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. Due to limited...
"A lot of communities don't have museums or galleries, and that can feel alienating," she says. "That's why I love public art—the community engagement it creates while beautifying a town."
Professor Christopher-Rasheem McMillan of the University of Iowa has been selected by the New York University Center for Ballet and the Arts for its prestigious Resident Fellowship.
According to the center's website, "The fellowship provides space, a stipend, and the time to pursue...
Congratulations to Painting and Drawing professor T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, whose work “Ted’s Place” (2014) is in the exhibition “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts through 9/6/21. This exhibition investigates the aesthetic...
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.
