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FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings

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

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
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support selected activities in the 2013 XYZ Festival of New Works. Supported activities will include workshop performances of Billy and Billie by Paul Oakley Stovall and When Last We Flew by Harrison David Rivers, a commission of playwright Tarell McCraney to adapt a story from Randall Kenan's book Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, and classes for youth in the art of solo performance and playwriting taught by Artistic Associate Arturo Soria.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Theater)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2013 Black Harvest Film Festival. Held in August, the festival screens feature-length narrative and documentary films as well as short works.

Asian Improv aRts Midwest
Oak Park, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Taiko Legacy 10: Drumming the Legacy - The Evidence, a series of performances and workshops on both the traditional and evolving forms of taiko (Japanese drumming). Artists under consideration, renowned for both their traditional backgrounds and ground-breaking new forms, include PJ Hirabayashi, Seiichi Tanka, and Kizan Kawamura, among others.

Buffam, Suzanne
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 noon-time concert series will be presented monthly at the Chicago Cultural Center and broadcast live on WFMT-FM.

Chicago Dancing Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of local and national companies as part of the Chicago Dancing Festival. Festival activities will include free performances, open rehearsals, open company classes, and a film festival.

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 25th 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: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 23rd annual Rhythm World, a tap and percussive dance festival. The performances and other activities will take place at Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chicago Cultural Center, Roosevelt's University's Ganz Hall, and at the historic Jazz Showcase.

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Stages, Sights & Sounds, a world stages festival. With an assortment of theater, dance, and puppet performances, this project focuses on children and families. 

Chicago International Film Festival Inc. Cinema-Chicago
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 49th Chicago International Film Festival. Programming includes screenings of contemporary American and international feature length films, short works, and documentaries.

Chicago Sinfonietta, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$12,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning and performance of a new work by multiple composers using Chicago architecture as inspiration with related educational activities. Curated by composer Jennifer Higdon, the commissioned work, ChiScapes, will comprise four movements each by a different young composer (Armando Bayolo, Vivian Fung, Jonathan Bailey Holland, and Chris Rogerson), each celebrating a different building in Chicago.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (aka CSO) (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
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Rivers - Nature, Power, Culture. The three-week festival under the artistic direction of Music Director Riccardo Muti is the culmination of a season-long exploration of the power and role of rivers in ancient and modern civilizations. The festival will include performances of Mississippi River by Florence Price, a new work by Orbert Davis performed by the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, and works by Toru Takemitsu and composer-in-residence Mason Bates, as well as symposia and lectures.

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (aka Goodman Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$90,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of The Happiest Song Plays Last by Quiara Alegria Hudes with direction by Teatro Vista's Artistic Director Edward Torres. The play chronicles a year in the life of two Puerto Rican Americans---an Iraqi War veteran in an ancient Jordanian town struggling to overcome the traumas of combat and his cousin's struggles and romance in North Philadelphia.

Chinese Fine Arts Society
Chicago, IL
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Five Elements Project. The project will include commissions, premieres, a residency, and a radio broadcast. Plans include concerts and workshops by violinist Rachel Barton Pine, ensemble-in-residence Civitas, and traditional Chinese musicians performing works including a commission by composer Huang Ruo, a re-orchestration of a work exploring the five traditional Chinese elements by Zhou Long, and the winning compositions of the Barbara Tiao Composition Competition for young composers.

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support contemporary dance residencies during the 40th anniversary of The Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago. The project will include Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Ann Bogart's SITI Company collaborating on a new dance theater work, A Meditation on the Rite of Spring, and Reggie Wilson's Fist and Heel Performance Group's creation and presentation of the Moseses Project.

Court Theatre Fund (aka Court Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support productions of Molière's celebrated comedies The Misanthrope and Tartuffe directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell. Highlighting sociopolitical themes and connecting the characters' struggles to modern-day society, The Misanthrope will be presented in period dress and Tartuffe will be set in modern-day Chicago.

Eighth Blackbird Performing Arts Association
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning and premiere of Never My Heart by composer and poet Amy Beth Kirsten with related outreach activities. To be created in the commedia dell'arte tradition, the work will feature costumed musicians performing all roles from memory under the direction of Martha Clarke.

Facets Multimedia, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 30th 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.

Fulcrum Point New Music Project
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert celebrating the 75th birthday of composer John Corigliano with related educational activities. The musical score to the 1980 Ken Russell science fiction film Altered States will be performed live with the movie projected on a screen above the orchestra using a specially licensed and produced version of the film by Warner Brothers Pictures with the dialogues and sound effects, but minus the music.

Gilloury Institute (aka Silk Road Rising (formerly Silk Road Theatre Project))
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Rajiv Joseph's The Lake Effect. Set in a depressed Cleveland neighborhood, an estranged Indian American brother and sister are reunited by the death of their father, but a complicated web of relationships and plot twists occur when their late father's gambling bookie enters their lives.

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support A Writer's Life/Cycle, a collaborative project engaging a group of multigenerational writers to create and perform an original theater piece. Additional proposed activities include open rehearsals, workshops, and post-show discussions.

International Music Foundation
Chicago, IL
$11,500
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 online.

Korean American Resource and Cultural Center (aka Spirits of Poongmul)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support IlkwaNori International Joint Production, a concert of traditional Korean music and dance. The Korean American Resource and Cultural Center will bring as many as six dancers and musicians from Korea to offer instruction and a joint performance with local pungmul musicians.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the commissioning and development of Yuri Kochiyama by J. Nicole Brooks. Brooks will explore the chronicles of civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama's quest for social justice from when she organized for interred Japanese across the nation through her later career in Harlem as a social activist.

Lyric Opera of Chicago (aka Lyric Opera )
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Dvořák's Rusalka. Ana Maria Martinez and Brandon Jovanovich will star in this production created by David McVicar and conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Marwen Studio, a free program which offers out-of-school, visual art 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 intermedia (mixed media, new media).

Midwest Young Artists
Highwood, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support orchestra, chamber music, and music theory programs. The program provides students with performance opportunities, rehearsals, classes, master classes and performance competitions.

Muench, Simone
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Memories N' Time, a new collaborative dance and music work. Artistic director Amaniyea Payne will choreograph to original compositions by composer Reginald Robinson. The work will explore the common cultural roots connecting ragtime, traditional African highlife, Latin American calypso, and African American jazz styles.

Museum of Contemporary Art (aka MCA)
Chicago, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an installation project in both Kassel, Germany, and Chicago by the artist Theaster Gates. Known for creating art works that explore architectural and social rejuvenation using recycled and repurposed materials, Gates (b. 1973) will present his work at the international sculpture exhibition Documenta in Kassel (held every five years), and subsequently in Chicago at the MCA.

Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a literary workshop and reading series featuring author Patricia Smith and storytelling performance collective 2nd Story. Smith will give a public reading from her most recent collection of poems; work created by the workshop participants will be published in the Journal of Ordinary Thought and documented on the Every Person Is a Philosopher blog.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Global Dance Parties series. Each Global Dance Party will consist of a lesson for participants led by a master dancer, followed by an extended evening of participatory dancing to music performed by leading practitioners of the genre.

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the inaugural Cultura Viva Festival. This year's festival will feature the music, dance, and visual arts of the Ponce region of Puerto Rico.

Reddy, Srikanth
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Reeves, Roger W.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition featuring R.H. Quaytman (b. 1961), a contemporary artist who works predominantly with silkscreen on wood panels. The artist, whose work responds directly to the space in which it is made, will work with the Renaissance Society's historic archive to develop source material, using images, publications, and correspondence dating back to 1915.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the production of Head of Passes, a new play commissioned by Steppenwolf, written by ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney, and directed by ensemble member Tina Landau. Taking inspiration from the Biblical book of Job, the play, set in the murky swamplands at the mouth of the Mississippi, is an exploration of faith and its role in American culture and the African American community.

University of Chicago (on behalf of Smart Museum)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition SAHMAT Collective: Art and Activism in India Since 1989. The Delhi-based group, formed in response to the brutal death of artist and activist Safdar Hashmi (1954-89), creates artwork that addresses artistic freedom and secular, egalitarian values.

University of St. Francis
Joliet, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Hispanic/Latino Music Immersion Project featuring performances by guitarist David Burgess, composer Elbio Barilari, and the Ondas Ensemble. Proposed outreach activities include a public lecture, instrument demonstrations, instrumental and vocal workshops for underserved high school and middle school students, and a guitar master class for university and high school students led by Burgess.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and production of the American premiere of Disconnect, written by Anupama Chandrasekhar and directed by Ann Filmer. The work explores identity in a globalized world, featuring an all-Indian cast.

Young Chicago Authors
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support creative writing workshops for youth, teachers, and teaching artists. Master teaching artists will lead free after-school, weekend, and summer writing programs for students, ages 13 to 21; and will provide professional development for classroom teachers, teaching artists, and advanced students interested in becoming workshop leaders.


Number of Grants: 42          Total Amount: $1,146,000

 
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