FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

IOWA

Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre
Cedar Rapids, IA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a new production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Falstaff, designed by Scott Olinger, and related in-school performances performed by singers from the Young Artists Program. Performances will be held in January 2005 at the Theatre Cedar Rapids including a free presentation for students in Cedar Rapids High School humanities program.

Friends of the Davenport Museum of Art (consortium)
Davenport, IA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a consortium project, the exhibition titled The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Davenport Museum is collaborating with the Tacoma, WA, Museum to present the work of early modernist American artists whose work is rarely seen in the host cities.

Iowa State University (on behalf of Brunnier Museum of Art)
Ames, IA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the exhibition titled When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow: The Dawn of a Campus Mural Tradition, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is based on the work by renowned American artist Grant Wood, whose work is prominently displayed on the University campus.

University of Iowa (on behalf of University of Iowa Press)
Iowa City, IA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support publication costs and related expenses for winning selections from the Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Award competitions. Launched in 1970, the awards are given to two emerging writers each year.

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support publication costs and related expenses for issues of the North American Review. Reaching as many as 750 libraries across the country, the review will solicit new readers through paid advertisements in such publications as Poets & Writers, AWP Writers Chronicle, The Writer, and Communication Arts.

IOWA total grants: 5
IOWA total dollars: $113,000

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