Program/Grant: GIG Fund

In 1976, an extraordinary group of Black feminist artists and activists (Michele Wallace, Faith Ringgold, Patricia Jones, Margo Jefferson, and Monica Freeman) co-organized the first ever Black women's film festival:...

DivaFest is a festival of new plays by women playwrights in Indiana. Four plays will be selected by the festival coordinator and a team of partnering theatre companies who will...

The Middletown Arts Center plans to feature the work of nationally, and internationally, published illustrator, C.F. Payne in our main exhibit hall March 3 through April 6, 2023. We have...

Refresh Collective will host two artists-in-residence for 20 weeks in 2023, offering them stipends to instruct local teens AND record solo projects for their own portfolios. Refresh Collective will offer...

Our project with Genevieve will feature a workshop with local youth, an informative public conversation, and a public performance with a talkback. We want to inform and educate as many...

Hoyt Sherman Place, in conjunction with the Des Moines Women's Club, will produce "Once Upon This Stage" to commemorate the original stars to grace the stage in the 1920's and...

Hawkeye Celebrates the Arts! has partnered with hip-hop trio, The Reminders, to provide two performances on April 13, 2023 on Hawkeye Community College's main campus in the Hawse Auditorium. First,...

The drag performance will take place on a Friday evening and is a highly anticipated event in the community. The following day, the performers will have brunch with community members...

The Garden Commons Community Mural Project is a collaborative art project that connects youth from marginalized communities with local Des Moines artist, Marissa Hernandez, to create a mural and art...

Harmony School of Music will partner with Michigan vocalist-cellist Jordan Hamilton to be the mainstage artist at their 3rd annual Community Music Day festival, free and open to the public...