Local News: Entities receive more than $28,000 in grants (1/20/21) lemarssentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lemarssentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
AJ TaylorDecember 30, 2020Last Updated: February 28, 2021
The North Iowa Area Community College Performing Arts and Leadership Series is pleased to announce that it has received an Iowa Arts & Culture Recovery Program from the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. Grant funds will support a high definition camera and broadcasting system in the auditorium to allow for virtual streaming of artists and speakers. The Iowa Arts & Culture Recovery Program was established on December 2, 2020, when Governor Kim Reynolds allocated $7 million of federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding to the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs for the purpose of providing economic relief to Iowa’s arts and culture industry. The funding is administered by the Iowa Arts Council, on behalf of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, through the Iowa Arts & Culture Emergency Relief Fund. Funding will support the NIACC Performing Arts and Le
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Orchestra Iowa will be receiving $175,000 and the Iowa Children’s Museum in Coralville will be getting $114,000 in one-time state grants aimed at assisting arts and cultural organizations and artists hit hard by the pandemic.
The $7 million in grants, announced this week, comes from the $1.25 billion Iowa received from the federal Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.
The awards, which averaged just over $25,000, went to 267 cultural organizations and 152 artists in the state.
The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs received 550 grant requests, totaling $36 million, by the Dec. 11 deadline set for the wards. The Iowa Arts & Culture Recovery Program was announced Dec. 2.
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The Des Moines Community Playhouse has announced that it has received an Iowa Arts & Culture Recovery Program grant from the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. Grant funds will support general theatre operations including planned spring shows with streaming components and classes both in-person and online.
The Iowa Arts & Culture Recovery Program is a one-time grant providing relief to cultural nonprofit organizations and individual artists that can demonstrate lost income and extra expenses incurred due to the pandemic. The grants may be used to offset operating expenses as well as costs associated with reopening in person and adapting programs to virtual formats.
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