Upcoming Events

As part of its broader fiscal year 2022 grant funding strategy, the Iowa Arts Council has transitioned Art Project Grants to Resilience Grants for fiscal year 2022.

Greenlight Grants encourage entrepreneurship in Iowa by enhancing the professional capacity of Iowa’s media industry. Funding helps Iowans take their projects from script-to-screen and become...

Annuity Payment Freedom has Small Business Grant for Women, which provides marketing and funds for women-owned businesses. 

Annuity Payment Freedom has Black Business Grants & Minority Resources, which provide marketing and funds for Black-owned and minority-owned businesses. 

Annuity Payment Freedom has an Artist Grant: Free Marketing Services + Cash program, which provides marketing and funds for artists. 

The Arts Midwest GIG (Grow, Invest, Gather) Fund is designed to provide support to Midwestern arts organizations as they re-build and re-imagine during the continued uncertainty caused by COVID...

Join Alexa McDowell, A.KAY Consulting Owner and Architectural Historian, as she discusses the multi-faceted history of the Surf Ballroom. Nationally recognized as the final performance venue of...

Artwork Archive's Art Business Accelerator Grant provides visual artists with unrestricted funds, resources, and a curriculum to help establish, grow and manage their art careers. The grant is...

Join Michael Plummer, State Historic Sites manager for the State Historical Society of Iowa, to learn a few stories from the sites as well as a few highlights visitors can discover when they see...

The regular quarterly meeting of the State Historical Society of Iowa Collections Committee will be held from 1:00-2:00 p.m. on May 27, 2021, and is open to the public. A public comment period...

The annual Preserve Iowa Summit is the state’s premier conference for professionals and volunteers involved in historic preservation. Through expert presentations, workshops and tours,...

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...

Join Paul F. Anderson, professor emeritus at the Iowa State University College of Design, as he discusses the evolution of Iowa’s state borders, a process that began long before Iowa joined the...

“Equal Before the Law: How Iowa Led Americans to Marriage Equality” by Marc Hansen and Tom WitoskyHosted by Andrew Klumpp with author and journalist Tom WitoskyRegister onlineIn 2009, Iowa...

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...