Sharing the Legacy: News from the Morrison-Shearer Foundation - 2019 Download the PDF
Kevin SenderMay 31, 2019
This year all of our major archives were placed in institutions where they will be cared for and be accessible for study. The Helen Balfour Morrison Collection and the Sybil Shearer Collection were gifted to the NEWBERRY LIBRARY and were featured in The Newberry Magazine, Spring/Summer 2019 issue. The Morrison…
Kevin SenderApril 10, 2019
“The Legacy of Chicago Dance” exhibition opens APRIL 2019 , THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY OF CHICAGO “The Legacy of Chicago Dance” opened in April in the Newberry Library’s newly renovated first floor exhibition area, displaying the wide range of the Library’s dance holdings. While it focuses on Chicago and Midwest dance…
Kevin SenderApril 1, 2019
RENA BUTLER Sybil Shearer Fellowship at Ragdale: 2019 The 2019 fellowship was awarded to Rena Butler, a multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago and New York City. Having trained at the Chicago Academy of the Arts and studied at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan, she received her BFA from…
Kevin SenderJanuary 28, 2019
Sharing the Legacy: News from the Morrison-Shearer Foundation - 2018 Download the PDF
Kevin SenderMay 31, 2018
BRITTANY HARLAN Sybil Shearer Fellowship at Ragdale: 2018 Brittany Harlin is the founding artistic director of Chicago Urban Dance Collective and 2017 recipient of the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award . Her influences are Hip Hop and Modern Dance Pioneers. In addition to company work, her dancing and choreography…
Kevin SenderJanuary 28, 2018
J'SUN HOWARD Sybil Shearer Fellowship at Ragdale: 2017 MSF awarded a Sybil Shearer Fellowship at Ragdale to J’Sun Howard, a Chattanooga native and Chicago-based dancemaker and poet. At the conclusion of his residency, J’Sun wrote, “I’ve had a productive time doing movement research and creating a solo for a larger project, ‘Working on…
Kevin SenderJanuary 28, 2017
JESSICA CORNISH Sybil Shearer Fellowship at Ragdale: 2016 The 2016 fellowship was awarded to dance artist Jessica Cornish. At the conclusion of her residency in September she wrote to MSF in part: “My time at Ragdale is unlike anything I have experienced before and was challenging in all the best ways.…
Kevin SenderJanuary 28, 2016