Keep Iowa Beautiful grant, Diamond Vogel paint help bring public art project to life in Schulte Park
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Keep Iowa Beautiful grant, Diamond Vogel paint help bring public art project to life in Schulte Park
Robert Campagna’s 25-image exhibit, “Thin Spaces,” is based on the Celtic tradition that “thin places” are spots where the separation between the physical world and the spiritual world seems tenuous. The exhibit is open Oct. 1 to Nov. 15, with an artist’s reception Oct. 9.
Through matching artists and activists with students and residents in the community, Banned but Not Silenced: Resisting Censorship Through Art and Activism “aims to expand and platform dissent in a time when politics have limited what state-supported institutions can do.”
Two storytelling events in Cedar Rapids — one returning and one new — hope that the power of storytelling from locals and nationally recognized narrators will show us that we’re more alike than we are different.
Seagrove, North Carolina may be tiny, but its pottery scene is anything but small. Within a 20-mile radius, about 100 potters live and work, producing everything from utilitarian bowls to dazzling works of art. On a recent trip to Seagrove, Lori Erickson discovered that nearly every back road leads to a potter’s workshop, each one offering a fresh take on the region’s centuries-old clay traditions.
Latest addition to Cedar Rapids Mural Trail brightens up the Ground Transportation Center
A pair of new murals came to fruition in August through creative means after their Colombian artist was denied entry to the United States.
The Cornell College Peter Paul Luce Gallery will present “Edens and End Times” by Twin Cities-based painter and Cornell alum James Ostrander from Aug. 29 to Oct. 12.
This summer, the Schwartzkopf Gallery’s first international artist expounds on a classic poet’s wisdom about longing through several series spanning written and visual mediums.
“Shaping Perspectives” and “Sehnsucht” will be featured in the Gilded Pear Gallery until Sept. 6, 2025. A public reception will be held from 5-7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1, 2025.
In Bill Stamats latest collection, you won’t find the same dull textures, faded colors and framing that has become a stereotype for places often called “flyover country.”
Titled “Back Roads and Blue Skies / Paintings and Assemblages,” the Stamats exhibition opens with an artist reception that night at 6:30 p.m. in the uptown Mount Vernon gallery. His 16-piece exhibit runs through Aug. 23.
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art will offer free admission this summer for the 16th year of their Free Summer Admission Program. Admission to CRMA will be free for all visitors July 1 through Aug. 31, 2025.
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