Projects

2012 AWARDS

Special thanks to our 2012 Propeller Fund jury: Brandon Alvendia, Andres Hernandez, Irena Knezevic, Karsten Lund, and Mary Patten. And much appreciation to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, funder to Propeller Fund through its Regional Regranting Program.

The 2012 grant recipients are: A Day Without Public Art in Pilsen, America/n, AREA Chicago Issue #13, Art Patch Project, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, The Chicago Television Project, Comfort Station, Extinct Entities, The Franklin, GLI.TC/H, Microbroadcasting Chicago's Art History, Prison-Neighborhood Arts Project, Rooting: Regional Networks, Global Concerns, Splitbeam, Toward a Union of Public Artists: SHoP Fellowship.

To read summaries of the awarded projects, click here.

2011 AWARDS

Propeller Fund is excited to announce the 2011 awardees.

Special thanks our 2011 Propeller Fund jury: Naomi Beckwith, Courtney Fink, Nicholas Frank, Faheem Majeed, and Anne Elizabeth Moore. And much appreciation to The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, funder to Propeller Fund through its Regional Regranting Program.

Propeller Fund awards are given at two levels:
Five grants at $6,000
Ten grants at $2,000

The 2011 grant recipients are: 24 HRS/25 DAYS PLUS, A Day at Stateville, Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project, Disciplines Journal, Dominica, E-Dogz Mobile Culinary Community Center, Expose, Intervene, Occupy: Re-interpreting Public Space, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Garlic & Greens, Hyde Park Kunstverein, Monsters and Dust, Revival, Territory, The Chicago Arts Archive, The Happiness Project.

To read summaries of the awarded projects, click here.

See below for images from the awards celebration on October 21, 2011.

2010 AWARDS

The Propeller Fund is proud to announce the grant recipients for our initial year of funding.

Launched in May 2010, Propeller Fund is administered jointly by Gallery 400, UIC and threewalls. Initial support for the program is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts as part of its initiative to promote informal and independently organized visual arts activities across the United States.

Propeller Fund awards are given at two levels:
Five grants at $6000
Ten grants at $2000

The 2010 grant recipients are: ChicagoRICAN, Dorchester Project, Five Funerals, Forms of Spectacle and Solutions to Vacancy, Life's A Ball, Mutualisms, Never The Same: Transformative experiences of art, politics and community in Chicago, Pilot Studies, Qeej Hero, Sex Offender Next Door, SPACE PROGRAM, Tamalli Space Charros Collective, The Lady Dissident Chicago Travel Auxiliary, The Suburban and N55, The Storefront.

The five jurists for the first round of awards, Hannah Feldman, Dan Peterman, Georgina Valverde, Cleo Wilson, and Propeller Fund representatives, selected 15 winners from over 140 applications.

To read summaries of the awarded projects, click here

See below for images from the awards celebration on October 28, 2010.

THE PROPELLER FUND EXPO
@MDW Fair
Friday, October 21, 8-11pm
Saturday, October 22 and Sunday, October 23, 12-6pm
Geolofts, 3636 South Iron Street, 3rd Floor

Featuring the 2010 Propeller Fund Awardees: