2002 Grant Awards: State Listings
Access/Arts Learning/Arts on
Radio & Television/
Challenge America Access/
Heritage-Preservation/
Leadership Initiatives/Partnership Agreements
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
ILLINOIS
3-D Chicago
River Forest, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the 6th annual Pier Walk, the Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition at Navy
Pier in Chicago. To be juried by critic and writer Dave Hickey, Pier Walk is the largest
exhibition of large-scale outdoor sculpture in the world, featuring work by approximately 70
sculptors.
Archeworks
Chicago, IL
$38,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support design and production of a prototype kitchen that would benefit individuals with
physical disabilities. The prototype kitchen was developed by Archeworks, an alternative design
school founded to initiate design solutions for underserved communities.
archi-treasures Association
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support design and development of a Garden Gallery at Willa Cather Elementary School. The
process will encompass design workshops, after-school art programs, and summer jobs for youth in
association with nearby community organizations.
Art Institute of Chicago
(on behalf of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
$52,000
Chicago, IL
CATEGORY RY: Arts Learning
To support the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art (TICA). The School of the Art Institute will
expand TICA to offer four separate one-week sessions to high school art teachers from around the
country.
Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of the Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the preservation of On Art and Artists. The project will accommodate the preservation of
nearly 42 artist interviews and a publication to promote the availability of the videotapes.
Auditorium Theatre Council
Chicago, IL
$22,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the concert stagings of two musicals in an annual series of three seldom performed
American musicals for Chicago audiences. The Auditorium Theater Council annually presents two or
three American musicals to celebrate the artistry of musical theater writers and composers and a
uniquely American art form, the Broadway musical.
Center for Book Culture
Normal, IL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern fiction by Dalkey Archive Press.
Authors whose works will be republished as part of the press's International Recovery Project
include Osman Lins, Ann Quin, Louis Paul Boon, Elizabeth Bowen, Manuel Puig and Alasdair Gray.
Chicago Architecture Foundation (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Newhouse Architecture Competition. In a consortium with the Chicago Public Schools,
the project provides educational opportunities and career counseling for high school students
interested in design.
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the extension and expansion of CitySpace, an architectural exhibition space open to the
public seven days per week. The exhibition space offers visitors a virtual tour of Chicago's
notable historic architectural sites dating from 1830 to 1930. New programming would present
Chicago's modern and contemporary architectural history.
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Chicago, IL
$80,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Arts Education Design Seminars. This project assists arts organizations and schools to
design and teach arts-integrated curriculum through hands-on training and curriculum
development.
Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support First Monday, a free noontime concert series by the Chicago Chamber Musicians at the
Chicago Cultural Center that will be broadcast live by the WFMT-FM radio station. The format for
the series in 2002 takes on a 45-minute interactive approach offering audiences the opportunity to
learn from the musicians themselves about the music that is performed.
Chicago Children's Choir
Chicago, IL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the creation and production of an original work, Movement. The multimedia choral
performance will serve students in grades K-12 from Chicago and neighboring suburban schools.
Chicago Children's Museum
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the continuation of Passport to the World. Begun in September 2000, this multicultural
celebration has provided youth and their families opportunities to learn about the arts and
traditions of Chicago's diverse and emerging neighborhoods.
Chicago Horticultural Society
Glencoe, IL
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Great Gardens exhibition, publication and educational activities on landscape
and garden design that will incorporate digitized photomural images, blueprints, models and a
designer videotape and lecture series. Great Gardens will present contemporary gardens and
landscapes images to explore the origins, ideas, techniques and cultural influences reflected in
their design.
Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the expansion of a ballet-based dance instruction program. Dancing Off the Streets,
serving low-income and minority children, will bring the studio-based program to schools and
community sites.
Chicago New Art Association
Chicago, IL
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a mentoring program for writers and critics of contemporary art for the New Art
Examiner, an independent visual arts magazine. Promising young writers will be identified
through a scouting process and will work with artists, museums, galleries, schools and other
nonprofit arts organizations from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and
Wisconsin
Chicago Public Art Group
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the restoration of five murals by early founders and leaders in Chicago's community arts
mural movement. The restoration will be undertaken by professional conservators Nathan Zakheim
Associates of Santa Monica, CA, and when possible, will involve repainting by the original
artists.
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras
Chicago, IL
$7,500
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Classroom Symphony, a string instruction program, and expansion of after-school
community outreach activities. The program includes student training, development of
teacher-orientation materials, in- and after-school workshops, concert trips and a spring
concert.
City of Chicago, Illinois (on behalf of the Mayor's Office of Special Events)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Arts for Great Chicago Places and Spaces: A Celebration of Chicago Architecture. The
Mayor's Office of Special Events in Chicago initiated an architecture festival in 1999 that
provides more than 100 free architectural and design tours to more than 5,000 Chicagoans and
visitors over two days.
Columbia College (on behalf of the Office of Community Arts Partnerships)
Chicago, IL
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support continuation of the Urban Missions Program. The initiative provides multimedia and Web
site design and community art exhibitions.
Community Film Workshop of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the expansion of the Media Arts and New Technologies Project. This project, designed as
a year-round, after-school and summer media arts, technology and peer leadership program, involves
at-risk youth who will document and create community projects presented in area parks.
Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support continuation of the International Video Letter. This multidisciplinary experience in
media arts provides youth with opportunities to engage in global dialogues while deepening an
understanding and appreciation of their communities and culture.
Developmental Services Center of Champaign County
Champaign, IL
$7,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work by The Prompting Theater. The
ensemble will present the new work during the 2002-03 annual Street Theatre Festival.
Free Street Programs, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support TeenStreet Theater. This program provides employment opportunities for youth in theater
arts.
Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$12,500
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Honors Chorus Workshop and Festival, School Exchanges, and VoiceLinks. Through this
program, designed to provide outstanding artistic experiences for youth with limited access to
music education, students will participate in performing ensembles and outreach programs.
Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the expansion and extension of Partners in Art. A collaboration with the Chicago Park
District, the program will offer after-school visual arts programs and mentoring to inner city
youth at several park sites on Chicago's south and west sides.
Illinois Arts Council
Chicago, IL
$678,400
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the expansion of the Chicago Jazz and Heritage Program. The program seeks to explore
ways to connect youth and families with the cultural heritage of the city's diverse
communities.
Lira Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support performances of a Polish American Christmas Gala. The concerts will feature song
and dance from the regions that are the ancestral homes of many Polish Americans in the
Midwest.
Little City Foundation
Palatine, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Have Art, Will Travel. This series of mobile arts classes is designed for children and
adults with developmental disabilities and provides them with at-home/work instruction in visual,
performing and media arts.
Music Institute of Chicago
Winnetka, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support expansion of Chicago Duo-Piano Festival and Mid-Winter Institutes. Both programs provide
non-school day and summer music education for youth in the Midwest.
Natya Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the creation of a new work. The dance theater will present a work based on Herman
Hesse's Siddhartha, the son of a renowned Brahmin, who in order to find meaning in life discards a
promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic.
Northern Illinois University
De Kalb, IL
$85,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support an assessment of the impact of arts integration on student learning and student artistic
production and the development of assessment instruments. Twelve artist-teacher teams will
collaborate with researchers in three cities: New York City, Chicago and Minneapolis.
Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the manager of community outreach position. Activities will include producing a weekly
performance series, identifying collaborative opportunities, and consulting with key staff on
culturally diverse programming.
Pegasus Players Theatre (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$13,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support continuing efforts toward a more integrated audience. The theater will work with
consortium member the Chicago Theatre Company to create integrated audiences at both theaters
through subscriber exchanges, shared artistic staff and joint development of new works.
Ravinia Festival Association
Highland Park, IL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the video and audio documentation of A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim.
The documentation will be part of a music theater initiative that includes the documentation of a
five-year retrospective of masterworks by Stephen Sondheim in a semi-staged format.
SCT Productions
Chicago, IL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Dance Chicago 2002. The five-week dance festival will include 250
dance groups and more than 2000 artists from Chicago.
Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support continuation of the In-School program. The project offers media arts programs to at-risk
children and young adults through arts-integrated curriculum projects, teacher training and artist
residencies.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Creative Intersections initiative. This project will enable the university's
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts to extend its audience development efforts for classical
music, jazz and dance.
Video Machete
Chicago, IL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support full implementation of the Global Youth Project. This multipart media education project
will train students, teachers and administrators in digital media production and theory.
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the ShoeBox Series. Through a partnership with Columbia College Chicago's Erikson
Institute Early Childhood Teach Education Program and local theater companies, this project will
provide preschool children with experiences in theater and creative drama.
Total Dollars Awarded: $1,668,400
Total Grants Awarded: 41
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