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DCA awards $225,000 in Iowa Community Cultural Grants
The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs awarded 17 Iowa Community Cultural Grants totaling $225,000 for arts, historical and cultural programs in 12 Iowa communities.
The ICCG program encourages strong cultural growth and development throughout the state and provides matching grants to support organizations and projects that provide lasting employment for Iowans while also enhancing Iowa’s artistic, cultural and historical resources. Projects include museum exhibits, historic restoration and archeology projects, folk life and other festivals public art projects, ethnic heritage projects and performing arts events and companies.
DCA received 69 ICCG requests totaling $1,166,057 this year. The 17 grants (including nine to arts-related organizations) will be awarded July 1, 2006, pending legislative budget approval.
Funded arts-related projects include Riverside Theatre’s Shakespeare Festival that will support rehearsal and pre-production for the annual event, a four-week festival in Iowa City’s City Park. Quad City Arts also received funding for “Arts in Iowa; Awakening the Creative Spirit with Public Art,” a thematic project that will use the literary, performing and visual arts as a means of self-discovery, artistic development and community building.
Communities and organizations across Iowa are encouraged to apply for FY08 Iowa Community Cultural Grants. Nonprofit or tax-exempt organizations that promote and develop the arts, history or historic preservation, culture, ethnicity, tourism, economic development, festivals or municipal libraries are eligible to apply. City and county governments and tribal councils are also eligible. Cash-match awards range from $1,000 to $25,000.
Applications will be available after August 30 at www.culturalaffairs.org and will be accepted through February 1, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. at the State Historical Building, 600 E. Locust, Des Moines, Iowa, 50319. This is not a postmark deadline. Please visit www.culturalaffairs.org or contact Riki Saltzman at 515.242.6195 or Riki.Saltzman@iowa.gov for more information.
