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Grant Wood Art Colony

Opening Reception | Weaving Narratives: African Textiles in Iowa promotional image

Opening Reception | Weaving Narratives: African Textiles in Iowa

Saturday, November 1, 2025 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Celebrate the opening of "Weaving Narratives: African Textiles in Iowa," and the vibrant communities that inspired it.

Community Events

Krause Visiting Writer: Hilary Plum promotional image

Krause Visiting Writer: Hilary Plum

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 7:00pm
Nonfiction Writing House

Krause Visiting Writer, Hilary Plum, will give a reading at the NWP House on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m.

530 N. Clinton St., Iowa City.

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Kenny Lee, Cello | Crumb x Tan Dun

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Kenny Lee, Cello | Crumb x Tan Dun

Featuring:

Kenny Lee, Cello

Nicole Esposito, Flute

Doreen Lee, Piano

with Seamless Percussion:

Miles Bohlman, Eva Chopskie, Shaun Everson, Evan Tanner

Join us for an evening of works by two pioneers of 20th-century classical music, George Crumb and Tan Dun! The program will feature Crumb’s breathtaking Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) and conclude with the Dun's raucous and gripping Elegy: Snow in June, Concerto for Cello and Four Percussion.

This concert will be...

From the Driftless to the Delta: Rethinking Water Protections in the Mississippi River Watershed  promotional image

From the Driftless to the Delta: Rethinking Water Protections in the Mississippi River Watershed

Thursday, October 30, 2025 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Join us for a timely panel discussion exploring how states, communities, and advocates are responding to the regulatory and environmental uncertainties left in the wake of the Sackett v. EPA decision. With a focus on wetlands and water protections across the Mississippi River watershed — from the bluffs of the Driftless Region to the bayous of the Delta — this conversation brings together regional experts to highlight innovative legal, policy, and collaborative approaches for safeguarding...

Guest Artist Recital: Faina Lushtak, piano

Thursday, October 30, 2025 1:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Guest Artist Recital: Faina Lushtak, piano

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/951328

This concert is free and open to the public.

Krause Visiting Writer: Hilary Plum promotional image

Krause Visiting Writer: Hilary Plum

Thursday, October 30, 2025 3:00pm
English-Philosophy Building

Krause Visiting Writer, Hilary Plum, will give a publishing talk at EPB in room 304 (Gerber Lounge) on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 3 p.m.

Guest Oboe Recital: Dr. William McMullen, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Thursday, October 30, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Guest Oboe Recital: Dr. William McMullen, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/951326

This concert is free and open to the public.

"Only a Mask" a new musical by Blake Cordell promotional image

"Only a Mask" a new musical by Blake Cordell

Thursday, October 30, 2025 7:30pm
The James Theatre
A workshop of a new musical about identity and superpowers written by a music composition graduate student as part of thesis research
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An Evening with Yo-Yo Ma

Thursday, October 30, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
The beloved master musician comes to Iowa to reflect on a brilliantly consequential career.

Guest Artist Masterclass: Camille Thurman, jazz

Friday, October 31, 2025 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Guest Artist Masterclass: Camille Thurman, jazz

This event is free and open to the public. 

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Faculty Chamber Concert

Friday, October 31, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Faculty Chamber Concert

Sonata in A Minor, George Frederick Handel

Sonata for Violin and Cello, Maurice Ravel

Trout Quintet in A, D. 667 Franz Schubert

Benjamin Coelho, bassoon

Jamie Clark, cello

Doreen Lee, piano

Kenny Lee, cello

Elizabeth Oakes, viola

Volkan Orhon, double bass

Patrick Yim, violin (Guest)

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/951327

This concert is free and open to the public.

Tuba & Euphonium Studio Recital

Friday, October 31, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Tuba & Euphonium Studio Recital

Members of the University of Iowa Tuba & Euphonium Studio will be performing.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/951329

This concert is free and open to the public.

"Only a Mask" a new musical by Blake Cordell promotional image

"Only a Mask" a new musical by Blake Cordell

Friday, October 31, 2025 7:30pm
The James Theatre
A workshop of a new musical about identity and superpowers written by a music composition graduate student as part of thesis research

Midwest Voice

Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:30am
Voxman Music Building

Midwest Voice

https://midwest-voice.org.uiowa.edu/

Join us for a celebration of all things Voice at the Midwest Voice Symposium.

Hosted by The University of Iowa, this year's event will take place on Nov. 1, 2025 in the beautiful beautiful and dynamic Voxman Music Building, with both in-person and online attendance options available.

2025 Keynote presentations will be from Dr. Alexis Davis Hazell, Dr. Thomas L. Carroll, Dr. Katherine Verdolini Abbott, and Dr. Jack J. Jiang.

This daylong conference de...

Trisha Brown's "Floor of the Forest" promotional image

Trisha Brown's "Floor of the Forest"

Saturday, November 1, 2025 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Visual Arts Building
First performed in 1970 in downtown New York City by Trisha Brown and Carmen Beuchat, Floor of the Forest is danced upon a sculptural steel frame holding up a web of ropes that have been threaded with colorful used clothing.

Iowa Percussion Fall Concert

Saturday, November 1, 2025 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Percussion Fall Concert

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/952015

This concert is free and open to the public.

Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet promotional image

Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet

Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
A confluence of a powerhouse saxophonist and a top-shelf quartet honors the past and heralds the future.
CAB's Haunted House promotional image

CAB's Haunted House

Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:00pm to 11:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Come check out our annual Haunted House for all the scares!
"Only a Mask" a new musical by Blake Cordell promotional image

"Only a Mask" a new musical by Blake Cordell

Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:30pm
The James Theatre
A workshop of a new musical about identity and superpowers written by a music composition graduate student as part of thesis research

Martin Schmeding, Guest Organ Recital

Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Martin Schmeding, Guest Organ Recital

This event is free and open to the public.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952017

Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet promotional image

Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet

Saturday, November 1, 2025 9:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
A confluence of a powerhouse saxophonist and a top-shelf quartet honors the past and heralds the future.
Trisha Brown's "Floor of the Forest" promotional image

Trisha Brown's "Floor of the Forest"

Sunday, November 2, 2025 12:00pm to 2:59pm
Visual Arts Building
First performed in 1970 in downtown New York City by Trisha Brown and Carmen Beuchat, Floor of the Forest is danced upon a sculptural steel frame holding up a web of ropes that have been threaded with colorful used clothing.
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Piano Sundays at Old Capitol: Doreen Lee and UI Collaborative Pianists

Sunday, November 2, 2025 1:30pm
Old Capitol Museum

Piano Sundays at Old Capitol

This event will feature Doreen Lee and UI Collaborative Pianists

Upcoming Piano Sundays at Old Capitol:
March 1, 2026 | Ksenia Nosikova and Studio
May 3, 2026 | Alan Huckleberry and Studio

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Faculty Chamber Concert #2

Sunday, November 2, 2025 3:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Faculty Chamber Concert

Suite for Violin and Cello Reinhold Glière
Cello Sonata for Two Cellos Jean-Baptiste Barrière
Piano Quintet in C Minor Ralph Vaughan Williams

Jamie Clark, cello

Alan Huckleberry, piano

Volkan Orhon, double bass

Rebecca Vieker, viola (Guest)

Katie Wolfe, violin

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952018

This concert is free and open to the public.

Piano Studio Recital

Sunday, November 2, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Piano Studio Recital

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952019

This concert is free and open to the public.

Joint Recital: Charlie Muehlberger, Grace Walker, Cali Weber: horn promotional image

Joint Recital: Charlie Muehlberger, Grace Walker, Cali Weber: horn

Sunday, November 2, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Joint Recital: Charlie Muehlberger, Grace Walker, Cali Weber: horn

Charlie Muehlberger, horn
Grace Walker, horn
Cali Weber, horn

This event is free and open to the public.

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:

  • 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.

 

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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.
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