State: IA

Lindsey Row-Heyveld is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award is designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of disabled Midwestern visual artists.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Our organizations pays all people involved in our productions; each of our productions have a minimum budget of $30,000. The grant would be used to help fund one of our...

Acclaimed poet Danez Smith headlines Mic Check Poetry Fest, a two-day celebration of spoken word and its power to bear witness, create community, and inspire change. The festival opens with...

Spanish classical guitar virtuoso Andrea Gonzales Caballero will give a performance on March 23, 2024, in the Speed Lyceum Theater located on the campus of Grand View University in Des...

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...

GRAMMY and Guggenheim-winning composer Chuck Owen & ReSurgence will present 2 concerts and several education events in the DMPS district. GRAMMY & Pulitzer-winning vocal band Roomful of Teeth will present...