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To ensure that America’s sacred places continue to serve their communities’ material and spiritual needs, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has joined Partners for Sacred Places and...

The Iowa Arts Council is committed to recognizing the impact individual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and creative writers have on the vitality of the arts in Iowa. The Artist Fellowship...

Regular quarterly meetings of the Iowa Arts Council Board of Directors are open to the public. A public comment period will be held for those providing advance notice to the board administrator...

Did you know an Iowa town is named for the so-called “George Washington of Algeria”? Learn more about Elkader and its fascinating namesake from Kathy Garms and Matt Peterson, both from the...

The SHIFT- Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts is a two-year award program designed to increase attention to Native communities and shift a narrative of invisibility, misunderstanding and...

The LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists program provides invaluable support to early career Native artists with one-year awards to develop and realize new projects. Support for...

Not so long ago, five sisters from Marion, Iowa, dragged themselves out of poverty and obscurity to become one of the most famous (and infamous) vaudeville acts of all time. Learn more about the...

Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. They distribute two (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. Grant cycles are in...

With curfews and quarantines, campus life was limited for Iowa State women during the First World War and the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Join Illinois College professor Jenny Barker-Devine to learn more...

The actress Donna Reed was born in Denison a century ago – on Jan. 21, 1921. Join her daughter, Mary Owen, and Donna Reed Foundation board member Kurt Lee as they share memories and photos of...

The Iowa Grocery Industry Association provides a Build with Bags Grant Program. The primary goal of Build with BagsTM (BWB) is to tackle an environmental concern that has been receiving a great...

Both the Old Capitol in Iowa City and the not-quite-as-old State Capitol in Des Moines echo with stories from Iowa’s past. Hear a few from Liz Crooks, who directs the University of Iowa’s...

USArtists International (USAI) is a grant program administered by Mid Atlantic Arts in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts that supports performances by U.S. dance, music, and...

The National Park Service’s (NPS) Underrepresented Community Grant Program (URC) is intended to diversify the nominations submitted to the National Register of Historic Places to include...

Register to join museum staff on Zoom for a virtual version of the History Mystery program. The new virtual format brings the museum and its thousands of objects that capture Iowa's illustrious...