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...
Earlier this year, two small travel paintings by Grant Wood went up for sale at an auction in Florida. Although they are not the regional subject matter people have come to expect from Wood’s work, these lovely paintings showcase his style while traveling abroad during the 1920’s. Greg, a...
It was a time of immense turmoil at home and abroad. Explore the era through the work of American artists who sought to forge a new national art and identity in the face of great adversity.
The Art Institute of Chicago's exhibition America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s closes on...
From New York to Detroit, from Chicago to Los Angeles, artists are making their way from their MFA graduation ceremony to their early solo shows. Here are some of the young and youngish artists across America who are catching our eye right now.
The Grant Wood Art Colony announces its three fellows for the 2016-17 academic year: Colin Lyons in Printmaking, Christopher-Rasheem McMillan in Interdisciplinary Performance (Dance), and Tameka Norris in Painting and Drawing. Each fellow was selected from hundreds of applications from around...
State Historical Museum of Iowa, 600 E Locust St, Des Moines, IA 50319
Kids can celebrate Iowa artists by creating their own paper Gothic-style windows, like the one in Grant Wood’s iconic “American Gothic” farmhouse. Plus, learn...
DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THE EXHIBITION HAS BEEN CANCELLED
The Grant Wood Fellows will culminate their time at the University of Iowa with an exhibition entitled GWAC 1516 at the Sculpture Court of Music West (formerly the University of Iowa Museum of Art), May 21 through June 30...
