FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

ILLINOIS

Alessio, Carolyn M.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

American Theater Company (aka American Blues Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the launch of a national new play development program at the American Blues Theatre. The project will include commissions, development workshops, and a world premiere production.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Video Data Bank's distribution service and related activities. Video Data Bank currently offers 5,500 titles by 470 artists for distribution.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Showcasing the New Independents at the Gene Siskel Film Center. The curated film series will present premieres of contemporary American independent and foreign films to an estimated audience of 25,000.

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Edvard Munch and European Modernism, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition aims to challenge and overturn myths surrounding the life and work of Munch (1863-1944) by presenting the artist's paintings, prints, and drawings in relation to his European contemporaries.

Chicago Architecture Foundation (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a conference, organized in partnership with the Architectural League of New York. The conference will assist design organizations in increasing public awareness about the built environment.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Freshly Scored Series. Activities for the series will include three thematic concerts of new chamber music including the performance and recording of the winning work of a composition competition.

Chicago Chamber Musicians (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the First Monday Concert Series. Presented monthly at the Chicago Cultural Center and broadcast live on WFMT-FM radio station, the free noontime concert series is a partnership with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Many Voices Project, a multicultural showcase of new plays in development. The program will offer developmental assistance to playwrights, culminating in public staged readings with professional theater artists.

Chicago Film Archives, NFP
Chicago, IL
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a retrospective exhibition on the work, life, and times of the Chicago-based filmmaker Howard Alk. Alk not only co-founded Second City in 1956, but also became an acclaimed film editor.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 19th Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series emphasizes documentary and experimental films and videos; the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting experimental work.

Chicago Human Rhythm Project
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Tap 2008 dance festival. The project will include educational, performance, and outreach activities.

Chicago International Film Festival Inc. Cinema-Chicago (aka Chicago International Film)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 44th Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 130 films from around the world.

Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the American stage premiere of A Flowering Tree by composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars and the composer. Outreach activities will celebrate South Indian culture through lectures, panel discussions, performances, poetry readings, and cultural demonstrations.

Chicago Sinfonietta
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a series of concerts. Programming will include a concert tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a concert featuring women in classical music, and a pairing of various styles of blues with a performance of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition with video projections.

Chicago Sinfonietta (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts of classical chamber music influenced by traditional Mexican music and music of the Americas. Three concerts will be presented in partnership with the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support stipends and professional training for pre-professional musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Performances and audition coaching will take place under the direction of resident and guest conductors.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support choral orchestral concerts featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the chorus, 15 concerts of 6 programs will explore the full range of the choral repertoire.

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (aka Goodman Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Ballad of Emmet Till, a new play by Ifa Bayeza. The production will be directed by Kate Whoriskey at the Goodman Theatre.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of the Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support residencies and related programming with choreographers David Dorfman, David Rousseve, and Banafsheh Sayyad.

Court Theatre Fund
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of Carousel by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein with accompanying educational activities. Artistic director Charles Newell will direct the musical and co-produce the work in partnership with Long Wharf Theatre.

Dalkey Archive Press
Champaign, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of original and reprinted works of fiction in translation. The press will publish titles from the Czech Republic, Portugal, Argentina, Spain, France, Estonia, Russia, Cuba, and Poland.

Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association
Elgin, IL
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the George Gershwin Festival. Concerts, community events, and educational activities will examine the composer's efforts to fuse American jazz and popular song with the European classical tradition.

Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Artists Residency Program and the Outer Ear Festival of Sound. The project will provide local sound artists with residencies to create and present new sonic art works.

Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 25th Chicago International Childrens' 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 throughout the year.

Gilloury Institute (aka Silk Road Theatre Project)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere production of Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat, a new play by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Stuart Carden. The playwright will be in residence at Silk Road Theatre Project during the rehearsal process for continued development of the script.

Grant Park Orchestral Association
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of works by composer John Adams and associated educational activities of the Grant Park Music Festival. Four works will be performed including choruses from two of Adams's operas, The Death of Klinghoffer and Doctor Atomic; The Dharma at Big Sur for orchestra and solo electric violin; and the nativity oratorio El Nio.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support programs for emerging choreographers to create new work. The programs include the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshops, the National Choreographic Competition, and collaborations between choreographers and Hubbard Street 2 dance company.

Joffrey Ballet
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of ballets by Antony Tudor. The project will feature Lilac Garden, Dark Elegies, and Offenbach in the Underworld.

Korean American Resource and Cultural Center
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Spirits of Poongmul, a traditional Korean percussion ensemble production. Combining Korean percussive traditions with youth documentaries, the project will explore the history of Korean immigrants through interviews, photos, and historic artifacts.

Luna Negra Danza Teatro
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of the Ladino Project by artistic director and choreographer Eduardo Vilaro. The work will premiere at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago.

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Porgy and Bess by composer George Gershwin, with libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Opera preview discussions and community lectures will be held in Chicago's public libraries and other venues.

National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Modern Masters North and South of the Border, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the exchanges between masters of the Mexican School such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco and modern masters in the U.S. such as Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock.

National Museum of Mexican Art (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the second annual Sor Juana Festival. Presented in partnership with Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA), the multidisciplinary festival, held in both Chicago and Houston, will showcase the artistic accomplishments of Mexican women from Mexico and the United States.

Neo-Futurists
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Fair Lake by artistic director Sharon Greene. Composer Mikhail Fiksel and director and choreographer Birgitta Victorson will participate in a series of workshops to explore the sound, music, and movement elements of the new work.

Next Theatre Company
Evanston, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the American Dream Songbook. The project will feature world-premiere songs on the topic of the American Dream by different American composers, presented alongside Leonard Bernstein's short chamber opera Trouble in Tahiti.

Northwestern University Settlement (on behalf of The Vittum Theater)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of The Blue House by Jos Cruz Gonzlez at the Vittum Theater. Commissioned by the Chicago Humanities Festival, the production will be part of an annual Season for Young Audiences and will be directed by Tom Arvetis.

Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center (aka Lyric Opera Center for American Artists)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support faculty costs for a comprehensive singer training and professional development program for the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. Faculty will provide a multidisciplinary program of study to prepare young artists for operatic careers.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of Dream Masons, a large-scale, site-specific outdoor spectacle. The piece will be performed on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago's historic Bronzeville neighborhood.

Spertus College
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project includes an exhibition at the Spertus Museum presenting 50 major works by Rosenwald Fellows, archival material, and an original video documentary on the Rosenwald Fund and its legacy as a supporter of African American artists.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Carter's Way, a new play written and directed by ensemble member Eric Simonson. The production will feature live vocals and recorded instrumentation created and arranged by Darrell Leonard.

TimeLine Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of The Odd Women. Playwright Kate Fodor will adapt the work from the novel by George Gissing.

University of Chicago (on behalf of University of Chicago Press)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the publication Architecture Under Construction, which will document the construction process of significant recent buildings. The publication will provide a view rarely available with detailed photographic documentation of construction materials and techniques.

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an artist residency by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra and faculty musicians will present concerts, composition readings, chamber music coaching and master classes, as well as community-based educational events for elementary schoolchildren and their families.

Number of Grants: 44          Total Amount: $1,090,000

 
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