FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement 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 production of Verdi's Aida. An admission-free performance will be presented for youth and adult participants of three nonprofit organizations that support underserved communities; Big Brothers Big Sisters, Osada, and the McAuley Center for Women.

D'Agata, John
Iowa City, IA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc.
Indianola, IA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support artists fees for performers engaged for the Opera Iowa Touring Educational Troupe. The 13-week program will reach students in underserved rural Midwestern schools.

Marquart, Debra K.
Ames, IA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Riverside Theatre
Iowa City, IA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Raising Medusa, a new play by playwright Barbara Lau. The play will be based on a collection of Lau's own poems about a rocky relationship between a mother and teenage daughter.

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support artist residencies by the ensembles Time for Three, Chiara String Quartet, and Imani Winds, and pianist Alpin Hong. Concerts will take place in the university's Hancher Auditorium.

Number of Grants: 6          Total Amount: $90,000

 
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