Ask any grade schooler in Iowa and there is a good chance he or she can rattle off the six pillars of the Character Counts program: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.
But one virtue that’s missing is humility — partly, I think, because Iowans don’...
Grant Wood Painting Fellow Tameka Norris will spend winter break in residence with the Long Road Project in Jacksonville. Long Road Projects is an artist residency program and edition publishing house. Co-Founders and art professionals Aaron Levi Garvey and Stevie Covart Garvey founded LRP in...
Ronchini Gallery is pleased to present Cut From the Same Cloth, an exhibition of new works by American artist Tameka Jenean Norris. Through a wide range of media, including performance, video, installation, photography and painting, Norris uses her own personal...
Grant Wood did not consider any of his works to be satire — except one.
When he painted “Daughters of Revolution,” it was with his tongue firmly in cheek. Irony is evident in the oil painting he produced in 1932 at his studio at 5 Turner Alley in Cedar Rapids.
Art in Print juror Chang Yuchen selected Grant Wood Printmaking Fellow Colin Lyons to feature in their November issue. Read the essay about Lyons's Time Machine for Abandoned Futures (2015) here .
If you’ve suspected there’s more to artist Grant Wood than the constantly parodied 1930 classic “American Gothic,” explore his homeland and you’ll find out why you’re right.
Wood was born 125 years ago in rural eastern Iowa near Anamosa, where summer is receding and fall is beginning its...
2015-16 Grant Wood Fellow in Music, Christopher Jette, will present cmetq at the International Computer Music Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on Friday, September 16. Jette completed and premiered this work during his fellowship at the University of Iowa. cmetq is an concert length work...
Exhibition Opens – Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art - 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM
The Nasher Museum presents Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, an exhibition that questions and explores the complex and contested space of the American...