Department of Cultural Affairs moves into next phase of assessing flood damage
Short on-line survey to help determine how much additional assistance is needed in Iowa
For Immediate Release July 22, 2008
(DES MOINES, Iowa) –The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs is asking Iowans involved with flood-damaged cultural, history and arts resources to fill out a short on-line survey to help determine how much additional assistance is needed in Iowa.
The survey is available at DCA’s Web site, www.culturalaffairs.org. The deadline for responses is July 29, 2008. Results will be compiled and forwarded to the Rebuild Iowa Commission on July 30, 2008.
“We have been receiving reports about the physical damage done to Iowa’s cultural assets and properties,” DCA Director Cyndi Pederson said. “This on-line survey is the next step we’re taking to assess the financial damage and to track filings with FEMA and the Small Business Administration, and to ask Iowans what other kinds of assistance they need as we recover and rebuild Iowa. We will report our findings to the Rebuild Iowa Commission and federal officials, among others.”
Iowans involved with cultural, history and arts-related organizations, assets and properties including – but not limited to – art galleries, art museums, performing arts centers, artist’s studios, historic buildings, cemeteries, archaeological sites, artifacts, museum collections and archives are encouraged to fill out the 12-question survey.
Technical and financial resources information about a wide variety of flood recovery and preservation issues is available on-line at http://www.iowahistory.org/grants/flood_2008/index.html.
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The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs is responsible for developing the state’s interest in the areas of the arts, history and other cultural matters with the advice and assistance from its two divisions: the State Historical Society of Iowa and the Iowa Arts Council. DCA preserves, researches, interprets and promotes an awareness and understanding of local, state and regional history and stimulates and encourages the study and presentation of the performing and fine arts and public interest and participation in them. It implements tourism-related art and history projects as directed by the General Assembly and designs a comprehensive, statewide, long-range plan with the assistance of the Iowa Arts Council to develop the arts in Iowa. More information about DCA is available at www.culturalaffairs.org.
