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Featured Featured Event Series Elusive Balance

Elusive Balance

Public Space One 229 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, United States

“Elusive Balance”  is a traveling group exhibition exploring the challenges of finding balance within artist and mother/caregiver identities. Works include fiber art, painting, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, and photography. Showcasing the voices of Iowa artist mothers who represent a range of diverse backgrounds, ages, motherhood stages, and mediums. In an effort to be inclusive of...

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Okee Dokee Brothers

Englert Theatre 221 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, IOWA CITY, IA, United States

Children's Music Duo A family friendly folk show As childhood friends growing up in Denver, Colorado, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing were always exploring the outdoors. Whether it was rafting down their neighborhood creek or discovering hiking trails through the Rocky Mountains, Joe and Justin were born adventurers. Now, as the GRAMMY® Award-winning Okee Dokee...

$10 – $29

Drag Show @ Studio 13

Studio 13 13 S. Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

Show Starts @ 10:30 Dance floor opens up after.

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Just The Basics

Artifactory 120 N Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States

Learn the fundamentals of drawing with various tools like pencils, charcoal, and different types of paper. Master basic shapes, break down complex objects, and practice different lines. Understand perspective, proportion, and shading to create depth and dimension. Bring your own materials. Paper, pencils, and conte. Doors will open at 9:45 am. Participants – Minimum 5...

$10
Featured Featured Event Series Elusive Balance

Elusive Balance

Public Space One 229 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, United States

“Elusive Balance”  is a traveling group exhibition exploring the challenges of finding balance within artist and mother/caregiver identities. Works include fiber art, painting, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, and photography. Showcasing the voices of Iowa artist mothers who represent a range of diverse backgrounds, ages, motherhood stages, and mediums. In an effort to be inclusive of...

Featured Featured Event Series Women at Work: Nightshift

Women at Work: Nightshift

FilmScene (at the Chauncey) 404 E College St., Iowa City, IA, United States

Women at Work "An extraordinary work of oneiric imagination, punkish sensibility, and a requiem to women's labor in the hazy terrain of night work"—Elena Gorfinkel, Mubi Over the course of a single night shift, a West London hotel clerk (U.K. counterculture icon Jordan) plays mute witness to a nocturnal constellation of guests ranging from punk rockers...

$8 – $13

An Evening With John Green

Englert Theatre 221 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, IOWA CITY, IA, United States

An Evening with John Green In Conversation with Kaveh Akbar for Everything Is Tuberculosis Join #1 internationally bestselling author John Green and Kaveh Akbar to discuss John’s new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. The pair will discuss the book, answer audience questions, and more. All tickets include an autographed copy...

$48

Drag Show @ Studio 13

Studio 13 13 S. Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

Show Starts @ 10:30 Dance floor opens up after.

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Sunday Funday: Q-Tip Dinosaur Bones

Iowa City Public Library 123 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

Sunday, March 23, 2025 -2:00pm to 4:00pm +  Storytime Room March is Women's History Month, and this week’s art project honors Mary Anning, a trailblazing paleontologist and fossil collector who made the groundbreaking discovery of the first scientifically described plesiosaur. At a time when women were excluded from the scientific community, Mary’s fearless contributions forever changed our...