For over 25 years, this event has taken over downtown and filled your favorite businesses with wonderful works of art. Make an evening of it and grab a bite to eat, shop, and gallery walk in beautiful downtown Iowa City! The 2026 Downtown Fall Gallery Walk is Friday, March 6 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. This FREE event is open to everyone to enjoy a self-guided tour of shops, galleries, and museums that have featured artists and curated pieces of art.

Spring Gallery Walk Venues, Artists, & Exhibits

• AKAR/CLAY AKAR 
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• Arts Iowa City’s ArtiFactory  – Jamie Hurdlik
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• Blick Art Materials – Alex Ackerman: Good Vibrations
  • I see my paintings as internal landscapes or seascapes; unique worlds that reflect my deep love of color, pattern, nature, and play. My visual language draws from childhood memories and many years of farming and gardening. I am also inspired by Mexican folk art, Aboriginal dreamtime paintings, Abstract Expressionism, the quilts of Gee’s Bend, vintage fabric, and the diversity of clouds in the Iowa sky. My work seeks to blur the boundaries of wild & cultivated landscape, indoor & outdoor spaces, organic & geometric form. My process involves layering acrylic or watercolor paint with a variety of collage materials including hand-printed and hand-painted paper, found textiles and scraps of older work. These materials create space for a conversation between past and present. I hope my paintings will stimulate your curiosity and encourage you to look at the world with fresh eyes.
• Glassando – Becky Ross
  • Becky Ross does water color paintings of flowers, andimals, and landscapes. She began painting in her retirement.
• Iowa Artisans Gallery – Wendy Stegal
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• Iowa City Public Library – The students of Hearte School of Art: LIFE
  • Students from ages 5 to 22 will bring to life wire sculptures, paintings on canvas, collages, marker drawings on clay boards, cardboard architectural models using a variety of mixed materials.
• Iowa Conservatory 
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• Main Library Gallery, University of Iowa Libraries – Curators: Sarah Suhadolnik and Katie Buehner: Orchestrating Community: The Public Service of Iowa Conductor James Dixon 
  • An Iowa native and a Hawkeye, conductor James Dixon (1928-2007) was instrumental in building orchestras at the University of Iowa, in the Midwest, and abroad. Through a look at Dixon’s adventurous international career, this exhibition provides a “behind the podium” look at how orchestras of all sizes connect with their communities and become crucial to sustaining them. Items on display are from Special Collections and Archives and the Rita Benton Music Library.

• Mosaic Iowa City – Lisa Heineman: Fiber Artist
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• Public Space One – Mirzam Pérez: Muddling Through
  • Muddling Through is an art exhibition that embraces uncertainty, resilience, and the quiet optimism embedded in everyday survival. Through sculpture, mixed media, and video, the works trace moments of fragility and improvisation, where things are neither fixed nor fully resolved. Materials and images shift between the familiar and the unstable, reflecting a state of continual adaptation. The exhibition draws on the Icelandic phrase þetta reddast as both comfort and contradiction—a belief that things will work out, even when evidence suggests otherwise. Together, the works invite viewers to sit with ambiguity and find meaning in the act of muddling through.
• r.s.v.p. – Poojana Prasanna & Nana Takano: On the Same (Paper) Plane
  • An interactive handmade paper installation exploring the concepts of time and diversity.
• University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art – Black Gold Tapestry and Flex: Masculinities in the Arts of Global Africa Exhibition Openings
  • The Stanley welcomes visitors to its spring exhibition opening, featuring
    Sandra M Sawatzky’s “Black Gold Tapestry,” which documents the saga of oil, global societal change, and energy transition through the power and beauty of a hand embroidered 220-foot-long tableau; and “Flex,” which represents a masculinity as a dynamic form of creative expression available to everyone, regardless of gender.

• Willow and Stock 
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