Godshot author Chelsea Bieker will read from her new literary suspense Madwoman. She will be joined in conversation by Rachel Yoder. “Madwoman is brilliant. The rare kind of book that lives in your bones, as riveting as it is intimate. This is emotional suspense at its best, but it's also a chronicle of modern womanhood, an exploration of...
Bouquet and Khamsin with Heaving., Glittermouth, and Manhattan Blockade 7pm Doors / 8pm Show
An Opera by Derrick Wang September 5 – 15, 2024 Scalia/Ginsburg is an operatic comedy by composer-librettist Derrick Wang, hailed as “a dream come true” by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It tells the story of the friendship between the notorious RBG and her fierce judicial opponent Antonin Scalia through the lens of their shared love of opera. What...
Show Starts @ 10:30 Dance floor opens up after.
Amplified Rainbow II is our second group art show from Artists at SUI! We’re an art studio located in Iowa City made up of artists with varying disabilities. The artists in our studio made artworks ranging from paintings, to sculptures, to fiber art. We serve adult artists who do not have access to regular creative...
Fridays, -12:00pm to 1:30pm In-person event + Livestream Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C Images of America The Fall IWP Residents share impressions of their time in the United States. The IWP Friday Panel Discussion series provides an opportunity for the residents of Iowa City to meet and converse with writers from around...
First Fridays at Iowa Artisans Gallery are a featured artist exhibition! This Friday see the recent work of Greta Songe and John Martinek Greta Songe - "I was born and raised in the bayou country of South Louisiana. After landing in Iowa for graduate school, I fell in love with the landscape, the sense of...
Arrested by codependent relationships, Eric Conrad’s oversized figures are mixed-up into absurd and precarious scenarios where they teeter on the verge of emotional collapse. Scraps of clothing, plastic flowers, and bits of detritus become precious artifacts to Eric, whose textile-based sculptures and sculptural drawings will be on display in the exhibition space at PS1. ABOUT...
Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces. Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists. Tell...
David B Johnson: Bio David Johnson was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He attended public school, baled hay, walked beans, detasseled corn, was a bus boy and janitor. He studied painting, drawing and printmaking at the University of Iowa where he received his BFA in 1977. He built cement grain elevators on the Mississippi River,...
Catch a fun set of your favorite rock n roll tunes to get your weekend started off right!
Poets Hannah Bonner and Dan Wriggins will read from their debut poetry collections. Hannah Bonner will read from Another Woman, published by Eastover Press. Poet Carlie Hoffman writes, "“A book of eros and "wild risk," Hannah Bonner's spellbinding debut, Another Woman, conjures "a water so febrile it is almost fire." In the aftermath of the end of a...
