The Prairie Landscape

ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL AWARDS MAJOR GRANTS AT SPRING BOARD MEETING

06/04/2002

CHICAGO - The Illinois Humanities Council Board of Directors has awarded a total of $187,945 to 20 nonprofit organizations for development and production of humanities projects ranging from an exploration of the historical and literary foundations of dance, to opera outreach in Chicago neighborhoods, to public programming supporting an exhibition of work by artists at Auschwitz. Community support for these projects totaled $2,313,310. A list of programs and the organizations who are sponsoring these programs are listed below:

Frank Stella: Had Gadya Series: Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
The Ottawa Lincoln and Douglas Statue Dedication: City of Ottawa
Coal Cultures: Coal Research Center, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Showtime: The HistoryMakers (four video oral history interviews with African American Black theater founders in Chicago)
The Legacy of Genius: Lost & Found Productions (documentary about the work of architect Alfred Caldwell)
The American Frontier: New Salem Lincoln League (Residents and visitors will relive frontier life through the humanities. Activities will include expert-led discussions, printed materials, dramatic presentation and music).
Ancient Greek Theatre/Shakespeareís Music: First Folio Shakespeare Festival
Great Gardens: Chicago Horticultural Society/Chicago Botanic Garden
About Face: German-Jewish Refugee Soldiers in World War II: Beach Street Educational Films
African Americans in the Alton, Illinois Area: Lewis and Clark Community College
Opera in the Neighborhoods: Lyric Opera of Chicago
Women Humanists: On Creating a World Culture: Oakton Community College
"Race" Programming: Lookingglass Theatre Company (programming will build on the themes introduced in the company's world premiere adaptation of Studs Terkel's "Race.")
Kufundisha Institute: Teaching the African American Sociohistorical Experience: University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
Women in Prison: Beyondmedia Education (A handbook that incorporates essays by nationally renowned scholars with oral narratives and poetry by women prisoners and former prisoners).
Transforming Ritual: African Echoes in the Americas: Columbia College Dance Center
The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Annie Malone: Black Beauty Culture Pioneer and Millionaire Exhibit: DuSable Museum of African American History
Till The End of Time: CSA Learning Center (portrays a century of change in American farm culture, taking audiences intimately into the unique struggle of John Peterson, a small Illinois farmer who fervently remains connected to his land and his community).
Historical and Literary Foundations of Dance: Ballet Quad Cities

For further information about the IHC or our grants program, please contact us at 312.422.5580 or visit our website at http://www.prairie.org.

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