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Supporting the Illinois Arts Sector for 60 Years
The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) and Illinois Humanities are proud to present Illinois Arts & Humanities Month. Throughout October, we encourage all Illinoisans to establish, deepen, and expand their relationships with the arts and humanities. Together, we celebrate the vital role that the arts and humanities play in our individual and shared community life. Learn More.
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Open: September thru October
All Illinois Arts Council grant recipients are required to complete and submit a final report. FY24 final report materials, instructions and deadlines can be found on the IAC final report landing page.
Opens: September 25, 2024
Deadline: November 20, 2024
The Illinois Arts Council’s (IAC) Creative Accelerator Fund (CAF) provides crucial support to artists with a goal of strengthening the creative workforce that composes a significant portion of Illinois’ economic activity.
Opens: September 16, 2024
Closes: January 17, 2025
Illinois Statewide POL Contest: March 17, 2025
A partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the state arts agencies, Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition for high school students across the country.
Arts Impact in Illinois
$36.1B
of our state's gross domestic product was contributed by arts and culture in 2022 - Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Dept of Commerce
216,227
Illinois jobs were in arts and culture (2022)
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
22
grants totaling $862,855 were directed to Illinois school districts in developing arts and foreign language curricula in partnership with the Illinois State Board of Education (FY2024)
$29.1B
in revenues to state and local government are delivered by Illinois arts nonprofits in 2022 - Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6)
29
local arts councils partnered with IAC through its Local Arts Network to support statewide arts programming (FY2024)
100%
of all legislative districts throughout Illinois receive free access to local and regional news, public affairs and arts programming through IAC support for Illinois Public Radio and Television (FY2024)
Featured Fellowship Recipient
Olivia Petrides is a painter, illustrator, and Associate Professor Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her large-scale works on paper, based on travel to remote and fragile landscapes, display imagery of fragmentation and dissolution. References to current politics are inserted through collaged text and newspaper fragments. She views the abstracted field as a gathering place in which to engage social discourse and explore partisan language within the context of environmental space. Among the awards she has received are a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; a Margaret Klimek Phillips Fellowship; three Illinois Arts Council Special Project Grants; and a SAIC Marion Kryczka Excellence in Teaching Award. Petrides traveled to Iceland on a Fulbright Grant with a concurrent residency at the Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum. She revisited Iceland twice and then Greenland with support from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. She returned to the subarctic North Atlantic where she had residencies with the Faroe Islands Museum of Natural History. Petrides has also received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Vermont Studio Center; the Roger Brown Studio; Yellowstone National Park and many residencies at the Ragdale Foundation. She illustrated two volumes in the Peterson Field Guide Series, published by Harper Collins Publishing Company and (to be) reissued by Princeton University Press. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; US National Park Service; Hafnarborg Institute of Art, Iceland; the Illinois State Museum; the Field Museum, Chicago; the Brauer Museum, Indiana; and the Openlands Organization, among others.
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