Quad City Arts gives $115K in new Arts Dollars
Quad City Arts on Wednesday morning announced the distribution of $115,000 in Arts Dollars grants for this year, to 24 esteemed organizations and nine visionary individual artists.
“This initiative underscores Quad City Arts’ commitment to nurturing local talent and fostering cultural enrichment within the community since its inception in 1990,” the nonprofit said in a release.
This year’s grants have been made possible through the generous support of the Hubbell-Waterman Foundation, the Quad Cities Community Foundation – Isabel Bloom Art Education Endowment, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency. Their commitment to the arts plays a critical role in sustaining and expanding the creative landscape of the Quad Cities.
The 2024 Arts Dollars grants encompass a wide array of projects, each uniquely contributing to the cultural tapestry of our community, Quad City Arts said. The following grants were made:
Education Grants:
Azubuike African American Council for the Arts—Capturing Reality: 360-The Basics of Immersive Filmmaking
Crossroads Cultural Connections—Visiting Artist School Program
Friends of the River Valley District Library—Summer Reading Arts Series
Junior Theatre Inc. —Paving the Way to Affordable Excellence: Production Rights for Junior Theatre
Second Chance Forge—Make It Matter Project: Blacksmithing w/Disabled Veterans and First Responders
Seton Catholic School—Seton School Art Club
Project Grants:
Argrow’s House of Healing and Hope—Finding Agency Through Art
Atlanta Fulscher—Art on the Bend
Atticus Norman—Art with Atticus
Black Box Theatre—All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
Children’s Therapy Center of the Quad Cities—Exterior Mural at The Children’s Therapy Center
Colleen McCarty-Tomlinson—Love from Howie
Dania Green—Expressions of Empowerment Portrait Series
East Moline Main Street—Paint the Town Window Painting
Eastside Sounds—Quad City Griots Project
Gaye Shannon Burnett—The Quilting Story: An Exploration of Race and Identity Through My Art
Latoya D. Lewis—Journaling with a Purpose: Creative Self-Care Beyond the Pages
LULAC Council #5285—Mexican Independence Day Parade & Fiesta
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center—Interior murals for MLK Center youth spaces
Meghan Hollister—InspireMotion: Interactive Art for All
MHS Kaleidoscript— Annual Student Creative Arts magazine
Midwest Writing Center—Radical Hospitality; anthology and public events
Muscatine Art Center—Performing Arts Workshops for Kids
Mya Diabira—Sprouting Harvest; mural at Healthy Harvest
Narratives—Narratives QC Creative Arts Showcase and Classes
Ninah Payney—Art Installation/Gallery Project
NormaLeah Ovarian Cancer Initiative—2024 girlpARTs Sculpture Project
Paint It Back—Paint It Back Street Art Festival in Clinton, IA
Playcrafters Barn Theatre—Charlotte’s Web Summer Production & Youth Outreach Support
Together Making a Better Community—Summer Tales Unleashed Reader Theater
Truth First Film Alliance—”The Last to Fall From Hero Street”
Vince Jetter Community Center—Black Cultural Arts Celebration
World Relief Quad Cities—Arts in English Summer Camp for Refugee Youth
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