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Iowa Cultural Organizations Receive NEA Grants
More than 800 grants totaling more than $61 million dollars have been awarded to national, regional, state, and local arts organizations across the country by the National Endowment for the Arts.
This spring round also includes the first grants to be awarded in the National Endowment for the Arts' American Masterpieces program. Eleven grants totaling more than $1.1 million will support visual arts touring of exhibitions.
iowa recipients
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Cedar Rapids, IA
$7,500
Grant Category: Access to Artistic Excellence
Field/Discipline: Music
To support Pied Piper, interactive chamber ensemble music concerts for children.
Performed at a public library, the 32 concerts will be performed by ensembles
of strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion for preschool-age children and special
elementary populations.
Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc.
Indianola, IA
$18,000
Grant Category: Learning in the Arts
Field/Discipline: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support OPERA Iowa, an educational program that will include a tour to rural
Midwestern schools. Featuring John Davies' Three Little Pigs, the program will
offer more than 90 opera performances and 360 classroom workshops.
Iowa Architectural Foundation
Des Moines, IA
$14,700
Grant Category:Access to Artistic Excellence
Field/Discipline:Design
To support architectural field trips for public school children. Des Moines public
school third-graders will take field trips led by architects and designers to
downtown.
Iowa Arts Council
Des Moines, IA
$543,000
Grant Category: Partnership
Field/Discipline:State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
Quad City Symphony Orchestra Association (consortium)
Davenport, IA
$7,500
Grant Category: Access to Artistic Excellence
Field/Discipline:Music
To support educational outreach and touring performances, a consortium project
with Iowa Communications Network. Touring performances by three ensembles of the
orchestra will be recorded and broadcast throughout central and eastern Iowa.
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$25,000
Grant Category: Access to Artistic Excellence
Field/Discipline:Presenting
To support community residencies and performances designed to engage Gen-Xers
(ages 25-35) in the arts. The activities will take place in the communities of
Spencer, Perry, Marshalltown, and Iowa City, Iowa.
Iowa total grants: 6
Iowa total dollars: $615,700
For a complete list of recipients, visit www.arts.gov/news/news05/Announce4-05.html
