Ever since she was a little girl, artist Emilia Bendler loved storytelling through song.
As she grew up, she became fond of the opposite.
“Sometimes there’s a lot of pressure to write the...
“Quite a few years ago, when I went through the most difficult time of my life, it felt like everything crumbled away. I was in the dark, completely in the dark. Through that process, I realized...
“I once heard a playwright explain ideas and story-making like marriage. It’s nice and beautiful and fresh when you’re in the first couple years, or months in the honeymoon phase. But, whether...
When Beadology — formerly Dawn’s Hide and Bead Away — was sold in 2008 to sisters Karen and Laurel Kubby, it gradually became Iowa City’s hotspot for bead art.
When she was a child, co-owner...
“There is no one single answer for how African art gets to Iowa. Art travels in very complex ways,” Cory Gundlach, curator of African art at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, said.
This...
On Jan. 31 at the University of Iowa’s Theatre Building, the audience was taken back to the 1940s, as the play “Day Fades Into Night Fades Into Day” made its premiere.
Written by UI student Bridget...
1998 International Writing Program participant Han Kang has globalized Korean history and introspection as the first South Korean recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. But of course, Korean culture...
Color zings across the expanses of many different fabrics as the Artifactory descends into their second workshop, dipping into the unlikely practice of a unique art form known as hot stamped foiling.
Invented...
After a special showing of A24’s “Heretic” at FilmScene on Nov. 10, the University of Iowa alums and directors and writers of the film, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, answered audience questions...
In recognition of his pioneering contributions to Chicano poetry and activism, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Juan Felipe Herrera has been awarded the MacArthur Fellowship.
His is...
Poetry is a fascinating form of art with a long and beautiful history. However, it often doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Regardless of reason, poetry often stays hidden from the forefront...
On November 7, the University of Iowa Weaving Our Community Network partnered with the Pentacrest Museums and the Stanley Museum of Art to create an event centered around artistic culture and community...
