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 2025 Downtown Summer Gallery Walk is Friday, June 6th 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 curated featured artists and pieces of art.

As a bonus, Summer Gallery Walk nicely aligns with the Iowa Art’s Festival – if you’re an art admirer, this weekend in Iowa City is for you!

Gallery Walk Venues

• AKAR/CLAY AKAR – Shumpei Yamaki: Anagama Red
  • Iowa-based artist Shumpei Yamaki’s wood-fired pottery, created using traditional anagama techniques.
• Arts Iowa City’s ArtiFactory – David Luck, Steve Maxon, Doris Park, Cheryl Jacobsen, John Goupell, Tony Sutowski,Craig Johnson, Patricia Knox: Meddling in Metal
  • Group show of local artists working in metal.
• Blick Art Materials – Andy Black: Heroes & Villains
  • Sequential Art
• First United Methodist Church – Old Capitol Quilters Guild: Quilt Fest Quilt Show 

• Glassando – Becky Ross: Watercolor Paintings
  • Becky had always thought of herself as an artist but never told anyone that until she retired. She began painting in retirement with night classes at Kirkwood and watching YouTube tutorials. Now she calls herself an artist who loves art of all kinds.
• Heim – Allison Fretheim Ceramics, and staff members: Anna Kain Art, Vermin Art, & Logan Jay-Nalor
  • Highlighted artwork spans from stoneware pottery to alien ceramic sculptures to 3D rats to tattoo flash sheets.
• Iowa Artisans Gallery – Marybeth Slonneger: Walking Distance and Nancy Romalov: Cogsworth Takes a Stand
  • Producer of multiple books covering Iowa City history through photography, Marybeth Slonneger shares her images of familiar neighborhoods alongside other works from throughout her career.
  • Fine wooden music stands on parade (Nancy Romalov)

• Iowa City Senior Center – Vera Ranguelova
  • Vera is an Encaustic artist; encaustic is a unique technique that involves beeswax, damar resin, oil, or dry pigments applied to wood using a propane torch. Vera has been honing her skills as an encaustic artist since 2017.
• Prairie Lights Books and Cafe

• Public Space One – Justin Scroggins: A Very Serious Art Show
  • Presenting three dimensional works that blur the lines between precious and inexpensive, sculpture and jewelry, as well as art and toy.

• Ten Thousand Villages – Allison Hall: Stolen Seconds
  • Multi Media
• UI Museum of Natural History – Varied: Art & Write Night Community Art Gallery 
  • Step into a world where science meets creativity! This special exhibit features a vibrant collection of community-made artworks inspired by the natural world and created during the Museum of Natural History’s Art & Write Night program series. Art & Write Night will be taking place during Gallery Walk – stop by and join in on the fun!
• UI Stanley Museum of Art: Recent Acquisitions 
  • Photographs, African sculptures and textiles, as well as work from Oceania