NEWS: Bridge, Zephyr & SITE/less win City of Chicago Planning & Development Grant for $70,911 in Facility Improvements 

Written By Michael Workman

Zephyr & SITE/less Founder Michelle Kranicke at the Development & Planning award ceremony, pictured (with teal scarf to the right behind Mayor Lori Lightfoot).

Bridge, Zephyr and SITE/less are thrilled to announce they received the award as part of the third round of the city’s Community Development Grants program.

“Much of 2022 was spent dreaming big and tirelessly writing grants for a range of projects,” notes Bridge Founder Michael Workman. 

“This Community Development Grant from the city of Chicago reinforces Mayor Lightfoot’s commitment to the recovery of the performing arts community from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Zephyr director and SITE/less co-director Michelle Kranicke. 

Researched and developed by Workman Studio, the final application was jointly written by @michaelworkman1studio, @bridge.chicago, and @zephyrdance.

Learn more about SITE/less Chicago on their website here and Zephyr here.

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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