2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Arts on Radio and Television/Folk Arts Infrastructure/Heritage & Preservation/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

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

ILLINOIS

American Indian Center, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support year-round, weekly workshops in traditional and non-traditional visual and performing arts in the context of American-Indian culture and practices. The project will engage urban American-Indian youth, ages five through 18, with elder culture bearers in Chicago.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute)
Chicago, IL
$57,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art. The project will provide experienced high school art teachers the opportunity to study contemporary art theory and to practice with leading artists, critics, and lecturers in the visual and new media arts.

Association House of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support year-round, after-school, weekend, and summer classes in theater, poetry, video, and puppetry. Professional artists and partnering arts organizations offer classes that reach predominantly Latino and African-American youth in Chicago.

Barrel Of Monkeys
Chicago, IL
$8,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support a creative writing and theater residency program for underserved children in the Chicago area. Residency workshops will be led by trained actors-educators who have extensive experience working with youth.

Beacon Street Gallery and Performance Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support continuation of the Chicago Fieldwork Project. The survey will identify the cultural assets and needs of the diverse population of the Chicago metropolitan area.

Center for Book Culture
Normal, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
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, Nathalie Sarraute, Viktor Shklovsky, Aidan Higgins, and Camilo Jose Cela.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Chicago, IL
$70,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Arts in Education Partnership Design Seminar. The project will establish partnerships with artists and educators to integrate arts into the overall educational program of Chicago public schools, and the program will also research and document effective methods for creating new partnerships.

Chicago Classical Recording Foundation
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a CD recording of the works of composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. The Chicago Sinfonietta, the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble Quartet, and other artists will perform on the recording.

Chicago Human Rhythm Project
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a festival of tap and percussive dance. The project will include performances by national and international artists as well as educational activities including residencies, master classes, and workshops.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Office of Community Arts Partnerships)
Chicago, IL
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Community Arts Leadership and Learning (CALL). The project provides professional development programs to prepare emerging and mid-career community youth-arts leaders.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support performances of music of the African diaspora. The New Black Music Repertory Ensemble (New BMRE) will conduct six residencies in schools and community venues, performing a broad spectrum of African-American music styles and genres.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$17,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support chorus workshops and outreach classes for low-income students. Youth choristers will participate in vocal ensembles rehearsals, culminating in public concerts performed in a variety of community venues.

Illinois Arts Council
Chicago, IL
$710,900
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the Chicago Jazz and Heritage Program, featuring concerts, workshops, and artist residencies in Chicago neighborhoods. Community outreach and learning opportunities will be provided for youth and adults throughout the city.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (on behalf of WRTE 90.5 FM Radio Arte)
Chicago, IL
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Radio Arte and an intergenerational activity titled Audio Retratos (Pictures). The program will provide students with the opportunity to explore sound, use spoken word, and incorporate music into storytelling.

National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the International Choral Festival of Negro Spirituals. Local, national, and international choirs will come together in Detroit for daily performances, workshops, clinics, lectures, and demonstrations for soloists and choruses.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the community programs manager position and related costs. Activities will include formation of an advisory panel of experts in the field of African-American music, and the pilot of new point-of-entry concerts to connect with new audiences.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc. (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support a consortium project of early childhood folk music and dance education activities. In partnership with the Carole Robertson Center for Learning, the project will provide classroom teacher sessions on strategies for teaching music and movement; weekly infant, toddler, and early-childhood instruction in children's folk songs and dance; and related activities for parents.

Ounce of Prevention Fund
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Early Childhood Arts Program. Working with professional artists, underserved children and their families will participate in dance and music activities, classroom residencies, and live performances.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$24,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the In-School program, an in-depth arts and technology-infused learning experience. The project will include arts education training for resident and freelance artists, professional training workshops for teachers, and extended classroom projects for students.

Sun Foundation for Advancement in the Environmental Sciences and Arts
Washburn, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Art and Science in the Woods. Working in rural outdoor classes, students will participate in dance, drama, music, and visual art activities with artists through an intensive, one-week summer program in natural surroundings.

University of Chicago (on behalf of David & Alfred Smart Museum of Art)
Chicago, IL
$48,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support SmART Explorers. The six-unit arts education program teaches fifth-grade students how to look at, think, and talk about art through components such as a teacher mentoring program and an interactive Web site for children.

Urban Gateways
Chicago, IL
$41,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Cultural Enrichment Program. The project is driven by Arts Plan, a four-year program for learning in and through the arts that includes early-childhood instruction, professional development for teachers, and artist residencies for students and teachers in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in up to 13 public schools.

Video Machete
Chicago, IL
$24,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
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.

Window to the World Communications, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support production and national distribution of the radio series Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The series will consist of weekday, one-hour programs focusing on classical music in an informed, educational, and entertaining manner.

ILLINOIS total grants: 25
ILLINOIS total dollars: $1,452,900

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