Arts-based Community Development Grant awarded to Northeast Iowa RC&D

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced 69 Our Town awards totaling almost $5 million through the Our Town program's fifth year of funding. Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) is one of those recommended organizations and will receive $75,000 to support the development and construction of public art in communities along Iowa scenic byways. 

The Our Town grant program supports creative placemaking projects that help to transform communities into lively, beautiful, and resilient places with the arts at their core. Since the program’s inception in 2011 and including these projects, the NEA will have awarded 325 Our Town grants totaling almost $26 million in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. This is the only Iowa project awarded this year.