CHICAGO – The Illinois Humanities Council Board of Directors has awarded a total of $178,480 to 21 nonprofit organizations for development and production of public humanities projects. Funded programs include an examination of the struggle for democracy in the African Diaspora, a lecture series on southern Illinois in the time of Lewis and Clark, and opera outreach in Chicago neighborhoods. Community support for these projects totaled $1,471,302. A list of grants and the organizations who are sponsoring these programs are listed below:
Reel Images: Cinematic Representations: Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University
Chicago Blues Legends–Portraits of the Masters: Chicago Blues Museum
Women Warrior Festival 2003: Center for Asian Arts and Media Columbia College Chicago
Sounds of Experience: The HistoryMakers
Blues Before Sunrise Interviews: Blues Before Sunrise
Sterling Morton Library Lecture Series: The Morton Arboretum
Opera in the Neighborhoods: Lyric Opera of Chicago
About Face: The Story of Jewish Refugee Soldiers of WWII: Beach Street Educational Films Foundation
Sadorus Education Programs: Illinois State Museum Society
Prairieland Chautauqua 2003: American Women: Morgan County Historical Society
A Passion for Collecting: John R. and Eleanor R. Mitchell Foundation
A Matter of Faith: Kartemquin Educational Films
Cultural Conflict: Turning the Mirror on Ourselves: Quad City Arts
The Living and Learning Series of the Kankakee Area YMCA: Kankakee Area YMCA
Waiting to Inhale: Doctors, Patients, and the Law: Jed Riffe Films
Identity Crisis: The Life and Times of Erik H. Erikson: The Kindling Group
The Hayloft Gang: The Story of The National Barn Dance: Media Working Group
When Lewis and Clark Came to Southernmost Illinois: Southernmost Illinois Tourism Bureau
Café Society: The Public Square
Chicago to Capetown: The Culture of Liberation: Office of the Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College Chicago
“Say What” Scholars Project: Young Chicago Authors
For further information about the IHC or our grants program, please contact us at 312.422.5580 or visit our website at www.prairie.org.
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