2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Folk Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

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

ILLINOIS

3-D Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support the annual Pier Walk, The Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition. To be juried by critic Peter Schjeldahl, Pier Walk is one of the largest exhibitions of large-scale outdoor sculpture in the world, featuring work by approximately 35 sculptors.

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the publication of a catalogue of the collection of French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings. The book will document the Institute's collection of works created before 1600.

Art Resources in Teaching
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support visual artist residencies in Chicago Public Schools. Elementary and middle school students and their teachers will work with professional artists to enhance students' critical thinking, creative problem solving, and art-making skills through lessons in art history, art discussion, and a related hands-on art project.

Black Ensemble Theater Corporation
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the Black Playwrights Initiative. The project will provide training to emerging playwrights in the development of new musical theater works, to be showcased at the annual Chicago Black Playwrights Festival.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support the Arts in Education Partnership Design Seminar. The project will establish partnerships of artists and educators to integrate the arts into the overall educational program of Chicago public schools, as well as to research and document effective methods for creating new partnerships.

Chicago Human Rhythm Project
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the 15th anniversary of a summer tap festival. The festival will present four weeks of concerts, classes, and public demonstrations.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support an educational outreach program. Team Shakespeare is a community-based, educational initiative offering full-length and abridged performances of works by William Shakespeare, with accompanying workshops and study guides for area students and teachers.

Classical Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support free concerts by college and high school age students. The eight free concerts will take place at Preston Bradley Hall, at the Chicago Cultural Center, during 2005-06.

Collaboraction Theatre Company, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a series of readings and performances featuring innovative presentations of authors and their work. Through light and sound design, props and costuming, readings, adaptations, and other activities, the events will explore the collaboration process and develop new models for the presentation of contemporary literature.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support school residencies and performances. During 2005-06, the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble will conduct six residencies in schools and community venues, and will perform during the joint national conference of the Center for Black Music Research and the Society for American Music.

Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$80,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support the Hard Cover project. Working with professional video artists, underserved Chicago teenagers will learn all aspects of digital video production.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support the Ensemble Program. The project will provide weekly choral arts instruction, including reading music notation, solfeggio, vocal technique, singing style, and rehearsals for youth (between the ages of 5 and 18); and a day-long spring workshop.

Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support development of A:List, a curated digital directory of Chicago artists. The online database will be free to selected artists and include a resume, artist's statement, images of artwork, and other information of interest to the community.

Illinois Arts Council
Chicago, IL
$686100
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Independent Features Project/Midwest
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the 14th IFP/Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference. The event provides opportunities for filmmakers to learn from, and meet with, industry professionals.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  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 during 2005-06.

Long Haul Productions Inc
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production of radio documentaries by Dan Collison. Heartland Chronicles will feature stories from Chicago and the Midwest, exploring both urban and rural communities.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$13,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support continuation of the Pre-College Summer Program. The project is a two-week, intensive college planning and visual arts instruction course for underserved junior and senior high school students.

Merit School of Music
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support Merit's Humboldt Park Extended Day Program. Designed to provide high-quality music instruction in a constructive after-school setting,the program involves student participation in small group instruction, ensemble rehearsals, and performances.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support the Garden Gallery Project, a consortium project. Students of the Yollocalli Youth Museum and consortium partner Archi-Treasures will design a garden for Harrison Park in the Pilsen area of Chicago.

Najwa
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support Cultural Empowerment Through Dance. The project will offer classes, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and performances in African dance and drums to youth and adults.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a special music series featuring the lives and stories of Chicaog's Latino musicians and a complete catalog of La Pena's past shows.

Poetry Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support readings featuring nationally renowned writers, and Hands on Stanzas, a poets-in-the-schools-program. Students of the program receive an anthology of their work, free admission to readings, and opportunities to present their poetry at sites throughout the city.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$52,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies 
To support the Visiting Artist Series. Focused on arts education and community outreach, the Series will present nationally acclaimed artists in residencies at schools and non-traditional sites throughout a six-county, rural, and urban region.

Richard Nickel Committee
Chicago, IL
$26,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support the preservation of, and increased accessibility to, the photographs, negatives, papers, and research of architectural photographer Richard Nickel. The collection includes more than 11,000 images of buildings by seminal architects such Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support ArtsPlace. An eight-week, summer apprenticeship program will combine visual arts learning and entrepreneurship concepts that will lead to an exhibition and the marketing of young participants' art work.

Sherwood Conservatory of Music
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support music education for underserved communities. The project will offer comprehensive programs of instruction and performance in two neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side.

Snow City Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support arts activities offered to children who have been hospitalized long-term. Working alongside professional artists, children will participate in creative writing, music, and visual arts workshops.

Society of North American Goldsmiths
Lisle, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support the 37th annual conference, focusing on jewelry, design, and the metal arts. To be held in Cleveland, the conference will include demonstrations, presentations, hands-on technical workshops, exhibitions, and opportunities for dialogue between educators.

Timber Lake Playhouse
Mt. Carroll, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the production of a seldom-produced musical theater work based on a literary text. The musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by playwright David H. Bell, lyricist Cheri Coons, and composer Tom Sivak, will be further developed and directed by Artistic Director Brad Lyons.

WBEZ Alliance, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support 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 the best work currently being produced.

Writers' Theatre
Glencoe, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the creation, development, and tour of a new play. The King Project (Where were you when Martin Luther King was shot?) will be written and directed by playwright Yolanda Androzzo, and will tour to area middle and high schools.

Young Chicago Authors
Glencoe, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support production of student publications. Publications, developed and produced by student editorial boards, will feature creative writing and artwork by youth, ages 13 to 19.

Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States of America
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the YMCA National Readings Tour and the YMCA National Writers Community, a writers-in-residence program. The tour will link local writers with nationally recognized writers for readings in communities such as Louisville, Orlando, Syracuse, Norwalk, and Portland.

ILLINOIS total grants: 34
ILLINOIS total dollars: $1,497,600

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