Iowa Arts Council Project Grant Awardee /July 1, 2017 by Heidi Wiren Kebe

Core member, Heidi Wiren Bartlett, received an Iowa Arts Council Project Grant to support our project DIS/UNITY: A Service at the Englert Theater in Iowa City, IA in September 2017. The Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, helps support many thought provoking projects across the state.

Funding for the Art Project Grant program is made possible by an annual appropriation from the Iowa Legislature to the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

“They laid a foundation interconnecting violence and names, materials and memorials, being site-responsive and current event responsive. The connections have been made, and I am curious to see how they will unfold.”

— Kristen Shahverdian in response to "Call Her By Her Name: Lenape Sippu" by Propelled Animals, Cherry St. Pier, June 24, 2022.

We were honored to receive a USArtists International Grant for our participation in the In/Out Festival in Burkina Faso in February 2021. Due to COVID-19 restrictions we shifted our project to Philadelphia where we partnered with The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education for our piece UNLOCK.