Illinois Arts Council information

The Illinois Arts Council is a government agency of the state of Illinois formed to encourage development of the arts throughout Illinois. Founded in...

of Illinois system on July 1, 1995. The university now also includes a liberal arts college and is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges...

founder of America's first arts council, the Quincy Society of Fine Arts, the founder and first chairman of the Illinois Arts Council, founder and first president...

awards from the Illinois Arts Council (1984, 1987, 1990, 2002), Springfield Art Museum (1986), National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Midwest (1992) and...

1986 Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction, 1985 Artists Grant, The Illinois Arts Council, 1985 Grawemeyer Award for Faculty, University of Louisville,1983...

fellowships and grants, such as the Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship (2001), National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1988, 1974), Polaroid Corporation...

degrees in education, business, arts, sciences, and humanities. Eastern Illinois Normal School was established by the Illinois State Legislature in 1895 "to...

Tiffany Foundation, The Durfee Foundation, Art Matters, and the Illinois Arts Council. Morris has exhibited at 2014 Whitney Biennial (New York), The Renaissance...

& Illinois Arts Council, "A Chorus of Horizontals" appeared on Chicago subways and buses as a part of "Poetry in Motion." 1997 Illinois Arts Council Literary...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is a public university in Edwardsville, Illinois. Located within the Metro East of Greater St. Louis,...

Music with Brahms Guitar, Vol. 1" funded by an IAS grant from the Illinois Arts Council. The project includes entirely new compositions from an international...

poetry readings in Evanston, which have been active since 2002. The Illinois Arts Council awarded RHINO poets with literary prizes in 2002, 2003, and 2008...

Hoopin'. In 1987, James received a $2,000 fellowship grant from the Illinois Arts Council to work on the film. James and Marx then pitched their idea to Gordon...

Southern Illinois University (SIU or SIUC) is a public research university in Carbondale, Illinois. Chartered in 1869, SIU is the oldest and flagship...

and did win the Paula Anderson Book Award. Jemc was awarded two Illinois Arts Council Grants. In 2014 Jemc was among a list of 25 Writers to Watch by...

Illinois Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Bloomington, Illinois. Founded in 1850, the central portion of the present campus was...

1989 Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award 1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Midwest Regional Fellowship 1987 Illinois Arts Council Artists...

received support from the Sundance Institute, Kartemquin Labs, the Illinois Arts Council, and IFP. The film premiered at the True/False Film Fest in 2020...

for the Arts fellowships, first prize in the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, and several grants from the Illinois Arts Council. Before...

Museum of Art. He has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts (1985), Illinois Arts Council (1980), and Francis Ryerson Foreign Travel (1967) fellowships...

President of the Southland Regional Arts Council and as a member of the Theatre Advisory Panel of the Illinois Arts Council. She received numerous awards for...