Iowa group that promotes film as art sees federal funds evaporate - Radio Iowa

Iowa group that promotes film as art sees federal funds evaporate - Radio Iowa

The future is uncertain for an Iowa City-based cinema organization as its federal grants are being eliminated. Arts groups nationwide are seeing grants vanish as the Trump administration proposes complete closure of the National Endowment for the Arts. Andrew Sherburne, executive director of FilmScene, says while there won’t be changes to the theater’s upcoming programming, […]

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'The arts are being systematically attacked': Iowa arts orgs lose federal funding as Trump administration terminates NEA grants - Little Village

FilmScene at the Chauncey, Iowa City. — Emma McClatchey/Little VillageAfter making massive cuts at the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and rescinding grants awarded by those agencies, the Trump administration brought its sweeping and arbitrary DOGE-style cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) last week. The NEA sent out emails on Friday to grant recipients across the count…