Iowa City’s mural project is decorating downtown with color, and the University of Iowa Office of Outreach and Engagement hopes to do the same in Cedar County with a public-art residency.
The Iowa City mural project began after Public Art Director Thomas Agran held a forum in August 2017...
This year, the University of Iowa Grant Wood Symposium — now in its sixth biennial iteration — tackles the topic of public art. The symposium, a program of the UI Office of Outreach and Engagement, presented by the Grant Wood Art Colony, seeks to engage with Wood’s legacy, this year by exploring...
IOWA CITY — Art can transform lives, inform opinions, shock the system, or relax it. But not everyone has the time or resources to visit galleries and exhibits and halls. Which makes public art — works displayed in a public domain — so important and impactful.
Mildred Lenore Weenink, who would become a well-known Iowa artist and arts advocate, was 2 years old in 1891 when her parents moved from Wisconsin to Dillon, Mont., where her father, H.D. Weenink, opened a photography studio.
One of four children, she graduated from Beverhead County High...
IN 1939, the artist Grant Wood, whose folksy portrayals of Midwestern scenes had made him a household name in the Depression-era United States, created a picture of a naked farmhand. In the lithograph, which he titled Sultry Night, the farmhand pours a pail of bathwater over his head in the...
Attorney Jim Hayes has lived in Grant Wood’s Iowa City home since 1975. Over the years, Hayes bought surrounding properties and founded the Grant Wood Art Colony — an artist fellowship program with few peers in the world, now at the University of Iowa.
CEDAR RAPIDS — Three award-winning artists pushing the boundaries in their fields are opening a monthlong exhibit at CSPS Hall, 1103 Third St. SE, with a free reception from 5 to 8 p.m. today (5/3).
Visitors are invited to view the work and speak with the artists, who are Grant Wood...
The 2017-18 Grant Wood Fellows, Brandon Coley Cox, Joe DeVera, and Joe Osheroff, will present their work during the Grant Wood Fellows’ Exhibition 2017-18 at C.S.P.S. Hall, from May 3 through June 3.