Cecile Goding is from South Carolina, where she directed neighborhood adult literacy programs for some years. Her essay 'Six Degrees of Fluency,' set in Charleston, won a GAMA award in 2000 A.D. She lives and works in Iowa City.
Laura Young is a landscape and still life painter and currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa where she is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. She has won numerous fellowships and awards and has...
Rambling 'Round Our Domain -- Fall Athletics at Iowa -- In Olden Days -- The Iowa-Oklahoma Game -- Twelfth Annual Homecoming -- Alumni Dinner At Des Moines -- The Rediscovery of Iowa -- A Summer In Retrospect -- A Quarter Century of Athletics --...
"The exhibition is divided into two parts: (1) 'Art Created in Iowa' and (2) 'Art Collected in Iowa.' For the purposes of this exhibition, contemporary creative activity in Iowa is represented by works of art in several media by the faculty of the...
"The Fine Arts Festival at the University of Iowa was established in the Summer Session of 1939. Concerts, plays, art exhibitions, lectures , and radio programs are presented each year. This summer, for the first time, a major exhibition of...
Festival included: luncheon speakers featuring Jean Charlot, Modeste Alloo, Thomas Wood Stevens; exhibition of American paintings and etchings; graduate student art exhibitions; plays and musical performances.
Festival included: panel discussions featuring Lester D. Longman, Thomas Wood Stevens, Arnold Small, Philip Greeley Clapp, Fletcher Martin, W. D. Coder, E. C. Mabie, Thompson Stone, Horst Janson; exhibition of contemporary art of seventy-nine...
Susan Coleman was born in eastern Missouri, along the banks of the great Mississippi River. She received her BFA in drawing from Webster College, in St. Louis, and her MA (drawing) and MFA (painting) from the University of Iowa. Susan has shown...
Paul Monska was born and raised in central Illinois. He received a B.A. in Art History from State University of New York, Cortland, with graduate work at Binghamton University. He served as a chaplain at the Seattle Veteran's Administration...
Dean Wilcox Dies -- Scholarship Statistics -- Some Evidences of Growth -- Walter A. Jessup, The New President -- Macbride, President Emeritus -- Homecoming, Nov. 24-25 -- Classes Make Gifts -- Life Memberships -- Dean William Craig Wilcox -- Fifth...
Ecologist Cornelia F. Mutel reads from "The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa," published by the University of Iowa Press.
Mutel combines lyrical writing with meticulous scientific research to portray the environmental past, present...
Ghada Abdel Aal of Egypt begins the panel by discussing how she made the leap from blogging to professional writing. She explains that she began blogging as a way to express her feelings and observations in a “safe” forum. In closing, she...
"The third annual exhibition of contemporary art (The Iowa Summer Show) is presented by the School of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa as one of the major events of the Ninth Annual Fine Arts Festival. The exhibition this year presents...
Festival included: panel featuring Grant Wood, Paul Green, Lawrence Tibbett, Frank Lloyd Wright; exhibition of paintings by Grant Wood and Marvin Cone; graduate student art exhibition; plays and musical performances.
John Preston received his BFA in Painting from Maharishi International University in 1984. Painting full time, Preston has participated in many solo and group shows, and his works hang in a wide range of corporate collections. He lives and works in...