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Grant Wood Art Colony
Grant Wood Country Forum: "The Couple with the Pitchfork: The Back Story to A Forthcoming Book"
"The Couple with the Pitchfork: The Back Story to A Forthcoming Book," Wanda Corn and Joni Kinsey
Wanda Corn is a scholar of late 19th- and early 20th-century American art and photography. Having earned a BA (1963), MA (1965) and PhD (1974) from New York University, Professor Corn taught at Washington Square College, the University of California, Berkeley, and Mills College before moving to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California in 1980. At Stanford she held the university's first permanent...
Grant Wood Fellows Artist Talks & Panel | 2026
Join the 2025–2026 Grant Wood Fellows artists for an evening of discussion about their work and research. The event will be accompanied by light refreshments.
Panel members:
Ada Friedman (Painting & Drawing)
Elizabeth Claire Rose (Printmaking)
Kyle Marshall (Interdisciplinary Performance—Dance)
The Grant Wood Art Colony seeks to provide a creative home for the next generation of artists and continue Grant Wood’s creative advocacy in the School of Art & Art History and the Division of Performing Arts...
Grant Wood Country Forum: "Grant Wood On the Radar in the ‘60s and 70s"
"Grant Wood On the Radar in the ‘60s and 70s" by Elaine Mattingly
Mattingly will discuss her research into Grant Wood's resurgence during the 1960s and '70s, including the first Grant Wood Art Festival and a teaser for Stranded in Stone City, a new musical of which Mattingly is writer/producer/editor.
Elaine Mattingly’s connection to all things Grant Wood goes back six generations in the Anamosa, Stone City, Viola and Cedar Rapids areas of Iowa. She presses into service her experience as a...
Grant Wood Country Forum: "An Artist's Brush with Hollywood: Where Art Meets Celebrity and Fame"
"Grant Wood and Hollywood" by Dorothy Bunting Montgomery and Debbie Beilstein
Learn about a 1940 Hollywood art happening in which nine Associated American Artists created twelve paintings. That Hollywood commission was the largest of Grant Wood’s career and resulted in perhaps his least-known painting, Sentimental Ballad. Plus, hear from a relative of Grant Wood, Debbie Beilstein.
Dorothy Bunting Montgomery is a nonfiction writer, novelist, and a native of Iowa, whose stories capture the rhythms...
Grant Wood Country Forum: "Grant Wood: Seriously Silly" and "Midwest Identity: Grant Wood’s 'Main Street'"
"Grant Wood: Seriously Silly" by Tara Templeman
Gain insight into the Linn County History Center's newest exhibit that focuses on the humor and satire of Grant Wood's genius.
Tara Templeman is the Curator and Collection Manager at The History Center, a role they have loved for six years. They received two Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico, graduating Cum Laude with a certificate in Museum Studies. They received a Master’s of...
Community Events
Live from Prairie Lights: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Daniyal Mueenuddin will read from his new novel, This Is Where the Serpent Lives. Described as a "stunning new work," This Is Where the Serpent Lives takes place in contemporary feudal Pakistan, "following the destinies of a dozen unforgettable characters whose lives are linked through violence and tragedy, triumph, and love." Publishers Weekly praises it as "a profound and revelatory portrait of Pakistan’s class divisions," while Booklist says: "Intricately layered. . . . Mueenuddin writes...
Kinky Boots
Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.
Kinky Boots
Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.
Kinky Boots
Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.
Carmen Maria Machado: Reading
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, The New York...
Kinky Boots
Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop
Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece.
Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen and adult writers in all genres are welcome.
Write at the Stanley meets every fourth...
Live from Prairie Lights: Edward Gale Agran
Edward Gale Agran will read from his new book, Sinclair Lewis: The 1920s and the Shaping of American Identity. Lewis (1885-1951) was renowned during the 1920s, and Agran's book argues the "importance of [his] words, ideas, and values in sculpting twentieth-century identity." Robert D. Johnston, professor of History and director of the Teaching of History Program at the University of Illinois Chicago (and author of The Radical Middle Class) says "Edward Agran has once again written a book...
5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music — A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes
5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes
Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the third presentation in this series of intergalactic music poetics. Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future.
Featuring selections from Quartet for the End of Time
Katie Wolfe, violin
Jorge Montilla Moreno, clarinet
Carey...
Grant Wood Fellows Artist Talks & Panel | 2026
Join the 2025–2026 Grant Wood Fellows artists for an evening of discussion about their work and research. The event will be accompanied by light refreshments.
Panel members:
Ada Friedman (Painting & Drawing)
Elizabeth Claire Rose (Printmaking)
Kyle Marshall (Interdisciplinary Performance—Dance)
The Grant Wood Art Colony seeks to provide a creative home for the next generation of artists and continue Grant Wood’s creative advocacy in the School of Art & Art History and the Division of Performing Arts...
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Stained Glass
By Randy Jackson-Alvarenga
Part of Theatre Arts' Gallery Series
Tickets:
Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
Duo Battuto: Nick Miller and Hanna Rumora
Duo Battuto: Nick Miller and Hanna Rumora
Nick Miller, percussion
Hanna Rumora, cello
This concert is free and open to the public.
Recital: Henry Wolf, piano
Henry Wolf, piano
This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.
This concert is free and open to the public.
Guest Chamber Recital: Neave Trio
Guest Chamber Recital: Neave Trio
Anna Williams, violin
Mikhail Veselov, cello
Eri Nakamura, piano
This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.
This concert is free and open to the public.
Stained Glass
By Randy Jackson-Alvarenga
Part of Theatre Arts' Gallery Series
Tickets:
Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
Stained Glass
By Randy Jackson-Alvarenga
Part of Theatre Arts' Gallery Series
Tickets:
Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
Live from Prairie Lights | Tramaine Suubi in conv with Margaret Yapp - 'Stages'
Writers' Workshop graduate Tramaine Suubi will read from their newest poetry collection, Stages, and will be joined in conversation with poet and Writers' Workshop graduate Margaret Yapp. Described as an inspiration "by the evolution of our brightest star," Stages "offers poems alluding to the history of how it came to be and its effects on each human life...Readers will discover poems exploring everything from the gimmicks of capitalism to the false promises of tranquility" (tramainesuubi.com...
UI Monthly Jazz Jam
Exhibit Opening Celebration for ‘Orchestrating Community: The Public Service of Iowa Conductor James Dixon’
Enjoy refreshments, remarks from the curators, and an open house in recognition of the spring 2026 Main Library Gallery exhibition, Orchestrating Community: The Public Service of Iowa Conductor James Dixon.
Event Schedule
4–5:30 p.m.: Reception and open house with curators Sarah Suhadolnik and Katie Buehner
4:30 p.m.: Brief remarks in the Main Library Gallery
5:30 p.m.: Opening event ends
6 p.m.: Main Library Gallery closes
Admission to the gallery is always free. No RSVP required for this event.
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Guest Artist: Ashley Hall-Tighe with Ana María Otamendi
Guest Artist: Ashley Hall-Tighe with Ana María Otamendi
This concert is free and open to the public.
Guest Solo Recital: Asiya Korepanova, Piano
Guest Solo Recital: Asiya Korepanova, Piano
This concert is free and open to the public.
Masterclass: Ashley Hall-Tighe
Masterclass: Ashley Hall-Tighe
This concert is free and open to the public.
Artist Talk & Performance with Alejandro Russo
Join us for a lecture and performance with Alejandro Russo, an Argentine-Spanish choreographer and the co-director of La Malagua dance company based in Lille, France. Russo’s work uniquely blends the disciplines of engineering, dance notation, and movement research. His work Entre-autre, created while in residence at an auto factory in the north of France, highlights the body in working atmospheres and explores the erasure and withdrawal of corporeal physicality in factory environments. Russo is...
Jazz at the Stanley
The Stanley Museum of Art and SCOPE present a jazz ensemble performance at the museum, free and open to all. More information to come.
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:
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How thinking about how toast is made can be a useful introduction to design-thinking practices and social innovation.
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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.
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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:
- Difficult Discussions - Facilitating Political Dialogues
- Inclusive Teaching - How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive
- Partnership and Power - Community Partnerships Study
- Re-imagining Engagement - Social Change Wheel 2.0
See recording of event here.
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!