Fiscal Year 2010 / Only Round
Iowa Arts Council Organization and Arts in Education Grant Awards
The Iowa Arts Council received 109 eligible Major grant applications for the April 1 round. This is the only Major grant round the IAC will have for the coming 2010 fiscal year. Applicants requested a total of $995,690 for Arts projects. Thirty three projects were funded totaling $300,200.
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 36.33, leaving many worthwhile projects unfunded.
Civic Center of Greater Des Moines, Des Moines
Family Theater Series
$9,900
The Civic Center, in partnership with the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra and other community partners will use IAC grant funds to launch a new series of live, professional theater performances for families with children ages 4-10. All performances will include associated "Discovery Parties" and will be offered at a movie ticket-like price of $10.
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Guest Residency of Artist Cat Chow
$9,900
The UNI Arts Consortium is organizing an artist residency for Cat Chow, an Asian-American artist who works with unconventional materials to create wearable art and sculptures. IAC grant funds support the residency which includes a solo exhibition, costume designs for a UNI Theatre show, and varied workshops with UNI students, local families and children.
Hoover High School, Des Moines
Journey to Japan
$9,900
With a grant from the IAC, Des Moines Hoover High School Band will travel to Kofu and Tokyo, Japan in March 2010 to perform jointly with the bands of Kofu First Senior High School and Yokohama International School. The joint ensemble with work with and perform a premier work by world-renowned Japanese composer Jun Nagao.
Iowa State Center, Ames
Arts for Everyone
$9,900
Iowa State Center will use IAC grant funding to help support Intensive outreach programs to be offered to at-risk youth and families in connection with public performances by Aquila Theatre, Boston Brass and Luna Negra Dance troupe (appearing with Turtle Island String Quartet). Online resources available on the web will extend the reach of arts learning to even more families.
Margaret LaBounty, Council Bluffs
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Installation: "A Forest of Totems"
$4,200
Margaret LaBounty has been invited to participate as one of three artist in the 2009 program at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park located in Cazenovia, New York ( 2 hours drive from NY city). With support from this IAC grant She will sculpt and install 20 high fired clay totems in a natural setting titled "A Forest of Totems within a Forest - another layer to a path well worn"
StageWest Theater Company, Des Moines
StageWest - A Season of Premieres
$9,900
StageWest will use IAC grant funds to present a season of five theatrical productions of contemporary theater to include: "Forbidden Broadway"; "Dead Man's Cell Phone"; "Almost, Maine"; "Torch Song Trilogy"; and "Beyond the Rainbow", a co-production with the Des Moines Playhouse. All productions are Iowa or central Iowa premieres and will feature Iowa artists.
Employee & Family Resources, Inc. (EFR), Des Moines
Every Family Rocks! The Des Moines Family Music Festival
$9,900
Through music and the arts, "Every Family Rocks! The Des Moines Family Music Festival" will celebrate families and the richness of life in Iowa. The event's family-oriented, diverse music and hands-on art activities will facilitate understanding and communications within families and between all attendees, thereby enriching them and our communities. An IAC grant supports this project.
Ballet Quad Cities, Rock Island
The Ugly Duckling: A Message of Acceptance Told in Dance
$9,900
In April 2010, Ballet Quad Cities will use IAC grant funding to premiere its new production of "The Ugly Duckling" in three IA communities: Davenport, Bettendorf and Muscatine. Over 3000 children will be introduced to live professional ballet performance and the important message of accepting differences.
Muscatine Symphony Orchestra Association, Muscatine
Musical Images of Historic Muscatine: Composer Commission Project
$9,900
The Muscatine Symphony Orchestra will use IAC grant funds to commission Iowa composer Tracey Rush, to write an orchestral piece of substantial length that will evoke in musical terms a sense of place and local historical significance. The performance of the music will complement a simultaneous showing of selected historic images by famed Muscatine photographer Oscar Grossheim.
Riverside Theatre, Iowa City
The Diary of Anne Frank
$9,900
Riverside Theatre and Cornell College will team up in a production of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK. Funding will support hiring Iowa artists, and marketing efforts for the production.
Cyndi Coyne, Iowa City
Miles & Miles
$9,900
Cyndi Coyne will use IAC grant funding to write a book based on her life experiences. The title of her memoir is "Miles and Miles". Her book will consist of several autobiographical pieces written in nonfiction prose. These pieces will connect thematically, exploring the events of her early childhood, her teenage years, and the transitions that led to her odyssey as an artist.
Iowa Shakespeare Experience, Des Moines
ShakesFair: Free Fare, Plein Aire, and On Air!
$9,900
The Iowa Shakespeare Experience will use IAC grant support to help fund 18 pivotal artist positions involved in creating the first season of a FREE, annual Central Iowa Shakespeare Festival. IAC artist Lorenzo Sandoval creates innovative Shakespeare adaptations (some Spanish-infused). Components include: Mainstage, traveling Outreach and statewide radio plays. The entire festival fosters 144 new artist positions.
Michael S. Cash, Coralville
The Dragon with the Three Golden Feathers
$3,500
Artist Michael Cash will use IAC grant funding to complete a feature length animation who's first phases were funded by a previous grant from the Iowa Arts Council in 2008.
Metro Arts Alliance, Des Moines
ArtSmart
$9,900
ArtSmart is a new program that provides after school arts activities for middle school students. IAC grant funding will allow Metro Arts Alliance to hire Iowa artists from multiple disciplines to conduct 5-week workshop sessions at 3 or more Des Moines area middle schools, with in-depth activities designed to help students explore creativity and self-expression through the arts.
Carol J. Carter, Des Moines
Dubuque Museum Fine Art Photography Show
$4,600
With IAC grant funding, artist, Carol Jean Carter will produce 12 new works of art for an exhibition at The Dubuque Museum of Art. Exhibition will be May 9th, 2010 through August 15th, 2010.
Bell Tower Productions, Dubuque
Annie, Jr., a kids-for-kids production
$8,400
IAC grant funding will be used for the pre-production of Bell Tower Productions' summer kids-for-kids musical, "Annie, Jr" which is a full-scale production that offers more than 150 kids ages 7 to 18 the opportunity, free of charge, to perform on stage and work backstage in an effort to build confidence, self-esteem and communications skills through the art of theater.
United Community Health Center Inc, Storm Lake
United Through the Arts
$9,900
"United Through the Arts" utilizes the arts as a vehicle to celebrate community and support cultural understanding. It connects area artists, organizations, and residents and uses cultural histories to assist a community to evolve. The public artwork, permanently installed in the UCHC's new facility, will be an ongoing medium to educate and cultivate an understanding of diversity. An IAC grant supports this project.
Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival, Waterloo
2009 Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival
$7,400
The Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival (CVCMF) provides intimate, educational and affordable chamber music concerts of high quality at venues throughout the Cedar Valley each summer. The concerts are interactive and multimedia, featuring artists with strong Iowa connections in programs that connect audiences with the history and culture of the Cedar Valley. Funding from this IAC grant support this project.
Quad City Arts, Rock Island
Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series
$9,900
Quad City Arts will use IAC grant funding to support the 2009-10 Visiting Artist Series in presenting approximately 210 educational programs to broaden student and adult understanding of the performing arts. The artists are world-renowned musicians, dancers and actors. Free or low-cost public concerts will provide additional community access to these artists.
Dubuque Art Center, Dubuque
Doors to Sustainability
$9,900
The Dubuque Art Center will use IAC grant funding for a project that will repurposes doors salvaged from the Historic Roshek Building rehabilitation project into public art. Local artists chosen by an experienced selection committee will create works of art on salvaged doors. These doors will be displayed in a public exhibition, then as public art throughout the community. A free podcast will create a walking tour, giving information about each door.
Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa, Des Moines
Biz SmARTs! Entrepreneurship in the Arts Camp
$9,900
Biz SmARTs will use IAC grant funds to teach girls ages 9-17 how to become a successful entrepreneurs while inspiring them as artists! Biz SmARTs is a summer day camp August 3-7, 2009. It is co-presented by Girl Scouts and University of Iowa's Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship. Biz SmARTs will take place at the Des Moines Art Center, Botanical Center, Pappajohn Higher Ed Building and Sticks, Inc.
Mary McAdams, Ankeny
Manufacture, Distribution and Publicity for a New Album
$7,800
Artist Mary McAdams will use IAC grant support to manufacture, distribute and market of a new body of original musical works. The project will employ an Iowa Graphic Designer, Web designer and the Artist herself. The work will take place over a 12 month period beginning July 1, 2009.
Central College, Pella
Theatre of Sound Artist Residency and Performance
$9,900
A Theatre of Sound residency, Sept. 14 - 19, will use IAC grant funds to provide creativity workshops led by Michael Bashaw, artistic director, create a collaborative sound sculpture with first year students, and end with performances on Sept. 17 & 18.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, Cedar Falls
Commission and World Premiere Performance with High School Students
$9,900
The WCFSO will use IAC grant funds to commission and present the World Premiere of a classical work by Iowa-born composer Philip Wharton. In addition, Wharton and the WCFSO will collaborate with seven area high schools on several educational initiatives, including a side-by-side performance with students and WCFSO musicians.
Iowa Choral Directors Association, Mount Vernon
2009 ICDA Summer Convention & Symposium
$9,900
The ICDA Summer Convention brings together hundreds of choral directors from around the state to Mason City to learn and explore new ways to teach, conduct and rehearse choral ensembles. With grant support from the IAC, Choral leaders and guest performers from Iowa and the nation will share their expertise with us.
Keith Reins, West Branch
The Beggarmen, 3rd CD
$8,200
The eclectic Celtic band, The Beggarmen, will produce their third CD. The IAC grant funds will be used to pay musicians' salaries for recording, mixing, writing copy (for CD insert), graphic design (of CD packaging) and promotion. The Beggarmen are Iowa musicians Brad Pouleson, Tara Dutcher, Joe Dutcher and Keith Reins.
Iowa State University, Ames
Incision
$8,800
ISU will use IAC grant funds to hire artist Steven Hernstadt to create a series of forged steel objects discussing "the difference between a wound and an incision is not the tool but the intent". These objects will be incised recycled steel and metal slabs with precious metal/prosthetic covering accompanied by handmade/forged edged tools in scales from miniature surgical tools to larger "weapons". The incision may be psychological or physical.
Mike Knox, Strawberry Point
Cultural Diversity through Ceramic Arts
$9,900
Mike Knox professional artist and Seung Duck Cultural advisor in Korea, will use IAC grant funding to build a Korean inspired kiln. The building of this kiln will not only allow Knox to grow as an artist, but also serve Iowa communities and schools who will aid in the construction of the kiln, get involved directly with a culturally diverse process, and further understand the importance of art in daily life.
Jefferson County Trails Council, Fairfield
Art Enhancements for Bridge Over Highway One: Phase II
$9,900
Jefferson County Trails Council will use IAC grant funding for the fabrication and installation of art enhancements for the trail approaches at the Highway One Trail Bridge in Fairfield, Iowa. Public artist Judy Bales is currently working with the Jefferson County Trails Council (JCTC) and with local fabricators to complete the design phase of the project.
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre: "Salome" (R. Strauss), IPTV broadcast & DVD
$9,900
IAC grant funding will be used to support performances of "Salome" (R.Strauss) at Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center (January 15 & 17, 2010), Cedar Falls, IA. The production will be filmed in HD and broadcast statewide, open captioned, by Iowa Public Television; a DVD will be made in collaboration with the Iowa Film Commission. Featured IA-born opera singers include Dennis Petersen, Katharine Goeldner & Kelly Cae Hogan
Sue Hettmansperger, Iowa City
Public Art Painting Mural for Kirkwood Community College
$9,900
Artist Sue Hettmansperger will use IAC grant funds to create a Public Art mural of paintings that personify stated principles of Kirkwood Community College: technology and innovation, lifelong learning, creative critical thinking, social sciences and human culture. This artwork will be sited in an atrium of the building complex Cedar Hall, in Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Red Cedar Chamber Music, Marion
A Dvorak Sighting: After the Flood
$9,700
Red Cedar Chamber Music will use IAC grant funding for a project titled, A Dvorak Sighting: After the Flood in which twenty-four educational events and concerts will bring new chamber music by Iowa composer Harvey Sollberger (inspired by Dvorak's 1893 Spillville, Iowa visit) in January-April 2010 to Eastern Iowa communities in the aftermath of the Flood '08. Musicians include 3 Iowa artists.
Des Moines Metro Opera Inc, Indianola
OPERA Iowa touring Educational Troupe
$9,900
During OPERA Iowa's 10-member cast and crew 13-week educational tour, Opera Iowa will use IAC grant funds to present 350 classroom workshops and 70+ performances of Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE and Michael Patterson's A DREAM FULFILLED: THE SAGA OF GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER. Artistic Director Robert L. Larsen and Artistic Administrator Michael Egel will oversee this project