West Des Moines, IA
Creative Midwest Media Cohort
FY2024
A fully bilingual news outlet, Hola Iowa (part of Hola America) brings information and stories about the contributions of Latino communities in the states of Illinois and Iowa. They cover arts, culture, and distribute their writing online, in print, and on Substack.
As part of the Creative Midwest Media Cohort, Hola Iowa will produce a multimedia series highlighting the contributions of the Latino community to the arts and culture landscape in Iowa and the Midwest.
NEA Big Read
FY2024
Iowa
The Iowa City NEA Big Read is the premier program associated with the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art’s exhibition on the Black Midwest, funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” together with the exhibition, brings the Iowa City community together to explore narratives of recovery, reproduction, and creation as they pertain to the Black Midwest.
Shakespeare in American Communities: Schools
FY2024
Iowa
Will Power marks the next stage of Riverside Theatre’s two decades of Shakespeare education and outreach in Iowa. Through partnerships with area community centers, schools, and libraries, Riverside will tour a trunk-show production of the preceding summer’s Free Shakespeare in Lower City Park, adapted to ninety minutes and coinciding with artist-led workshops for middle and high-school students.
GIG Fund
FY2024
Iowa
In late spring/early summer 2024, MIPSTERZ will bring their project Alhamdu ("an evolving experiential art exhibition that explores Muslim Futurism—a cultural and artistic aesthetic that learns from frameworks of Afrofuturism...
GIG Fund
FY2024
Iowa
For this art exhibition, we offer the opportunity for all artists in Iowa to enter a "tiny" work of art for display in our main gallery, which is free and...