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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works II/Arts in Media/Partnerships

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

ILLINOIS

Adler Planetarium
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support pre-production costs of SUNDIALS PART 1, the first of a two-volume catalogue documenting the museum's sundial collection. Part of the Adler's collection of sundials will be described including physical characteristics, unique details, astronomically significant features, connections to popular culture, artistic flourishes, and provenance.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   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 will be invited to Chicago to enrich their artistic creativity through studio access, sessions with contemporary artists, tours of Chicago-area institutions, and lectures in museum studies, visual arts, and new media arts.

Barrel of Monkeys Productions
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support literature and theater residency programs. Creative writing and drama residencies will take place in underserved Chicago Public Schools for third through sixth grade students to promote literacy and writing skills, build self-esteem, teach children to communicate effectively through their writing, and expose them to the performing arts.

Blair Thomas & Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support A Kite's Tale, a lyrical puppet fantasy. Using Mussorgsky's piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition as the aural setting, the piece tells the story of a young girl's magical journey through her imagination and emotions.

Chicago Architecture Foundation (aka CAF) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Neighborhood Voices. In collaboration with South Shore, Inc., the project will provide culturally specific docent training and tour development to engage residents in celebrating, re-imagining, and redesigning their communities.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Chicago, IL
$78,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Arts Education Program Design Seminar that will provide professional development for a network of artists and teachers to build their skills in designing, implementing, and assessing arts integrated teaching and learning. At the conclusion of their residency projects, artists and teachers will share the documentation and results of the projects with their peers.

Chicago Classical Recording Foundation (aka Cedille Records)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a world premiere compact disc recording of works by composers Michael Abels, Benjamin Lees, and Randall Fleischer, performed by the Harlem Quartet and the Chicago Sinfonietta on Cedille Records. Conducted by Chicago Sinfonietta music director Mei-Ann Chung, the program will be recorded at Wentz Concert Hall on the campus of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

Chicago Film Archives, NFP (aka CFA)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the first phase of the preservation and dissemination of the moving image and audio collection for dancer and choreographer Ruth Page (1899-1991). The collection contains rehearsals and performances that date back to 1922, and a comprehensive series of interviews and oral histories with Page that date from 1957.

Chicago Jazz Orchestra Association (aka Chicago Jazz Orchestra)
Skokie, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Chicago Jazz Orchestra's A Tribute to Art Farmer. Arrangements from NEA Jazz Master Art Farmer's recording Art Farmer and the Jazz Orchestra will be reconstructed and presented in two concerts featuring trumpeter Terence Blanchard during the 50th anniversary year of the original recording session.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Team Shakespeare program. Project activities will include performances of an abridged Shakespeare play at the theater and on tour throughout the Midwest; a year-long, professional development program for high school teachers who teach in underperforming Chicago Public Schools; a project that unites at-risk teens, teachers, and artists; and an array of free educational resources that enhance student comprehension and appreciation of Shakespeare.

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Story Week Festival of Writers, held at venues throughout Chicago. The theme for 2013 is Voices for Change, featuring readings, performances, and discussions that explore how stories promote understanding among people of different backgrounds.

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Expanded Artists' Books: Envisioning the Future of the Book. The Center for the Book and Paper Arts working with the Arts and Media Department will develop an app to create virtual artists' books to be experienced via mobile devices and tablets.The apps will explore mechanisms for manipulation, interactivity, and feedback via features such as location monitoring.

Community Television Network (aka CTVN)
Chicago, IL
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support digital media arts production programs for youth at Community Television Network Arts Center, satellite locations, and in-school settings across Chicago. Students will study technical proficiency (in camera, sound, editing, and lighting), incorporate media concepts of narrative structure and style, and create work for Hard Cover: Voices and Visions of Chicago's Youth, a public cable access television show.

Company of Folk
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support production of Volume Five in the Folksongs of Illinois CD series, documenting the diverse musical traditions of Chicago and Illinois This recording will feature ethnic music from immigrant groups including Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern, South American, and Caribbean communities.

Illinois Arts Council
Chicago, IL
$862,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support JazzCity, a free concert series in neighborhood parks across the city of Chicago. Programming will showcase commissions and performances by emerging and established Chicago jazz artists.

League of Chicago Theatres Foundation
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Professional Development Programs for the league's member theaters on a variety of topics designed to assist participating theaters in achieving their organizational goals. Activities will include free workshops and seminars on capacity-building, social media strategy, and financial management, as well as lectures by prominent speakers on a variety of topics and networking events that will give theater professionals in similar roles the opportunity to connect with colleagues for information-sharing.

Natya Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support performances of the Indian dance drama Sri Rama Jaya Jaya Rama: The Ramayana in the New World. The project will use the classical Indian dance form Bharata Natyam and the accompanying traditional music to present the ancient Sanskrit epic The Ramayana, adapted to address contemporary society.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (aka NHS)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Historic Chicago Greystone Initiative. The initiative provides expert cultural heritage programs, workshops, and technical assistance on rehabilitating and greening historic greystone homes located in neighborhoods facing disinvestment and institutional neglect.

Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Body Wisdom, a series of writing workshops targeting adults from low-income households in Chicago's underserved neighborhoods. The workshops, some led by poet Sonia Sanchez, will foster writing inspired by the intersections of physical movement, intuitive and primary senses, and creative expression.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Pueblo Latino Chicago. A collaboration with Instituto Cervantes of Chicago, the project will expand Old Town School of Folk Music's instruction and performances for the Latin population of the Chicago metro area, and the development of new bilingual marketing tools to promote them.

Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center (aka Ryan Opera Center)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support faculty fees for a comprehensive singer training and professional development program. Faculty will provide a year-round multidisciplinary program of study to prepare as many as 13 young artists for professional operatic careers, including vocal instruction, theatrical coaching, language classes, and guidance regarding the diverse stylistic elements of opera, musical theater, and the art song genre.

Pros Arts Studio
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Muertos de la Risa Community Celebration in the Pilsen neighborhood. The Day of the Dead celebration will include performances by the Calavera Circus ensemble and Nahui Ollin (traditional Aztec ritual dancers) as well as a community procession organized as a cultural ceremony and street spectacle. This will use youth-created props, banners, decorated carts, and noisemakers to visit street-level altars in an effort to celebrate the neighborhood's Mexican heritage and raise awareness about public health and environmental challenges.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Visiting Artist Series, through which nationally acclaimed performing artists will be in residence at community sites. Artists under consideration include pianist Leon Bates, electric violinist Mark Wood, guitarist David Burgess, string quartet Ethel, contemporary Celtic ensemble Craicmore, the chamber music group New York Empire Trio, and contemporary dance ensemble the Lula Washington Dance Theatre.

Ravinia Festival Association
Highland Park, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Reach*Teach* Play, community outreach and education programs for children and adults. The Ravinia Festival Association will continue its partnership with the Lawndale community to bring music performances and education to Chicago's West Side through free lawn passes for underserved residents; One Score, One Chicago, an initiative that introduces new audiences to classical masterworks; and Words and Music, which involves pre-concert lectures at public libraries throughout the city.

Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free chamber summer concert performances at the historic St. James Cathedral in downtown Chicago and a one-day Make Music Chicago music festival in neighborhoods around the city. Early-evening chamber concerts will be presented every Tuesday during the summer months with artists selected from a roster of musicians from the Chicago area, as well as artists from across the country. A one-day free festival will celebrate the summer solstice.

Sones de Mexico Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Beyond The Music. The project will present a series of 25 free educational lectures, workshops, and discussions on Mexican folk music, dance, and culture taught by members of the Sones de Mexico Ensemble.

South Chicago Art Center NFP
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support SmARTS, a youth art instruction program. Targeted to inner-city, low-income youth, the program will offer free-of-charge art instruction after school and on weekends at the art center, area community centers, libraries, and elementary and high schools.

Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians (aka Suzuki-Orff School of Music)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support ¡Aplaud, Canta, y LEE! (Clap, Sing, and Read!). In collaboration with the National Museum of Mexican Art and two public schools serving the Hispanic community, a music teaching artist and a folk arts teaching artist will partner to provide weekly classes to teach music skills through culturally relevant stories, books, songs, and rhymes.

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support a study to examine the impact of arts exposure and artistic expression on U.S. civil society, including civic engagement and social tolerance. Using behavioral data collected from the General Social Surveya nationally representative sample of U.S. householdsthe study will use multivariate analysis to test hypotheses about the impact of arts exposure on civil society and the impact of artistic expression on individual manifestations of civil society

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (on behalf of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts)
Champaign, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Sustainable Creativity Project. The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts will present a series of performances and ancillary activities in music, dance, and theater, including such artists as NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal, Australia's Circus Oz, National Circus of the People's Republic of China, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and Builders Association.


Number of Grants: 31          Total Amount: $1,655,300

 
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