Iowa Lakeside Laboratory is now home to an installation of The Bee Project. Multi-Media Artist Elena Smyrniotis says she came up with the idea a couple of years ago. “The Bee Project was conceived in 2021. I was entering my Fellowship at The University of Iowa, and I really wanted to do an art...
The Grant Wood Art Colony of the University of Iowa announces the recipients of the 2020-21 Grant Wood Fellowship. Each year, three fellows are selected from an international search to become artists-in-residence and visiting assistant professors at the University of Iowa. Through a competitive...
The Alex Brown Foundation in Des Moines has announced its first artist residencies, which are to begin this summer. The foundation has named painter and printmaker Vamba Bility as its inaugural resident artist, to be followed by multimedia artist Justin Sterling, sculptor David Craig, painter...
Henderson, who is currently serving a year-long appointment as the Grant Wood Artist in Residence at the University of Iowa, will give his multidisciplinary performance on April 4.
Ever since it was first displayed at the Art Institute Chicago (AIC) in 1930, Grant Wood’s iconic painting “American Gothic” (1930) has captured the collective imagination. The painting, featuring a pitchfork-bearing farmer and his daughter standing in front of a Midwestern farmhouse, has become...
Eleanna (She/her) (born Evanston, IL) is a Greek-American, New York City/ Mexico City-based artist and curator. Her work sits between painting and sculpture with a focus on haptics, touch, displacement, primal consciousness and bridging the...
