Iowa Arts Council

“What does it mean to juxtapose a popular image of a Black girl making a weird face — a meme we’ve seen a hundred times — with my…

It’s worth noting that when the Iowa City writer Jennifer Colville was asked for an interview, she suggested conducting it via email…

The Iowa Arts Council appreciates media coverage of artists, arts organizations and creative activity across the state. From time to time…

You’d be wise to stick with the Grinnell artist Joe Tuggle Lacina if you ever stumble off the grid. He is as comfortable at its high-tech…

In a stained-glass studio in Dubuque, the artist Tim Olson is assembling a new body of work — arms, legs, mustache and all. The puzzle…

Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg joined the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs in Winterset on Friday, Sept. 30, to unveil a historical plaque marking…

When Springboard for the Arts launched more than three decades ago, it was still fairly unusual to invite artists to help with city…

Last year the Des Moines violinist Genevieve Salamone received an Iowa Arts & Culture Resilience Grant through a program the Iowa Arts…

Beau Kenyon was just 5 or 6 years old when he saw “E.T.” but he still remembers how it changed the way he looked at the stars.

When Samantha Baumgartner recently moved back to Elkader, Iowa, she quickly saw how arts and culture had changed her hometown.

The Cedar Rapids artist Kathy Schumacher was planning to paint some portraits of women’s suffragists a few years ago to celebrate the…

When Gabi Torres strolls through a tiny park in Clinton, she imagines something more: a dozen colorful paintings displayed on free-standing…

From a basement in Cedar Rapids to the glamour of the Academy Awards, the sixth season of “The Film Lounge” touches on many genres, sights…

The filmmaker Francesca Soans flew to Reykjavik a few years ago to present one of her films at the National Museum of Iceland. She’d been…

Well, we made it to the winter solstice: The days are getting longer.

Emma Murray was driving home to Des Moines after a weekend in Council Bluffs a few years ago when the idea struck her, floating in on the…

Click. Open. Unload. Develop the film. Mix the chemicals. Expose the paper. Watch the image appear.

About 20 years ago, one of Troy Muller’s art students at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs drew a scene from the World War…

Paul Brooke once perched on a cliff in Iceland to photograph an elusive blue fox. He trekked through the Amazon rainforest to find…

Artist Louise Kames noticed something unusual a few years ago during one of her walks along the Mississippi River bluffs near her home in…

The irony isn’t lost on Lea Lovelace. During the Covid pandemic, the folk arts educator used new high-tech tools to demonstrate old…

Some people think outside the box. In Waterloo, artists and city leaders are thinking outside the whole building.

Talk with the northeast Iowa musician River Glen Breitbach about his next project, and you can imagine him shouting “Ollie, ollie, in come…

It’s been 35 years since Robert Fulghum published “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” The best-seller suggests how the…