Four masked students played at socially distanced pianos one evening in February at the Surf Ballroom Music Enrichment Center in Clear Lake.
The students, between 7 and 11 years old, were participating in Karen Millerâs piano lessons that prior to COVID-19 were held in her home.
Karen Miller works with Victor Rasmussen, 7, at piano lessons at the Surf Ballroom Music Enrichment Center in Clear Lake. The center offers musical outreach programming for children and adults. Ashley Stewart
âThis space has been awesome,â she said, noting her living room wouldnât have allowed the students to distance as much as needed.
The Music Enrichment Center at 509 Buddy Holly Place has been a beacon for the North Iowa Cultural Center & Museum, the nonprofit that operates the historic Surf Ballroom & Museum.
AJ TaylorDecember 30, 2020Last Updated: February 28, 2021
The North Iowa Area Community College Performing Arts and Leadership Series is pleased to announce that it has received an Iowa Arts & Culture Recovery Program from the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. Grant funds will support a high definition camera and broadcasting system in the auditorium to allow for virtual streaming of artists and speakers. The Iowa Arts & Culture Recovery Program was established on December 2, 2020, when Governor Kim Reynolds allocated $7 million of federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding to the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs for the purpose of providing economic relief to Iowa’s arts and culture industry. The funding is administered by the Iowa Arts Council, on behalf of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, through the Iowa Arts & Culture Emergency Relief Fund. Funding will support the NIACC Performing Arts and Le