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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

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

ILLINOIS

About Face Theatre Collective
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of The Good Private by Tanya Saracho. An adaptation of the life story of Albert Cashier, the play portrays a woman Irish immigrant who enlisted as a man in the Civil War, and afterwards chose to live the rest of her life as a man.

Biss, Eula
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the First Monday Concert Series. The free noontime concert series will be presented monthly at the Chicago Cultural Center and broadcast live on WFMT-FM.

Chicago Children's Theatre
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of Red Kite by the Sea, a new theatrical installation for children and families impacted by Autism Spectrum Disorder. Inspired by the e.e. cummings poem maggie and milly and molly and may, the installation will immerse audiences in multisensory exploration of the seaside and aquatic life.

Chicago Dancing Company (aka Chicago Dancing Festival)
Lombard, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of local and national dance companies as part of the 2012 Chicago Dancing Festival. Festival activities will include performances, open rehearsals, open company classes, and moderated lecture-demonstrations, many of which will be free.

Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Readings and Workshops Program of new play development opportunities. Activities will include the Saturday Series of staged readings; the Ten Minute Workshop for engaging under-represented communities of playwrights; private readings of early drafts by network and resident playwrights; and the Deadline Workshop, which provides writers with the unique opportunity to develop work with a consistent company of actors.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 24th 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 (aka CHRP, Rhythm Project)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 22nd annual Rhythm World, a tap and percussive dance festival. The project will include residencies, performances, and education and outreach activities.

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Stages, Sights & Sounds component of the Chicago Humanities Festival. International performing groups will present works at local cultural institutions and direct workshops and lecture-demonstrations.

Chicago International Film Festival, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 48th Chicago International Film Festival. Programming includes screenings of contemporary American and international feature length films, short works, and documentaries.

Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Moscow, Cheryomushki by composer Dmitri Shostakovich. The production marks the first time a Shostakovich opera will be performed in Chicago in 25 years, and it will feature the U.S. premiere of the re-orchestrated score arranged by Shostakovich scholar Gerard McBurney.

Chicago Sinfonietta, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support commissions, performances, and related educational activities in celebration of the first season of music director Mei-Ann Chen. Plans include premieres of commissioned works and arrangements by composers Nicole Mitchell, and Randall Fleisher.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support training and stipends for pre-professional musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Culminating in four full orchestra concerts, the musical training will include rehearsals, performances, and community engagement activities under the direction of conductor Cliff Colnot, guest conductors, and members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Keys to the City Piano Festival. The three-week festival, featuring pianist Emanuel Ax as curator, will offer free and ticketed concerts in a variety of programming, including solo recitals, piano duets, concertos, chamber music, and jazz events.

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (aka Goodman Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Tennessee Williams' Camino Real, directed by Catalonian director Calixto Bieito. Considered Williams' most imaginative play, this hauntingly poetic allegory takes its audience to the mysterious Camino Real, a surreal netherworld populated by a colorful collection of lost souls anxious to escape, but terrified of the unknown wasteland lurking beyond the city's walls.

Chinese Fine Arts Society
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Migratory Journeys Concert Series. Featuring performances by pipa player Yang Wei and violinists Yuan-Qing Yu and Rachel Barton Pine, three concerts are planned of the winning works of the 2011 International Music Composition Competition by composers Daniel Lo, Tonia Ko, Chen Yao, and Liu Hao and will be recorded for future radio broadcast on WFMT-FM.

City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz concert series.

Collaboraction Theatre Company, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 12th annual SKETCHBOOK, a multidisciplinary theatre festival directed by executive artistic director Anthony Moseley. The festival combines experienced with up-and-coming artists in Chicago as a way of cultivating growth in the arts community while bringing these performances to a new, young audience.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support international contemporary dance residencies at The Dance Center. Companies under consideration include Cois Ceim Dance (Ireland), Delfos Danza Contemporanea (Mexico), and Yin Mei/Hong Kong Dance Company (China).

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Chicago Jazz Ensemble)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Brick and Motor Cities Project, a multidisciplinary work exploring the 1967 social unrests in Newark, Detroit, and Chicago. The project conceptualized by composer, ethnomusicologist, and jazz musician Dana Hall in partnership with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble and collaborating artists such as Amiri Baraka will include public education programs and workshops in each city that will examine race, class, and economic issues of the period in context of today's urban landscape.

Court Theatre Fund
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, adapted by Oren Jacoby and directed by Christopher McElroen. The production will introduce a new generation of theatergoers to Ellison's seminal novel about the African American experience in the 1940s.

Dalkey Archive Press
Champaign, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of works of fiction and creative nonfiction in translation, including unpublished work by acclaimed Serbian author Danilo Kis. The press will publish titles from France, Japan, Serbia, and Switzerland.

DePaul University
Chicago, IL
$39,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, and accompanying catalogue. Featuring art works by approximately 20 contemporary artists, the exhibition will investigate the construction of mixed race and mixed heritage, and Asian American identity in the United States.

Facets Multimedia, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$95,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 29th 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 throughout the year.

Gilloury Institute (aka Silk Road Theatre Project)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere production of Adriana Sevahn Nichols' Night Over Erzinga. Inspired by her Armenian grandparents' survival of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, Nichols' multigenerational drama will shed light on the Ottoman Turkish genocide of over 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1917.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (aka Anima-Young Singers of Greater Chicago)
Glen Ellyn, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
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.
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Alonzo King, in collaboration with his company LINES Ballet. The work will be created through a residency at the University of California, Irvine, and performed by both companies together at the Harris Theater in Chicago and on a tour.

Hyde Park Alliance for Arts and Culture
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Say Culture Coast, a cultural tourism campaign to promote the mid-South Side of Chicago as an arts destination. Rick Valicenti, founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design firm, will develop computer-based interactive communication tools, such as a portable recording kiosk, an online story archive, and social media sites that will engage the public and encourage them to share their experiences on Chicago's "Culture Coast."

International Music Foundation
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series. Free, weekly, lunchtime performances by young classical musicians will be presented at the Chicago Cultural Center, broadcast live on WFMT-FM, and streamed globally on their Web site.

Joffrey Ballet
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new piece by choreographer Val Caniparoli. This will be Caniparoli's first piece for the company, which will be set to Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta by composer Bela Bartok.

Korean American Resource and Cultural Center (aka Spirits of Poongmul)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support performance of Korean Poongmul music. Spirits of Poongmul will mount a large production that will combine Poongmul (traditional Korean percussion music) with other forms of traditional Korean music and dance, showcasing the performers' skills that were learned during apprenticeships with South Korean masters.

Latin United Community Housing Association (aka LUCHA)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Borinquen Bella Mural Project highlighting the restoration of two murals on affordable housing properties by their original artists. John Pitman Weber will update his mural Rompiendo Las Cadenas / Breaking the Chains and Hector Duarte will update his mural Honor Boricua to reflect current issues in Humboldt Park. Outreach efforts will include workshops with Weber and Boricua for local apprentice artists and the creation of a community mural.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Eastland, written by artistic director Andrew White, with music by Andre Pluess and Ben Sussman, and directed by Amanda Dehnert. Based on the 1915 Chicago River sinking of the Eastland excursion ship, Eastland will portray a deadly event in Chicago's history in which hundreds lost their lives, many of whom were immigrants and employees of Western Electric Company.

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support A Streetcar Named Desire by composer Andre Previn. The new semi-staged production of the historically significant opera will feature soprano Renee Fleming as Blanche DuBois, a role written specifically for her.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$38,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Marwen Studio, a free program which offers out-of-school, visual arts courses. Practicing artists design and teach sequential, hands-on art-making courses in a range of disciplines, including painting, drawing, photography, 3D (sculpture, ceramics), design arts, time-based media (video, animation), and inter-media (mixed media, new media).

Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of The Journey, which will chronicle the 40 year history of Muntu Dance Theatre through dance and music. The project will include mounting signature works from each of the artistic directors the company has worked with over the years, as well as the commission of three new works from other choreographers.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a travelling exhibition and catalogue featuring the work of contemporary artist Rashid Johnson (b. 1977). The exhibition will survey 10 years of Johnson's work, including photographs, sculptures, videos, installations, and paintings that examine the complexities of black identity through the legacies of black intellectual and popular figures, belief systems, and historical events.

Museum of Contemporary Art (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a collaborative artist residency project with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), with audience engagement activities exploring the creative process through innovative programming of experimental and improvisational music with participating composers. The MCA-ICE residency is the first long-term ensemble-in-residence project at the museum and will feature performances of new works by composers such as Georges Aperghis, Julio Estrada, George Lewis, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang.

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the American Music Theatre Project's In The Works initiative, a new program of workshop residencies for new musicals in development by professional creative teams. Three developmental projects will be identified by an advisory committee to receive workshop support, and will be cast with Northwestern University students and professional guest artists.

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Loiza in Logan Square: Puerto Rico's African Influences through Vejigantes and Bomba and Plena. Project components will include an exhibition of Luis Casiano's Vejigantes (clown-like characters) masks and costumes that are used in annual Puerto Rican festivals, and a performance by Bomba and Plena musicians Angel Luis Torruellas and AfriCaribe.

Ragdale Foundation
Lake Forest, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support Building and Expanding the Residency Experience for Teaching Artists. A diverse group of 24 teaching artists from Chicago arts organizations will be selected to participate in a two-week collaborative residency programs.

Rockford Symphony Orchestras, Inc.
Rockford, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Beethoven Live! Youth Concert featuring pianist Joel Ross. Middle school students from schools serving low-income families will travel to the Coronado Performing Arts Center for the performance.

Sanders, Ted
Urbana, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of The March, a new play adapted and directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Frank Galati, from the novel by E.L. Doctorow. The March chronicles Sherman's March to the Sea in 1864-65, during the final months of the Civil War, and recounts the destruction wrought by the conflict and the changes that it engendered in our national life and psyche for generations to follow.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury. Long Wharf Theatre's associate artistic director Eric Ting will direct the play about a group of actors who try to develop a presentation about the genocide of the Herero tribe of cattle herders in South-West Africa.


Number of Grants: 45          Total Amount: $1,211,000

 
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