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Christopher Williams named as the 2025 Sybil Shearer Fellow at Ragdale Home Page NewsNews

Christopher Williams named as the 2025 Sybil Shearer Fellow at Ragdale

The Morrison-Shearer Foundation is pleased to announce that acclaimed choreographer Christopher Williams has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Sybil Shearer Fellowship Residency at Ragdale, a nonprofit artist residency program and community in Lake Forest, IL. This prestigious opportunity, which we're proud to fund, continues our commitment to…
Scott Lundius
December 13, 2024
Exploring Opportunities for Media Artsits and Their Collaborators Home Page NewsNews

Exploring Opportunities for Media Artsits and Their Collaborators

Earlier this year, members of the Morrison-Shearer Foundation’s Board of Trustees visited the Chicago Film Archives  and the studio of noted photographer, Judy Natal. Through these visits and others, the Foundation is establishing the basis for its future support of the creative processes of media artists and their collaborators, set to launch…
Amy Jeppsen
October 18, 2024
Without Wings The Way Is Steep Volumes I, II & III Soon Available in Digital Formats Home Page NewsNews

Without Wings The Way Is Steep Volumes I, II & III Soon Available in Digital Formats

The Morrison-Shearer Foundation is proud to announce plans for the digitization and wider distribution of Sybil Shearer’s three-volume autobiography: Without Wings The Way Is Steep. In addition to providing a fascinating view of an insider’s history of modern dance in America, the volumes offer intimate views into Shearer’s thoughts about leaving…
Amy Jeppsen
October 18, 2024
AYAKO KATO – Sybil Shearer Fellowship at Ragdale: 2024 FellowshipsNewsSpotlight

AYAKO KATO – Sybil Shearer Fellowship at Ragdale: 2024

AYAKO KATO Sybil Shearer Fellowship at Ragdale: 2024 Photo: William Frederking During her residency fellowship at Ragdale, Ayako Kato will be working on ETHOS IV: Degrowth/Cycle/Rebirth, an evening-length piece created to shift focus from human-centered, capitalistic ways of being to a more symbiotic, nature-centered way of being. It will be premiered at the…
Scott Lundius
December 22, 2023
Arts Club of Chicago Event Features Ray Johnson’s Link to Sybil Shearer Home Page NewsNews

Arts Club of Chicago Event Features Ray Johnson’s Link to Sybil Shearer

On Thursday, September 15, Jenny Harris, COSI Research Fellow for Modern and Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago presented a talk on her research into the fascinating connections between the seminal Pop Art figure, Ray Johnson, and Sybil Shearer. Her investigation was inspired by the acquisition of a…
Amy Jeppsen
September 15, 2023
John Neumeier in Conversation Home Page NewsNews

John Neumeier in Conversation

Milwaukee-born JOHN NEUMEIER has been the Director and Chief Choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet since 1973. Yet his dance career and formative training took place in mid-century Chicago, most notably with modern dancer Sybil Shearer and the Stone-Camryn Ballet. This video documents a conversation between Mr. Neumeier and dance scholars…
Amy Jeppsen
May 18, 2023
Art Institute of Chicago Purchases Ray Johnson Moticos and Ephemera from the Foundation Home Page NewsNews

Art Institute of Chicago Purchases Ray Johnson Moticos and Ephemera from the Foundation

It was an astonishing find in the attic of the Morrison-Shearer Foundation back in 2013. There it was; a pristine collection of Ray Johnson “moticos” tucked inside their original envelope with the postmark December 30, 1955. With this discovery, the exciting times of Sybil Shearer and Helen Morrison’s connection to…
Amy Jeppsen
February 12, 2022
A Space to Create Home Page NewsNews

A Space to Create

A Space to Create is a visually stunning, poetic and complex sixteen-minute film that tells the remarkable story of Sybil Shearer and Helen Balfour Morrison. As artful as the work of these two artists themselves, the film itself is in motion and exquisitely complements the visuals of Helen Balfour Morrison…
Kevin Sender
December 31, 2021
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