After nearly two and a half years of tirelessly fighting COVID-19, frontline responders are being met with a “thank you” from the Englert Theatre.
The theater’s Frontline Responders Fund,...
While Jackson Pollock’s Mural was on tour in London at the Royal Academy in 2016, British sculptor Nigel Hall overheard Gary Fethke talking to a student about the painting. In front of Mural, which...
Take one step inside the echoing four stories of the University of Iowa Visual Arts Building, and visitors are met with a choice: go straight into the open Lasansky Atrium or turn left into the sunlit...
Jake Shimabukuro first picked up the ukulele at the age of four, drawn in by the instant gratification of its motivating and encouraging nature. Shimabukuro, referred as the “Jimi Hendrix of ukulele,”...
Eliza David struggled to find Black female protagonists in the stories she read. So she started writing them herself.
As a self-publishing novelist and blogger, librarian, and current University...
David DeGusta is a second-year MFA student in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. On Sept. 25, he will take part in a conversation at Prairie Lights bookstore as part of the International Writing...
Shining through the front windows of Art Building West are the words A Yellow Rose Project, written in purple. Inside, 37 works from more than 100 women and female-identifying photographers hang on...
Ariana Lessard, Assistant Arts Editor
• September 13, 2022
Hazel Sanchez-Belle is an entrepreneur in 9-inch heels.
The drag queen danced competitively for 15 years before debuting on the drag scene. Since their debut, Sanchez-Belle took over the Iowa City...
Author and professor emeritus at College of DuPage in Illinois Tom Montgomery Fate wrote six books over his career, including his latest travel memoir The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries. In...
Spanning two large rooms lit with glittering chandeliers in the Public Space One Close House, the Amplified Rainbow exhibit hangs in a vibrant display. Artwork of various mediums — including paintings,...
Wearing their signature purple outfit and their eye-popping pin proudly displaying their pronouns, Christine Moad, known by their stage name, Miss Christine, travels the country.
From North Dakota,...
As patrons slipped into the theatre tucked inside the pedestrian mall, excitement for the beginning of the Riverside Theatre season buzzed throughout the audience. The room was relatively full with...
