As the days of October ebb away, Iowa City’s spiritual community continues to flourish amid bustling Halloween preparations. Sound therapy bowls sing and psychic orbs roll into use as ethereal entertainers...
Father of the Funk Art movement, Robert Arneson, mastered the art of appropriating everyday items into objects of sardonic humor. In ‘Brick Bang’ from 1976, he incorporates his self-portrait...
As the doors of one of the Iowa City Book Festival’s final events opened, literary fans were eager to file in. The Local Author Book Fair took place at MERGE on Sunday afternoon, allowing writers from...
Author and University of Iowa educator Hanna Bonner, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum and film professor Julia Anna Morrison, and poet and filmmaker Perry Janes spoke on a panel during the Refocus Film...
Reality Winner.
Over the past eight years, that name has sparked comments and controversy ever since Winner leaked a classified government report to newspaper outlets following the 2016 election.
Winner’s...
Esha Patel was sitting in the middle of a chemistry lecture at the University of Iowa two years ago, shuffling papers and getting notes in order when an email notification flashed across her computer...
The projector whirs as film stock unspools into chugging machinery and diligent projectionists strain to lug large metal containers across a cluttered room. This is a common scene in FilmScene’s...
On Thursday, Oct. 10, Public Space One’s cozy gallery traded paintings for panelists as three local Iowa City artists took the stage. As a part of the center’s Creative Pathways panel series, the...
Sandra Cisneros, Joy Harjo, and Juan Felipe Herrera spoke at the University of Iowa on Sept. 27. All three panelists graduated from the Writers’ Workshop, and Cisneros and Harjo were in the program...
In November 2022, writer, educator, and scholar Gene Jarrett’s biographical novel “Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird” finally hit book stands after 15 years of deliberate...
Catharine Otto’s culturally rich work was showcased at Iowa City’s Artifactory in a gallery on Oct. 4. These unique installations are made entirely of wheat.
Cards distributed at the gallery featured...
In Pakistan, Ikram Basra was known as a poet and journalist, and graduated from the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop in 2021. Being a multidisciplinary writer and a witness to international justices...
