Community Resources | Iowa Arts & Culture

Opportunities for Communities

Iowa Cultural Entertainment Districts

Apply to have your district recognized as a cultural destination in Iowa. Iowa Cultural & Entertainment District designation recognizes areas in communities where arts, culture and entertainment thrive.

Creative Places Accelerator

A multi-year program where cross sector community teams from small to midsize Iowa communities develop arts-based projects to serve as catalysts for livability, economic development, and community connectedness.

Community Visioning and Planning

This list provides resources a community or organization can use to integrate arts and culture into their placemaking initiatives.

Public Art

This list of resources includes tools artists and communities can use to explore and successfully develop public art in Iowa.

Iowa Creative Places

The State of Iowa offers numerous programs, resources and tools to support communities at all stages of envisioning, developing and preserving creative places.

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Iowa Community Cultural Grant

Iowa Community Cultural Grants enhance Iowa communities through the development of festivals, music, drama, cultural programs and tourism projects

Iowa Great Places

Iowa Great Places seeks to cultivate the local character and authentic qualities of Iowa neighborhoods

Iowa Cultural and Entertainment Districts

well-identified, walkable, mixed-use, compact areas of a city or county with a high concentration of arts and cultural facilities.