FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings
Access to Artistic Excellence |
Challenge America Fast-Track Grants |
Literature Fellowships (Prose)
Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent
upon prior Endowment approval.
ILLINOIS
About Face Theatre Collective (aka About Face Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and world premiere of Sally Oswald's Pony, directed by Artistic Director Bonnie Metzgar, and a new production of Buchner's Woyzeck by Chicago's Hypocrites Theatre Company, to be directed by Artistic Director Sean Graney. Education and outreach activities will accompany each production. Africa International House USA, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 21st annual Chicago African Festival of the Arts. Components will include a book pavilion, film and video screenings, multiple stages set for music and dance performances, a drum and folk music village, visual arts exhibitions, and a food festival. Archeworks
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Innovation in Urban Agriculture Design: Creating a Vision for Chicago's Englewood Community. The community development project will further the design process for a new Community Green Education and Training Center. Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Video Data Bank's distribution service and related activities. Video Data Bank currently offers 2,000 titles by 450 artists for distribution. Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film series at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Documentary Dialogues will be a year-long exhibition program featuring new documentary work from the United States and abroad. Arts & Business Council of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a series of clinics associated with the Business Essentials for the Arts workshop program. These hands-on marketing clinics will be made available to arts and cultural organizations throughout metropolitan Chicago. Asian Improv aRts Midwest
Oak Park, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival. Celebrating its 15th season, the festival will feature leading artists of the Asian American creative music movement. Among others, artists under consideration include pianist Jan Jang and saxophonist Francis Wong. Chicago Chamber Musicians (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the First Monday Concert Series. Presented monthly at the Chicago Cultural Center and broadcast live on WFMT-FM, the free noontime concert series is a partnership with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Chicago Children's Theatre
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the adaptation and development of Brian Selznick's award-winning children's book The Houdini Box into a puppetry-based stage play. Adaptor Blair Thomas and composer Mark Messing will collaborate with Selznick on the development of the piece. Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 31st Anniversary of developmental programs for new work by Chicago writers. The programs include The Saturday Series, the 10-Minute Workshop, the Private Reading Series, the First Draft Series, the Studio Project, and Instant Theatre. 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 20th 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 Human Rhythm Project (aka CHRP or Rhythm Project)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 20th anniversary of the tap festival Rhythm World. The project will include residencies, performances, and educational and outreach activities. Chicago International Film Festival Inc. Cinema-Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 46th Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 150 films from around the world. Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Three Decembers, by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer. Based on an original text by playwright Terrence McNally, the musical theater work combines spoken text, soloists, and ensembles with an onstage chamber orchestra. Chicago Sinfonietta, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support chamber music concerts with dancers. In partnership with the Joffrey Ballet, a series of three concerts using four to eight musicians and one or two dancers will take place at the ballet's new facility in downtown Chicago. Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Pierre Boulez 85th Birthday Tribute. Plans include a month-long series of concerts and related educational activities featuring works by French composer and conductor Boulez along with composers who influenced his creative development, and artists he has mentored. Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support stipends and training for musicians in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Through a rigorous rehearsal and performance schedule, pre-professional musicians will be trained by orchestra musicians and guest conductors. Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (aka Goodman Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of The Sins of Sor Juana, a new play by Karen Zacarías with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinez will direct the play as the centerpiece of the Goodman Theatre's biennial Latino Theatre Festival. City of Evanston Arts Council/Cultural Arts Division
Evanston, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival. The 25th anniversary Ethnic Arts Festival will feature juried artists and craft exhibitors, and music, dance, and spoken word performances for an audience drawn from Evanston and the surrounding communities. Collaboraction Theatre Company, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 10th annual Sketchbook, a multidisciplinary festival of ultra-short world premiere plays. The plays are presented with live musical accompaniment and original works of art by collaborating visual artists. Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of dance residencies, and 1306-Ten Years Later, a free, day-long celebration marking 10 years at the Dance Center's 1306 Michigan Avenue facility. The Dance Center will explore intercultural influences in contemporary concert dance by presenting Alonzo King's Lines Ballet, Contra-Tiempo, Akram Kahn Dance Company, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group, and Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo. Organized by the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender as a traveling exhibition, the project will examine the harsh realities of war and sexual violence facing women and girls. Court Theatre Fund (aka Court Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, adapted by Tony Kushner. Artistic Director Charles Newell will direct the production. Dalkey Archive Press
Champaign, IL
$48,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of works of translation of fiction and nonfiction. The press will publish titles from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Japan, Norway, Portugal, and Slovenia. Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association
Elgin, IL
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Hollywood: Its Contributors & Influence on American Music, a series of concerts and educational activities. As part of the orchestra's multi-year Exploring our American Voice initiative, the series of events will explore American film music through concerts for adults and children. Facets Multimedia Inc.
Chicago, IL
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 27th 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. Friends of Community Public Art
Joliet, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation of a mosaic mural at the Joliet Housing Authority's Liberty Meadows Development. Under the leadership of professional artists, resident youth and young adults will participate in the design and fabrication of the mural. Fulcrum Point New Music Project
Chicago, IL
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Movies, Myths, and Machines, a series of concerts, a commission by composer Kevin James, and educational activities. Three concerts are planned, each using one of the themes as inspiration. Gilloury Institute (aka Silk Road Theatre Project)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a Silk Road Theatre production of Scorched by Lebanese Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad. The play will be translated from French by Canadian dramaturg Linda Gaboriau. Hedwig Dances, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Hedwig Dances' 25th anniversary concert featuring visionary female choreographers. The anniversary concert will be held at the Dance Center of Columbia College and will feature artistic director Jan Bartoszek's Dance of Forgotten Steps, Michel Rodriguez's Moi Aussi, Marienela Boan's Stampede, and two duets choreographed by Andrea Miller, former dancer with the Batsheva Dance Company. House Theatre of Chicago (aka The House)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of new plays. The project will provide new works with development workshops and public staged readings. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshops, a program for emerging choreographers to create new work. The workshop will culminate with a public performance of the resulting works-in-progress in the galleries of the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. Inner-city Muslim Action Network (aka IMAN)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support IMAN's Takin' It to the Streets: Urban International Festival. Free music, dance, literary, and visual arts presentations will feature the works of Muslim artists at the city's Marquette Park. Joffrey Ballet
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works and a revival of a past work. The revival will include co-founder Gerald Arpino's Reflections, as well as two world premiere commissioned works by choreographers James Kudelka and Jessica Lang. Kartemquin Educational Films
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the distribution of documentary films made between 1968 and 1984. Kartemquin-produced films, including Hoop Dreams, have been exhibited nationally and internationally at film festivals, played theatrically, and have aired nationally on public television. Korean American Resource and Cultural Center (aka Spirits of Poongmul)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Midwest Pungmul Conference. Practitioners of Pungmul from the greater Chicago and the Midwest region will gather for a workshop and performance of this traditional Korean percussion music. Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Hercules, by G.F. Handel. Community engagement opportunities will include a Hercules Discovery Series panel discussion, pre-performance lectures, and community lectures at public libraries throughout the Midwest. Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of new works by Ron Brown and Idy Ciss. National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago, IL
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Rastros y Crónicas: The Women of Juárez, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is an artistic response to the violence afflicting women and girls in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez. National Museum of Mexican Art (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Sor Juana Festival. Presented in partnership with Museo Alameda, the multidisciplinary festival will be held in various cities throughout the United States and will showcase the artistic accomplishments of Mexican and Mexican American women. Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Key Ingredients: Stories of Food and Tradition. Adults from low-income neighborhoods will work with poet Parnesha Jones to capture and present personal narratives about the geographic and cultural origins of foods. Selected pieces will be published in the Journal of Ordinary Thought. Neo-Futurists
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and world premiere of I Am a Camera by Artistic Director Greg Allen. The work will examine the human relationship to photography and images. Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of Not Wanted on the Voyage, a new musical by Neil Bartram and Brian Hill based on the novel by the late Timothy Findley. The musical is a post-modern fable about the end of the world told through the lens of the biblical apocalypse, the Great Flood. Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center (aka Ryan Opera Center)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a comprehensive singer training and professional development program. Faculty will provide a multidisciplinary program of study to prepare young artists for professional operatic careers. Peoria Ballet Company
Peoria, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a new staging of the ballet Romeo and Juliet. Public high schools where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is required reading will be offered discounted tickets. Past principal dancers have included Jennifer Kronenberg and Carlos Guerra. Raeburn, Daniel
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
Ragdale Foundation
Lake Forest, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support the Collaborative Residency Program for Latino Poets. The project will provide funding for a two-week residency for selected fellows to create new work, strengthen their peer community, and to discuss the challenges they face as artists. Rockford Symphony Orchestras, Inc.
Rockford, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of Modest Mussorgsky's piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition, featuring photographers' artistic responses to the music. Rockford Art Museum staff will provide curatorial direction for the images displayed at both school and public performances. Sones de Mexico Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Beyond the Music. The project will include a series of lectures, workshops, and discussions on Mexican folk music, dance, and culture. Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of A Parallelogram by Bruce Norris. Tony Award-winning ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro will direct the company-commissioned work. Theater Oobleck
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of The Hunchback Variations Singspiel, a new work by playwright Mickle Maher and composer Mark Messing. The piece will be adapted from Maher's play The Hunchback Variations, a play based on a musical form and concerned with the creation of sound. University of Chicago (on behalf of Chicago Review)
Chicago, IL
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication and promotion of a special issue of the Chicago Review focusing on new writing from Italy. The journal will bring featured writers to Chicago for readings. University of Chicago (on behalf of Smart Museum of Art)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be organized through a partnership between the Smart Museum and the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries. University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$13,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an artist residency by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra and faculty musicians will present concerts, composition readings, chamber music coaching and master classes, as well as community-based educational events for elementary schoolchildren and their families. University of Illinois at Chicago (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the 2010 Architecture for Change Summit: Informing Affordable Housing Policy, and accompanying publication. In partnership with the National Housing Museum, the summit and accompanying publication will identify exemplary practices in affordable housing design. University of Illinois at Springfield
Springfield, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a co-production of The Acting Company and The Guthrie Theatre. Related activities will include an acting workshop for university students and a performance targeted toward high school students. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (on behalf of Ninth Letter Literary Journal)
Champaign, IL
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of the literary and arts journal Ninth Letter. Issues will feature new literary prose and poetry from new and established writers as well as graphic design produced by students at the University of Illinois School of Art and Design. Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Lost Boys of Sudan by Lonnie Carter. The production will be directed by Jim Corti. Writers' Theatre
Glencoe, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Old Settler by John Henry Redwood, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. African American director Ron O.J. Parson will direct the play. Youth Choral Theater of Chicago
Lake Forest, IL
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning and performance of a multi-movement work titled Witness by collaborating composers Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory. Inspired by the journey of Clemantine Wamariya, a child survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the choral work will be premiered at Divine Word Chapel in Northbrook, Illinois.
Number of Grants: 60 Total Amount: $1,399,000
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