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Alphawood Foundation is a Chicago-based, grant-making, private foundation working for an equitable, just, and humane society.
Chicago, IL
Joined May 2015
Alphawood Foundation Wins Prestigious Publishing Award for Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece
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Alphawood Foundation Chicago, is pleased to announce that the Foundation has won the 2022 Alice Award for its publication, Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece
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Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece shortlisted for 2022 Alice Award
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Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece , published by Alphawood Foundation in 2021, has been shortlisted for the 2022 Alice Award. Edited by John Vinci with Tim Samuelson,...
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ALPHAWOOD FOUNDATION CHICAGO ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: CHIRAG G. BADLANI
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ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: CHIRAG G. BADLANI
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ALPHAWOOD FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT OF ITS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JIM McDONOUGH, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1
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August 10, 2021 (CHICAGO) Alphawood Foundation today announced the retirement of its Executive Director Jim McDonough, effective on October 1, 2021.
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A renowned Indian architect gets a Chicago showcase as Lincoln Park gallery celebrates Balkrishna Doshi’s humanistic designs. My review:
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Alphawood Foundation is proud to support the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund. “Sweet Home Chicago” COVID-19 Artist Relief Music Video https://t.co/tW8GSHIGq4 via @YouTube
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A street food vendor's tip led archaeologists to find an ancient Maya capital in a cattle rancher's yard
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Archaeologists say they've found the long-lost capital of an ancient Maya kingdom near the border between Mexico and Guatemala. The Sak Tz'i' kingdom was home to between 5,000 and 10,000 people in...
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Laser mapping reveals largest and oldest Mayan temple
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For decades, archeologists have kept their eyes down to the ground as they slashed through jungles, attempting to spot traces left by lost civilizations like the Khmer Empire in Cambodia and the Maya...
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Alphawood Foundation supports Enrich Chicago in its vision to reimagine a more just Chicago through the arts. Learn more at https://t.co/TJpDZzYE85.
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AIDS GARDEN CHICAGO TO UNVEIL SIGNATURE 30-FOOT KEITH HARING SCULPTURE
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The Chicago Parks Foundation today announced that the first phase of the new AIDS Garden Chicago will be complete this Fall with the unveiling of a specially-commissioned 30-foot-high sculpture,...
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IIT College of Architecture Ph.D. program launches peer-reviewed journal
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Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture is proud to announce the publication of " Prometheus: Journal of the Ph.D. Program in Architecture ." The peer-reviewed journal offers a...
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Building Intervening Connecting: Recent work of Gong Dong
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The School of Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Alphawood Foundation Chicago present "Building Intervening Connecting: Recent work of Gong Dong,” a rare public presentation by...
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Unity Temple restoration wins national historic preservation award
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The Wright-designed landmark earned a Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award
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Cloud Gate avengers: the band of elastic superheroes who transformed Taiwan
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Lin Hwai-min has spent 46 years tackling revolt, repression and rice in his fast-changing homeland. Now he is handing over his dance-theatre juggernaut to a former slipper seller
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New York Times: In Chicago, Overlooked Achievements by L.G.B.T.Q. Artists
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CHICAGO — Because photographs record a moment that has passed, they are by nature poignant. But a particularly bittersweet mood infuses an ambitious exhibition here of photographs, paintings and...
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Queer/Architectural Passing in Wrightwood 659’s “About Face”
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Midway through its fourth exhibition, “About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art,” the Wrightwood 659 has become a permanent yet still covert fixture of Lincoln Park. Tucked between residences...
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Unity Temple Restoration Project Wins Prestigious Urban Land Institute Chicago Vision Award
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Oak Park, Illinois, July 16, 2019 - The 2019 ULI Chicago Vision Awards winners were named at an event held on July 10 at Rockwell on the River in Chicago. The Unity Temple Restoration Project was...
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Not Just Stonewall: New Show Explores 50 Years of Queer Art
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Fifty years ago next month, the Stonewall riots in New York City started the modern gay rights movement (at least, they did in the popular imagination). A new exhibition at Lincoln Park’s Wrightwood...
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From the Heart of the Orchestra: Musicians of the CSO in Concert
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The Musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed “From the Heart of the Orchestra” Concert at the historic Auditorium Theatre, the original home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, made...
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