Charles City Arts Center receives big boost from Floyd County Community Foundation

To the Press

The Charles City Arts Center is making a key improvement to the facility for 2024 – new gallery lighting.

The project has no specific start date as of yet, but Assistant Director Karl Haglund said he is hopeful for late summer or early fall.

“It is a very expensive project, especially for an Arts Center in rural Iowa, but we have begun to see the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ in some regards,” he said.

The Arts Center recently received a grant from the Floyd County Community Foundation for $10,000. That gift will cover almost half of the financial undertaking.

“Its an exciting gift from them and one that is near and dear to my heart. Lighting is such an important part of exhibiting artwork and we have been sort of ‘making do’ for quite some time now,” Haglund said.

Haglund said he is excited to get started on stage two of the project.

“I love this place. I think it is an extremely important entity in our community and anytime we can improve how we do things here or improve what we do, it becomes an essential task to us. We cannot thank the Floyd County Community Foundation enough!’”

Haglund is hopeful for another successful grant and, coupled with some possible other fundraising efforts, the Arts Center hopes for a “sooner than later” completion for the project.

The Arts Center uses grants, donations, sponsorships and memberships to maintain its free admission and free exhibit reception policy.

The Charles City Arts Center is located at 301 N. Jackson Street across from Central Park.