Librarian and UI alumna Esther Walls was elected director of the United States Secretariat for the International Book Year 1972. In this capacity, she coordinated the activities of the U.S. Secretariat, an agency established to promote the United...
Festival included: eighteen paintings and sculptures from the permanent collection of the State University of Iowa ; an exhibition of fine prints; anthropological and other exhibitions in the Museum of Natural History; lectures by Dr. Zelma George,...
"The summer exhibition of contemporary art at the State University of Iowa [is] a major feature of the Annual Fine Arts Festival. This year there are 160 paintings, drawings and prints, drawn from private collections, artists' studios, and...
"1969 Fine Arts Festival exhibitions inaugurating the opening of the Museum of Art on May 5, 1969, and continuing until July 15, 1969"--P. 1; "This catalogue acquaints the viewer with five exhibitions assembled for the opening of the Museum: 1. A...
"The School of Fine Arts of the State University of Iowa, in connection with its Seventeenth Annual Fine Arts Festival, presents ... this collection of significant works by noted contemporary artists ... brought together by Edith Halpert, Director...
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.
"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: 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...