Fiscal Year 2009 / Round II
Iowa Arts Council Organization and Arts in Education Grant Awards
The Iowa Arts Council received 73 eligible Major grant applications for the October round. Applicants requested a total of $614,274 for Arts projects. Seventeen projects were funded totaling $110,000 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 36.67, leaving many worthwhile projects unfunded.
Jefferson County Trails Council, Fairfield
Art Enhancements for Bridge Over Highway 1
$8,500
This project will result in completed plans and fabricator-ready visuals for art enhancements for the trail approaches at the Highway One Trail Bridge in Fairfield, Iowa. IAC funding will support The Jefferson County Trails Council to hire the design services of public artist Judy Bales to develop and complete design concepts.
Repertory Theatre of Iowa, Des Moines
Repertory Theater of Iowa presents "Love for Short" by Anton Chekhov
$4,600
IAC funding supports, LOVE FOR SHORT by Anton Chekhov- Feb 26-Mar 15,2009 @ Iowa Public Theatre.Laughter and pursuit of love land the closing kiss of RTI's 2008-09 season. 'Love for Short' showcases RTI's talented ensemble and allows central Iowans to enjoy new adaptations of classic comedies by one of the world's master writers. RTI- "reviving the classics of yesterday, creating the classics of tomorrow'
Center for Shakespeare Performance and Study, Des Moines
Free Radio and Live Theatre Outreach Shows for Free Shakespeare Festival
$8,500
IAC funding will support the Center for Shakespeare Performance and Study for 11 pivotal artist positions supporting outreach performances for a FREE Central Iowa Shakespeare Festival of live stage plays plus radio theatre (accessible statewide). IAC rostered artist Lorenzo Sandoval creates innovative Shakespeare adaptations (some Spanish-infused). The entire festival fosters 120 new artist positions; this entire project creates 96.
Iowa Historical Foundation, Des Moines
History Through The Arts: Spring 2009
$8,500
IAC funding supports the History Through The Arts as it brings history to life for Iowa K-12 students through fine arts and humanities programming at the State Historical Museum. Students spend a day at the museum where they attend a live performance and participate in interactive workshops in art, music, dance, theatre, and other related subjects.
Inmate Art, Des Moines
Inmate Arts: Spring 2009
$8,500
Inmate Art helps women incarcerated at the Iowa Correctional Institute in Mitchellville to change their lives and futures through the power of art. Painter Mary Muller and a team of artists will use IAC funding to visit the prison weekly to teach classes. Inmate work will be exhibited in three Des Moines area venues.
Quad City Symphony Orchestra, Davenport
Symphony Day
$4,600
The Quad City Symphony will use IAC grant funds to underwrite the production of the 26th Annual Symphony Day on April 1, 2009 at the Adler Theatre in Davenport, Iowa. This event is home to 7,000 area students each year, introducing them to live classical music in a professional theatre. Unfortunately, the long-time underwriting that this event depended on is unavailable this year.
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Des Moines
Westminster Fine Arts Series - Spring 2009
$8,500
The 2008/2009 Westminster Fine Arts Series is a series of free, family-friendly, public arts events presented at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Des Moines. The spring series, supported by this IAC grant includes vocal and instrumental concerts and the creation of an original children's performance combining music, dance and drama, produced by Iowa artists.
Metropolitan Chorale, Waterloo
Metropolitan Chorale Spring 2009 Concert with Ames Children's Choir
$3,500
The Metropolitan Chorale of the Cedar Valley will use IAC funding to collaborate with the Ames Children's Choir to present John Rutter's Mass of the Children on Sunday, May 3, at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center in Cedar Falls.
Red Cedar Chamber Music, Marion
Home Sweet Home: After the Flood
$8,300
Home Sweet Home: After the Flood reconnects us with our Iowa roots. With IAC grant funding, twenty-five concerts and educational events will bring chamber music of Stephen Foster and his contemporaries (popular when Iowa became a State in 1846) in January-February 2009 to Eastern Iowa communities in the aftermath of the Flood '08. Four musicians include 3 rostered Iowa artists.
Stebens Children's Theatre, Mason City
Why Mosquitoes Buzz
$4,400
Stebens Children's Theatre will use IAC funding to produce and tour Jeremy Kisling's unpublished African tale, WHY MOSQUITOES BUZZ, to thirty elementary schools, churches and libraries between 1/10 - 6/30, 2009. Professional actors and designers, Tom Ballmer, Michelle Murray, Suzan Larson and Wendy Meineke will ensure this high-quality arts project will fulfill its goals.
Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah
Virtual Portfolio of Norwegian-American Folk Artists
$8,500
With IAC grant funding, Vesterheim Museum will create a virtual portfolio of the 106 American artists who have achieved the highest level of excellence in traditional Norwegian folk arts, the Vesterheim Gold Medal. The Gold Medal has been awarded since 1969 and is based on peer evaluation during an annual national judged exhibition.
Irving Elementary
Sioux City, Irving Beat
$4,800
Irving Elementary is using the World Music Drumming curriculum for all of its 600+ students. With IAC grant funding, percussion techniques will be developed and music skills expanded. Paul Corbiere will come for a residency teaching the students drumming skills. Tubanos, student books and shelving will be purchased.
Patrick Bloom, Iowa City
Patrick Bloom- Recording, Manufacturing, and Marketing for New Album
$7,800
IAC grant funding will be used for audio recording, manufacturing, publicity, and radio promotion for Patrick Bloom on Iowa City's Mud Dauber Records. The project will employ Iowa musicians Billy Valencia, James Robinson, Megan Valencia, Nathan Basinger, David Zollo, Jon Eric, Randall Davis, and will be produced in Iowa.
Joseph Plum, Lovilia
Poetry in the Oral Tradition
$8,000
IAC grant funding will help fund the creation and production of a DVD and accompanying book which will include the written copy of the poetry from that DVD. When completed, a reader's tour will follow, in the spring through fall of 2009, to introduce this new work to the public.
Mary Swander, Ames
Patches: A Search for Irish Citizenship
$4,300
With support from this grant funding artist Mary Swander will write a non-fiction travelogue called Patches: In Search of Irish Citizenship. I will travel to Claddaghduff, Ireland to study the history, folklore, and natural and agricultural history of my ancestral farm in the townland of Patches where my maternal grandfather (who eventually immigrated to Iowa) was born.
Kali J. VanBaale, Bondurant
Untitled Third Novel
$4,400
Author Kali VanBaale will use IAC funding to assist in research and to complete a first draft of an as-yet-titled third novel: the story of Emma Wheeler, a young Iowa woman suffering from social anxiety disorder and her unlikely relationship with Andrew Hochstedler, a new neighbor who recently left his Amish community.
Ariana Hamidi, Iowa City
Self-Portrait of Others
$4,300
Ariana Hamidi will use IAC grant funding for post-production (editing & distribution) support for "Self-Portrait of Others", a 15-minute experimental 16mm silent film that blurs the distinctions between fiction storytelling and personal autobiography.