OTTAWA – The Arts of Starved Rock Country Fund will award grants to nine projects this spring including a combined $6,000 to theatre groups in LaSalle, Streator and Princeton.

Arts of Starved Rock Country Fund Administrator Rene Parks Wendinger said a total of $11,760 will be awarded to eight organizations including NCI Artworks in Peru. NCI will receive $1,454 for a master class and $500 to support its gallery shows.

Other recipients include:

§  Somonauk Public Library, $750 for a youth-through-adult canvas painting class.  

§  Stage 212 in LaSalle, $1,500 for stipends for high school and college students working on the children’s theater production. 

§  Ottawa Concert Association, $1,500 for its Sept. 6 concert featuring 70s and 80s pop hit tribute band “The Sidekicks.” 

§  Community Players of Streator, $3,000 for costume and set design for the staging of the Broadway musical “Chicago” Aug. 10, 12-15.

§  Princeton Theater Group, $1,500 for stipends for college student staff for the two-week summer theater arts camp for youth ages 8 to 12.

§  Mendota Museum and Historical Society, $1,200 toward restoration of the Sweet Corn Festival public art installation. And, 

§  Ladd Public Library, $356 for its summer reading program with experiential incentives featuring “Build a Bear” and 3D lantern workshops for youth.

The Arts of Starved Rock Country Fund is a component fund of the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation, 116 W. Lafayette St., Suite 2, Ottawa. ASRC is also supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts.