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GW Fellow Tucker Holds 2-Person Show in Chicago

November 8, 2023

Grant Wood Interdisciplinary Performance Fellow Jessica Tucker opens a two-person show at Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center (Chicago) with Bun Stout. The show is titled, "Unidentified and Flying" and runs from November 10 through December 16, 2023.

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Former Fellow Winters Returns to Perform at Nonfiction Writing House

Johanna Winters, HAAG CYCLE, still (June 2023)

September 5, 2023

Johanna Winters, 2022-23 Grant Wood Printmaking Fellow, will continue her collaboration with Sarah Minor, Assistant Professor of English, with their performance of HAAG CYKELL on Thursday, September 7, at the Nonfiction Writing House (530 North Clinton Street). Haag Cykell is a live shadow...

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Michael Dixon Opens Solo Exhibition at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts

August 25, 2023

Former Grant Wood Painting & Drawing Fellow Michael Dixon will feature many of the works made during his 2022-23 residency in the solo exhibition entitled, The Undeniable Blackness Between Us at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.

Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual...

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Former Fellow Josh Henderson Releases New Album

August 24, 2023

Former Grant Wood Fellow in Interdisciplinary Performance--Music releases his first album under his name, "One More Night." During his fellowship, Josh Henderson found inspiration from an event in Iowa's past, often referred to as "the day the music died."

On February 2, 1959, Buddy...

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Experience The Bee Project at the IC Climate Fest, September 21

The Bee Project by Elena Smyrniotis (photo by Brendan Paul)

July 28, 2023

Participate in The Bee Project during this year's Iowa City Climate Fest, September 18-23, 2023. Each day will feature a different way to learn about climate change and what humans can do protect the environment.

Thursday, September 21, will feature a series of events focused on...

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GWAC Announces the 2023-24 Fellows

July 28, 2023

The Grant Wood Art Colony of the University of Iowa announces the recipients of the 2023-24 Grant Wood Fellowship. Each year, three fellows are selected from an international search to become artists-in-residence and visiting assistant professors at the University of Iowa. Through a competitive...

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UI Hires Former GW Fellow Suzanne Wright

June 28, 2023

The School of Art and Art History announces its newest member of the faculty—Suzanne Wright—who will begin as an Assistant Professor of Painting & Drawing this fall. Wright first came to the University of Iowa as a Grant Wood Fellow in Painting & Drawing during the 2019-2020 academic...

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T.J. Dedeaux-Norris's Medium is Healing

Film still of Meka Jean, "Sill (a) Life," TJ Dedeaux-Norris (2021)

June 28, 2023

Iowa City-based artist and professor Meka Jean, hereby known as her alter-ego T.J. Dedeaux-Norris (they/them), indulges in limitless methods and materials to dissolve the imagined separations delineating identity-based dichotomies in our society. Through rap music, filmed or live performances,...

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GW Fellow Johanna Winters to present original work at media festival

Johanna Winters, Hag Cycle, still (2023)

June 2, 2023

Open Air Media Festival is an outdoor media arts program hosted at PS1 in Iowa City. Our annual festival invites the public to experience video, performance, installation, sound, and other media arts in communal, accessible locations.

2023 Festival: Saturday June 3rd 8:30-11:00PM at PS1...

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’Missing pages’ pursuit one of many projects of Grant Wood Art Colony

April 22, 2023

By Richard Hakes

Thirty-seven years ago this week, Geraldo Rivera hosted a hugely publicized opening of what was hyped as a secret Al Capone treasure vault in Chicago. To Rivera’s embarrassment, the two-hour live TV event earned fame as a bust that uncovered virtually nothing.

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