2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Leadership Initiatives/Literature Fellowships
Services to Arts Organizations & Artists

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

ILLINOIS

About Face Theatre Collective
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$13,000
To support the final development and production of Winesburg, Ohio, a new musical adapted from a collection of short stories by Sherwood Anderson.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Film Center)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support a curated film series. Celebrating American Cinema: Icons and Innovators will showcase films representing three genres - the western, the war film, and film noir - and retrospectives of the directors D. W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Arzner,

Black Ensemble Theater Corporation
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$27,000
To support a tour of The Jackie Wilson Story and Doo Wop Shoo Bop by the BET Touring Company to 20 cities across the United States.

Center for International Performance
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support Chicago Now, a set of compact disc recordings of works by Chicago jazz musicians, accompanied by audio interviews that will be conducted by writers and historians.

Chicago Artists' Coalition
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$30,000
To support a communications upgrade to improve the quality, impact, and reach of artists services. As the only organization in the Midwest providing comprehensive services to 2,200 artists and 125 arts organizations, the project will provide new electronic skills and tools to communicate with members.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support the Composer Perspectives concerts at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Chicago. The concerts will feature works programmed, rehearsed, and directed by leading composers.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 16th Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series emphasizes documentary and experimental films and videos and the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting experimental work.

Chicago International Film Festival - Cinema Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the 40th Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 130 films from around the world.

Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$10,000
To support the Young Artist Program. The performance-based training program will engage young professionals for six to 15 weeks, during which they will receive individual coaching, take part in master classes with world-class coaches, and have the opportunity to understudy principal roles.

Chicago Park District
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Save America's Treasures
$250,000
To support the conservation and restoration of the fountain's reflecting pool from Lorado Taft's sculpture Fountain of Time.

Chicago Sinfonietta
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support concerts showcasing an African American soloist and an African American composer. Chicago Symphony trumpeter Tage Larsen and composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson will be featured in two separate programs.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support a professional development program for pre-professional musicians. The program prepares the young musicians of the Civic Orchestra for positions in leading professional orchestras by offering professional coaching, mock audition seminars, and guest-artist master classes.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$75,000
To support a month-long festival exploring the impact of Ludwig van Beethoven and Arnold Schoenberg on the evolutionary progress of music. Music director Daniel Barenboim will conduct performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, and guest soloists at Symphony Center.

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$14,000
To support Writing Our World (WOW!), a program that uses a variety of activities to address global cultural understanding. Through workshops, residencies, and performances, WOW! encourages children to explore their creativity by writing their own stories and by learning to understand the lives of others.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$25,000
To support the presentation of African and African American companies. Each company will conduct a one-week residency at the college.

Court Theatre Fund (consortium)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$40,000
To support the creation, production, and adaptation of a literary work for the stage. Court Theatre will partner with Redmoon Theatre to create an original theatrical production of Cyrano de Bergerac, the verse drama by Edmond Rostand.

Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support the Artists Residency Program and the Outer Ear Festival of Sound. The project will provide as many as six local artists with residencies to create and present new sonic art works.

Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$60,000
To support the 21st 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.

Famous Door
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$12,000
To support the production of Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell. Artistic Director Marc Grapey will direct the piece and composer/sound designer Joseph Fosco will score the work.

Fulcrum Point New Music Project
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support concert performances of Frida, an opera by Robert X. Rodriguez based on the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Two performances and numerous educational activities will take place in the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum of Chicago, with additional performances planned in nearly St. Paul's Church.

Goodman Theatre (Chicago Theatre Group, Inc.)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$60,000
To support the world premiere production of Electricidad by Luis Alfaro, directed by Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinez. Subtitled "A Chicano Take on Sophocles' Electra", Electricidad is a retelling of the Greek story of murder and matricide.

Grant Park Orchestral Association
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support a season-long commitment to the performance of John Corigliano's music, programmed for the Grant Park Music Festival. In celebration of the inaugural season of the Frank Gehry designed Music Pavilion at Millennium Park in Chicago, an average of one Corigliano work per week will be presented on the main stage series of the festival.

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support the Performance Poetry Festival. The summer festival will bring together artists who combine theater and poetry to create lyrical monologues and experimental plays and films.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of dance works. Choreographers involved in the project include Christopher Bruce, Daniel Ezralow, Susan Marshall, Alex Ketley, Brian Enos, and artistic director Jim Vincent.

Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$20,000
To support the Local Arts Network The LAN provides training, technical assistance, and professional development opportunities for nonprofit arts organizations across Illinois.

Independent Feature Project/Midwest
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the 13th IFP/Midwest Independent Filmmaker's Conference. The event provides opportunities for filmmakers to learn from, and meet with, industry professionals.

Joffrey Ballet of Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support the presentation of The Ashton Evening. The program will commemorate the centennial of the birth of Sir Frederick Ashton, the late artistic director of the Royal Ballet of London.

Kartemquin Educational Films
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$50,000
To support the production of a documentary film by Maria Finitzo. At the Heart of the Matter will examine the issue of stem cell research by following a family for whom the subject has particular relevance on several levels.

League of Chicago Theatres Foundation
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support publication and distribution of Chicagoplays. The theater program magazine will feature articles, show listings, maps, and program information for Chicago's theater community.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the development and workshop productions of a new theater work by Andrew White, inspired by George Orwell's novel 1984. The project will bring together a diverse group of artists to examine the novel's themes and incorporate film and other mass media elements into the performance.

Lyric Opera Center for American Artists
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$25,000
To support faculty costs for the singer training and professional development program. The year-long vocal instruction program includes language, theatrical and vocal instruction, as well as master classes and career development guidance.

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$100,000
To support the world premiere of A Wedding by William Bolcom with the libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman. Based on Robert Altman's 1978 film of the same name, the opera will be a major highlight of the company's Golden Jubilee Season.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support the Sor Juana Festival. The multidisciplinary festival will feature visual arts, film, music, dance, literature, and theater by Mexican and Mexican American women.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$40,000
To support a series of large-scale performance projects based on interdisciplinary and collaborative practice. The museum will produce, co-commission, or provide developmental residencies for four new projects.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$50,000
To support the exhibition, educational programming, and temporary installation of prototype kiosks. Artist and designer Dan Peterman will create community service kiosks to be placed in the museum's plaza and then relocated to city parks.

Neo-Futurists
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the creation, development, and production of Evidence by Artistic Director Greg Allen. Playwright-musician John Pierson will compose the play's score.

New Turners Theatre (Theatre Building Chicago, NFP)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$10,000
To support the public presentation of new musicals-in-progress. The Stages Festival will present eight musicals, selected from over one hundred submissions, to be performed as concert readings or skeletal productions.

Northlight Theatre, Inc.
Skokie, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$13,000
To support the creation of a new musical adapted from a literary work. Northlight Theatre will create a musical theater work based on Studs Terkel's book, The Good War, using the patriotic music of Irving Berlin.

Other Voices, Inc.
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support publication and related expenses, including increased authors' fees, for issues of Other Voices magazine. The journal will coordinate a special week of literary programming in conjunction with the 2004 Associated Writing Programs conference in Chicago.

Piven Theatre Workshop
Evanston, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the Chicago premiere of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl. A retelling of the classic Greek myth, this version gives the story of Orpheus and Eurydice from the female perspective.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$45,000
To support the world premiere of a new play. Steppenwolf Theatre Company will produce a mainstage production of Tracy Letts's new play, Man From Nebraska.

University of Illinois at Chicago (on behalf of School of Art and Design)
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support post-production costs for an experimental documentary by Silvia Malagrino. Burnt Oranges will examine life under the authoritarian regime that governed Argentina in the 1970s.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(on behalf of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts)
Champaign, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$25,000
To support a residency with choreographer Ralph Lemon and the development and premiere of House: Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy. The work will encompass dance, theater, and new media/interactive technologies in a full evening performance.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$18,000
To support a workshop and second production of The Romance of Magno Rubio by Lonnie Carter, based on a short story by the blacklisted Filipino poet and activist Carlos Bulosan.

WBEZ Alliance, Inc.
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Established in 2001 as a "Sundance for Radio," the festival provides an opportunity for documentarians, feature reporters, and audio artists from around the globe to gather and share their expertise, and for listeners to hear some of the best work currently produced.

Illinois Total Dollars Awarded: $1,438,000
Illinois Total Grants Awarded: 45

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