Spotlight Artist: Eleanna Anagnos

BIO

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...

Former Grant Wood Fellow T.J. Dedeaux-Norris has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at the School of Art and Art History with a 25% appointment in African America Studies. Dedeaux-Norris was 2016-17 Painting and Drawing Fellow.

T.J. Dedeax-Norris (f.k.a. Tameka Jenean...

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...

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.

Wood, an artist, teacher...

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...

Several Iowa communities will have new murals symbolizing their town in bright colors and designs by the summer’s end. Four University of Iowa students — Alexis Beucler, Drew Etienne, Katlynne Hummell and Ali Hval — are making it happen.

Beucler, a third-year painting MFA student from...

The Grant Wood Art Colony of the University of Iowa announces the recipients of the 2019-20 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...