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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

ILLINOIS

Anila Sinha Foundation for Promotion of Arts and Culture of India
Elk Grove Vlg, IL
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Second International Kathak Festival. The festival will present a program of lectures and performances from the Kathak tradition of Northern India.

Archeworks
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Little Village Pocket Park Project. Residents in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood will participate in a series of design charrettes with landscape architects, scholars, and community artists to develop a set of Pocket Parks Visioning and Design Guidelines.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art at the School of the Art Institute. Experienced high school art teachers from around the country are invited to Chicago to enrich their artistic creativity through studio access, sessions with contemporary artists, and lectures in the visual arts.

Barrel of Monkeys Productions
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support an in-school literature and theater residency program. Creative writing and drama residencies will take place in underserved Chicago public schools for third- through sixth-grade students.

Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a community docent training program. Through lectures and workshops, community members will be trained to give architecture tours in Chicago's economically challenged and culturally diverse southside and westside neighborhoods.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (aka CAPE)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Arts Education Program Design Seminar. Partnering arts organizations and schools will connect professional artists with public school students and their teachers to study artworks, develop skills to critique artworks, and produce and critique their own work in the context of the public school curriculum.

Chicago Cultural Center Foundation (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Midwest World Music Consortium. In partnership with the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation in Bloomington, Indiana, the project will involve the presentation of contemporary and traditional international music ensembles that will highlight diverse world cultures to underserved Midwest audiences.

Chicago Horticultural Society (aka Chicago Botanic Garden)
Glencoe, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an interdisciplinary design competition for Chicago area high school students. The Chicago Botanic Garden's Fairfield Challenge will offer workshops and symposiums free of charge allowing participants the opportunity to develop and design entries related to sustainability and environmental issues.

Chicago Public Art Group (aka CPAG)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support restoration of murals on the south side of Chicago. Plans include the restoration of six highly endangered murals, selected by CPAG because of their close proximity to an important early mural that was lost in a building fire-The Wall of Respect, painted in 1967 by William Walker.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Team Shakespeare Arts-in-Education Program. The project will present William Shakespeare's plays to middle and high school students throughout Illinois and Indiana.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the BP Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast Series. Carried on 262 stations, the two-hour programs are heard by an estimated weekly audience of 354,300 listeners.

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$48,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Symphony Orchestra and Concert Orchestra. Students will work with well-known guest artists and composers, receive extensive coaching, participate in rehearsals, and perform in world-class venues.

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Writing Our World, a series of theater and creative writing residencies. Led by professional artists, kindergarten through eighth-grade students will participate in drama-based workshops that will help enhance their writing skills.

Collaboraction Theatre Company, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of El Grito del Bronx by Migdalia Cruz. The piece will be a collaborative, multicultural production with Teatro Vista...Theater With A View, and presented at the Goodman Theatre.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Center for Black Music Research's compact disc recording of works by composers Olly Wilson and Mary Watkins. The works will be recorded by the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble and produced and distributed by Albany Records.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of choreographer Mark Morris's Marble Halls on the Dance Center's students. In addition to a performance, there will be technique classes and lectures.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Asian Arts and Media)
Chicago, IL
$70,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Visions & Revision: The Flower Drum Song Project of the Center for Asian Arts and Media. Components will include a musical theater performance, film series, and educational activities celebrating Asian Americans on Broadway and in Hollywood.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Picture Me at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. The after-school mentorship program will teach underserved youth (ages 12 to 18) how to use a fully manual 35-millimeter camera to document their lives, homes, and communities.

Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$56,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Hard Cover: Voices and Visions of Chicago Youth. Working with professional video artists, underserved Chicago youth will learn all aspects of digital video production.

Congress for the New Urbanism
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an urban development and environmental preservation planning process. The project will help residents develop a plan to restore Claiborne Avenue in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans.

Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
Oak Park, IL
$9,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support educational programming related to Frank Lloyd Wright's Frederick C. Robie House. Program activities will include workshops for educators and students, tours, and other in-school and on-site curriculum guided activities.

Guild Complex (on behalf of The Institute for Latino Studies) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Palabra Pura, a bilingual poetry series, as well as readings from The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, a new anthology featuring emerging Latino poets. The Guild Complex and the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame will encourage audiences for Latino voices by featuring the work of Chicano, Nicaraguan, Guatemalan, Peruvian, and Puerto Rican poets.

Illinois Arts Council
Chicago, IL
$934,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support JazzCity, a free concert series. Thematic programming of concerts in Chicago neighborhoods will emphasize underserved areas on the city's south and west sides.

Joffrey Ballet
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the preservation of 50 years of video material. The video archive contains recordings of performances, rehearsals, and choreographic workshops of ballets by Co-Founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, as well as many other choreographers.

Light Opera Works
Evanston, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production A Little Night Music, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Based on an Ingmar Bergman film, the production will feature a score that consists entirely of waltzes.

Literature for All of Us
Evanston, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Books Alive!, a literary arts program. The program will target youth attending alternative schools, GED classes, and after-school programs in underserved Chicago neighborhoods.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Studio Program, a visual arts education project. Students from underserved public schools will take part in after-school visual arts classes and portfolio development opportunities.

Merit School of Music
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Preparatory Program. The program will provide students with weekly, after-school instrumental music instruction in strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, piano, and voice, as well as classes in music theory.

Mexican Folkloric Dance Company of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Mexican folkloric dance performances. The project will bring professional artists, with live music accompaniment, into neighborhoods and schools.

Midwest Young Artists
Highwood, IL
$66,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the orchestral and chamber music programs. Through music theory classes, sectional rehearsals, and performance opportunities, students will learn to read music, play expressively, develop ensemble skills, and demonstrate musicianship.

Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and presentation of I've Known Rivers, choreographed by Dr. Pearl Primus in 1944. Project activities will include community engagement activities, an arts education component for K-12 students, master classes, performances, and a student matinee.

Najwa Dance Corps
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Cultural Empowerment Through Dance, an educational project that will offer classes, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations in African dance and drumming. The activities will be offered to youths ages 7 to 18 from local elementary schools, after-school programs, and social service agencies.

Natya Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length dance work that brings together bharatanatyam (classical Indian dance), Indian Carnatic music, western jazz, and Japanese taiko drumming. The Flowering Tree will be choreographed by Artistic Director Hema Rajagopalan and will be presented in Chicago venues.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cultural Heritage Project. In partnership with the Kalaoriya Foundation, the project will strengthen relationships with immigrant communities to better preserve and present their artistic traditions.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Kingdom Coming: A Masterpiece of Black Vaudeville. The string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, ragtime pianist Reginald Robinson, and jazz tap dancer Reggio McLaughlin will recreate the African American vaudeville experience.

Peoria Symphony Orchestra
Peoria, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support community and student outreach concerts. The orchestra will perform concerts in venues, including the Peoria Civic Center, the Caterpillar Performing Arts Center in Washington, Illinois, and private homes and other intimate settings.

Poetry Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the organization's annual Reading Series and Hands on Stanzas, a poets-in-the-schools program. Hands on Stanzas places Chicago poets in public school classrooms throughout the city to teach students how to read, write, and discuss poetry.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Visiting Artist Series. The artist residency program will feature nationally touring artists who will perform and conduct workshops for audiences in eastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois.

Ravinia Festival Association
Highland Park, IL
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support community outreach and education programs. The festival will continue its partnership with the Lawndale community to bring music performances and education to Westside Chicago.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Spectacle '09, a large, site-specific outdoor theatrical program. Artistic Director Jim Lasko, Tasmanian theater director Jessica Wilson, and Dutch theater designer Joey Ruigrok Van Der Werven will bring together more than 100 artists for the public performance.

Richard Nickel Committee
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the digitization and increased access to the photographs of architectural photographer Richard Nickel (1928-72). The project will continue the preservation of the collection, which includes more than 15,000 photographs of buildings by seminal architects such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support ArtsPlace, a youth arts apprenticeship program. Teams of 10 to 15 youth, ages 14 to 19, work under the direction of a professional artist to create public art in a specific discipline and are encouraged to apply this knowledge to their lives.

Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a free chamber music festival, with complementary educational activities. The summer concert performances will be held at the historic Saint James Cathedral in downtown Chicago.

Snow City Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support creative writing, music, and visual arts workshops with professional artists for hospitalized children.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$16,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Summer Arts Apprenticeship Program. Underserved teens will participate in a video and audio mentorship program with professional media artists.

Theatre Building Chicago, NFP
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the Musical Theatre Writers' Workshop, with accompanying educational activities. Artistic Director John Sparks and Associate Artistic Director Allan Chambers will lead the development program for lyricists, composers, and book writers to cultivate new musicals.

Thodos Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and touring of masterworks by choreographer Bob Fosse. The works, created in the early 1960s for television, include Cool Hand Luke, Mexican Breakfast, and Tijuana.

Urban Gateways (aka Centers for Arts Education) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Cultural Education Project. In partnership with Chicago public schools, a series of professional development activities will bring together classroom teachers and school art specialists to develop curricula that present the visual arts, theater, and music as core classroom subjects. The project also includes artist residencies and classroom teacher-led units during the school year.

Utopian Theatre Asylum
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support an adaptation and production of Bertolt Brecht's 1918 play Baal. Artistic Director Zeljko Djukic will direct the rock opera theater with original music by composer and sound designer Josh Schmidt.

WBEZ Alliance, Inc. (aka Chicago Public Radio)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Third Coast International Audio Festival and related activities. Established by Chicago Public Radio 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.

Window to the World Communications, Inc. (aka 98.7 WFMT Radio/WTTW 11)
Chicago, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of the radio series Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The series consists of weekday one-hour programs focusing on classical music in an informed, educational, and entertaining manner.

Young Chicago Authors
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Watch the Steps Press, a student writing and publication program. Developed and produced by student editorial boards, the publications will feature creative writing and artwork by youth.


Number of Grants: 53          Total Amount: $2,207,500

 
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