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Smith was the recipient of the 2011 Christian Petersen Design Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. [1] He is well known for his work on the Roof Garden of New York City's Museum of Modern Art , which consists of white gravel, recycled black rubber, crushed glass, sculptural stones and artificial boxwood plants in a ...
The Iowa flood of 2008 damaged the 1936 Art Building and Steven Holl's Art Building West. Art Building West was restored and re-opened January 2012. The 1936 Art Building will be retained on campus as an historic property, but many of its functions have been moved to a new visual arts building designed by Steven Holl opened in the fall of 2016.
The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) opened in 1969, although the art collections of the University of Iowa predate the museum by several decades. During the 1940s and 1950s, the university's School of Art and Art History presented exhibitions of contemporary art and acquired works from these exhibitions.
John Dilg (born 1945), artist and professor in the School of Art and Art History (1975–2017) [6] Hualing Nieh Engle [2] novelist, co-founder and former director of the International Writing Program. Paul Engle [2] poet and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop for 24 years. Engle also founded the International Writing Program.
The Figge Art Museum temporarily housed much of the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art collection, after the University of Iowa's gallery was flooded in 2008. [7] With the construction of a new building for the Stanley Museum, the collection was returned to Iowa City starting in 2020. [8]
Familiarize yourself with some of Iowa's impressive art feats, from Fort Dodge's grain silo mural, a museum in Decorah and Des Moines' art scene. Iowa deserves more love as an arts destination ...
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Iowa Old Capitol Building, Iowa City, 1855. The University of Iowa was founded on February 25, 1847, just 59 days after Iowa was admitted to the Union.The Constitution of the State of Iowa refers to a State University to be established in Iowa City "without branches at any other place."