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News from the NEA...
House Passes Increase to NEA Budget
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an amendment to increase funds for the National Endowment for the Arts by $10 million, raising the proposed budget from $121,264,000 to $131,264,000 for FY 2006. The new funding is designated for the Challenge America program. The total FY 2006 budget also includes $8 million for the American Masterpieces grant program. www.nea.gov/news/news05/HouseBudget.html
NEA Awards Access to Artistic Excellence Grants
The following Iowa organizations have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence Program which serves to foster and preserve excellence in the arts and provide access to the arts for all Americans.
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre
Cedar Rapids, IA
$10,000
Category: Access to Artistic Excellence; Field/Discipline: Opera
To support a new production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Falstaff, designed by Scott
Olinger, and related in-school performances performed by singers from the Young
Artists Program. Performances will be held in January 2005 at the Theatre Cedar
Rapids including a free presentation for students in Cedar Rapids high school
humanities program.
Friends of the Davenport Museum of Art (consortium)
Davenport, IA
$70,000
Category: Access to Artistic Excellence; Field/Discipline: Museum
To support a consortium project, the exhibition titled The Great American Thing:
Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935, with accompanying catalogue and education
programs. The Davenport Museum is collaborating with the Tacoma, Wash., Museum
to present the work of early modernist American artists whose work is rarely seen
in the host cities.
Iowa State University (on behalf of Brunnier Museum of Art)
Ames, IA
$15,000
Category: Access to Artistic Excellence; Field/Discipline: Museum
To support the exhibition titled When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow: The Dawn
of a Campus Mural Tradition, with accompanying catalogue and education programs.
The project is based on the work by renowned American artist Grant Wood, whose
work is prominently displayed on the University campus.
University of Iowa (on behalf of University of Iowa Press)
Iowa City, IA
$8,000
Category: Access to Artistic Excellence; Field/Discipline: Literature
To support publication costs and related expenses for winning selections from
the Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Award competitions.
Launched in 1970, the awards are given to two emerging writers each year.
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
$10,000
Category: Access to Artistic Excellence; Field/Discipline: Literature
To support publication costs and related expenses for issues of the North American
Review. Reaching as many as 750 libraries across the country, the review will
solicit new readers through paid advertisements in such publications as Poets
& Writers, AWP Writers Chronicle, The Writer and Communication Arts.
Iowa total grants: 5
Iowa total dollars: $113,000
