Fiscal Year 2006 / Mini Grants: June
The Iowa Arts Council received 22 Mini grant applications for the 2006 June
round. We received a total of $29,701 in requested funds. Of those, 4 were
selected for funding, totaling $6000. The highest score of those selected
for funding was 37 and the lowest at 33.
Keith R Haworth
Quaker Ridge Anthology Project
$1,500
Quaker Ridge Anthology Project is a collection of twelve original songs based
on written and oral history of the West Branch area. Funding will support
the production of a CD with story introductions, and provide 1880's costumed
performances to the Herbert Hoover Library, and West Branch Public Library.
Iowans and out of state visitors will be entertained and learn about the areas
unique history.
John Soukup
Painting Nomi's Rainbow
$1,500
John Soukup will use funding to create a new body of work illustrating a forthcoming children's book. Written by an Iowa author, the book will be published in a hard-cover, library-quality volume. The thirty paintings created will then be presented as an exhibition at several Iowa venues.
Nora Garda Marcos
Mil Lunas Despues
$1,500
Funding will allow Iowa dancers-choreographers-video artists, Garda and McCusker,
to travel to Spain, partner with Ballet Contemporáneo to create
Mil Lunas Despues -a choreographic design with Iowa music-, and perform for
the Tenerife International Dance Festival. They'll premiere their Greg Brown
Iowa Waltz choreography, tape and edit video dances. They'll return and exhibit
the new work to Iowa audiences.
Central Iowa Repertory Theatre
"Shatter Windows"-3 new works by Iowa Playwrights in Iowa Fringe
Festival
$1,500
Funding will support the Central Iowa Repertory Theatre (CIRT) to partner
with Iowa Scriptwriters' Alliance (ISA) to present, "Shattered Windows",
comprised of three world-premieres by Iowa playwrights, Steve Hakeman, Chuck
Hughes and Kay Frances Scott. CIRT/ISA's "Shattered Windows" will
be presented at 2nd Annual Iowa Fringe Festival (IFF) July 20 through July
23, 2006.