News

man showing prints of his artwork at a table during a well-attended event

GW Fellow Matthew Willie Garcia Presents at MACP

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Current Grant Wood Printmaking Fellow Matthew Willie Garcia presented at the MAPC 2024 Conference hosted by Kansas State University on October 4, 2024.

Grant Wood and Francis McCray view a drawing for Breaking the Prairie.jpg

Art in the New Deal Era

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

https://universitymuseums.pubpub.org/pub/xhmu0wwd/release/2

The Phillips Collects: Rush Baker IV

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

https://www.phillipscollection.org/blog/2024-09-11-phillips-collects-rush-baker-iv

UI Grant Wood fellow represents Maryland at the Democratic National Convention

Thursday, August 22, 2024

https://dailyiowan.com/2024/08/22/ui-grant-wood-fellow-represents-maryland-at-the-democratic-national-convention/

Front gate of the Grant Wood Art Colony in Iowa City, Iowa

Art Colony Announces it 2024-25 Grant Wood Fellows

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Maura Pilcher

How one artist is ‘painting’ eastern Iowa to attract songbirds

Monday, July 15, 2024

https://www.iowapublicradio.org/arts-life/2024-07-15/artist-eastern-iowa-landscape-painting-birds

Shea Hembrey, who just completed an artist fellowship at the University of Iowa, creates “landscape paintings” using colorful soil supplements to plant trees and promote native bird conservation.