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University Museums invites you to attend the opening of the newest Brunnier Art Museum exhibition, Mythical Bounty: Glass Sculpture by Amber Cowan.

University Museums director Lynette Pohlman will lead guests through an exploration of metal as an artistic medium in the Art on Campus collection.

Join ceramicist and ISU professor Ingrid Lilligren as she discusses how she works with clay to create unique sculptures that incorporate the senses and comment on current issues prevalent in today’s society. 

Join University Museums Pohlman Fellow and ISU senior, Hannah Brennan, as she discusses contemporary Native American basketry and pottery in the exhibition and her experience as the 2021-22 University Museums Pohlman Fellow. 

Join us for the opening reception of artist Julie Chang's exhibition Vibrant Matter in the Christian Petersen Art Museum followed by a lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the Morrill Hall Auditorium. Light refreshments will be provided.

The history of the Roycroft campus, one of the first Arts and Crafts communities in America, told through unique artifacts of the Gilded Age by Alan Nowicki, Roycroft Campus Program Director.

Join Lynette Pohlman, director and chief curator, University Museums, as she shares Charlotte Petersen’s stories of her husband’s response to war and the student experience in creating campus sculptures in the 1940s in response to World War II. 

This guided tour will discuss artist, process, and innovation of textiles in the Art on Campus Collection. 

Explore the possibilities that Museums collaborations can bring to your curriculum. Gain knowledge of teaching resources available on campus and become familiar with the process of engaging with Museums to build your curriculum. University Museums is partnering with CELT for this workshop. Register with CELT.

Join metalsmith and ISU professor Joe Muench as he discusses how he came to work with metal as his artistic medium, some themes behind his metal sculpture, and the innovative processes he uses to produce it.

Enjoy a night of fire and glass! A collaboration with the Gaffer's Guild and University Museums: students, faculty, and staff glass blowers will demonstrate the process of creating blown glass and afterwards discuss how they came to glass blowing as a hobby or passion. 

Enjoy a night of fire and glass! A collaboration with the Gaffer's Guild and University Museums: students, faculty, and staff glass blowers will demonstrate the process of creating blown glass and afterwards discuss how they came to glass blowing as a hobby or passion. 

Judith B. Tankard, landscape historian, author, and preservation consultant, will survey the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during the Arts and Crafts Movement. 

Join Art and Visual Culture Assistant Professor Raluca Iancu to try your hand at layering letterpress blocks to create your own abstracted pattern, inspired by the Julie Chang exhibition in the Christian Petersen Art Museum. The Memorial Union Workspace will also be leading a creative craft responding to the exhibition.

Pizza will be provided and curator Sydney Marshall will lead a tour of the exhibition at 12:30 p.m.

Join artist and ISU associate professor Jennifer Drinkwater as she discusses her experience as an artist who chose to use craft media within her artistic process and in a community based art project.

This guided tour will discuss artist, process, and innovation of glass in the Art on Campus Collection. 

Having trouble getting to the museum during the week? Enjoy the Museums' central campus locations and spring exhibitions during an open house weekend.

Having trouble getting to the museum during the week? Enjoy the Museums' central campus locations and spring exhibitions during an open house weekend.

In this guest lecture, Melissa Hilliard Potter, interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator, will discuss case studies from her personal experience including her co-curated exhibition Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially Engaged Art and collaborations with women artisans in Bosnia and Republic of Georgia. 

Join CALS Student Services and University Museums for a student focused tour of Curtiss Hall’s public art and exploration of services available to all students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, followed by a viewing of the exhibition in the Christian Petersen Art Museum. 

Franklin Vagnone, President of Twisted Preservation Cultural Consulting, will illustrate his experimental Public History work that often questions accepted professional best practices. Preservation, conservation, public history, sculpture, contemporary art happenings, and queer & marginal narratives all are a part of Twisted Preservation's Practice.

Join jeweler Ann Au as she discusses how she came to design custom jewelry as wearable works of art, which express her unique sense of aesthetics and artistry. 

An Exploration of Materials in Public Art is the theme for this semester’s Art Walks hosted by University Museums’ staff and docents. This tour will discuss artist, process, and innovation of painted murals in the Art on Campus collection.

Join curator Lea Rosson DeLong for a discussion on the works of art by Christian Petersen highlighting war and memorializing the sacrifices made by those involved. This talk will focus on Petersen’s work of art The Unknown Prisoner, which captures the grim realities of war rather than glorifying it.

Join artist Mary Merkel-Hess as she discusses her process of how she came to use paper as a way to explore the landscape along with abstract forms through her beautiful sculptures. 

An Exploration of Materials in Public Art is the theme for this semester’s Art Walks hosted by University Museums’ staff and docents. This tour will discuss artist, process, and innovation of ceramics in the Art on Campus collection.

This guided tour will discuss artist, process, and innovation of stone in the Art on Campus collection. 

An art walk discussing artist, process, and the innovation of wood in public art.