Grant Wood Fellows Johanna Winters and Michael Dixon will present their work during a two-person show at the Drewelowe Gallery, located on the ground floor of the University of Iowa’s Visual Arts Building.

Dixon’s paintings, collectively displayed under the title, “Miscegenation Nation,” explores the story of his white mother Peggy amidst the fear of racial mixing in America. Anti-Miscegenation laws were in place across the country for 276-years. June 12, 2022, marked the 55th anniversary of the landmark case, Loving v. Virginia, which made interracial marriage legal across the United States. Dixon is interested in how his mother navigated a cultural landscape that intentionally and legally promoted separation.  

Winters will present a combination of videos, sculptural props, and collagraph prints titled “HOWW TO WAYT.” This work considers the condition of a puppet-protagonist who performs her sensuality for the camera. In a two-channel video at the center of the work, Winters manifests as the protagonist’s embodied chaperone as she readies for an encounter with an imagined romantic interest in a rehearsal for being desired.

The exhibition is free and open to the public, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.