FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings
Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
ILLINOIS
About Face Theatre Collective
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new musical. Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati and composer Stephen Flaherty will create a new musical adapted from the writings of Gertrude Stein.
Archeworks
Chicago, IL
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a revitalization plan for the city of Waukegan, Illinois. Design ideas will be developed for business district revitalization, urban planning, architectural concepts, community identity, and streetscaping.
Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support New Criterion Cinema. This curated film series will present premieres of contemporary American independent and foreign films, as well as domestic and international classic works to an estimated audience of 23,000 people.
Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the transfer of works in the 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 the Web.
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, IL
$13,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an exhibition and symposium on prominent women architects who have recently completed projects in the Midwest. Programs will educate general audiences about the contributions women have made to the design field and emphasize their innovative approaches to architecture.
Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support First Monday, a free noontime concert series at the Chicago Cultural Center, broadcast live on the WFMT-FM radio station. The 45-minute interactive concert format allows audiences to discuss the music with the chamber players.
Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 17th Onion City Film Festival. The exhibition series includes a lecture and screening series, and the Onion City Film Festival celebrates excellence in experimental work.
Chicago Latino Film Festival (International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 21st Chicago Latino Film Festival. Over a two-week period, the Center will exhibit the work of directors of Ibero or Latin American descent as well as films directly related to Latino culture.
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a staged production of G.F. Handel's oratorio La Resurrezione, and corresponding Opera Insights program activities. Associated events will include a symposium at the Newberry Library, preview lectures by a local critic, and free, pre-performance lectures by scholar musicians.
Chicago Public Art Group
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a collaborative public art project by the artists Olivia Gude and Bernard Williams. Working with residents of the Hilliard Homes public housing complex, the artists will address the use of public space within the various buildings.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a professional development program for pre-professional musicians. Plans include rehearsals under the direction of resident and guest conductors, professional coaching, master classes by Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) musicians, and scholarship support.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$85,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency with Principal Guest Conductor Pierre Boulez. In celebration of his 80th birthday, the residency will feature special programs to honor his accomplishments as conductor, teacher, and new music advocate.
Chicago Theatre Group, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the adaptation and production of the classic play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Rebecca Gilman. The performance, along with outreach and education activities, will examine how the meaning and interpretation of this text has changed over the past 100 years.
Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support workshops, artists' residencies, and performances in a writing program for children. In Writing Our World (WOW!), stories written by children are presented on stage with accompanying educational activities.
Cinema Chicago (Chicago International Film Festival)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 41st Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 130 films from around the world.
Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of African and Latino dance companies, along with community engagement and public education programs. The project includes the 15th anniversary of DanceAfrica Chicago and the LatinoContempo series.
Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Asian Arts & Media)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the 2005 Woman Warrior Festival, a biennial event celebrating the accomplishments of women of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in the arts. Thematic presentations will include lectures, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions, film screenings, performances, and readings.
Court Theatre Fund
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a modernist play. Christopher Bayes will direct a reconceived production of Samuel Beckett's 20th century classic play Endgame.
Dalkey Archive Press (Center for Book Culture)
Normal, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of original and reprinted works of fiction and creative nonfiction in translation. Dalkey Archive Press will publish titles from Africa, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Russia, and Serbia.
eighth blackbird performing arts association
Evanston, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the creation of a multimedia work titled Slide, which will explore the role of perception in the context of psychological experiments. The work involves a collaboration by eight blackbird, a chamber music sextet, composer/musician Steven Mackey, and actor Rinde Eckert.
Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association
Elgin, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Dvorak in America, a festival on the life and music of Antonin Dvorak. Plans include educational activities for area high school students and a concert using slides, musical excerpts, and narration.
Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Artists Residency Program and the Outer Ear Festival of Sound. The project will provide local sound artists with residencies to create and present new sonic art works.
Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 22nd 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.
Guild Complex (on behalf of Tia Chucha Press)
Chicago, IL
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry. Scheduled titles include a multicultural anthology of Tia Chucha Press authors, which the press will target to schools throughout the country.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a program for emerging choreographers to create new work. The Program for Emerging and Developing Artists will involve the Inside/Out choreographic workshop for company dancers, a nationwide choreographic competition, and collaborations between choreographers and the main dance company, Hubbard Street 2.
Joffrey Ballet of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dances at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University in Chicago. The American Masterworks program will feature Square Dance, by George Balanchine; New York Export: Opus Jazz!, by Jerome Robbins; and Dark Elegies by Anthony Tudor.
Johnson, Kent L.
Freeport, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Spanish of The Night, a book-length
poem by Bolivian writer Jaime Saenz (1921-1986). Johnson will collaborate
with Forrest Gander. One of Bolivia's leading writers of the 20th century,
Saenz lived his whole life in La Paz, Bolivia, seldom venturing beyond
the city. For much of his adult life, he embodied the late romantic idea
of the poete maudit - apocalyptic and occult in his politics, a frequenter
of slum taverns, insistently nocturnal in his artistic affairs, and the
ongoing subject of rumor and gossip. Published in 1984, The Night
was Saenz's last poem. Composed in four parts, the poem is a circular
journey touching on the themes of alcoholism, identity, and Bolivian history.
Kent Johnson currently teaches at Highland Community College. His translations
include Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz, published
in 2002.
Korean American Resource & Cultural Center (KRCC)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a cultural coordinator position and related costs. The coordinator will oversee the artistic development of the Center's cultural troupe, increase outreach, recruit new program participants and volunteers, and maintain and develop current projects for the program.
Lyric Opera Center for American Artists
Chicago, IL
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a comprehensive singer training and professional development program including activities such as artist residencies, vocal instruction, and master classes. The curriculum includes theatrical coaching, language classes, and guidance regarding the diverse stylistic elements of opera, musical theater, and the art song genre.
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Sir Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage and the OperaReach program. Activities will include pre-performance lectures and youth education and community initiatives.
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the development and presentation of new performing arts projects. Projects will include performances, residencies, conferences, an exhibit, discussions, a civics institute, and a Chautauqua Assembly.
Neo-Futurists
Chicago, IL
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of a new work by founding director Greg Allen. The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen will explore the nature of dramatic tragedy in contemporary theater and how it intersects with modern lives.
Performing Arts Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the PAC/edge Performance Festival, a six-week series that includes performances, exhibitions, and educational activities. The festival is designed to explore and celebrate the intersections between theater, dance, creative writing, performance, and the humanities.
Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of Spectacle '05: Loves Me...Loves Me Not. This site-specific production will take place in Chicago's Sherman Park.
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of Chinese-born Luxembourg-based artist Su-Mei Tse with accompanying brochure and education programs. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 50th Venice Biennial, the artist has produced an eclectic body of performance-based work that combines sculpture, video, video installations, and photography.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of The Pain and the Itch by Bruce Norris. Directed by associate artist Anna D. Shapiro, the play is a dark comedy about privilege and corruption in a seemingly stereotypical upper-middle-class family.
Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Symmetry by David C. Field. Set in academia and exploring issues of lost opportunities and misplaced loyalties, the production will feature acclaimed stage and film actor John Mahoney.
ILLINOIS total grants: 37
ILLINOIS total dollars: $1,021,000
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