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FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

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

ILLINOIS

After School Matters, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Animation Apprenticeship Projects. Working under the direction of professional artists, underserved teens who have advanced in the art form of animation will participate in intensive after-school and summer workshops.

American Library Association (aka ALA)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a survey of cultural programs for adults in public libraries and poets reading on stage at the 2009 American Library Association  (ALA) conference. The ALA will also provide literary program and audience development consultation to librarians at the conference.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute)
Chicago, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art at the School of the Art Institute.  Experienced high school art teachers from around the country are invited to Chicago to enrich their artistic creativity through studio access, sessions with contemporary artists, and lectures in the visual arts.

Asian Improv aRts Midwest (aka AIRMW)
Oak Park, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Fifth Annual Chicago Taiko Legacy, including performances and residency activities. The culminating event will feature Japanese drumming ensembles JASC Tsukasa Taiko, San Francisco's Gen Taiko, and Japanese lute artist Chizuru Kineya.

Barrel of Monkeys Productions
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support an in-school literature and theater residency program. Six-week creative writing and drama residencies will take place in underserved Chicago Public Schools for third- through sixth-grade students.

Cambodian Association of Illinois
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Khmer Spirit Arts Education Program. In collaboration with Cambodian-American Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial, the project will create a museum-based youth arts curriculum, teacher training, and artist-in-residence program.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Chicago Chamber Musicians radio series. The 13-week series is nationally syndicated through the WFMT Radio Network and is carried by 50 stations serving 200 markets.

Chicago Cultural Center Foundation (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Midwest World Music Consortium. In partnership with the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation, the project will involve the presentation of music ensembles that will highlight diverse world cultures to underserved Midwest audiences.

Chicago Jazz Orchestra Association
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a tribute to Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (1924-2005): American Music, Texas Style. The orchestra will join guest blues artist Taj Mahal in an investigation of Browns eclectic style.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Team Shakespeare Arts-in-Education Program. The project will present William Shakespeare's plays to students throughout Illinois and Indiana.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the BP Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast Series. Carried on 128 stations, the two-hour programs are heard by an estimated weekly audience of 868,000 listeners.

City of Bloomington, Illinois (on behalf of Bloomington Cultural District)
Bloomington, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support presentations of "From Temple to Theater" by the Ragamala Music and Dance Theater. The project will highlight the South Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam with performances taking place at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Picture Me at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. The after-school mentorship program will teach underserved youth (ages 12 to 18) how to use a fully manual 35-millimeter camera to document their lives, homes, and communities, and to develop and print their photographic images.

Cube Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support American Masterpieces: Chamber Music from Coast to Coast. Three performances are planned with related residency activities involving students from the Merit School of Music and Northeastern Illinois University.

Cultivadores (aka Cultivadores/Cultivators)
Rantoul, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the creation of an exterior mural at the Culivadores facility in Rantoul, Illinois. Lead artists will mentor apprentice artists in the design and creation of the mural and the process will be documented for public photographic exhibition.

Deeply Rooted Productions
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a new outreach initiative facilitated through Deeply Rooted Productions' pre-professional company, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater 2. I Am Deeply Rooted focuses on mentoring ensemble members alongside the professional company for eight months per year, while providing low-cost programming for Chicago-based youth for the remaining four months of the year.

Field Museum of Natural History (aka The Field Museum)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support public programs surrounding Remembrances and Re-imagining: The Kwakwaka'wakw and Edward S. Curtis. At the core of the project is Curtis's newly restored 1914 silent film In the Land of the Headhunters.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (aka GECC)
Glen Ellyn, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Ensemble Program and the Honors Chorus Workshop. Year-round choral ensembles at various skill levels will serve as a basis for sequential music education of chorus members.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$75,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Movement as Partnership. In collaboration with Oak Park (School) District 97, the dance company will create comprehensive dance education programs at six elementary schools including dance residencies, professional development workshops for teachers, and in-school performances by professional dancers.

Illinois Arts Council
Chicago, IL
$857,800
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support JazzCity: Celebrating the Legacy of Jazz in Chicago. The program will feature concerts in Chicago neighborhoods.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Studio Program, a visual arts education project. Students from underserved public schools will receive after-school visual arts classes and portfolio-building development opportunities.

Midwest Young Artists
Highwood, IL
$42,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the orchestral program and chamber music programs. Through music theory classes, sectional rehearsals, and performance opportunities, students will learn to read music, play expressively, develop ensemble skills, and demonstrate musicianship.

Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Dancing Thru Decades initiative. The project will use dance and music to explore the cultural, social, political, and economic trends within the North Lawndale and Douglas communities in Chicago.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist Jenny Holzer (b. 1950). During the last 20 years, Holzer's work has been exhibited widely outside the United States but has not been the subject of a major exhibition in an American museum.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the La Pena Music and Dance series. The project will increase programming and strengthen the relationship with Chicago's Latino communities.

Pegasus Players
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support an expansion of the Young Playwrights Festival (YPF). The semester-long playwriting program at Curie Metropolitan High School will provide opportunities for youth to study works by American playwrights and create plays of their own.

Peoria Symphony Orchestra
Peoria, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support community outreach concerts.  The orchestra will perform concerts in three venues, including Peoria Park District's outdoor amphitheater.

Poetry Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings featuring nationally renowned writers and Hands on Stanzas, a poets-in-the-schools program. Students of the program receive an anthology of their own work, free admission to readings, and opportunities to present their poetry at cultural institutions throughout the city.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Visiting Artist Series (VAS). The artist residency program features nationally and internationally acclaimed performing artists.

Ravinia Festival Association
Highland Park, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support community outreach and educational programs. The festival will continue its partnership with the Lawndale community to bring music performances and education to Westside Chicago.

Richard Nickel Committee
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the digitization and increased accessibility to the photographs, negatives, papers, and research of architectural photographer Richard Nickel (1928-72). The collection includes more than 15,000 images of buildings by seminal architects such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

South Chicago Art Center NFP
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support expansion of Street SmARTS, a program that provides free art instruction for inner-city, low-income youth. Street SmARTS' methodology includes formal art instruction and independent studio access.

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$12,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support the presentation of chamber music concerts celebrating the legacy of contemporary American composers. Programs will be performed and curated by the university's ensembles-in-residence, Pacifica Quartet and eighth blackbird, and will feature guest artists Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran and the Nouveau String Quartet.

University of Illinois at Springfield (on behalf of Sangamon Auditorium)
Springfield, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support performances by the Kronos Quartet. A performance of composer Terry Riley's SUN RINGS will be preceded by a panel discussion with astronomy/physics professors and Kronos artistic staff.

Utopian Theatre Asylum (aka TUTA)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Artistic director Zeljko Dukich will direct a full-length production that will include a cast of at least 12 actors and feature original music.

Window to the World Communications, Inc. (aka 98.7 WFMT Radio/WTTW 11)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of the radio series Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The series consists of weekday one-hour programs focusing on classical music in an informed, educational, and entertaining manner.


Number of Grants: 37          Total Amount: $1,737,300

 
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