“When you’re inside a rhythm, it entrains you, it imprints on you, it saturates along an infinite scale,” says Co-Curator and Associate Professor Darrell Jones who received an inaugural Platform Award from the Walder Foundation this past week.

Chicago’s Walder Foundation will award $2.4 million to performing artists through its inaugural Platform Awards, to support area mid-career music, theater, dance and interdisciplinary artists enriching the city’s creative and civic landscape.

Walder Foundation will award $2.4 million to performing artists through its inaugural Platform Awards.

The Skokie-based Walder Foundation is providing the unrestricted grants to music, theater, dance and interdisciplinary performance artists.

As part of its inaugural Platform Awards, the Skokie-based Walder Foundation is giving out $2.4 million in unrestricted grants to 12 local mid-career music, theater, dance and interdisciplinary performance artists.

Twelve Chicagoland performing artists to each receive an unrestricted grant and professional development opportunities.