Grinnell Area Arts Council

Community Theatre - Grinnell Community Theatre stages live theatrical plays and musicals. Community members get involved as cast and crew, and shows are marketed and performed for the public. Productions involve casts from as small as 5 people to as large as 100 people, and the shows performed range from classical or avant-garde works to popular musicals. Community Theatre invites people with all levels of acting or theatre experience to participate.

Gallery & Events - The Grinnell Arts Gallery hosts a variety of art exhibitions of regional and local artists throughout the year. Artists vary from rising up-start artists to life-long artists. The venue is open to the public and showcased each month with a reception and artist talk.

Education - The Grinnell Arts Academy provides quality after school, evening and weekend arts-related classes throughout the school year and during the summer. The arts academy programming creates a student-centered environment in which individual activities and group projects foster creative exploration through the arts, with emphasis placed on the creative process and experimentation. Directed by professional educators with the help of volunteers and college students.

Turlach Ur Turlach Ur is a Scottish drum and pipe band with a roster of about 25 pipers and drummers. More than half of the band members are junior players ranging in age from 10 to 17. Together, the junior players comprise Turlach Ur's youth band, the Turlach Urchins. Turlach Ur is both a competition and concert band, performing concerts regularly both in Grinnell and beyond. The band is recognized widely for its unusually fun and innovative shows. Turlach Ur holds weekly practices and monthly group lessons at which all levels come together for instruction in small groups.