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Homerathon 2025: Celsiana Warwick presents "The Riddle of Penelope: Understanding the Most Important Woman in the Odyssey” promotional image

Homerathon 2025: Celsiana Warwick presents "The Riddle of Penelope: Understanding the Most Important Woman in the Odyssey”

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Becker Communication Studies Building
As part of our Homerathon 2025 week, Dr. Celsiana Warwick is giving a talk about the leading lady of the Odyssey, Penelope.

Grant Wood Art Colony

Our Stories In and On the Midwest Landscape: A Panel Conversation with Alicia Olushola Ajayi, Kelley Lemon, and Naima Green promotional image

Our Stories In and On the Midwest Landscape: A Panel Conversation with Alicia Olushola Ajayi, Kelley Lemon, and Naima Green

Thursday, April 24, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join us for a compelling panel discussion moderated by Katherine Simóne Reynolds and featuring Kelley Lemon, Naima Green, and Alicia Olushola Ajayi. This conversation will illuminate the many ways Black artists and practitioners are engaging with ecological narratives, uncovering hidden histories, and shaping future landscapes. This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition, it's a fine thing, currently on view at the Stanley Museum of Art.Moderator:Katherine Simóne Reynolds is an artist...
"Race and Regionalism: Representation in the Heartland" promotional image

"Race and Regionalism: Representation in the Heartland"

Friday, April 25 to Saturday, April 26, 2025 (all day)
Seamans Center
Scholars and artists from across North America will convene at the Seamans Center on the University of Iowa’s campus April 25-26 for the eighth biennial Grant Wood Symposium. By redressing the multivalent intersections between race and Regionalist art, this symposium endeavors to uncover new and perhaps unexpected answers about who is representing and represented in the American Scene. The program features four panel discussions, a film screening, and an exhibition visit.Day one and two will...
Film Screening & Artist Conversation | Christopher Harris & Cameron Granger promotional image

Film Screening & Artist Conversation | Christopher Harris & Cameron Granger

Friday, April 25, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Art Building West
Join us for a special evening of film screenings and conversation with acclaimed filmmakers/artists Christopher Harris and Cameron Granger. This program is part of the Grant Wood Art Colony's 8th Biennial Symposium, Race and Regionalism: Representation in the Heartland, and is held in conjunction with the Stanley Museum of Art's exhibition, it's a fine thing.Featured FilmsChristopher HarrisDistant Shores (2016, 3min)Christopher Harris’s Distant Shores, to take one, models a necessary imaginative...
"Race and Regionalism: Representation in the Heartland" promotional image

"Race and Regionalism: Representation in the Heartland"

Saturday, April 26, 2025 (all day)
Seamans Center
Scholars and artists from across North America will convene at the Seamans Center on the University of Iowa’s campus April 25-26 for the eighth biennial Grant Wood Symposium. By redressing the multivalent intersections between race and Regionalist art, this symposium endeavors to uncover new and perhaps unexpected answers about who is representing and represented in the American Scene. The program features four panel discussions, a film screening, and an exhibition visit.Day one and two will...
Song*Lines Project: People Power promotional image

Song*Lines Project: People Power

Sunday, April 27, 2025 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Iowa City Bike Library
SONG*LINES PROJECT Weaving Village by singing together in places we love   Spring 2025, Iowa City  In partnership with Grant Wood Art Colony + the University of Iowa School of Music  TO REGISTER, <SIGN UP HERE>

Community Events

Davóne Tines & The Truth: Recital No. 2: ROBESOИ promotional image

Davóne Tines & The Truth: Recital No. 2: ROBESOИ

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
TICKETSTickets on sale to the general public: Monday, July 29, at 10 a.m.Adults $30 / $20Students & Youth $10Part of Hancher's 52nd SeasonCo-commissioned by Hancher Auditorium American bass-baritone Davóne Tines — heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most powerful voices of our time” — brings together opera, art song, contemporary classical, spirituals, gospel, and songs of protest to tell his deeply personal story of perseverance in ways that embrace all of humanity. In the Hancher...

Campus Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Campus Symphony Orchestra This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943862 This concert is free and open to the public.

DMA III Recital: Xiaowen Tang, bass

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
DMA III Recital: Xiaowen Tang, bass Xiaowen Tang, bass Hsinhui Liu, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Knowledge of Nothing: Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in The Flowers of Evil promotional image

Knowledge of Nothing: Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in The Flowers of Evil

Thursday, April 17, 2025 2:00pm to 3:30pm
English-Philosophy Building
Nathan Brown will be presenting. Nathan Brown is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal, where he directs the Centre for Expanded Poetics. He is the author of Baudelaire's Shadow: An Essay on Poetic Determination (MaMa, 2021); Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (Fordham, 2021); and The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (Fordham, 2017). His translation of Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil was...
Davóne Tines: A Talk on Creative Process and the Development of New Work promotional image

Davóne Tines: A Talk on Creative Process and the Development of New Work

Thursday, April 17, 2025 3:30pm to 4:50pm
Voxman Music Building
What is the thing you need to say the most? How do you imagine that statement could be realized in the most sticky and compelling way no matter what your medium is?Davóne Tines, is heralded as an artist "changing what it means to be a classical singer (The New Yorker) and “[one] of the most powerful voices of our time” (Los Angeles Times), but how and why?Adapted from the Harvard course in interdisciplinary storytelling he co-guest lectures with close collaborator, opera director and creator...
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Night at the Museum: Student Exhibit

Thursday, April 17, 2025 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join us for our last installment of Night at the Museum this academic year, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. This month we want to celebrate our student artists! Working with student artists across the University and the Undergraduate Art History Society, we have created our very own student gallery—gallery guide and all! Student works will be displayed in the Stanley's lobby for one night, during this event. Students are...

DMA II Recital: Alicia Maiz Alonso, violin

Thursday, April 17, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building
DMA II Recital: Alicia Maiz Alonso, violin Alicia Maiz Alonso, violin Mariya Akhadjanova, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943863 This concert is free and open to the public.
Live from Prairie Lights | Sanjena Sathian in conversation with Ren Arcamone - 'Goddess Complex' promotional image

Live from Prairie Lights | Sanjena Sathian in conversation with Ren Arcamone - 'Goddess Complex'

Thursday, April 17, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Sanjena Sathian will read from her new novel, Goddess Complex, and will be joined in conversation by Ren Arcamone, also a Writers' Workshop alum. Penguin Random House, which published Goddess Complex, describes it as "a darkly funny, vertiginous novel about the dilemmas of procreation, pregnancy, and parenting." Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of the National Book Award finalist All This Could Be Different, praises Goddess Complex as "the most interesting, illuminating...

Guest Artist Recital: Dr. Daniel Burdick, tuba

Thursday, April 17, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Guest Artist Recital: Dr. Daniel Burdic, tuba View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943865 This concert is free and open to the public.

Iowa Steel Bands Spring Concert

Thursday, April 17, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Iowa Steel Bands Spring Concert This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943864 This concert is free and open to the public.

Honors Recital: Lucas Wiese Ibarra, saxophone

Thursday, April 17, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Honors Recital: Lucas Wiese Ibarra, saxophone This concert is free and open to the public. 
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Schools Out at the Stanley | Bunny Buddies

Friday, April 18, 2025 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Hop to it! In this fun and creative workshop, children will transform ordinary socks into adorable bunny friends. Using rice to fill their bodies and buttons for eyes and noses, kids will design and create their own unique and cuddly companions. Space is limited; please reserve your spot at https://uiowa.doubleknot.com/event/schools-out-at-the-stanley-april-18/3... Please arrive in time for children to settle in and begin the project at 2 p.m. School's Out at the Stanley is offered on days...
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Davóne Tines: Masterclass 2.0

Friday, April 18, 2025 4:00pm
Voxman Music Building
Join us as Davóne Tines leads a public masterclass of his own devising featuring four exceptional students enrolled in the vocal program at the University of Iowa School of Music.This event is free and open to the public.University of Iowa Workshop Participants:Kate O’Connel, soprano | Oh! Quante volte from I Capuleti e i MontecchiJoshua Nieman, bass | Schubert's Der Doppelgänger Allison Wright, soprano | Ah! Les femmes! Les femmes! Les femmes! From La ColombeEthan Elsbernd, baritone | Pierrot’s...

Masters Recital: Jose Medrano, jazz studies

Friday, April 18, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Masters Recital: Jose Medrano, jazz studies Carson Parker, Piano Milo Savage-Webster, Drums Marvin Truong, Saxophone Vincent Malan, Saxophone This concert is free and open to the public.

Faculty Solo Performance: Benjamin Coelho

Friday, April 18, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Faculty Solo Performance: Benjamin Coelho Benjamin Coelho, bassoon Dunn String Quartet This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943866 This concert is free and open to the public. 

Optional Recital: Megan Boskey, trombone

Friday, April 18, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
This event has been canceled.
Canceled

Optional Recital: Cole Moorhead, saxophone

Friday, April 18, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Optional Recital: Cole Moorhead, saxophone Cole Moorhead, saxophone Casey Dierlam Tse, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
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An Enemy of the People

Friday, April 18, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow A New Version Adapted by the Ensemble In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a...

Iowa Center for the Arts (ICA) Final Round Competition Recital

Saturday, April 19, 2025 1:00pm
Voxman Music Building
Iowa Center for the Arts (ICA) Final Round Competition Recital This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943867 This concert is free and open to the public.

Optional Masters Recital: Sherry Xia, voice

Saturday, April 19, 2025 3:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Optional Masters Recital: Sherry Xia, voice Sherry Xia, voice Danyun Zhao, piano This concert is free and open to the public.

Graduate Recital: Julia Holleman, Tracy Yu Qian, organ

Saturday, April 19, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Graduate Recital: Julia Holleman, Tracy Yu Qian, organ This concert is free and open to the public. 
Davóne Tines Recital No. 1: MASS promotional image

Davóne Tines Recital No. 1: MASS

Saturday, April 19, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
TICKETSTickets on sale to the general public: Monday, July 29, at 10 a.m.Adults $30 / $20Students & Youth $10Part of Hancher's 52nd SeasonAmerican bass-baritone Davóne Tines — heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most powerful voices of our time” — brings together opera, art song, contemporary classical, spirituals, gospel, and songs of protest to tell his deeply personal story of perseverance in ways that embrace all of humanity. In Recital No. 1: MASS, Tines offers a program of...
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Spring faculty reading: Tom Drury

Saturday, April 19, 2025 8:00pm
Glenn Schaeffer Library
Visiting Professor of Poetry, Tom Drury will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room in Glenn Schaeffer Library.Tom Drury is from the American Midwest. As a teenager he walked beans and worked at a grain elevator, though he doubts that people walk beans anymore, and the grain elevator is gone, as are the railroad tracks that brought the boxcars to the grain elevator.He's written five novels, and his writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, A Public Space, Ploughshares, Granta, The...
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An Enemy of the People

Saturday, April 19, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow A New Version Adapted by the Ensemble In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a...
An Enemy of the People promotional image

An Enemy of the People

Sunday, April 20, 2025 2:00pm
Theatre Building
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow A New Version Adapted by the Ensemble In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a...

Previous Workshops & Events

Office Workshops & Events

Looking In, Zooming Out: Community-Engaged Learning in the Big Picture

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

2:30 - 4:00p, virtual event via Zoom

In partnership with Iowa Campus Compact

Join us for an interactive workshop for anyone teaching a community-engaged course who is curious about how to introduce interdisciplinary, systems-level thinking, and/or local-global connections into their course design, assignments, and activities.  Participants will try on and explore a range of ideas and strategies, including:

  • How thinking about how toast is made can be a useful introduction to design-thinking practices and social innovation.

  • How to strategically use the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals to scaffold and contextualize conversations about local community partnerships and the purpose community-engaged learning more broadly.

  • How their own disciplinary orientation and approach might inform their understanding of local and global "wicked problems".

See recording of event here.

 

Making an Impact: A Student's Perspective on Community Engagement.
Thursday, March 18th, 2021
3:00-4:00PM  - Virtual event Via Zoom
Live Student Panel

 

Are you a student enrolled in a community engaged course or interested in starting a project with a community partner? Are you interested in learning what you can expect, from students who have already successfully completed a community engagement project? This workshop will explore the nuts and bolts of working with community partners from a student’s perspective. A panel discussion of students will explore the challenges and opportunities of community engagement and highlight examples of successful projects and partnerships. Join us for a discussion and learn more about how you can make an impact in your community.

Engaged Faculty Institute
January 8th - 25th, 2021 
Virtual Institute, Asynchronous + Live Zoom
In partnership with Iowa Campus Compact

 

Whether you are new to teaching community-engaged learning courses, or are a community-engagement expert, this Institute provides opportunities for everyone to learn best practices for community engaged teaching and learning. Traditionally offered in-person every spring semester, this year the Institute will be offered both over winter break and in the spring semester through an online, asynchronous format, followed by a synchronous Zoom workshop. The Institute will cover all aspects of teaching a community-engaged course, including:

  • Foundations and critical commitments to community engagement
  • Planning and Facilitation
  • Partnerships and Engagement
  • Learning Outcomes and Reflection
  • Assessment and Evaluation

Defining and Sustaining Community Partnerships
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
3 - 4 pm, virtual meeting via Zoom

 

Community engagement best practices encourage the development of sustained, long-term relationships and partnerships between campus and community. This workshop will explore how faculty and staff build community partnerships through service-learning and engaged research. A panel discussion of faculty, staff and community partners will explore the challenges and opportunities of community engaged teaching and research and provide tips on how to build successful, sustained partnerships.

See recording of event here.

 

Community Engagement for Inclusion and Justice
Thursday, October 15th, 2020
12 - 2 pm, virtual meeting via Zoom

 

hosted by the Office of Community Engagement in partnership with Campus Compact. Emily Shields, Executive Director of Iowa/Minnesota Campus Compact, will be co-hosting this event and will be referring to a few texts throughout the training:

See recording of event here.

 

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Engagement & The Arts

"Writers Unmuffled" hosted by Michaeljulius, a Virtual Student Reading
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
6:30 pm, virtual webinar via Zoom

 

UI Arts Share, a program in the Office of Community Engagement, is presenting a virtual student Reading, Writers Unmuffled, Thursday, April 29th 6:30 p.m. During this Zoom event, five University of Iowa graduate student writers from a variety of genres (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, and translation), will each give a five to eight minute reading and will field questions from the Zoom audience. Come join us as these writers allow their imagination to unmask for an evening of thought provoking readings!

 

See recording of this event here.

 

UI Percussion Arts Share Community Concert
Saturday, February 27th, 2021
3:00 pm, virtual via LiveStream

 

Iowa Percussion and the Iowa Steel Band will present a concert titled “All You Need is Love.” Originally a Valentine’s Day Concert, the program was rescheduled because of the late start of the Spring semester due to COVID.

 

"Writers Unmuffled" hosted by Michaeljulius, a Virtual Student Reading
Thursday, February 25th, 2021
7:00 pm, virtual webinar via Zoom

 

UI Arts Share, a program in the Office of Community Engagement, is presenting a virtual student Reading, Writers Unmuffled, Thursday, Feb. 25th 7:00 p.m. During this Zoom event, five University of Iowa graduate student writers from a variety of genres (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, and translation), will each give a five to eight minute reading and will field questions from the Zoom audience. Come join us as these writers allow their imagination to unmask for an evening of thought provoking readings!

 

See a recording of this event here.

 

Fellow Talk Margarita BlushFeb, Grant Wood Art Colony
Monday, February 22th, 2021
7:30-8:30 pm, virtual via Zoom

 

My Voice: Creating Original Theatre Inspired by Personal Experiences and Fueled by Societal Issues 

Hosted by the Stanley Museum of Art

https://grantwood.uiowa.edu/event/63036

Writers Unmuffled, a Virtual Student Reading
Thursday, November 19th, 2020
6 - 7 pm, virtual webinar via Zoom

 

UI Arts Share, a program in the Office of Community Engagement, is presenting a virtual student Reading, Writers Unmuffled, Thursday, Nov. 19th 6:00-7:00 p.m. During this Zoom event, six University of Iowa graduate student writers from a variety of genres (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, and translation), will each give a five to eight minute reading and will field questions from the Zoom audience. Come join us as these writers allow their imagination to unmask for an evening of thought provoking readings!

See a recording of this event here.