2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access; Arts on Radio & TV; Arts Learning; Folk Arts Infrastructure; Heritage/Preservation; State & Regional Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

ILLINOIS

Champaign

Developmental Services Center
Champaign, IL
$7,000
To support the production of an adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors." The Promting Theater will premiere its version of the classic play during its third annual Street Theater Festival.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support Jazz Threads, a yearlong project of community jazz activities and a residency by Cecil Bridgewater at the Krannert Art Center. The project will include performances, educational activities and community participation.

Chicago

3-D Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$25,000
To support the sixth annual Pier Walk, The Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition. To be juried by critic and writer David Pagel, Pier Walk is the biggest exhibition of large-scale outdoor sculpture in the world, featuring work by approximately 40 sculptors.

American Library Association
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$55,000
To support the development of Library Networks for Literature, linking regional libraries with authors, publishers and literary organizations. The initiative will sponsor a variety of events, including readings by such writers as Stuart Dybek, E. Ethelbert Miller and Gail Tsukiyama.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$60,000
To support the transfer of approximately 400 titles in Video Data Bank's (VDB) videotape collection from analog to digital Betacam format. The transfer will facilitate distribution on DVD and allow the titles to be viewed through video streaming on VDB's Web site, www.vdb.org.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$60,000
To support expansion of the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art. The institute will provide experienced high school art teachers the opportunity to study contemporary art theory and practice with leading artists, critics, and lecturers in the visual and new media arts.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$80,000
To support the Arts Education Partnership Design Seminar. CAPE will continue to build on its work with schools and artist partners on designing, implementing, and documenting arts-integrated curriculum that will bring professionalism to the role of teaching artists and in-school arts specialists.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$17,500
To support First Monday, a free noontime concert series at the Chicago Cultural Center, broadcast live on WFMT-FM radio. The 45-minute interactive concert format allows audiences to discuss the music with the chamber players.

Chicago Children's Museum
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support expansion of Passport to the World. This educational series for children up to fifth grade and their families highlights the arts, cultures and traditions of Chicago's diverse communities.

Columbia College (on behalf of Office of Community Arts Partnerships)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$70,000
To support continuation of the Urban Missions Program. Approximately 3,000 Chicago youth, aged nine to 18, will be offered community-based arts classes, workshops, mentorships and training opportunities as part of their arts learning activities.

Columbia College (on behalf of Community Arts Partners Institute) (consortium)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$72,000
To support the professional development conference of the Community Arts Partners Institute. The annual conference will be held for artists, cultural workers, faculty, and community and university leaders.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support a symposium and performance celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Center for Black Music Research. Artistic Director Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson will moderate an open panel discussion with five composers of African descent and conduct a performance by the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble.

Community Television Network (aka CTVN)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$26,000
To support a media technology program for at-risk youth. CTVN teens, aged 14 to 21, will create, view, distribute and exchange streaming media through Hard Cover, CTVN's award-winning cable TV show.

Experimental Sound Studio (consortium)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$18,000
To support the Creative Audio Archive. This project will catalog and preserve three collections of audio recordings of local and national significance.

Field Museum of Natural History (aka Field Museum)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$35,000
To support the preservation of the museum's collection of Chinese embroideries. The collection consists of over 2,800 items, some of which date from the 15th century.

Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$20,000
To support the nomination of Frank Lloyd Wright structures to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The nomination will focus on the comprehensive nature of Wright's contribution to modern architecture.

Free Street Programs, Inc.
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the continuation of the TeenStreet Theater and Arts Literacy programs. TeenStreet is a community-based, comprehensive theater program that provides low-income Chicago teens with after-school jobs as writers, performers and producers; Arts Literacy is a yearlong school-based residency program.

Glessner House Museum
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$12,000
To support the creation of a management database of the collection. The museum has an extensive collection of Arts and Crafts furniture and decor numbering approximately 5,000 objects.

Illinois Arts Council
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$687,800
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$30,000
To support the continued expansion of the Chicago Jazz and Heritage Program. The program seeks to explore ways to connect youth and families with the cultural heritage of the city's diverse communities.

Live Bait Theatrical Company
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$8,000
To support the continuation and expansion of Police-Teen Link. The program brings together teens from disadvantaged backgrounds with police officers and theater professionals through writing and improvisational comedy experiences.

Marwen Foundation, Inc. (aka Marwen)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support the Pre-College Summer Program. The two-week, intensive college planning and visual arts instruction course for underserved junior and senior high school students will teach students how to prepare for college admissions and how to develop portfolios of artwork.

Merit School of Music
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$46,000
To support the Humboldt Park Music Program. Designed to foster a love of music, the after-school music lessons are targeted to third- through sixth-grade students in Chicago's inner-city public schools.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (consortium)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$41,000
To support expansion of the Yollocalli Youth Museum Program. The arts education and career training program engages students in different artistic media, while introducing them to diverse professions in the arts.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$100,000
To support Museums in the Park (MIP), in collaboration with the Chicago Park District. MIP's Park Voyagers--kids for creative exploration--is designed to bring new families into museums and bring museums into new communities.

Natya Dance Theatre (consortium)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support dance workshops for South Asian and Middle Eastern immigrant families in crisis. Natya Dance Theatre, an Indian classical dance organization, will work in consortium with Apna Ghar, a social service agency.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$35,000
To support Proyecto Fandango. Using the traditional model of a fandango in rural outreach to new immigrant communities, Sones de Mexico Ensemble, will tour Mexican-American communities in Wisconsin and Illinois.

Pros Arts Studio
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support Project: Celebraciones! Activities will include free, after-school workshops in both traditional and contemporary visual arts that are part of the Dia de los Muertos, Dia del Nino, and Carnaval celebrations in Latin-American communities, as well as teacher workshops.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support expansion of the In-School program to increase the amount of time spent in classrooms and allow for in-depth arts and technology-infused learning experiences. The project will include training resident and freelance artists in models of arts education, professional training workshops for teachers and extended classroom projects for students.

Urban Gateways
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support the Aesthetic Education Focus Schools project. During the school year, students at Horace Greeley Elementary and middle school students at Ravenswood Public School will study the same work of art through varied artist residency programs designed to build connections across the curriculum.

Video Machete (consortium)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$35,000
To support the distribution of youth-produced media art. Working with MediaRights.org, Video Machete will tour and exhibit a compilation of work by young artists, create a Web portal to access its database of titles and conduct workshops on methods of distribution.

Video Machete
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$28,000
To support Global Youth multimedia workshops. Targeted to immigrant youth, the project will include in-school and after-school training in digital video production, graphic design and Web design.

YMCA of the USA
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$60,000
To support the YMCA National Readings Tour, bringing writers to YMCA Writer's Voice centers throughout the country, and the YMCA National Writers Community, offering residencies to mid-career writers. The readings tour will link local writers with nationally recognized writers for readings in communities such as Billings, Mont.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Tampa, Fla.

Geneva

Beacon Street Gallery and Performance Company
Geneva, IL
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support fieldwork to evaluate the present condition of traditional artists and ethnic arts in the Chicago metropolitan area. Issues to be explored include artistic excellence, traditionality, continued knowledge of the traditional arts within ethnic communities and identification of methods to strengthen the practice of traditional arts.

Glen Ellyn

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support the continuation of chorus workshops, school exchanges and outreach classes for students from economically disadvantaged households. Through weekly rehearsals and performances of a variety of ethnic and musical styles, this performance-based music education program's three performing ensembles serve about 250 children, ranging in age from five to 18.

Glencoe

Young Chicago Authors
Glencoe, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support Say What, a tri-annual publication of the greater Chicago writing community. The free publication is designed for youths, ages 14 to 20, and their teachers.

Normal

Center for Book Culture
Normal, IL
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$55,000
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern fiction by Dalkey Archive Press. Authors whose works will be republished as part of the press's International Recovery Project include Ivan Angelo, Violette Leduc, Robert Pinget, Nathalie Sarraute and Ignacio Brandao.

Palatine

Little City Foundation
Palatine, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$20,000
To support Have Art, Will Travel. This series of mobile arts classes is designed for children and adults with developmental disabilities and provides them with at-home/work instruction in visual, performing and media arts.

Rock Island

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$30,000
To support the Visiting Artist Series. The project focuses on arts education and community outreach and will present nationally acclaimed performing artists in residencies in counties located in Iowa and Illinois.

Rockford

Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$23,000
To support ArtsPlace. The arts and job apprenticeship program trains teens, aged 14 to 18, as teaching assistants through studio time with professional artists.

Illinois Total Dollars Awarded: $2,001,300
Illinois Total Grants Awarded: 40

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