FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings
Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships
Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent
upon prior Endowment approval.
ILLINOIS
About Face Theatre Collective
Chicago, IL
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of a play adapted from Monsieur Proust, a memoir by Celeste Albaret. She served as Marcel Proust's housekeeper during the years he wrote In Search of Lost Time.
Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$21,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Celebrating American Diversity in Cinema. This curated film series will present premieres of contemporary American independent and foreign films to an estimated audience of 32,000 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 its 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
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a series of seminars that will educate business, government, and neighborhood leaders on community design and development issues. The project will promote architectural innovation in community design guidelines, mixed-use development, affordable housing, public housing, and community centers to an audience of more than 500 individuals.
Chicago Chamber Musicians (CCM) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a consortium project for the creation and presentation of a new work by NEA Jazz Master Paquito D'Rivera and related residency activities. Consortium partner Grant Park Orchestral Association will coordinate marketing strategies to target Latino community audiences for the new work, which will combine classical, jazz, and Afro-Cuban influences.
Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Readings and Workshops Program. The project will include table readings, public staged readings, and workshops involving local artists and audiences in the creative process to develop new work.
Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$14,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 18th Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series emphasizes documentary and experimental films and videos; the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting experimental work.
Chicago International Film Festival -- Cinema Chicago
Chicago, IL
$19,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 42nd Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 140 films from around the world. Outreach activities include workshops, panel discussions, screenings and workshops for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing, screenings for high school students and teachers, and daytime presentations for seniors.
Chicago Jazz Orchestra Association [Chicago Jazz Orchestra (CJO)]
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the music transcription and presentation of Exquisitely for Ella: The Songbook Concert. The concert, a tribute to the 1950s and 60s songbook recordings of Ella Fitzgerald, will be the first public performances of the selections as they were originally arranged and recorded. Two performances and a free open rehearsal are featured.
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Chicago premiere of Nixon In China by John Adams and related outreach activities. Events will include a symposium with the composer; a forum led by Northwestern University professor Dr. Lee Heubner who served as special assistant to President Nixon; and a discussion with a Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist about his coming-of-age experience in Shanghai during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Chicago Sinfonietta
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of works by Gustav Holst and Daniel Bernard Roumain and related educational activities. The works to be performed include Holst's The Planets with a projected video presentation produced by the Adler Planetarium and Roumain's VooDoo Concerto for Violin No. 1, featuring the composer as soloist.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Afterwork Masterworks and Beyond the Score. The audience development programs are designed to reach new audiences through alternative and informal concert formats.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the production, presentation, and radio broadcast of concerts and reading sessions. Performances and reading sessions will be given under the direction of resident and guest conductors and offered to the public at no charge to attract more culturally and economically diverse audiences.
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 DanceAfrica Chicago 2006 and a series of contemporary dance presentations by U.S. and international companies. Outreach activities during each residency include workshops, master classes, lecture-demonstrations, preview performances, in-school and community workshops, professional development workshops, panel discussions, open rehearsals, and pre- and post-performance discussions.
Congress for the New Urbanism
Chicago, IL
$34,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support workshops, a publication, and a tool kit for use in encouraging local leaders to develop pedestrian-friendly road standards and designs. The materials will be provided free-of-charge and available on the Congress for the New Urbanism web site.
Dalkey Archive Press
Normal, IL
$55,000
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. The press will publish titles from Belgium, Mexico, Finland, Ireland, Uruguay, Russia, England, France, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, and Romania.
Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association
Elgin, IL
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support In Search of the American Dream Festival, a month-long celebration of symphonic works inspired by America's immigrant history. Plans include concerts, interdisciplinary events, performances for youth, and the development of classroom materials for elementary schools.
Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 23rd Chicago International Childrens' 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.
Gonzalez, Rigoberto
Urbana, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.
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. Program for Emerging and Developing Artists will create five new works using the following projects: the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop for company dancers, the National Choreographic Competition, and collaborations between choreographers and Hubbard Street 2.
Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation
Chicago, IL
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Peer Coaching Circles. With the guidance of trained facilitators, Illinois-based local arts agency staff members will acquire skills enabling them to better meet operational challenges. Peer Coaching Circles will be provided in up to eight communities with limited access to professional development opportunities.
Joffrey Ballet of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of two ballets including a revival of Twyla Tharp's "Deuce Coupe" performed to music by the Beach Boys, and "Motown Suite," a newly commissioned work by choreographer Donald Byrd. Educational activities will include student writing assignments, a choreography project, research into Motown music, and Joffrey performances in Chicago Public Schools.
Lyric Opera Center for American Artists
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support faculty costs for a comprehensive singer training and professional development program. Faculty will provide a multidisciplinary curriculum, including artist residencies, vocal instruction, and master classes, to prepare young artists for professional operatic careers.
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck, a significant work in the development of opera. Educational and outreach programs will include preview discussions, community lectures, and study guides.
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support The African Experience in Mexico, with accompanying catalogues and education programs. The project consists of two touring exhibitions: The African Experience in Mexico and Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, and Recognition.
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (MFACM) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a consortium project of performances demonstrating the heritage shared by Mexicans and African Americans. In collaboration with Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago, the museum will present Yanga Lives, a joint performance with La Negra Graciana, the Mexican harpist/singer and master of the son jarocho musical style.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of new performing and visual arts programs including a Festival of Disability Arts and Culture. Project activities will include performances, residencies, a mural project, a photography exhibition, an institute, and dance competitions.
Neo-Futurists
Chicago, IL
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere production. Written and directed by founding director Greg Allen, the production will explore humanity's historical relationship and fascination with explosives and aerial warfare.
Next Theatre Company
Evanston, IL
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the premiere production of a new chamber musical by Joshua Smith and Jason Loewith adapted from The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice. Educational activities will include lectures, panel discussions, and in-school work at Evanston Township High School.
Northlight Theatre, Inc.
Skokie, IL
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the continued development and second production of Grace by Craig Wright. The play grapples with religious fundamentalism, human loneliness, loss, and hope.
Northshore Concert Band
Barrington, IL
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commission and performance of a fanfare by composer Frank Ticheli. The commission, which will help increase available repertoire written for the symphonic wind band, will be heard by more than 15,700 audience members over several performances.
Northwestern University Settlement Association
Chicago, IL
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Still Life With Iris by Steven Dietz. The play will be produced as part of the Vittum Theater's Season for Young Audiences, a series of productions that provides teachers and students with performances that engage students on both personal and academic levels.
Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Main Stage Concert Series. The series will feature international, national, and local musicians who represent an array of musical genres from around the globe.
Piven Theatre Workshop
Evanston, IL
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Lady Chaplin and Her Tramp, a new play by Michael Stock. The play conveys the artist's perspective during the House Un-American Activities Committee's assault on theater and film artists in the 1950s.
Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a new, large-scale, outdoor work specific to Olive Park in Chicago. The work will be informed by the cultural history of the park, named for a Vietnam hero and located in the Streeterville neighborhood named for a Civil War-era outlaw.
Resource Center (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a consortium project for educational programming on sustainable design. Working with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and several city agencies, the Resource Center will introduce environmentally sensitive design practices to the community through public lectures, technical workshops, a commissioned artist residency, and a temporary greenhouse installation in the school's Sculpture Courtyard.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Loves-Lies-Bleeding by Don DeLillo, a play abut the last years of a free-spirited artist, now an invalid after a second stroke. Multigenerational outreach and post-show talkbacks with the director and actors are also featured.
Theatre Building Chicago, NFP
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the public presentation of new musicals-in-progress. The Stages Festival will present as many as eight musicals, selected from more than 100 submissions, to be performed as concert readings or skeletal productions.
Trice, Dawn Turner
Monee, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (on behalf of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts)
Champaign, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Dance Immersion Project. The project will develop an array of enhancement activities such as discussions with artists and audience members, panel discussions, and master classes that will focus on the element of music in dance.
Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of A Fair to Middling Woman by Kristine Thatcher. The play will explore the life of Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil, wife of playwright Samuel Beckett.
Wetmore, Elizabeth
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.
Writer's Review, Inc. (aka American Book Review)
Normal, IL
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of issues of American Book Review. The journal will increase honoraria to writers and help launch a subscription drive aimed at libraries.
Number of Grants: 43 Total Amount: $1,098,000
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