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FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/ 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

American Library Association (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Great Stories Club, a reading and discussion program for at-risk teens. In partnership with Passages Academy Libraries, the association will send authors around the country to discuss their work with teens, ages 13 to 19, who reside in juvenile detention centers, attend alternative high schools, participate in alcohol or drug treatment programs, have children, or are living in group or foster homes.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art. The professional development program will offer four sessions to a total of 120 high school art teachers from around the nation who will participate in workshops and lectures in the visual and new media arts.

Barrel of Monkeys Productions
Chicago, IL
$8,000
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 to promote literacy and writing skills, build self-esteem, teach children to communicate effectively through their writing, and expose them to the performing arts.

Chicago Architecture Foundation (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Lunch Online, an online learning and interactive dialogue about architecture and design, infrastructure, planning, and landscape. Building upon the strengths of the Chicago Architecture Foundation's popular Wednesday Lunchtime Lecture series, the new media program will create a national community of citizens who are thinking about, critically reflecting upon, and discussing subjects such as historic preservation, community building, and design innovation.

Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, IL
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a series of web and radio broadcast programs that will tell the stories behind the building of America's places, spaces, and structures. Intended as a weekly one-hour program, One Nation, Under Construction is a series of 75 episodes exploring architecture, infrastructure, urban history, planning and landscape, and highlighting the work of architects, engineers, planners, and community builders.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (aka CAPE)
Chicago, IL
$53,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Arts Education Program Design Seminar, a two-year professional development project for a network of artists and teachers to design, implement, and assess arts integrated teaching and learning through artist residencies. During the two-year period, participants will attend professional development workshops; tailor concepts, frameworks and planning tools for each school-based partnership; co-plan and implement curriculum units; and share and reflect on results.

Chicago Children's Theatre
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere adaptation of Brian Selznick's The Houdini Box. Directed and adapted by Blair Thomas, with music by Mark Messing and lyrics by Hannah Kohl, the play tells the story of a young boy obsessed with Harry Houdini who continually tries to perform the magician's astonishing tricks.

Chicago Cultural Center Foundation (aka The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs) (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 highlighting diverse world cultures to underserved Midwest audiences in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago, IL
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Through Team Shakespeare. This program will foster an increased appreciation of Shakespeare's plays by students in the Midwest through viewing professional matinee performances, and will aid educators with their classroom instruction of Shakespeare's plays by providing free interactive teacher workshops and an array of complementary educational materials.

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. Performances will include Berlioz's Lelio, featuring French movie star Gerard Depardieu narrating a vivid tale of horror; the world premiere of Bernard Rands' Danza Petrificada, a work inspired by the words of Mexican poet Octavio Paz; and Verdi's Otello, which will showcase the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (aka Goodman Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of David Henry Hwang's new play Chinglish, directed by Leigh Silverman. The play portrays the travels of an American businessman from the Midwest, a refugee from the recent economic collapse, to a provincial city in China hoping to take part in that country's "economic miracle."

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Global Energy: The Musical. Children's writings about the need to become environmental stewards of the lands and waters throughout the world will be incorporated into a fully-staged touring production that will also be showcased on the theater's interactive website, allowing children worldwide to see the performance and add their own stories.

Children's Memorial Hospital (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the creation of The Bedship on the 21st floor of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago. In partnership with Redmoon Theater, a series of two- and three-dimensional images will be created to illustrate a fantastical world of being in bed.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
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 (aka Community TV Network (CTVN))
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support after-school, weekend, and summer digital media arts production programs at CTVN Arts Center, satellite locations, and in-school classes at alternative high schools. Students will study technical proficiency (in camera, sound, edit, lighting), incorporate media concepts of narrative structure and style, and create work for Hard Cover: Voices and Visions of Chicago's Youth, a public cable access television show.

Emerald City Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the tour of Goodnight, Gorilla, written and directed by Associate Artistic Director Ernie Nolan. Based on the children's book of the same title, the play is an example of "baby theater," an emerging theater genre developed specifically for infants and toddlers.

Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago, IL
$15,000
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 media, installation, and performing artists with residencies to create and present new sonic artworks.

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

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$90,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Movement as Partnership, a program of dance residencies. With Oak Park District 97, the dance company will conduct 10-week residencies, including dance sessions for students, professional development for teachers, and in-school performances.

Illinois Arts Council
Chicago, IL
$914,400
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support JazzCity, a free concert series in neighborhood parks across the city, showcasing commissions and performances by emerging and established Chicago jazz artists. Programming includes Jazz Cabaret: Milton Suggs with Milton Suggs, Jr.; the fifth annual Latin Jazz Festival featuring New York trumpeter Jerry Gonzales with Chicago's Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble and two additional bands; Organ Blast: Justin Dillard and Pete Bensen; Young Jazz Lions with bassist Christian McBride and others; and Blowin' in from Chicago, a classic Blue Note album reinterpreted by tenor saxophonists Ari Brown and Edward Wilkerson.

League of Chicago Theatres Foundation
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Professional Development Programs. The League of Chicago Theatres supports more than 200 Chicago member theaters and theater professionals with vital professional development opportunities in a constantly changing business environment.

Light Opera Works
Evanston, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support Midwest New Musicals, a workshop and development program for lyricists, composers, and book writers led by director John Sparks, associate workshop director Larry Todd Johnson, and producer Joan Mazzonelli. Divided into three levels, workshop members throughout the year will participate in intensive weekend sessions in which writers present their work.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Marwen Studio, a visual arts education program. Practicing artists will design and teach sequential, free-of-charge courses in a range of disciplines, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, design arts, time-based media (video, animation), and mixed media.

Midwest Young Artists
Highwood, IL
$58,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Orchestral, Chamber Music, and Music Theory 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 and Dance Theater Chicago, Inc. (aka Harris Theater for Music and Dance)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support The Learning Lab Initiative. The program includes a toolkit and a series of coaching workshops to enable resident companies to test initiatives with the support of the Harris Theater staff and collaborating partners in the Chicago area.

National Public Housing Museum (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of performances of Emergency, a one-man show by Daniel Beaty. Presented in partnership with the DuSable Museum of African American History, the piece tells the story of 40 characters in a fantastical confrontation with history sparked by the appearance of an African slave ship in front of the Statue of Liberty.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Cultural Heritage Project. In partnership with Kalapriya Foundation, the program partners will facilitate co-productions of music concerts, community events, field trips for students, and workshops; partners include the American Tango Institute, Inner-City Muslim Action Network, International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, and South Asian Progressive Action Collective.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$48,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support third- and eighth-grade folk and traditional arts residencies led by professional teaching artists using a curriculum based on the Chicago Guide for Teaching and Learning in the Arts, National Standards for Arts Education, and the Illinois State Board of Education State Goals. In addition to engaging students in culturally diverse, arts-enriched educational experiences during two separate eight-week residencies culminating in a student performances, artists will attend professional development seminars.

Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support faculty fees for a comprehensive singer training and professional development program. Faculty will provide a multidisciplinary program of study to prepare as many as 13 young artists for professional operatic careers, including vocal instruction, theatrical coaching, language classes, and guidance regarding the diverse stylistic elements of opera, musical theater, and the art song genre.

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 through which nationally acclaimed performing artists will be in residence at community sites.

Ravinia Festival Association
Highland Park, IL
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Reach*Teach* Play, community outreach and education programs for children and adults. The Ravinia Festival Association will continue its partnership with the Lawndale community to bring music performances and education to Chicago's West Side through free lawn-passes for underserved residents; One Score, One Chicago, an initiative that introduces new audiences to classical masterworks; and Words and Music, which involves pre-concert lectures at public libraries throughout the city.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Festival J.O.E. 2011, a festival of works by local and international performers, designers, artists, and musicians. Each day of the event will combine mainstream and contemporary programming and art forms, featuring side-show tents, musical acts, and wandering performances, and will culminate in an original large-scale outdoor performance each evening.

River North Dance Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation, premiere, and tour of a jazz dance choreographed by Artistic Director Frank Chaves. The work will be accompanied by an original jazz score composed by Orbert Davis, founder and artistic director of Chicago Jazz Philharmonic; for the Chicago premiere, the work will be accompanied live by the jazz musicians.

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 of summer concert performances at the historic St. James Cathedral in downtown Chicago. Early-evening chamber concerts will be presented every Tuesday during the summer months with artists selected from a roster of musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Chamber Musicians, and Fulcrum Point New Music Project, as well as artists from across the country.

Snow City Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support year-round arts workshops for hospitalized children who are unable to attend school. Patients write poems and short stories; film, direct, act, and edit their own short films; and learn to read music and use digital music and video editing software with professional artists who bring advanced arts technology to the hospital environment.

Sones de México Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the production, broadcast, and podcast of La Hora del Son, a weekly radio program series featuring Mexican folk and traditional music. The 30, hour-long, radio programs will be syndicated and broadcast in Spanish and English over several radio stations and will feature live and recorded music, informed commentary, and artist interviews.

South Chicago Art Center
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support SmARTS, a youth art instruction program. Targeted to inner-city, low-income youth, the program will offer free-of-charge art instruction after school and on weekends at the art center at area community centers, libraries, and elementary and high schools.

Storycatchers Theatre
Chicago, IL
$7,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Teens Together, a year-round series of creative writing and performance programs for youth. The program uses writing, storytelling, and performance skills workshops to develop creativity and self-expression, build communication and decision-making skills, and provide participants with valuable leadership opportunities.

Trap Door Productions
Chicago, IL
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the American premiere production of Werner Schwab's Overweight, Unimportant: Misshape. The production will be directed by Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tracy Letts, with lighting design by Richard Norwood, set design by Ewelina Dobiesz, and sound design by Sam Lewis.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Sustainable Creativity Project. The university's Krannert Center for the Performing Arts will present a series of performances and ancillary activities in music, dance, and theater with artists including guitarist Bill Frisell, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and violinist Joshua Bell.

Window to the World Communications, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Introductions, a weekly radio broadcast of performances by young pre-collegiate musicians. The WFMT Radio Network's David Post will host and produce each weekly broadcast that will include interviews with featured musicians.

Window to the World Communications, Inc. (aka The WFMT Radio Network)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
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 one-hour programs aired each weekday focusing on classical music and presented in an informed, educational, and entertaining manner.


Number of Grants: 43          Total Amount: $2,280,400

 
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