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Engage with your University Museums this summer by submitting photos! This week we want to see your photos of people. These can be people with or in the Art on Campus Collection.

Your University Museums has a booth at the Ames Main Street Farmers' Market. Stop by, say hello, learn about our new fall exhibitions & programs, and experience some hands-on activities from our education kits.

Bring your lunch and join curator Sydney Marshall for a midday walkthrough in the Anderson Sculpture Garden. The sculptures in this space have a unique placement in and around hundreds of living plants.

Join Curator Adrienne Gennett for a tour of the brand-new exhibition John Buck: Prints and Sculpture From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Explore the diverse range of symbols and figures Buck employs to comment on contemporary politics and society through his prints and wood sculptures.

Join University Museums for an Art Walk centered on the art students pass every day. Learn about the artists and the tradition of creating a campus filled with accessible public works of art.

You are invited to celebrate the new exhibition John Buck: Prints and Sculpture From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation on view in the Brunnier Art Museum. Light refreshments served.

Curator Sydney Marshall will introduce you to the exhibition Double Take: Insights on Abstraction in the Christian Petersen Art Museum. Explore the concept of abstraction in figural art and its effects on viewer’s interpretations.

Take a virtual tour of the newest installation at the Brunnier Art Museum. Glass artist Andy Paiko will give insight into his unique glass sculptures as he installed his chandelier in the Ann Brunnier Decorative Arts Gallery. Curator Adrienne Gennett will discuss the importance of the newest addition to the permanent glass collection.

Curator Allison Sheridan will lead an in-depth exploration of the Farm House Museum and the current exhibition Arts & Craftsman: Honesty, Simplicity and Truth to Materials.

Nancy Smith and Kathy Piersma from Grand Rapids, MI will present a program describing the various aspects and designs of Early American Pattern Glass. All visitors bringing glass into the museum will need to sign a waiver absolving University Museums, Iowa State University of any liability or loss.

Join Curators Deb Lewis of the Ada Hayden Herbarium and Sydney Marshall of University Museums in a collaborative tour examining the scientific, living, and museum collections on campus. Please register to guarantee a spot on this tour- space inside the Herbarium is limited.

University Museums has you covered with free food, crafts, AND beautiful art for a fun and unique night with your significant other or friends.

Virtually tour Centerville, Iowa’s Drake Hall with owners Gerhard Spillmann and Kyle Shiroma along with University Museums’ staff.

Join Museum Security & Education Program Assistant Nicholas Scott on an art walk focusing on the Arts and Crafts Movement found in the Art on Campus Collection.

Highpoint has spent the last 21 years building community through the art of printmaking. Cole Rogers and Josh Bindewald will discuss their work with both the community and nationally recognized artists.

Virtually tour Centerville, Iowa’s Drake Hall with owners Gerhard Spillmann and Kyle Shiroma along with University Museums’ staff.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED! Join Arts and Visual Culture Assistant Teaching Professor Celinda Stamy for a workshop guiding participants through the process of gesture drawing.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED! Join Arts and Visual Culture Assistant Teaching Professor Celinda Stamy for a workshop guiding participants through the process of gesture drawing.

Join a Zoom conversation between University of Iowa Special Collections and Archives’ Lead Outreach and Instruction Librarian Elizabeth Riordan, and Iowa State University Museums’ curator Sydney Marshall for a look at the works of three Iowa political cartoonists: Ding Darling, Frank Miller, and Brian Duffy.

Having trouble getting to the museum during the week? Enjoy the University Museums’ central campus locations and fall exhibitions during an open house weekend, Saturday & Sunday, October 15 & 16 from 1:00-4:00pm. Light refreshments will be served at the Farm House Museum.

Having trouble getting to the museum during the week? Enjoy the University Museums’ central campus locations and fall exhibitions during an open house weekend, Saturday & Sunday, October 15 & 16 from 1:00-4:00pm. Light refreshments will be served at the Farm House Museum.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED! Narrated by Liev Schreiber, this short movie produced by PBS in 2009 examines the story of Elbert Hubbard a rebel and philosopher who founded a utopian Arts and Crafts colony Roycroft in 1895, became a pop culture icon, and influenced American thought in the early twentieth century. (57 min)

REGISTRATION REQUIRED! Narrated by Liev Schreiber, this short movie produced by PBS in 2009 examines the story of Elbert Hubbard a rebel and philosopher who founded a utopian Arts and Crafts colony Roycroft in 1895, became a pop culture icon, and influenced American thought in the early twentieth century. (57 min)

Start your date night out right with a scavenger hunt in the Brunnier! Have fun finding all the hidden images with your special someone or come with friends and compete to see who can find all the images first.

In operation from 1896-1957, Heisey owed its beauty to an excellent glass formula, high quality raw materials, and to the way their glassware was finished. Heisy collector and Quester Caroline Jensen will highlight examples from the Iowa Quester Glass Collection and her personal collection of Heisey.

The human figure appears countless times in the Art on Campus Collection, but the addition of abstraction adds a new layer of interpretation. Curator Sydney Marshall leads this Art Walk.

Join Assistant Professor of Art & Visual Culture and Printmaker, Raluca Iancu, as she demonstrates and discusses techniques of relief carved and hand printing.

Gather in the exhibition All the Evils… Christian Petersen and the Art of War in Morrill Hall for a gallery walk led by guest curator Lea Rosson DeLong focusing on the sculpture The Unknown Political Prisoner. Recent research completed at the Museums of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives for American Art shed new light on Petersen’s sculpture.

Experience the Farm House Museums’ turn-of-the-century ambiance with a someone special or a group of friends on this evening.

Director and Chief Curator Lynette Pohlman will discuss the latest campus public art projects from conception and fabrication to installation, care, and education of the public.

In connection with the Brunnier Art Museum exhibition John Buck: Prints and Sculpture from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, this University Museums Art Walk explores the art of printmaking through the many examples in the Art on Campus Collection.

Hosted by the University Museums’ interns, celebrate the holiday season at the Farm House Museum. Take part in free Victorian yuletide themed activities and crafts while you enjoy holiday treats.

Enjoy festive family fun at the Farm House Museum. Victorian yuletide-themed crafts and holiday treats will be provided. Tours of the historic home in full period decoration offered throughout the afternoon and the opportunity to meet and take a picture with Santa.

It's the first of a series of Art Walks focusing on the art within specific buildings on campus. Student living spaces are home to a number of public works of art. This tour will focus on works of art in UDCC and Friley, and how these sites affect interpretations of the art.