The Marion Arts Festival is celebrating 30 years by painting a new swath on the city’s summer scene.
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The Marion Arts Festival is celebrating 30 years by painting a new swath on the city’s summer scene.
The festival is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and includes more than 80 creatives, all from Iowa, sprawled across the NewBo and Czech Village neighborhoods in Cedar Rapids.
Eve Drewelowe’s work coming to Cedar Rapids Museum of Art gallery. Vivid colors are the hallmark of her work in both realms, but a new exhibition of her works at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art will feature 23 of her regionalist works.
Mendieta was a performance, video artist, sculptor and painter. She was born in Havana, Cuba, and at age 12, fled Fidel Castro’s Cuba with her sister, Raquelin, who was 15. In 1969, Mendieta earned her B.A. from the University of Iowa, in 1971 an M.A. in painting, and in 1972 an M.F.A. in Intermedia.
For 14 years, University of Iowa’s collection has had no home. Soon that will change.
Gilded Pear Gallery this spring is featuring “On The Verge,” abstract drawings and birch bark sculptures by Cedar Falls artist Crit Streed; and “Fiber Optics,” fiber wall sculptures and mobiles by Minneapolis artist Kristina Fjellman. A public reception will be held on Friday.
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The Grant Wood Studio and Armstrong Visitor Center will be reopening for the season on Saturday at noon. Admission to the studio is free for everyone during regular hours courtesy of a grant from the Esther and Robert Armstrong Charitable Trust.
Public celebration slated for Aug. 26 at new University of Iowa jewel.
Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” will have a place of honor when the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art opens its doors with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 3 p.m. Aug. 26, 2022.
World-class nature photography exhibit at Dubuque’s National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium takes viewers inside remote locations.
This Friday marks five years since the fire that engulfed Thou Art Gallery on Main Street in Anamosa. The gallery has since been rebuilt and is running full swing again, and will commemorate the anniversary this Friday with an open house.
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