ART|IOWA: INSPIRED BY LANDSCAPE - Exhibit Opening
February 2
The University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum, in collaboration with The University of Iowa Museum of Art and The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, will host the opening reception for the new exhibit ART|IOWA: INSPIRED BY LANDSCAPE on Thursday, February 2 at the Old Capitol Museum. The free public reception will be from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. with light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.
The collaborative exhibit ART|IOWA: INSPIRED BY LANDSCAPE will display works of art from the Meskwaki people of Iowa; works by Grant Wood, the iconic regionalist painter of American Gothic; as well as works from contemporary Iowa artists featured on the University of Iowa’s Daily Palette (http://research-intermedia.art.uiowa.edu/dp/). The Daily Palette was started by the Experimental Writing Wing at The University of Iowa.
Contemporary Iowa artists featured in the exhibit will include Barbara Fedeler, John Klopp, Bruce Morrison, Thomas Agran, Judy Bales, and Robert Craig. Interviews with each of contemporary artists, conducted by recent graduate in Art and Art History from The University of Iowa, Kallie Holt, will be featured on a website within the exhibit. The newly opened Digital Studio for the Public Humanities, directed by Jon Winet, will also be handling technology design and implementation of the Mobile Web App featured in the exhibit.
ART|IOWA: INSPIRED BY LANDSCAPE explores this wide variety of artworks to provoke questions such as: How has the Iowa landscape, its people and sense of place influenced artists who create art in Iowa? and What is Iowa’s current art culture?.
The Old Capitol Museum will have all galleries open for the opening of ART|IOWA: INSPIRED BY LANDSCAPE, including the Pentacrest Museums Gallery for the Arts, Humanities and Science which is currently hosting the traveling exhibit “FACES from the SOTHERN OCEAN” and the Iowa Youth Diaries Project.
For more information on the Old Capitol Museum, or to schedule a tour of the exhibit ART|IOWA: INSPIRED BY LANDSCAPE, call 319-335-0548.
"FACES from the SOUTHERN OCEAN"
Artist: J.J. L'Heureux
Painter, photographer, adventurer and naturalist – these are the words that describe the artist J.J. L’Heureux. Ms. L’Heureux made her first trip to Antarctica in 2000 where she collected digital images of ice and snow for a white-on-white color field series of “landscape” paintings. Inspired by the wildlife and pristine environment she discovered there, she has returned every year for the past ten years to photograph the penguins, seals and unique varieties of birdlife that inhabit the Southern Ocean and its environs. In January 2011, Ms. L'Heureux undertook her eleventh expedition to the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with the Scott Expedition. The expedition is named after Admiral Robert Scott, the Antarctic explorer who died March 1912 while returning from his historic trek to the South Pole.
The Iowa Youth Diaries Project has been expanded!
The Iowa Youth Diaries Project, located on the ground floor of Old Capitol, has recently added three 'new' diaries to its collection of young Iowan authors. The exhibit was added to the museum in 2006 and is a collaboration with the Iowa Women's Archives of the University of Iowa Libraries, the State Historical Society of Iowa, and others. The exhibit addition was made possible by a gift from the State Historical Society of Iowa, Inc.
