Fellowship
The Grant Wood Fellowship application windows are currently open. The 2023-24 fellowships include printmaking, painting & drawing, and interdisciplinary performance--theatre. Review of applications will begin in February 2023.Read more
The Grant Wood Art Colony celebrates the life and legacy of Iowa’s most famous artist, Grant Wood. After painting one of the most recognizable images in the world, American Gothic, Wood joined the University of Iowa faculty. Each year, the Colony provides three Fellowships in Painting & Drawing, Printmaking , and Interdisciplinary Performance. Fellows teach courses, engage Iowans, and pursue their artistic endeavors. The Colony also hosts a biennial symposium and provides outreach to perpetuate Wood’s legacy as an artist and advocate of contemporary art.
The application window for the Grant Wood Fellowships is currently open. Search committees will begin reviewing applications on February 1, 2023.
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The Grant Wood Art Colony is a featured program of the University of Iowa Provost’s Office of Community Engagement. The program exemplifies the University of Iowa’s historic commitment to creative work and pioneering of the Master of Fine Arts degree. New and Enhanced Programs Catalogue Raisonn é...Read more
UI professors travel to Trinidad and Tobago for dance festival
Kieron Dwayne Sargeant is a visiting assistant professor of dance and a Grant Wood Fellow in Interdisciplinary Performance, who will be traveling alongside Eloy Barragán, an associate professor of dance and the director of this year’s Dance Gala.Read more
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Events
Grant Wood Fellow Talk with Michael Dixon
Saturday, February 18, 2023, 2:00pm
"Unpacking the Demons: Within, Between, and Beyond Race" with 2022–23 Grant Wood Fellow for Painting and Drawing Michael Dixon...
Stanley Museum of Art
Grant Wood Fellow Talk: Kieron Dwayne Sargeant
Thursday, April 6, 2023, 7:00pm
The Fusion of African Retentive and Continued Trinbagonian dances and Contemporary American dance for the classroom and stage...
Stanley Museum of Art
Shadow Puppetry: Animating Through Figure and Voice
Saturday, April 15, 2023, 10:00am to 4:00pm
This workshop is a thematic introduction to shadow puppetry as a bridge between performance, poetry, and visual art. The workshop will offer a balance between language and image-based narrative. Students will explore modes of shadow theater using analog overhead projectors as cinematic devices, and will also learn techniques for constructing shadow puppets made from cut paper and wire. For those who wish to perform their work live, we will host a performance “event” at the culmination of the...
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