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Upcoming Programs
Grinnell College Museum of Art has a full array of programs year-round to enrich the experience of art-viewing and art-making for both campus and community. All events are in the Museum of Art or adjacent spaces unless otherwise noted.
The Museum is free and open to all.
Regular Hours
Tuesday through Friday 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Thursday evenings until 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 1–5 p.m.
Closed Mondays and Thanksgiving Day
Fall 2024 Events
Opening Reception and Director’s Welcome
Sept. 26, 4–6 p.m.
Join us for the opening reception of And Gladly Teach and the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Museum and the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts. GCMoA Director Susan Baley will speak at 4:15 p.m. about the importance of academic freedom as it relates to our collection and how it is used in teaching. Refreshments to follow.
Yoga in the Museum
Tuesdays, Oct. 1–Dec. 10, 12:15–12:50 p.m.
Enjoy a free 30-minute yoga practice with Joy Jones. Open to all levels, mats provided. Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell.
Recital: Royce Wolf
Oct. 1, 11 a.m.
Royce Wolf, professor of mathematics, will give a piano recital with pieces from Mikrokosmos by Bela Bartok, works by Charles Ives, and a work by Beethoven that features a walk in the countryside along a babbling brook and a thunderstorm. As a mathematician, Wolf studies spherical virtual knots, considering the interplay between combinatorics, topology, and algebra. Wolf plays piano and gives recitals on a regular basis, both solo and with others.
Gallery Talk: They Saw It: Images of Atrocity, from Goya’s The Disasters of War to Today
Oct. 2, 4 p.m.
Assistant Professor of Art History Fredo Rivera ’06 will discuss their participation as a student in the Exhibition Seminar of Spring 2004, which produced an exhibition of Francisco Goya’s The Disasters of War print series in the Museum. Rivera will specifically focus on how student curators connected their analysis and presentation of Goya’s prints to the concurrent Iraq War and its controversies, most notably the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. What can Goya’s prints teach us about humanity and atrocity, and how might they help us think through images of war today?
First Thursday @ GCMoA
Oct. 3, 7 p.m.
Join us on the first Thursday of October to enjoy art, entertainment and creative projects. Check the website for additional details!
Gallery Talk: Creating a Museum for the Entire Campus
Oct. 9, 4 p.m.
Lesley Wright served as director of Grinnell College Museum of Art for its first 22 years, presenting over 280 exhibitions between 1999–2021. She will talk about weaving the museum into the fabric of the College, creating community around GCMoA’s exhibitions and collection, and connecting with faculty across campus.
Gallery Talk: Curating and Exhibiting the Collection
Nov. 6, 4 p.m.
Associate Director and Curator of Exhibitions Daniel Strong, who has served at the Museum since 1999, will talk about acquiring works of art for the College’s collection and incorporating them in the Museum’s exhibitions.
First Thursday @ GCMoA
Nov. 7, 7 p.m.
Join us on first Thursday of November to enjoy art, entertainment and creative projects. Check the website for additional details!
Gallery Talk: The Museum as a Place of Teaching and Learning
Nov. 13, 4 p.m.
Curator of Academic and Community Outreach Tilly Woodward will speak about the ways the Museum’s exhibitions and collection are used to engage diverse campus and community audiences in looking, thinking, talking, making, and writing, and help people consider how they see themselves in others and how they see others in themselves.
First Thursday @ GCMoA
Dec. 5, 6 p.m. (Note that this is an hour earlier than previous First Thursdays.)
Join us on the first Thursday of December to enjoy art, entertainment and creative projects. Check the website for additional details!