Fiscal Year 2006 / Round I
Iowa Arts Council Organization and Arts in Education Grant Awards
Waterloo Center for the Arts, Waterloo
Grant's Farm
$7,900
Grant's Farm is a project in which educators, school administrators and museum
interactive design consultants will work together with WCA to develop and produce
a 700' hands-on exhibit for children and families which interprets the museum's
collection of work by Grant Wood and other American Regionalists artists; one
of nine permanent discovery zones planned for a 32,000' youth pavilion expansion.
Quad City Arts, Rock Island
Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series 2005-2006
$7,200
Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series 2005-2006 will present approximately 275
educational programs to broaden audience developmental and enhance student and
adult understanding of the arts. The artists are world-renowned musicians, dancers
and performers. Free or low-cost public concerts will provide additional community
access to these artists.
Red Cedar Chamber Music, Marion
Strictly Iowa
$5,572
Strictly Iowa celebrates Iowa culture through two chamber music concerts and four
educational activities in a week long celebration, May 8-13, 2006. Iowa Arts Council
rostered artists, Jan Boland and John Dowdall, along with east coast-based artist
violist David Miller will perform.
Iowa City Jazz Festival, Iowa City
Iowa City Jazz Festival 2005
$7,280
Funding for the Iowa City Jazz Festival 2005 will support Main State Artists from
Iowa including Ashanti, the Susie Miget Group, JUISE Big Band, the X-tet, as well
as three other side stage bands.
Cassandra Manning Ballet Inc., Rock Island
Bringing the Ballet Alive for 6000 K-12 Students
$7,800
Six thousand K-12 students in Scott, Muscatine and Clinton counties will participate
in an innovative, integrative arts outreach project by Ballet Quad Cities. This
project combines dance education with current curricular units in physical education,
literature, writing and music through school matinees, teacher curricular guides
and in-school and after-school activities and workshops.
Pierce Leighton (John), Iowa City
10 Channel Video/Sound Installation: Transient Red/Liminal Blue
$6,800
A 10 channel video/sound installation: Transient Red/Liminal Blue by
Leighton Pierce that creates an environment will stimulate an experience of emotional,
perceptual and physical change to explore the concept of orientation. Funding
will support the editing and processing of the video/audio material
Metro Arts Alliance of Greater Des Moines, Des Moines
Jazz Giants Series
$5,779
Jazz Giants Series is a jazz education and appreciation series that augments two
existing programs. There are four segments; each is focused on the work of a great
American jazz artist and consists of a workshop for children and a concert/presentation
for family audiences. All activities are free to the public.
WVIK Augustana Public Radio, Rock Island
WVIK Local Arts Programs
$6,092
Despite financial challenges in public radio, WVIK remains committed to professionally-presented
local programming of and about the arts, centered on Bruce Carter's Art Talks,
Rock Island Lines with Roald Tweet, Saturday Morning Live with
Don Wooten, About Books, with Faye Clow and Kai Swanson; and A World
with Jan Keessen. Funding of this program will provide support to the artists
who create these arts programs.
Art Center Association of Sioux City, Sioux City
La Loteria: Una Ventana en la Culture
$6,500
In an exhibit including hand-painted games from the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, and works by cotemporary Mexican American artist, La Loteria: Una
Ventana en la Culture e Historia de Mexico explores the evolution of the
symbolic imagery in the popular Mexican game La Loteria and how it reflects shifts
in Mexican culture.
Jeanine L. Scheffer; Calmar
To Be an Iowan: Phase Two
$5,900
In the project To Be an Iowan: Phase Two artist Jeanine Scheffert will
do a series of ten oil paintings based on interviews conducted and photographs
taken of 50 Iowans living in Winneshiek county. The paintings will depict the
culture of her northeast Iowa home. She will host exhibits and workshops regarding
Iowa heritage.
Orange City Arts Council, Orange City
Antonio Sacre, Bilingual Storyteller
$5,661
The Orange City Arts Council and Northwestern College are planning a week of Ethnic
Celebration with professional bilingual storyteller, Antonio Sacre. Sacre will
be teaching and performing for all populations at area industrial plants, schools,
college, library and at a closing community ethnic celebration.
Drake University/Grants Office, Des Moines
A Little Salsa on the Prairie: The Changing Character of Perry,
Iowa
$6,900
A Little Salsa on the Prairie: The Changing Character of Perry, Iowa is
a video project that summarizes the history of Perry, Iowa, particularly immigration
and ethnicity over time. It portrays the changes in the economy, society and physical
environment in the recent past and present; and documents the process and outcomes
of the bilingual dialog process and community forum about the present and future.
Morningside College, Sioux City
Artist Residency at Morningside College
$3,648
This project is for a performance and educational residency of composer Armando
Bayolo and Degas Quartet in Sioux City at Morningside College. Funding is sought
for artist fees and travel, marketing and production costs.
Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Sioux City
Iowa Piano Competition
$6,300
Funding is for the Sioux City Orchestra's personnel expenses involved in hosting
the second Iowa Piano Competition, an intensive three-day competition held March
9-11, 2006. This international competition consists of three rounds: solo recital,
semi-final chamber music round, and final round concerto performance with the
Symphony. Over $15,000 in prize money will be awarded.
Friends of Iowa Civil Rights, Inc, Des Moines
Iowa Mosaic Mural Project/Diversity Conference
$5,800
Funding for the Iowa Mosaic Mural Project/Diversity Conference will provide pay
to two diverse performing arts groups and significantly underwrite this statewide,
collaborative art project. Twenty communities and more than 500,000 Iowans will
be served.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, Cedar Falls
Mozart Meets Modernism Festival
$2,480
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony presents "Mozart Meets Modernism,"
a festival paring works by Mozart during his 250th birth year and compositions
by modern masters. The festival includes a chamber music performance on September
25 and full orchestral concert on October 8. WCFSO musicians and Music Director
Jason Weinberger will perform alongside guest pianist Sean Botkin and Genadi Zagor.
Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, Cedar Falls
Professional Development for Teachers
$4,850
The members of the Kennedy Center's Partners in Education, the GBPAC and Waterloo
School District along with other communities will present a series of Professional
Development workshops for teachers. The purpose of the partnership is to provide
teachers a repertoire of teaching tools that integrate the performing arts into
core curricular content areas.
Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo
Hawkeye Celebrates the Arts! Artists Series
$6,000
Hawkeye Celebrates the Arts! Artists Series will present four performing arts
events in the 2005-2006 season. The events include Los Cenzontles (The
Mockingbirds), bohola, Spencers Theatre of Illusion and Pump Boys and
the Dinettes to be performed by the Iowa touring Theatre Company of the Des
Moines Playhouse, for a diverse community.
Rose Frantzen; Maquoketa
Portrait of Maquoketa
$6,100
In a main street Maquoketa storefront, Rose Frantzen will paint portraits from
life of all those in her hometown who wish to pose. Within the year she hopes
to have 300 12" x 12" oil portraits in the wall. Ultimately, her goal
is to capture the likeness of at least a third of Maquoketans of all ages and
all walks of life.
Grinnell College, Center for Prairie Studies; Grinnell
Photographs of Iowa: The Vanishing Architectural Landscape of the Midwest
$2,498
This project, Photographs of Iowa: The Vanishing Architectural Landscape of
the Midwest will employ David Ottenstein to produce fine art photographs
throughout Iowa that explore the decline and decay brought about in the Midwest
by drastic changes in agriculture economy. IAC funding will support part of the
travel costs of the artist and the photography materials.
Performing Arts & Education Assn. of SW Iowa, Inc., Red Oak
2-day High School Residency and Public Performance with Chapter 6
$1,837
Chapter 6, a six-voice, a cappella men's group, will conduct four high school
workshops and perform a public concert. The main goals of this project are to
raise awareness of vocal jazz and other a cappella forms, and to provide technique
education for Southwest Iowa vocal teachers and students.
Youth and Shelter Services, Ames
Marshalltown Hispanic Dance Group
$6,544
The Marshalltown Hispanic Dance Group is the continuation of a program that has
been in existence since 1999. The program provides Hispanic youth a positive activity
to participate in, promotes passing on the traditions from one generation to the
next, and builds bridges of understanding and public access to traditional arts
through dance.
Iowa Cultural Coalition, Des Moines
The Fine Art of Business
$2,662
The Fine Art of Business is a two-day business workshop for artists comprised
of sessions tracked by creative mode and general sessions for topics germane to
all creatives. Featured presenters include Caroll Michels, author of How to
Survive and Prosper as an Artist, and Chris Osgood and Kathleen Richert from
Springboard for the Arts.