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FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

IOWA

Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Cedar Rapids, IA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Pied Piper, an interactive chamber music concert series for children. Performed at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, 32 concerts will be performed by ensembles of strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion for pre-school children and their caregivers.

Des Moines Symphony Association
Des Moines, IA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a series of tour concerts. Four performances will take place at the Waukee High School Performing Arts Auditorium in neighboring Dallas County, Iowa.

Iowa Arts Council
Des Moines, IA
$757,555
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Iowa State University
Ames, IA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an urban design and community outreach project. The program will offer a series of design workshops to middle and high school students in the Sioux City, Iowa, metropolitan area.

Red Cedar Chamber Music
Marion, IA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support After the Flood: Rural Outreach Concerts. The project will include a series of chamber music concerts and educational events in small rural Iowa communities affected by the floods of June 2008.

Summer of the Arts, Inc.
Iowa City, IA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 20th Anniversary Iowa City Jazz Festival. In thematic programming, these world renowned musicians with ties to Iowa will be invited to celebrate the state's jazz roots: pianist and NEA Jazz Master Herbie Hancock (2004), bassist Charlie Haden, and alto saxophonist David Sanborn.

University of Iowa (on behalf of Hancher Auditorium)
Iowa City, IA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the commissioning and presentation of The Tomáš Kubínek Symphony Project. The project will culminate in a statewide tour of the work, in partnership with the Cedar Rapids Symphony/Orchestra Iowa.

University of Iowa (on behalf of Hancher Auditorium)
Iowa City, IA
$12,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support residency activities of the Carolina Chocolate Drops presented by Hancher Auditorium. The African American string band will perform music popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s, accompanied by educational activities and workshops.


Number of Grants: 8          Total Amount: $849,555

 
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