Quad City Arts Unveils 2024 Arts Dollars Grant Awardees $115,000 in Funding

Quad City Arts Unveils 2024 Arts Dollars Grant Awardees, Empowering Artists and Organizations with $115,000 in Funding

In a significant boost to the Quad Cities' vibrant art scene, Quad City Arts is thrilled to announce the distribution of Arts Dollars grants for the year 2024. A total of $115,000 has been awarded, benefiting 24 esteemed organizations and 9 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.

Funding Sources
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.

Grant Recipients
The 2024 Arts Dollars grants encompass a wide array of projects, each uniquely contributing to the cultural tapestry of our community. This complete list of recipients showcases the breadth of creativity and commitment to community enrichment among Quad Cities' artists and organizations.

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 

Quad City Arts is committed to advocating for the arts as a vital component of a vibrant community. We extend our deepest gratitude to our partners, supporters, and the talented grant recipients of 2024. Together, we continue to make the Quad Cities a place where art and culture flourish!
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Sample organizational projects, clockwise from top left MLK Jr. Center, Mural by Mya Diabira, East Moline Main Street Window Holiday Art, Girl pARTs.

About Quad City Arts 
Quad City Arts is a nonprofit local arts agency dedicated to enriching the quality of life in the Quad City region through the arts. 

Quad City Arts is supported by operating support grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency, the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Quad City Cultural Trust.