HISTORY & PROCESS | VISION | CIRCLE MEMBERS | GRANTEES
2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006

Venus

VENUS Is a multimedia cultural celebration honoring the idea of making everyday International Women's Day. They organize a multi-racial women's circle and celebrate the lineage, impact and cultural influences of women via art, music, poetry, dance and craft.
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Mixing It Up

FTT grant to support a follow up to Voices of Cabrini (1998), filmmakers Ronit Bezalel and Mark Pratt look at the impact of the destruction of Chicago's Cabrini Green public housing development a decade later in their latest film entitled, Mixing It Up. The film draws the connections between the loss of affordable housing in Chicago with the national trend to tear down high-rise public housing. The grant will support an educational outreach tour.
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April 1968 Riot Oral History Project

FTT grant to support artist and educator Samuel Barnett's production of a multi-media project featuring interviews and photo documentation of those who witnessed and were impacted by the 1968 riot that erupted on the West side of Chicago after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. The work will be available for educational, research, and artistic exhibition purposes.
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Mothers of Incarcerated Sons (M.I.S.S.)

FTT supported writing workshops for mothers of incarcerated sons held at the Howard Area Community Center in Rogers Park. The workshops help mothers understand they are not to blame; that their guilt is propagated by a constructed societal viewpoint that can be changed. The grant will also provide fiscal support for the publication of their bi-annual manuscript.

AREA Chicago

Revealing examples of Chicagoans tackling the question of money, capital and work in creative ways. AREA Art/Research/Education/Activism is a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting and networking local social, political and cultural movements.

Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Jew

FTT funded the forthcoming multi-media art installation by Sam Feder that will explore the connections between, and opens dialogue amongst, Queer Radical Jews and Zionist Jews who are organizing around racial, economic, and social justice.
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Against A Trans Narrative

FTT grant to support DVD duplication and dissemination of "against a trans narrative", an experimental film about trans issues by Jules Rosskam. The film analyzes the construction of the dominant trans-masculine "narrative." It aims to provoke conversation among the LBGTQ community and others about ways in which we construct personal and historical narratives.
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A Day at Stateville | Theater

FTT grant to support a play written by the men at Statesville, a maximum security prison, through a public speaking and writing class taught by Jim Chapman of the Illinois Institute for Community Law and Affairs. Ex-prisoners will perform and compose the music for the play. It will tour at community groups, businesses, religious organizations, and schools across the city.

Teens Acting in Community (TAIC)

TAIC teaches poetry, prose, art, theatre and spoken word based on a student-centered approach in Riverdale, IL. Students conduct open mic readings and engage in community service. Their original performances open up dialogue between the teen's family, friends and neighbors about issues impacting their community.
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Pilsen Environemental Rights and Reform Organization (PERRO)

PERRO educates Pilsen area youth about environmental issues affecting their own neighborhood by having them creatively document local sources of pollution. The youth's work will be presented in local schools and the community.
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Arte y Realidad

FTT made a grant to Art y Realidad, a collective that hosts street side talleres (art workshops) to share the cultural practice of "artesania" - crafts made with your hands - to adults and children in the Little Village community.
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Acudetox Healing Collective

Acudetox Healing Collective is a group of community health workers, activists, and organizers who believe that accessible health care is a form of social justice, and believe that in taking care of our communities we often forget to prioritize our own wellbeing. AHC believes that investing in the health of our people can only strengthen any movement for social justice.

Kuumba Lynx Braid Tails

Kuumba Lynx is an Arts and Education Organization founded in 1996 with the a mission of working to provide access to programs that preserve, promote and present urban arts & culture. FTT grant supported the production of the group's first ensemble CD of poetry and rhyme entitled "Braid Tales." The compilation CD will be used as a tool to spawn dialogue about the harsh economic and societal realities that affect inner city youth in classrooms and as arts integration curricula.