2016-17 Grant Wood Fellow in Printmaking, Terry Conrad, joins research off the California coast to study foraminifera, create works based on the project.
On November 30, Grant Wood Fellow Eleanna Anagnos led nine students to Chicago to engage them in the life of a working artist. Current Printmaking Fellow Ryan Parker and former Painting Fellow Joe deVera accompanied the group as they toured two museums, 15...
Former Grant Wood Fellow, Christopher Rasheem-McMillan, has partnered with Jason J. Snell to create Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration: A Performance on December 11, 7-8 p.m., CSPS Hall, 1103 3rd Street SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
This project explores the speech of African American...
Jim Hayes was beaming after delivering a recent talk on Grant Wood’s historic house in Iowa City before a crowd of senior citizens living at Vintage Cooperative in Coralville.
That’s because one of the residents there, Judy Terry, had just presented him with a special gift – a gnarled...
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...