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Architect s rendering (Rendering courtesy of Woodhouse Tinucci Architects)
The Morrison-Shearer Foundation has announced a $1.5 million one-time grant to the Lake Forest-based Ragdale Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the artists community of Ragdale. The grant, along with $400,000 from the Ragdale Foundation, supports construction of two one-story attached buildings – the Sybil Shearer Studio and a composer s studio. The Ragdale campus is located on the verdant 5-acre historic grounds of the former country estate of architect Howard Van Doren Shaw not far from Lake Michigan and approximately 30 miles north of Chicago.
The state-of-the-art Sybil Shearer Studio and composer s studio will provide artists with space for contemplative creativity and the opportunity to explore their practice within a group of other artists and writers, with housing and meals provided during their residency. The building is being designed by Woodhouse Tinucci Architects; the gene