Grant Wood Art Colony National Advisory Board Member R. Tripp Evans explores the complex matrix of personal and stylistic influences behind Wood’s iconic ‘American Gothic’ (1930) – a painting that is, at once, one of the most recognizable and enigmatic images in American art. His talk, entitled...
In honor of Iowa’s most famous artist, the Grant Wood Art Colony established the Grant Wood Legacy Prize. On March 11, the Colony will award the prize to three outstanding, high-school visual artists in Iowa: Mia Ruther (Burlington), Noelle Hahn (Burlington), and Kate Goodvin (Iowa City)....
For 33 years, Dancers in Company has afforded University of Iowa dance students the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be part of a professional touring company. In the process, the student-performers get to share their art with audiences...
Grant Wood Fellow Tameka Norris works through Arts Share and the UI Theatre Arts Department to help create the Dream Center's Black History Living Museum at the Robert A. Lee Recreation Center in Iowa City on Feb. 18, 2017.
The Studios at MASS MoCA provides residences for artists and writers, hosted by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program. Selected artists receive private studio space on MASS MoCA’s campus, newly renovated housing, free access to the museum’s galleries throughout the residency, financial and...
The Georgia Southern Department of Music and the Music Technology program present, the Root Signals Festival, February 9-11. Around 15 composers hailing from around the country will present their explorations at the intersection of music and technology, including 2015-16 Grant Wood Fellow...
Is Grant Wood’s famous painting serious or comic? It is this ambiguity that has helped made it one of the most parodied images in art history, writes Fisun Güner.
The Department of Religious Studies features Christopher-Rasheem McMillan, Grant Wood Fellow in Interdisciplinary Performance and University of Iowa Visiting Assistant Professor, in their Spring Colloquium Series.
Practice As Research: Religious Belief and Bodily Practices Thursday,...
