The Prairie Landscape

Community Grants - 2006 Descriptions

Title
Grantee Organization
Award
1900 Rockford Midway Village & Museum Center $10,000
A Whole 'Nother Ball Game: Baseball in Central Illinois Early American Museum $2,000
Aaron Copland Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association $10,000
Afro-Mexican Studies Symposium Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum $10,000
American Roots Music In the Heartland Cavalcade of Music Foundation $10,000
An Illinois Chautauqua: Lifelong Learning Through the Arts University of Illinois at Urbanan/Champaign $10,000
And They Came to Chicago: The Italian American Legacy Italic Institute of America $10,000
Arts and Humanities Series Lake Land College $10,000
Audience Education Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral $2,000
Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico The Newberry Library $10,000
Black Jewel of the Midwest Chicago Public Library $8,990
Chicago's Unrest - The Sixties Chicago Film Archives, NFP $2,500
Dance India: Choreographing Traditions Conference Natya Dance Theatre $2,000
De Coding the Venus Chicago Dramatists $2,000
Diana and Kathy The Arc of Illinois $10,000
Fridays With Contratiempro Contratiempo Magazine $4,000
Great Jazz Music: From Its Origins in New Orleans to the Current Chicago Scene Music Arts School $2,500
Heat and Life - Humanities Programs Links Hall Studio $2,000
Heroes at Your Library DeKalb Public Library $1,800
Hickory Ridge Roots Music Festival Illinois State Museum Society for Dickson Mounds Museum $10,000
History Careers Day Camp McLean County Museum of History $2,500
Home From Around the World WVIK Augustana Public Radio $9,992
Illinois Association of Museums Joint Annual Conference Scholarships Illinois Association of Museums $2,500
Illinois Authors Book Fair - 2006 Illinois Center For The Book $10,000
Immigration: Building a Community West Chicago City Museum $2,000
In Search of the American Dream Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association $10,000
In Search of the Cahokian Gods and Heroes Fernwork Arts Incubator $10,000
Interpreting Illinois and Michigan Canal Regional History Lewis University $10,000
Jens Jensen Harmonious World Viva Lundin Productions $4,000
Korean Cultural Enrichment Program Korean American Women's Association $10,000
Language to Leadership Story Workshop Institute $1,939
Last Kamikaze Northeastern Illinois University $10,000
Learning Curves: Reflections on Education and Knowledge Neighborhood Writing Alliance $7,200
Lincoln's Landscape Lincoln Memorial Garden $2,000
Mayor Washington in the House Free Street Programs, Inc. $10,000
Multi-Cultural Awareness for Young Children Maywood Fine Arts Association $2,000
Muntu Jubilate Children's Choir $10,000
Naomi Shihab Nye: Coexistence Bettendorf Public Library $3,950
New Directions in Adult Education Chicago History Museum $10,000
On the Banks of the Big Muddy: Brownsville General John A Logan Museum $2,000
One Book, One Rockford Rockford Public Library $5,000
Oral History of Union County Illinois Migrant Council $10,000
Origins of Now Japanese American Service Committee $10,000
Palabra Pura Guild Complex $10,000
Pastinha/Zumbi Celebration Weekend International Capoeira Angola Foundation $2,000
Peoria Reads! 2007 Common Place $2,500
Percy Julian Project The DuSable Museum of African American History $10,000
Performers, Technology, and Meaning Saint Xavier University $6,330
Photographic History of African American Illinois Legislators Chicago State University $10,000
Prairieland Chautauqua 2006: Movers and Shakers in Illinois Morgan County Historical Society $2,000
Public Programs for the Ancient Americas Exhibition The Field Museum of Natural History $10,000
Raising Edo Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois $5,000
Reeltime Independent Film and Video Forum Evanston Public Library $10,000
Remodeling the Tower of Babel: The Translator's Role in a Shrinking World Caxton Club of Chicago $2,000
SAFE House Reading Group University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign $1,246
Skirting Convention WUIS & WIPA Public Radio $9,992
South Suburban Archaeological Society Lectures 2007 South Suburban Archaeological Society (SSAS) $1,800
Springfield Urban League Freedom School Springfield Urban League $10,000
SSAS Lectures 2006 South Suburban Archaeological Society (SSAS) $1,800
Stateville Book Club Long-Term Prisoner Policy Project $2,000
Sunday Scholar Series and TimeLine ""Backstory"" TimeLine Theatre Company $2,000
Technical Assistance Grant Effingham County & National Road Museum Association $500
Technical Assistance Grant Ellwood House Museum $400
Technical Assistance Grant Midwest Archives Conference $500
Technical Assistance Grant Illinois Heritage Association $1,000
Terra Incognita Kartemquin Films $10,000
The 12th Annual Chicago Asian American Showcase The Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM) $2,500
The Black Rockfordian Project Afro-American Historical and Geneaological Society $2,000
The Daniel Burnham Film Project The Archimedia Workshop NFP $10,000
The Elderquest and the Cinema and Literature of Age Academy of Lifelong Learning $2,000
The Exponential Power of Art Victory Gardens Theater $2,000
The Impact of Chicago's Ethnic Communities on the City's Contemporary Culture and Art Chicago Artists' Coalition $2,500
The Second Annual Embarras Valley Film Festival The Coles County Arts Council $2,500
The Taino Project - 2007 Puerto Rican Arts Alliance $10,000
The Third Annual Chicago Taiko Legacy Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW) $2,500
The Vortex of Torture: Voices of Survivors Media Process Educational Films $4,000
Thinking About Religion The Religious Council of Southern Illinois (URC) $2,000
Thread of Development Literacy and Creative Media Program Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School $8,264
Through My Eyes Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois $10,000
Traveling the Spaceways Hyde Park Art Center $10,000
Two Countries - One World: Lithuanian and American Short Films Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture $2,000
Women and Prison Beyondmedia Education $10,000
Young Playwright's Forum About Face Theatre $10,000