15 Elgin-area arts groups awarded grants
Fifteen Elgin-area not-for-profit arts organizations have received grants to help produce programs, including adult and children’s theater, visual art and musical concerts.
The $64,443 in Elgin Cultural Arts Commission grants were awarded based on innovation, impact, opportunity and feasibility. The annual program is available to local arts-based groups that will produce their funded program within Elgin.
The city saw its highest number of applicants for the grants this year, which council member Carol Rauschenberger saw as a reflection of the city’s robust art community.
“I just want to comment about how lucky Elgin is to have the number of visual arts and performing arts organizations that we have,” she said. “Looking forward to going to many of them and seeing the performances.”
The city council approved the recommendations made by the Cultural Arts Commission during last week’s meeting.
The grant recipients and their projects include:
• African American Coalition of Kane County for their Black Tie Awards Gala & Celebration ($3,400)
• The Chamber Music on the Fox featuring 3rd Coast Brass performance of “Pictures at an Exhibition” ($4,949)
• Children’s Theatre of Elgin’s production of “Matilda the Musical” ($5,704)
• Elgin Area Historical Society Hispanic Heritage Project ($6,770)
• Elgin Master Chorale’s performance “Black Roots: The Black American Experience Through Music” ($3,080)
• Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association’s “Celebrating Elgin’s Cultural Heritage” ($6,630)
• Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestras 48th Season GAIA Final Concert “Terra Una” ($5,516)
• Elsinore, A Theatre Ensemble for Schiller’s “Mary Stuart” in a new version by Peter Oswald ($1,476)
• Hamilton Wings SCORE!: Students Creating Opera to Reinforce Education ($6,715)
• Iambe Theatre Ensemble 2024 Season ($3,797)
• Independent Players for “A Stunning Comic Drama of Life in the Hollywood Hills and Beyond- 1985” ($1,130)
• The Janus Theatre “Call to Adventure” ($4,950)
• Oddball Art Labs “Twisted Toys” ($1,230)
• Side Street Studio Arts for Live Music Review ($7,268)
• The Home Creative NFP “Footloose the Musical” ($1,829)