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FY 2010 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

Archeworks (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a series of community workshops, a design conference, and an exhibition. In partnership with the Little Village Community Development Corporation (aka Enlace Chicago), Archeworks will engage designers, community leaders, and residents in envisioning new solutions for transforming a former industrial site in Chicago's Little Village Community.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute)
Chicago, IL
$65,000
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 will be invited to Chicago to enrich their artistic creativity through studio access, sessions with contemporary artists, and lectures in the visual arts.

Art Resources in Teaching (aka A.R.T.)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the American Art Summer Institute and Elementary Visual Art Residencies. Teachers will work with professional artists to develop art-making skills through lessons in art history, peer critique, and related hands-on art projects.

Assitej/USA, Inc. (aka Theatre for Young Audiences/USA)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication and distribution of Theatre for Young Audiences/USA's TYA Today, the Marquee directory, the Next Blog, and the Ann Shaw Fellowships. The project will encourage critical development of professional theater for young audiences.

Barrel of Monkeys Productions
Chicago, IL
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support in-school and after-school literature and theater residency programs. Creative writing and drama residencies will take place in underserved Chicago public schools for third- through sixth-grade students.

Changing Worlds
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Literacy and Cultural Connections. Teaching artists in collaboration with literacy specialists and classroom teachers will provide weekly arts residencies in Chicago Public School students in second to eighth grade.

Chicago Architecture Foundation (aka CAF) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the presentation of Debate Chicago, a series of events and public programs about key topics in historic preservation, real estate development, and urban design. With project partner AIA Chicago Foundation, CAF will engage public and professional audiences in a dialogue about the future of Chicago's built environment.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances and a radio broadcast of Peter Lieberson's The Coming of Light and related educational activities. The work, created in celebration of the 2009 centennial of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, consists of six songs on the themes of home, impermanence, and love.

Chicago Cultural Center Foundation (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Midwest World Music Consortium. In partnership with the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation in Bloomington, Indiana, 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
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A Big Band Tribute to Jaco Pastorius. The Chicago Jazz Orchestra will transcribe original Pastorius big band recordings and present them in two concerts with jazz bassist Victor Wooten and keyboardist/harmonica player Howard Levy.

Chicago Public Art Group
Chicago, IL
$24,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the City as Site: North and South Lawndale Project. Youth will work with professional artists to create a series of temporary public art projects in the Little Village and North Lawndale neighborhoods of Chicago's West Side.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago, IL
$45,000
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 middle and high school students throughout Illinois and Indiana.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the BP Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast Series. Carried on 344 stations, the two-hour programs are heard by an estimated weekly audience of 488,000 listeners.

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Symphony Orchestra and Concert Orchestra. Students will work with well-known guest artists and composers, receive extensive coaching, participate in rehearsals, and perform in world-class venues.

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and tour of Writing Our World (WOW!), with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Executive Director/producer June Podagrosi and the Red/Blue Company will conduct in-school writing workshops, tour performances to schools, and post children's stories on the Internet.

City of Chicago, Illinois Department of Cultural Affairs
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the exhibition Stranger in Paradise: the Works of Reverend Howard Finster, and related programming. Curated by Glen C. Davies, the exhibition and accompanying programming will feature the work of the self-taught artist known for his depictions of popular culture and religious imagery.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the performance and recording of works by composer Florence Price (1887-1953) at the Center for Black Music Research. The works will be recorded by the resident New Black Music Repertory Ensemble and produced and distributed by Albany Records.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Community Arts Partnerships)
Chicago, IL
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Raw Voices: Youth Document Their World at the Center for Community Arts Partnerships. Columbia College Chicago faculty and professional teaching artists will teach students to produce a variety of media arts projects.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Chicago, IL
$24,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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 digital as well as fully manual 35-millimeter cameras to document their lives, homes, and communities.

Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Hard Cover: Voices and Visions of Chicago Youth. Working with professional video artists, underserved Chicago youth will learn all aspects of digital video production.

Dal Niente New Music, NFP (aka Ensemble Dal Niente)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support UNBOUND, a festival of American chamber music by Ensemble Dal Niente, with related educational activities. Plans include four concerts of works by composers Steve Reich, Elliott Carter, Lee Hyla, Roger Sessions, George Crumb, Augusta Read Thomas, Jacob Druckman, Frank Zappa, and John Zorn, among others.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (aka Anima)
Glen Ellyn, IL
$51,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Ensemble Program and 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
$49,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Movement as Partnership program. With Oak Park District 97, the dance company will conduct 10-week dance residencies at elementary schools, including dance sessions for students, professional development workshops for teachers, and in-school performances by professional dancers.

Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support marketing and audience development activities. To strategically build its audience, the center will employ specific programming.

Illinois Arts Council
Chicago, IL
$982,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Illinois State University
Normal, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of Diversion of Angels, choreographed in 1948 by Martha Graham. The work will be restaged on Illinois State University dance students during a residency that will include performances and a variety of educational outreach activities, including a film festival, university galleries exhibit, a lecture series, a colloquium, community master classes, a lecture-demonstration performance, and a documentary film project.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support JazzCity, a free concert series. Thematic programming of concerts in Chicago neighborhoods emphasizes underserved areas on the city's south and west sides.

Kartemquin Educational Films (aka Kartemquin Films) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Maria Finitzo. Working in collaboration with the Virginia Technical Institute's Center for the Study of Rhetoric and Virginia Tech's Institute for Society, Culture, and the Environment, Kartemquin will produce Invisible Seasons, a documentary that will examine the history and everyday impact of Title IX.

Kartemquin Educational Films (aka Kartemquin Films)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production costs for the documentary A Good Man. The film will chronicle the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company as they create a piece inspired by Abraham Lincoln.

Latinos Progresando
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Teatro Americano Youth Repertoire Project. The project will engage local youth in theater training and professional development through a performance institute and productions for young audiences.

Literature for All of Us
Evanston, IL
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Books Alive!, a literary arts program. The project will target youth attending alternative schools, General Equivalency Degree (GED) classes, and after-school programs in underserved Chicago neighborhoods.

Loyola University Chicago (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Pilgrimage and Faith: Christianity, Buddhism, Islam. The Museum of Art's project will explore the multiple purposes of art and pilgrimage in the three religions.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Marwen Studio Program. Professional visual artists will design and teach courses in painting, drawing, photography, three-dimensional design, video, animation, and mixed-media arts.

Midwest Young Artists
Highwood, IL
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support orchestral 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.

Music Theatre Workshop
Chicago, IL
$14,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Teens Together. Students will learn playwriting and performance skills in a year-round series of Saturday and summer programs.

Najwa
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Cultural Empowerment Through Dance, an educational project that will offer classes, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations in African dance and drumming. The activities will be offered to youths, ages 7 to 18, from local elementary schools, after-school programs, and social service agencies.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cultural Heritage Support Project. In its second year, the project will strengthen collaboration with local ethnic communities, enhancing educational and performance programs.

Pros Arts Studio
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Muertos de la Risa (Dying of Laughter). The multidisciplinary festival celebrates the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) holiday with myriad arts events.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Visiting Artist Series, including performances and community outreach activities. The series focuses primarily on arts education and community outreach by conducting residencies at both schools and community sites in six counties of Illinois and Iowa.

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

Ravinia Festival Association
Highland Park, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts of American master chamber works. Juilliard String Quartet, Pacifica Quartet with pianist Orion Weiss, and the Knights (a New-York based chamber group of young musicians) will perform a range of American chamber repertoire at the festival.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a site-specific series of theatrical events featuring re-invented scenes from Long Live the King (the King is Dead), an original Redmoon production from 1998. The highlight of the series will be a community spectacle enacted at downtown Chicago's Union Station.

Richard Nickel Committee
Chicago, IL
$25,000
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 Mies van der Rohe.

Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support ArtsPlace. Teams of 10 to 15 students, ages 14 to 19, will work one-on-one with professional artists to create public art in a specific discipline and are encouraged to apply this knowledge to their lives.

Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a free chamber music festival. The summer concert performances will be held at the historic Saint James Cathedral in downtown Chicago.

ShawChicago Theater Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a concert reading production of Clifford Odets' Depression-era play Paradise Lost. The play is an intense family drama set in an unnamed American town in 1932 against the vast landscape of the social and economic challenges faced during the Great Depression.

Snow City Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support multidisciplinary educational workshops in creative writing, theater, music, and visual arts. Local artists will teach hospitalized children creative writing, music, painting, photography, and filmmaking.

Society of Architectural Historians, NFP
Chicago, IL
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the documentation of the architecture, landscapes, and historic sites in the state of Mississippi. The survey will act as the foundation for the development of workshops and curriculum guides for Mississippi teachers and students.

Sones de Mexico Ensemble (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support La Hora del Son, a weekly radio program. In collaboration with Radio ARTE, the project will present a radio series featuring traditional Mexican music.

South Chicago Art Center, NFP
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support SmARTS, a program that provides free art instruction for inner-city, low-income youth. Arts programming by the South Chicago Art Center falls into two areas Street SmARTS' (non-school hours) and School SmARTS.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Summer Arts Apprenticeship Program. Underserved teens will participate in a video and audio mentorship program with professional media artists.

Street-Level Youth Media (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$16,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support My Community Matters. A collaboration among Street-Level Youth Media, the Chicago Children's Museum, and partnering Chicago public schools, the project will provide youth ages 12 to 14 with opportunities to implement classroom-based media production workshops in video, audio, and graphic design.

Theatre Building Chicago, NFP
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the Musical Theatre Writers' Workshop. Workshop director John Sparks and Artistic Director Allan Chambers will lead the development program for lyricists, composers, and book writers to cultivate new musicals.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support World Music and Dance in the Schools, a two-year program to provide semester- or school-year-long instruction in various world arts traditions in public schools in Champaign and Urbana, Illinois

Urban Gateways (aka Centers for Arts Education)
Chicago, IL
$32,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Cultural Education Project at the Centers for Arts Education. In partnership with Chicago public schools, a series of professional development activities will bring together classroom teachers and school art specialists to develop curricula that present the visual arts, theater, and music as core classroom subjects.

Window to the World Communications, Inc. (aka WFMT)
Chicago, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   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.

Young Chicago Authors
Chicago, IL
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Saturday Writing Program, a creative writing and publication program. Professional writers will lead workshops in poetry, fiction, playwriting, creative nonfiction, screen plays, and editing.


Number of Grants: 57          Total Amount: $2,547,100

 
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