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...
[Officers and members] -- Clubs enrolled and presidents -- Report of credential committee -- Minutes... -- Heads of departments -- Annual address of the president, Martha F. White. "Reconstruction of the American negro" -- Report of officers and...
African Americans; Iowa Federation Home (Iowa City, Iowa)
Pamphlet describing the Iowa Federation Home, 942 Iowa Ave., Iowa City, Iowa. It was founded by the Iowa Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs in 1919 to house African American female students at the University of Iowa.
"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...
"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...
Festival included: an address by Gibson A. Danes; "From galleries, museums and private homes ... this exhibition is composed of irreplaceable art objects of great aesthetic quality and intrinsic value. It affords indisputable evidence of great...
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 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 Thirteenth Annual Festival of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa presents as one of its major features the exhibition of ... historical and contemporary drawings. The exhibition has been chosen by Dr. Lester D. Longman, who selected...
"The fourth summer exhibition of contemporary art is presented as a major feature of the Tenth Annual Fine Arts Festival at the State University of Iowa. Dr. Lester D. Longman, Head of the Department of Art, selected the paintings"--P. 3.
"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.