UI Museum of Art features work of Studio Arts faculty in biennial exhibition at Figge Museum

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Curated by Museum Director Dr. Sean O'Harrow, the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) opens the spring season with the biennial University of Iowa faculty exhibition. The exhibition will feature the recent work of world-renowned UI Studio Arts professors in the School of Art & Art History in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. As a direct reflection of the range of medium taught in the Studio Arts program, the pieces and installations on display include works of paint, sculpture, inter-media, mixed-media, metal arts, photography, 3-dementional design, and graphic design. This year, works by the fellows of the Grant Wood Colony will be included.

The UIMA and UI School of Art and Art History are pleased to present the show just one hour east of Iowa City in the Figge Art Museum's third floor gallery space which was designed by Sir David Chipperfield. The Figge Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday 10 am-5 pm; Thursdays 10 am-9 pm; and Sundays 12-5 pm. University of Iowa students, faculty and staff receive free admission to the Figge with their UI ID cards; UIMA members get in free with their UIMA Membership cards.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.