services. The project will provide artists and arts organizations in Northern Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin with access to free legal expertise.

League of Chicago Theatres Foundation
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$40,000
To support the Member Services Expansion Project. Developed with input from more than 130 member theaters, this project will maximize the League's marketing and support services by retooling its Web site, publication and conference.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$22,000
To support the world premiere production of Studs Terkel's Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession. Created by Lookingglass ensemble members David Schwimmer and Joy Gregory, the adaptation will feature the company's unique blend of drama, music and movement.

Lyric Opera Center for American Artists
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$10,000
To support faculty costs for the singer training and professional development program. The multidisciplinary curriculum includes language, theatrical and voice instruction as well as master classes and career development guidance.

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$100,000
To support a new production of Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz. Ten performances of the opera at the Civic Opera House's Aardis Krainik Theatre will reach an estimated audience of 35,000 in 2003.

Marcum, Carl
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Media Process Educational Films
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a television documentary by Robert Hercules and Cheri Pugh. The Mengele Twins is about Eva Kor, a surviving twin of the atrocities committed by Josef Mengele, who used twins as human guinea pigs during the Third Reich.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$40,000
To support the design and production of a site-specific architectural installation at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. The project will create a public venue and provide critical exposure to emerging architects and designers.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$33,000
To support a series of large-scale performance projects based on interdisciplinary and collaborative practice. In its fifth season of performing arts programming, the museum will produce, co-commission or provide developmental residencies for new works.

New Tuners Theatre (Performance Community)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$9,000
To support the public presentation of new musicals-in-progress. The Stages Festival presents up to two- dozen musicals that are selected from over 100 submissions and are performed as concert readings or skeletal productions.

Northlight Theatre
Skokie, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support further script development and the world premiere production of a new play by Jenny Laird. Sky Girls will be directed by Artistic Director B.J. Jones.

PEACH Club/Gallery 312, Inc.
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support When the Bough Breaks, a large-scale mixed media project by Esther Parada. The project will incorporate digital photography and video to explore the loss of American tree species, issues of racial diversity, new definitions of family, and the nature of communities.

Poetry Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$7,500
To support readings featuring emerging and nationally renowned writers. Proposed participants include Rita Dove, Li-Young Lee, Jose Saramago, Anne Waldman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Mamet and Stephen Dunn.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$22,000
To support the creation and presentation of a public outdoor spectacle production. Artistic Director Jim Lasko will collaborate with composer/musician Mark Messing and scenic artist Stephanie Nelson to create a theatrical event entitled Nina.

Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$40,000
To support the presentation of Delhi-based artist Amar Kanwar's new film, Of Poets and Prophesies, with accompanying publications.

University of Chicago (on behalf of Smart Museum of Art)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$32,000
To support an artist-in-residence program featuring contemporary African-American photographer Dawoud Bey.

University of Illinois at Chicago (on behalf of City Design Center)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$35,000
To support Out of the Box: Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing, an exhibition and catalog featuring low-cost housing. Nationally recognized designers have been invited to consider innovation in design, materials and manufacturing techniques for low-cost, factory-built housing.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$13,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new play. Unspoken Prayers, by Claudia Allen, will be directed by Artistic Director Dennis Zacek.

WBEZ Alliance, Inc.
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Established in 2001 as a "Sundance for Radio," the festival provides an opportunity for documentarians, feature reporters and audio artists from around the globe to gather to share expertise.

Window to the World Communications, Inc. (on behalf of 98.7 WFMT Radio)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$150,000
To support the production and national distribution of the radio series Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The series will consist of daily, one-hour programs focusing on classical music in an informed, educational and entertaining manner.

Total Dollars Awarded: $1,404,000
Total Grants Awarded: 48

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