Culture Grants 2009: $2,015,000

Access

Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC $60,000
For continued support of a professional development program for minority arts administrators. (2 yrs.)
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL $50,000
To support the museum’s Hispanic Outreach Initiative. (1 yr.)
Chicago Children’s Museum
Chicago, IL $75,000
To increase the diversity of the museum’s visitors, staff, and board, and the dissemination of a white paper on its diversity practices to the field. (1 yr.)
Chicago Theatre Group Inc.
Chicago, IL $300,000
To increase minority audience, staff, and board participation. (2 yrs.)
Chicago Tourism Fund
Chicago, IL $50,000
To continue support of Millennium Park’s Made in Chicago Jazz series. (1 yr.)
Court Theatre
Chicago, IL $50,000
For continued salary support for African American director Ron OJ Parson as a resident artist. (1 yr.)
Guild Complex
Chicago, IL $30,000
For continued support of Palabra Pura, a bilingual poetry series. (1 yr.)
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL $50,000
To support a residency and exhibition by African American artist Mark Bradford to increase audience diversity. (1 yr.)

Community-based Arts

Black Ensemble Theater Corporation
Chicago, IL $150,000
To support capacity-building initiatives in audience expansion, marketing, and technology. (2 yrs.)
Chicago Cultural Alliance
Chicago, IL $25,000
For salary support of its executive director. (1 yr.)
Chicago Jazz Philharmonic
Chicago, IL $60,000
For continued support to build organizational capacity and the launch of a concert series at the Auditorium Theatre. (2 yrs.)
Deeply Rooted Productions
Chicago, IL $30,000
For continued support of staff salaries and its collaboration with the Arts & Business Council to strengthen organizational capacity. (1 yr.)
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance
Chicago, IL $30,000
To support a seasonal arts and music festival program. (1 yr.)
John F. Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts
Washington, DC $100,000
To support an online capacity-building program for mid-sized, culturally-specific arts groups in the Midwest. (2 yrs.)
Ma’at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre (MPAACT)
Chicago, IL $30,000
For salary support of its first executive director. (1 yr.)
Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL $150,000
To support capacity building in the areas of financial management, fundraising, and marketing. (2 yrs.)
National Arts Strategies Inc.
Washington, DC $30,000
For a new round of ten Chicago arts and cultural groups’ participation in The Business of Art and Culture, a national executive seminar program to strengthen organizational leadership and build institutional capacity. (1 yr.)
National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL $50,000
For continued salary support of its executive director. (1 yr.)
Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
Chicago, IL $80,000
For continued support of capacity building initiatives including fundraising, program expansion and staff salary support. (2 yrs.)
Teatro Vista Theatre with A View
Chicago, IL $80,000
To support its 2009-10 and 2010-11 performance seasons, staff salaries, marketing and audience development. (2 yrs.)

Creativity

Alliance of Artists Communities
Providence, RI $185,000
To support Midwestern Voices & Visions, a project designed to encourage minority participation at Midwestern artist communities. (3 yrs.)
Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee, WI $50,000
To commission African American visual artist Theaster Gates to create new works for a multi-media exhibition/installation that includes pottery, sculpture, video, and music at the Milwaukee Art Museum. (1 yr.)
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts
Minneapolis, MN $50,000
To commission Iranian American artist Ali Momeni to create a new media installation and collaborative event. (2 yrs.)
Old Town School of Folk Music
Chicago, IL $50,000
To commission the African American stringband the Carolina Chocolate Drops to create a new multi-media collaborative performance piece that would present and celebrate black heritage from Vaudeville to contemporary black culture. (2 yrs.)
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Saint Paul, MN $50,000
To commission African American choreographer Uri Sands to create a new dance work inspired by the paintings of African American artist Ernie Barnes. (2 yrs.)
Steppenwolf Theater Co.
Chicago, IL $50,000
To commission African American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney to write a new play. (3 yrs.)

Other

The Pew Charitable Trusts
Philadelphia, PA $100,000
To continue support of the Illinois Cultural Data Project, a standardized, statewide Web-based data collection system for arts and culture organizations. (2 yrs.)