The awards will be announced in the spring of 2021. A pre-recorded webinar webinar is available by following the link: https://illinois.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/illinois/recording/playback/d2999e0104c6485ea4bac1b08fc271b9, To access the Fellowship Program Guidelines, follow the link: https://arts.illinois.gov/sites/default/files/content/program-forms/FY21_AFA.pdf, To access the Fellowship Program Application, follow the link: https://illinoisarts.slideroom.com/#/Login, For specific information on this program contact: Fellowship, Evanston Arts Council Cultural Arts Fund and several Illinois Arts Council Grants. » The « others » can be human, animals, objects, or even unexplainable situations or feelings. Fellowship in Music Composition: Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Chicago, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, composer, flutist and vocal artist, teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2020. Collins was the 2015 recipient of the Hudgens Prize and a 2018 recipient of the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. A native of Chicago’s South Side, internationally acclaimed fiddler and composer Liz Carroll is one of Irish music’s brightest stars. Her smash-hit play, La Havana Madrid, developed at the Goodman Theatre and produced by Teatro Vista, played to sold-out houses at both Steppenwolf Theatre and Goodman Theatre, received recognition as one of the best plays of 2017 from Time-Out and New City, and was a Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists (ALTA) Nominee for Best New Play. http://www.guerrero-macia.com, Fellowship in Visual-Based Arts (Painting, Craft, and Installation): Michael Dinges, Oak Park. She is a founding member of Collaboraction, ensemble member of Teatro Vista, and a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, as well as the recipient of a 3Arts Award, Joyce Award and a TCG Fox Fellowship. Fellowship in Music Composition: Jacob Bancks, Moline. Music, New Performance Forms: Guerrero-Maciá has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. The Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) is now accepting applications for the 2021 Artists Fellowship Program. She has received an Illinois Arts Council fellowship, the Associated Writers & Writing Program’s Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, Ploughshares' Zacharis Prize, the Society of Midland Authors Award in Adult Fiction, the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and Book of the Year Award from the Chicago Writers' Association. Jason Reblando is an artist and photographer based in Normal, IL. Her new play, Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars, received a developmental production at the Goodman Theatre, where she is currently under commission to write a play for the people of Chicago. In 2009 he created a mural for the CTA Arts in Transit Program. Who: Artists, Filmmakers, Musicians, … must be public and without password protection. Sandra is one of twenty Chicago women honored in Kerry James Marshall's mural Rushmore at the Chicago Cultural Center. Carlos Javier Ortiz is a visual artist who uses film and documentary photography to focus on urban life, gun violence, racism, poverty and marginalized communities. Liz has toured as a solo artist and with the Greenfields of America, Trian, as the duo Liz Carroll & John Doyle, String Sisters, and most recently as a duo with guitarist and pianist Jake Charron. A documentary-maker and video artist, Tirtza Even has produced both linear and interactive video work that has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, at the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many galleries, museums and festivals in the U.S., Israel and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight, Rotterdam Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center. Soto holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a bachelors degree from Escuela de Artes Plastics de Puerto Rico. Liz's performances range from concert stages as far away as China and New Zealand, to sessions with local musicians in Chicago and Milwaukee. Fellowship in Media Arts: Carlos Javier Ortiz, Chicago. CHICAGO: The Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) has announced the 2020 Artist Fellowship Award (AFA) recipients and it is interesting to note that three of the recipients in the Ethnic and Folk Arts are of India origin. 2006 Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios. His films We All We Got, A Thousand Midnights and Shikaaw have screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, Los Angeles International Film Festival, AFI Film Festival (2016 winner of best cinematography short film), New Orleans International Film Festival, PBS Online Film Festival and Art Basel, Black and Blue, Stadtkino Basel Cinema. 1997 La Salle National Bank, Chicago Marathon Project Commission. Fellowship in Visual-Based Arts (Sculpture & Interdisciplinary): Edra Soto, Chicago. in English from the University of Oregon and was Professor of American Literature and Creative Writing at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Monson has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign since 2008 and was a Marsh Professor at Large at the University of Vermont (2010-16). Angie Estes is the author of six books of poems, most recently Parole (Oberlin College Press, 2018). Jennifer Monson (Artistic director of iLAND-interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance) uses choreographic practice as a means to discover connections between environmental, philosophical and aesthetic approaches to knowledge and understandings of our surroundings. He has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in Chicago, Detroit, New York, Miami as well as Vancouver B.C. Teresa Davis Program Director This project is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Judges selected this year's 75 fellowship and finalist award recipients from 826 creative artists working in the disciplines of interdisciplinary/computer art, music composition, photography, poetry and visual arts. The Artist Fellowship Program provides support to artists, filmmakers, musicians and creative writers who demonstrate exceptional creativity and the capacity to contribute to the innovation and elevation of the arts in Iowa. State of Illinois / Accessibility / Privacy Para información en Español llame al Illinois Arts Council Agency al 312/814-3111. State of Illinois / Accessibility / Privacy Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award (2005) Normal Editions Projects. If you have concerns with this format, please link to a 10-minute excerpt of your work that is public. The Illinois Arts Council has awarded JB a 2019 Artist Fellowship. Phone: (312) 814-3916 or Email: George.Tarasuk@illinois.gov, Illinois Arts Council Agency | iac.info@illinois.gov. She is a lecturer for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Marsha Estell is a resident playwright alumna at Chicago Dramatists, 2010 3Arts/Ragdale Fellow, and recipient of the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Playwriting. Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2002, Individual Artist Fellowship James R. Thompson Center | 100 West Randolph | Suite 10-500 | Chicago, IL 60601 (map) The Artist Fellowship Program's intent is to enrich and strengthen the state of Illinois by supporting accomplished Illinois artists who are the foundation of Illinois' creative environment. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Subvention Grant, 2004, Grant to aid in the publication of Barrio. (312) 814-6750 | Toll free in Illinois (800) 237-6994 | TTY 888-261-7957 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, poetry, 1999 . Frasz also received the 2002 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Excellence in Choreography. After receiving an MFA from Yale School of Art, he moved to Chicago where he discovered the communities of Pilsen and Little Village. Acting credits include La Ruta at Steppenwolf Theatre, Oedipus El Rey at The Public Theater, 2666 at Goodman Theatre, Motherf**ker with the Hat at Steppenwolf Theatre, and Mojada at Victory Gardens Theater. Fellowship in Media Arts: Tirtza Even, Chicago James R. Thompson Center | 100 West Randolph | Suite 10-500 | Chicago, IL 60601 (map) Carlos Javier Ortiz photography and films have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and live in the collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts; the International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; the Detroit Institute of Arts; and the Library of Congress. Illinois Arts Council Grant, 2005, Individual Artist Fellowship. Her website is HeidiBellEditing.com, Fellowship in Prose: Emily Maloney, Evanston. She creates large-scale dance projects informed and inspired by phenomena of the natural and the built environment. Her solo CDs are on Southport Records; other recordings are on MMC, OPUS ONE, Capstone, meerenaishim.com and Arizona University Recordings. Heidi Bell's fiction has appeared in the Southeast Review, the Chicago Reader, and the Good Men Project, among others. Awards include: Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, CAAP grants, IAC grants, and the Governor's International Arts Exchange Grant. MONMOUTH, Ill. – In announcing recipients of its 2020 Artist Fellowship Awards, the Illinois Arts Council Agency said the finalists come from “different communities across the state, including urban, suburban and rural communities.” FINDING THE HUMANITY: Art professor Janice Wunderlich's detailed ceramic sculptures capture the dualities and complexities of being human. These supported the development of Escapes & Reversals, an ensemble performance that premiered in March as part of the In>Time festival. CHICAGO (AP) -- The Illinois Arts Council says applications are now available for its Artists Fellowship Program. Media Arts, Choreography: (2020) Joseph was "stunned" when she heard she made the cut. Phone: (312) 814-6740  or Email: Susan.Dickson@illinois.gov Please note – work samples submitted to Slideroom via a link (ex. www.sandradelgado.net, Fellowship in Visual-Based Arts (Photography): Paul D’Amato, Riverside. Her recordings and her compositions bow to tradition but also take the music in surprising and new directions. Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, 2001 The Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for the 2020 Artists Fellowship Program. She has attended residency programs at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (FL), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (ME), Beta-Local (PR), Arts/Industry at the Kohler Art Center (WI), Ragdale Foundation (IL), Art OMI (NY), Headlands Center for the Arts (CA) and Project Row Houses (TX). Paul D'Amato (American, 1956- ) was born in Boston where he attended Boston Latin School at the height of racial unrest, civil rights, and bussing. She has also worked as a dog groomer, pastry chef, general contractor, tile setter, catalog model, and has sold her ceramics at art fairs. The program's intent is to enrich and strengthen the state of Illinois by supporting accomplished Illinois artists who are the foundation of Illinois' creative environment. George Tarasuk, Program Director In 2016, Carlos received a Guggenheim Fellowship for film/video. In 2019, the Evanston Arts Center Exhibition chose to showcase In 2019, the Evanston Arts Center Exhibition chose to … (312) 814-6750 | Toll free in Illinois (800) 237-6994 | TTY 888-261-7957 Para información en Español llame al Illinois Arts Council Agency al 312/814-3111. College Art Association. She works as a freelance editor and writer in Aurora. Ginger Krebs makes performance and sculpture, which she’s presented recently in Chicago at Sector 2337, the Cultural Center, Loyola University, The Arts Club of Chicago, the Chicago Artists Coalition, and the Hyde Park Art Center. Ragdale Foundation Artist Residencies, Lake Forest IL, annually: 1996-2005. Saturday & Sunday: 9 am - 4 pm. Contribute your work: photoes, art, articles, videos and get published. In 2018 Krebs performed solos at the Seattle International Butoh Festival and elsewhere, and in 2017 she presented Minor Local Slumpage, a solo exhibition of sculpture, along with an artist’s book and interactive “sculpture tasting”, at the Chicago Artists Coalition. The pictures and writing D'Amato produced there over the next fourteen years were made into the book, “Barrio" published by the University of Chicago Press. – When ‘something exciting’ happens and people connect with others, or that which is outside us. She has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships including The Doris Duke Impact Artist Award 2014,  Guggenheim Fellowship 2004, Foundation for Contemporary Art Fellowship 1998,  and multiple National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Midwest Individual Artist Grant and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Individual Artist Grant. Through her large-scale projects such as My First Painting, Twenty-One Years Later at the MCA Chicago, Unravelling the Rainbow, at ArtPace San Antonio, Devoured by Symbols at Tony Wight Gallery, A-Z.2 at Threewalls & Elmhurst Art Museum, and most recently Slow Blossoming at the South Bend Museum of Art & Carrie Secrist Gallery - she engages materials to question what is being seen and what inclusive histories are represented. IACA Announces Availability of FY 2021 Summer Youth Employment Guidelines. UIUC Research Board, to record and/or produce CD’s of Powell’s music 1993-2004. Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, Finalist, 1996. Her plays include Heat, which had its world premiere at Chicago Dramatists and was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Outstanding New Work and many other award-winning work. Literature: Even is currently an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department. In addition, his photos were used to illustrate Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Case for Reparations (2014) article, which was the best-selling issue in the history of the Atlantic Magazine. Her CD, Vanishing Points, was described by Frank J. Oteri on NewMusicBox.org as “seamlessly weaving elements from high modernism with jazz, Latin, blues, and even funk into an amalgam that is completely its own thing”. My background is in training and organizational development. "I've had an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship … Fellowship in Visual-Based Arts (Painting, Craft, and Installation): Bethany Collins, Chicago. Guerrero-Maciá received fellowships at both Skowhegan School of Art and Penland School of Craft. Her music was published at Ablaze, CIMESP, SCI, EMS, ERM media, SEAMUS, and Détonants Voyages. October 30, 2020. If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Cara Feeney, Director of Exhibitions, at cfeeney@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 107. It earned a four-star review and was chosen for the Best Dance of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the MCA, Chicago; the Musée d’art Moderne in Paris; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; and the Whitney, Venice, Berlin, Istanbul, Liverpool, and Sydney Biennials. Fellowship in Visual-Based Arts (Sculpture & Interdisciplinary): Joseph Grigely. She has nonverbal learning disability, a neurologically-based developmental disability similar to autism. The following jurors reviewed this year’s submissions: ETHNIC AND FOLK ARTS: Nicholas Hartmann, Cedar Rapids, IA; Lisa Rathje, Oak Park, IL; Robert Baron, Brooklyn, NY; Julia Olin, Berwyn Heights, MD, MEDIA ARTS: Anula Shetty, Philadelphia, PA; Abina Manning, Chicago, IL; Joe Bowman, San Francisco, CA; Brenda Webb, Skokie, IL, MUSIC COMPOSITION: Sabrina Peña Young, Buffalo, NY; Kirsten Broberg, Aubrey, TX; Marjorie Rusche, South Bend, IN, PERFORMANCE-BASED ARTS: Carron Little, Chicago, IL; Peter Taub, Chicago, IL; Marianne Weems, Santa Cruz, CA; Hector Canonge, Elmhurst, NY, LITERATURE (POETRY): Leila Wilson, Evanston, IL; Chanda Feldman, Oberlin, OH; Lisa Olstein, Austin, TX, LITERATURE (PROSE): Jacinda Townsend, Bloomington, IN; James O’Laughlin, Evanston, IL; Sheila Everett, Paw Paw, MI, LITERATURE (SCRIPTWORKS): Ruth Margraff, Chicago, IL; Erin Washburn, Philadelphia, PA; Kirsten Bowen, Washington, DC, VISUAL-BASED ARTS (PHOTOGRAPHY): Deanna Witman, Warren, ME; Marzena Abrahamik, Park Ridge, IL; Jesse Mattimoe Avina, Chicago, IL, VISUAL-BASED ARTS (SCULPTURE): Lisa Costello, Champaign, IL; Stephanie Cristello, Chicago, IL; Zachary Zetterberg, Peoria, IL, VISUAL-BASED ARTS (PAINTING, CRAFT, AND INSTALLATION): Kathyrn Koca Polite, Galesburg, IL; Kendra Paitz, Bloomington, IL; Allison Peters Quinn, LaGrange, IL; Douglas Stapleton, Chicago, IL, Illinois Arts Council Agency | iac.info@illinois.gov. Susan Dickson, Program Director Collins’ work has been exhibited at: The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Locust Projects, Miami and The Center for Book Arts, New York, among others. Fellowship in  Scriptworks: Sandra Delgado, Chicago, Sandra Delgado is a writer, actor, and producer born and raised in Chicago. The Washington Prize in Fiction, novel, 1996 “Discovery”/THE NATION poetry competition, semi-finalist, 1996. Oresky participated in a collaborative print project at Normal Editions Workshop in the School of Art at Illinois State University for the portfolio CVA Suite III in 2015-17. Joseph Grigely is an artist and writer. October 30, 2020. Kyong Mee Choi received several prestigious awards and grants including John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Robert Helps Prize, Aaron Copland Award, John Donald Robb Musical Trust Fund Commission, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. Among them were University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in the Field of Ethnic and Folk Arts, the commendation from the Foreign Ministry in Japan for her contribution to promote and strengthen the ties of friendship and goodwill between the United States and Japan. It has won numerous grants and awards, including 3ARTs Visual Arts Award, Fledgling Distribution Fund, Artadia Awards, Chicago (winner of top award); Golden Gate Awards Certificate-of-Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival; Media Arts Award, The Jerome Foundation; Individual Artists Program Awards, NYSCA, and many others; and has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY), the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), among others. Emily is also a MacDowell Fellow (17, 18) and a 2015 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh MFA program. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Glamour, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, the North American Review, and the American Journal of Nursing. Her work has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and has been shortlisted for the Fish Short Memoir Prize and longlisted for the Disquiet Literary Prize. After a broken leg sidelined her in 2015, she taught dance for 3 months on a scooter, recorded her learning experiences as a handicapped dancer and then presented the findings at the International Fine Arts Conference in Athens, Greece. He has earned awards, honors, and commissions from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, BMI, the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, the U.S. Department of Education, and Sigma Alpha Iota international music fraternity.