The Bee Project is an outdoor community art project, set up in two locations, created by Grant Wood Printmaking Fellow Elena Smyrniotis. The project stresses the importance of pollinators.
The Grant Wood Art Colony of the University of Iowa announces the recipients of the 2021-22 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. The Interdisciplinary...
ELDON, IA — It doesn’t get much better than this for a budding artist — or for a humble small town with a renowned American feature.
Katlynne Hummell Underhill is painting the largest outdoor mural of her career (20 feet tall by 30 feet wide), featuring an iconic art image (the farmhouse...
Grant Wood Fellow Margarita Blush has directed a devised theatrical piece entitled ‘Ascend’ to close the spring 2021 season for the University of Iowa Theatre Arts Department.
Cast members rehearse while curtains drape over the stage during a dress rehearsal of “Ascend,” in the Mabie...
Three Iowa teens are finding their voices through very different lenses of a common creative vision, and in the process, embodying the spirit of the Grant Wood Art Colony and the artist and educator whose legacy the University of Iowa program continues to honor.
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art offers a free Zoom lecture "GW lithographs: Art for the People during the Great Depression" with Professor Joni Kinsey, Professor of Art History, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa, on Sunday, March 28, at 2 p.m. CST.
This Sunday, March 21, at 2p.m., attend a free Zoom lecture "Patrons, Friends, and Artists: Connecting Brucemore’s Families and Grant Wood"with Jessica Peel-Austin, Museum Program Manager, Brucemore, hosted by the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.
Former GW Fellow Tyanna Buie guest curates "Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed: Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives Intersect" at the Trout Museum of Art, featuring the work of another former GW Fellow, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris.
Three Young Visual Artists from Ames, Cedar Rapids, and DeWitt High Schools Recognized for Outstanding Work by the University of Iowa Grant Wood Art Colony
On Sunday, March 7, the University of Iowa’s Grant Wood Art Colony will award the Grant Wood Legacy Prize to three outstanding...
Opalka kicks off new year with solo exhibition from Terry James Conrad, Grant Wood Printmaking Fellow (2015-16), including The Iowa Booth, which started while in residency.