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Grant Recipients 2006-2007

Each year the Foundation awards approximately $800,000 to arts organizations.

Category Recipient Project Summary Amount Paid
Dance Auditorium Theatre The Georgian National Ballet- first of two equal payments $7,500.00
Columbia Dance Center Support for Margaret Jenkins' "A Slipping Glimpse" $10,000.00
Hedwig Dances Spring 2007  Concert at Ruth Page Center $3,000.00
Hubbard Street Dance Matching Grant  $4,500.00
Hubbard Street Dance Collaboration with CSO - January 2007 $25,000.00
Hubbard Street Dance Discretionary Grant $1,500.00
Joffrey Ballet Supports Chicago Sinfonietta's music accomaniment for 2006-2007 season $25,000.00
Links Hall "Tramp: Dances from Minneapolis" $3,000.00
Lucky Plush Productions "Cinderbox 18" $3,000.00
Luna Negra Jose Limon choreography- first of two equal payments $5,000.00
Mad Shak "My Name is Blackbird" solo work by Molly Shanahan $3,000.00
Rochester City Ballet Discretionary Grant $500.00
Same Planet Different World "Best of 10" Performance Support $3,000.00
The Seldoms "Overflow" Performance Support $3,000.00
  Total $97,000.00
Theatre
About Face Theatre Support for "Execution of Justice" $4,000.00
American Theatre Company "Half of Plenty" by Lisa Dillman $4,000.00
Apple Tree Theatre Support for "Mountain" $2,000.00
Court Theatre Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" $20,000.00
Goodman Theatre Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
Goodman Theatre New Stages - Support for New Work $20,000.00
Greasy Joan and Company Buchner's "Woyzeck" $2,000.00
Lifeline Theatre Support for "The Piano Tuner" $4,000.00
Live Bait Theatrical "Escape" by Sharon Evans $2,000.00
Next Theatre Support for "The Adding Machine: A Chamber Musical" $7,500.00
Northlight Theatre "Lady" by Craig Wright $7,500.00
Pegasus Players "Black Caesar" by David Barr $4,000.00
Porchlinght Theatre "Ragtime" $3,500.00
Redmoon Theatre "Once Upon a Time" $4,000.00
Remy Bumppo Theatre Co. "Mrs. Warren's Profession" G.B. Shaw $7,500.00
Shattered Globe Theatre "Hyde in Hollywood" $4,000.00
Steppenwolf Theatre "August: Osage County" by Tracy Letts $20,000.00
Strawdog Theatre Co. "Marathon 33" $4,000.00
TimeLine Theatre Co. "Harmless" by Brett Neveu $4,000.00
Victory Gardens Theatre "I Sailed with Magellan" $7,500.00
Writers' Theatre Support for Shakespeare's "Othello" $7,500.00
Total $140,000.00
Literary Arts & Film
  The Poetry Center of Chicago A Reading by Claudia Emerson $5,000.00
Gene Siskel Film Center Visiting Artist Program $1,000.00
Haystack Mountain School Alison Hawthorne Deming, Visiting Artist $2,500.00
Total $8,500.00
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
Art Institute of Chicago Textile Department $2,000.00
Art Institute of Chicago Discretionary Grant -Black Dog Fund- Photography Department $7,500.00
Block Museum of Art "Design in the Age of Darwin" Exhibit $5,000.00
Eastman House Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
Evanston Historical Society Discretionary Grant $2,000.00
Evanston Art Center Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
Genesee Country Museum Discretionary Grant $6,000.00
Iowa Wesleyan University Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
Iowa Wesleyan University Harlan Lincoln Home Restoration Discretionary $1,000.00
Museum of Contemporary Art Permanent Collection  Exhibit $12,500.00
National Museum of Mexican Art "Women Artists of Modern Mexico" $2,000.00
Oak Park Historical Society In Memory of Elizabeth F. Cheney  $1,000.00
Rochester Historical Society Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
The Art Institute of Chicago Support for the Winslow Homer Exhibit $25,000.00
The Field Museum Creation and Installation of Tlingit Totem Pole $18,666.00
The New Orleans Museum Support for rehiring staff post Katrina $50,000.00
Total $137,666.00
Music
Ars Viva April 2008 concerts $1,000.00
Bella Voce "Then and Now" $3,000.00
Chicago a capella "Voces Latinas" April 2008 $3,000.00
Chicago Chamber Musicians Support for Oct. and Nov. 2006 CCM concerts $20,000.00
Chicago Chamber Musicians Matching Grant $1,000.00
Chicago Master Singers Support for performance of Faure's Requiem $3,000.00
Chicago Philharmonic 10/28/07 Andrew Davis concert $5,000.00
Chicago Sinfonietta Concert Support - March, 2008 $1,000.00
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Support for two Civic Concerts and WFMT broadcasts $45,000.00
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Civic Scholarship- Discretionary Grant $6,000.00
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Civic Orchestra support -  Discretionary Grant $5,000.00
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Support for Music Now - Discretionary Grant $7,500.00
Chicago Opera Theatre Monteverdi's "Il ritorno di l'Ulissee in Patria" $25,000.00
Chinese Fine Arts Society "Great Wall: On the Silk Road" concert series $1,000.00
Eastman School of Music Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
eighth blackbird Harris Concert Series  $5,000.00
Elgin Symphoy Orchestra "George Gershwin: Aamerican Icon" $5,000.00
Evanston Symphony Higdon's Percussion Concerto - cartage fees $750.00
Grant Park Festival 2007 Festival Piano Series- partial underwriting $7,500.00
Holland America Society Matching Grant $1,000.00
Kneisel Hall Two scholarships - Summer 2007 $5,000.00
Light Opera Works "Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weil" $5,000.00
Lake Forest Symphony Discretionary Grant $100.00
Lira Ensemble 2008 concert season support $1,000.00
Lyric Opera of Chicago Ryan Opera Center - Discretionary $1,000.00
Lyric Opera of Chicago Millennium Park concert September 2007 $25,000.00
Lyric Opera of Chicago LOCAA Millennium Park Concert September 2006 $40,000.00
Merit Music Discretionary Grant - Black Dog Fund $2,500.00
Music Institute of Chicago Pacifica Quartet Beethoven Series $5,000.00
Music in the Loft Support for Jupiter Quartet Performance $1,000.00
Music of the Baroque Jennifer Larmore, soloist - Spring, 2007 $12,500.00
NU Music Library Discretionary Grant $2,000.00
Northwestern University   Theatre Program- Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
NU  School of Music Discretionary Grant $5,000.00
Northwestern University School of Music Winter Chamber Music Festival - January 2007  $33,000.00
Over the Rainbow Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
People's Music School Matching Grant $500.00
Ravinia Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
Ravinia Festival Three Martin Theatre Concerts in Summer 2007 $50,000.00
Rembrandt Chamber Players Mahler Project - $2,500.00
Rembrandt Chamber Players Discretionary Grant $300.00
Rochester Philharmonic Discretionary Grant $2,000.00
Rush Hour Concerts 2007 concert support $2,500.00
St. John the Divine Matching Grant - Music Fund $2,500.00
University of Chicago Presents Support for 3rd year of St. Paul Chamaber Orchestra Residency $10,000.00
WTTW-WFMT WFMT Black Dog Fund Discretionary Grant $2,000.00
WTTW-WFMT Matching Grant $1,000.00
Windows to the World "Live from WFMT" series 2006-2007 $30,000.00
  Total $391,150.00
Other
Art and Cultural Council of Greater Rochester Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
Boston Preparatory Foundation Discretionary Grant $2,500.00
Boston Preparatory Foundation Cultural Programming $5,000.00
Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs L.I.N.C.; Chicago Artists Resource web site  $2,500.00
Columbia College Discretionary - Capital Campaign $2,500.00
Columbia College President's Club - Discretionary Grant $2,500.00
Evanston Community Foundation Arts and Culture Fund $1,000.00
Northwestern Settlement Association Discretionary Grant $100.00
NU Dept. of Athletics Discretionary Grant $3,000.00
Rochester Humane Society Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
Rochester Humane Society Discretionary Grant $500.00
University of Michigan Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
WBEZ Discretionary Grant $1,000.00
Wedgwood Society Discretionary Grant $500.00
Total $24,100.00
   
Total 2006-2007 Grants $798,416.00