Current Exhibits

 

A Community of Writers: Creative Writing at the University of Iowa

 

On display now through October 12, 2008.

Beginning with the first verse-making class in the late 1800s through recent Pulitzer Prize awardees, a new exhibition at the Old Capitol Museum shows how diverse personalities and historical circumstances combined to make the University of Iowa "The Writing University." The yearlong exhibition, "A Community of Writers: Creative Writing at the University of Iowa,". Flannery O'Connor's master's thesis, handwritten drafts of Frank Conroy's memoir "Stop-Time" and Marilynne Robinson's novel "Housekeeping", the 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Medal of Honor bestowed on the Writers' Workshop, and a re-creation of Paul Engle's desk are a few of the items to be displayed in the lower level of Old Capitol, including the Hanson Family Humanities Gallery and the Discovery Center. More photos (click here)

 

The World Comes to Iowa: Portraits of the International Writing Program

 

On display now through October 12, 2008.

 

This exhibit, located on the 2nd floor of the Old Capitol Museum, features portraits of IWP writers by Iowa City photographer Thomas Langdon, who has been photographing IWP writers for the past five years. More photos (click here)

 

 

 

From Prairies to Cornfields: Iowa's Childrens Book Authors

 

On display now through July, 2008.

 

This exhibit explores the relationship of picture and text, and the process of the two resulting in storytelling at its purest form.  From the golden cornfields of Iowa, several children's book authors have found a voice in presenting the Iowa way of life and the themes that follow them.  The exhibit is an addition to A Community of Writers: Creative Writing at the University of Iowa, located in the Hanson Humanities Gallery and Discovery Center in Old Capitol and the Museum of Natural History, and showcase an overview of contemporary and past children's book authors of Iowa.