Fiscal Year 2009 / Mini Grants: October
The Iowa Arts Council received 15 eligible Mini grant applications for the October round. Applicants requested a total of $22,500 for Arts projects. Six projects were funded totaling $9000.00 There is a possible total score of 44 points. Although a score of 33 or above would be considered fundable, available funding did not allow for grants scoring below 38, leaving many worthwhile projects unfunded.
Iowa City Community School District Foundation, Iowa City
The King's Singers workshop in Iowa City Community Schools Choral Programs
$1,500
On December 2nd, 2008, the King's Singers will present a choral workshop for the vocal music students at City High School and West High School in Iowa City, IA. The same evening they will be presenting a public concert. This is part of the Family Concert Series administrated by Dr. Greg Grove and Diane Thayer in Iowa City, IA. IAC grant funding will help support this event.
Iowa Contemporary Arts (ICON), Fairfield
Marketing for Large Works/Small Works Shows, Fairfield, Iowa
$1,500
With the support of IAC grant funding, Iowa Contemporary Arts (ICON), Fairfield, will be presenting it's second annual Large Works Show, Nov 7 through Jan 17, 2009, and will feature large-scale works by prominent Iowan artists; grant funds will be used for marketing expenses, including the design, and insertion of large print ads in 2 major Iowa cultural magazines; design, printing, and distribution of Dec. posters; mailing postcards.
Tanager Place, Cedar Rapids
Crayon Conversations
$1,500
Participation in the arts opens new worlds to all children, but it is an effective and critical resource when faced with trauma. Cedar Rapids children have been suffering since the summer floods. IAC grant funding will allow Crayon Conversations to help these students re-build and re-focus on their new neighborhoods and their new surroundings.
Central College Theatre Department, Pella
5 Day Residency of Playwright Jon Berry
$1,500
IAC funding will support the residency of Playwright, Jon Berry as part of Theatre Central's ongoing effort to encourage and promote collaborative opportunities between artists; to support and participate in the creation of new work; to expose our students and community to the process of developing original material; and to expand artistic offerings.
Department of Music, Briar Cliff University, Sioux City
Christmas at the Orpheum
$1,500
IAC grant funds will support Christmas at the Orpheum, November 21, 2008, a collaborative performing arts event featuring the Briar Cliff University Choirs, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Morningside Lutheran Church Celebration Choir, Grace United Methodist Church Chancel Choir, soprano Shannon Salyards, pianist Richard Steinbach, and conductor Sean Burton.
Des Moines Gay Men's Chorus, Des Moines
Winter Solstice
$1,500
Funding will support the Winter Solstice concerts, December 18 and December 19, 2008. The Chorus will collaborate with Kathleen Hurley, choreographer and five dancers (Alissa Hamer, Luba Aginsky, Emily VanderLinden, Kaytlin Rice and Madeline Palmer-Chase) at the Grand Hall of the Temple for Performing Arts to dance with monumental sized pieces of china silk, and collaborate with Chorus poet Bill Nolan on a new work.