Gallery and Studio Walks | Arts Education Initiatives
The Oak Park Area Arts Council (OPAAC) is pleased to award almost $45,000 in ArtsFunds for 2009 to 31 organizations.
The organizations are:
B.R.A.V.O!, Chicago a cappella, Chicago West Community Music Center, Circle Theatre, Community Support Services, Dominican University Performing Arts Center, Ernest Hemingway Foundation, Expressions Graphics, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, Handel Week, Heritage Chorale, Michael Teolis Singers, Momenta, Oak Park Area Lesbian & Gay Association, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park Concert Chorale, Oak Park Education Foundation – Art Start, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Oak Park & River Forest Children’s Chorus, Open Door Repertory Company, PING! (Providing Instruments to the Next Generation), Pleasant Home Foundation, Senior Citizens’ Center of Oak Park & River Forest,Sense of Urgency, Steckman Studio of Music, Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest, Unity Temple Concert Series, Village Players Theatre, Windy City String Ensemble, Winifred Haun & Dancers, and Wonder Works
The OPAAC is honored to partner with Community Bank of Oak Park and River Forest for their sponsorship of the Best in Class Awards. The CBOPRF Best in Class Awards are presented to ArtsFunds recipient organizations that have demonstrated significant growth over the past year. The ArtsFunds review panel selects these organizations after reviewing grant applications. Categories are determined based on the organization and their own particular improvement. CBOPRF presented each Best in Class organization with a $1,000 cash award at the Arts Council’s annual meeting in March. The Community Bank of Oak Park & River Forest Best in Class Awards for 2009 will be presented to:
- Oak Park Concert Chorale – Excellence in Presenting Diverse and Unique Choral Works
- PING! – Excellence in Diversity, Inclusion and Life-Long Appreciation for Music and the Arts in All Students
- Winifred Haun & Dancers – Excellence in Presenting Diverse Dance in Non-Traditional Venues
2009 ArtsFunds panel members: Mary Davis Fournier, Yves Hughes Jr., Shirley Kyle, John Milan and John Troelstrup.
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Arts Breakfasts series enables not-for-profit
art organizations and art businesses to learn about topics such as marketing
strategies and methods of building new audiences.
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Art Salons continue to highlight new art
spaces in the community and spirit communication among individual artists.
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e-ART a service for members with email.
Every Other Thursday a listing of the latest arts events and happenings for
the weekend and upcoming week is posted.
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Gallery and Studio Walks
Oak Park Area Arts Council Gallery
annually produces 32 exhibits that showcase local artists' work that might
not otherwise be seen. In addition, the Council solicits, publicizes and exhibits local artists' work at Oak Park Village Hall, Forest Park National Bank, Rush Oak Park Hospital and the Wm. B. Sullivan Realty Office.
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Neighborhood Gallery and Studio Walks
are given assistance in facilitation and are sponsored by the Arts Council.
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Arts Education Initiatives
Art Start partnership with District 97
schools in Oak Park that places more than twenty artists into an artist-in-residence
program that enables K-2 students to be exposed to art instruction that
would otherwise be unavailable. The program was cited in 1999 by the President's
Committee in the Arts & Humanities.
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Oak Park Area Arts Council Fine Arts Scholarship
provides scholarships for college bound graduating seniors from the tri-village
area who will be majoring in the arts in college. The 2009 recipients, each of who received a $1,000 scholarship to assist them with their freshman year tuition and fees are: Nick Ellman, Devin Kliewer-Foster, Anne Shalo, Paul Whalen and Joseph Lippe (Russell C. Lissuzzo Scholarship recipient).
See the 2009 Scholarship Winners.
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Joseph Randall Shapiro Award presented annually at the Oak Park Area Arts Council's annual meeting to recognize exceptional contributions to the arts in the Oak Park area. The inaugural award was made to Museum of Contemporary Art founder and collector Joseph Randall Shapiro, a River Forest resident.
Subsequent winners have been: Tivoli Enterprises for their renovation
of the Lake Theater; the collective Harrison Street studios and art-related
businesses and the founder; director of the Academy of Movement, Stephaine
Clemens; Geraldine McCullough, a nationally known artist and sculptor;
Harriet Ilse Ziegenhals; President, Trustees, Clerk, Village Manager and
All the Employees of the Village of Oak Park; Ellen Holleman; Jonathan
Miller, the founder and artistic director of Chicago a cappella; Circle Theatre; John Lukehart (deceased), Bill Fitzgerald, and Oak Park Public Library. The 2009 recipient is Wednesday Journal, Inc.
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Oak Park Area Arts Council
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Phone (708) 358-5690 • Fascimille (708) 383-6692 • E-mail: info@oakparkareaartscouncil.org.
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