Harris Theater for Music and Dance
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Grants
12
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Total Awarded
$4,238,324
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Years
1994 - 2023
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Categories
Grants
2023 (1 year)
$35,000
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance (the Harris), which opened in Chicago’s Millennium Park in 2003, hosts performances by internationally known and local arts organizations. It also offers community engagement and educational programs, and serves as an incubator by providing technical, financial, marketing, and artistic support to mid-sized arts organizations that are in residence.
With this award, the Harris builds its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEIA) initiative.
2018 (3 years)
$210,000
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance (The Theater), which opened in Chicago’s Millennium Park in 2003, hosts performances by internationally-known and local arts organizations. It also offers community engagement and educational programs, and serves as an incubator by providing technical, financial, marketing, and artistic support to 30 mid-sized arts organizations that are in residence at the Theater. The Theater is the primary performance venue for many MacArthur grantees. This award recommends renewed general operating support to the Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance.
2015 (1 year)
$75,000
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance (the Theater), which opened in Millennium Park in 2003, hosts performances by internationally-known and local arts organizations and serves as an incubator, providing technical, financial, and artistic support for more than 30 mid-sized arts organizations who are in residence at the Theater. The Harris is the primary performance venue for many MacArthur grantees. This grant supports the Theater’s contribution to the 35th Anniversary celebration of the MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program.
2015 (3 years)
$189,000
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance (the Theater), which opened in Millennium Park in 2003, hosts performances by internationally-known and local arts organizations and serves as an incubator, providing technical, financial, and artistic support for more than 30 mid-sized arts organizations who are in residence at the Theater. The Harris is the primary performance venue for many MacArthur grantees. This grant supports the Theater’s work to offer high quality arts programming to Chicago audiences and to sustain and expand financial support, in-kind resources, capacity-building workshops, and opportunities for artistic collaboration to its resident companies.
2010 (4 years)
$300,000
To support the theater subsidy rental program (over four years).
2010 (4 years)
$300,000
To support the theater subsidy rental program (over four years).
2007 (3 years)
$150,000
In support of a subsidized usage program for smaller arts organizations (over three years).
2005 (2 years)
$100,000
In support of a subsidized usage program for smaller arts organizations (over two years).
1996 (1 year)
$15,000
To support the Spring Festival of Dance.
1994 (1 year)
$19,324
To support consulting services to reassess the music and dance theater project.
1994 (6 years)
$2,825,000
To support the development and endowment of the Chicago Music and Dance Theater, a hall for mid-sized performing arts organizations in Chicago (over six years).
