Program/Grant: GIG Fund

The Dance Presenting Series seeks to present celebrated rhythm tap dancer Jumaane Taylor in our Spring 2023 programming lineup. Taylor has an established history with the Dance Center of Columbia...

The Visiting Artist Series brings accomplished and engaging artists from diverse backgrounds into Scott County, Iowa, and Rock Island County, Illinois, for educational outreach and public performance. Professional artists and...

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...