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
Spring 2025 Events
Opening Reception: Everything Left Unsaid
Jan. 23, 4 p.m.
Join us for the opening reception of Everything Left Unsaid, an exhibition featuring work by Department of Art faculty members Jeremy Chen, Andrew Kaufman, Matthew Kluber, Robin Strangfeld, Nicky Tavares, and Emily Yurkevicz. Refreshments provided.
Yoga in the Museum on Tuesdays
Tuesdays, Jan. 28–May 13, 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.
First Thursdays @ GCMoA
Feb. 6, 6:30–7:30 p.m.
Join us on First Thursdays to enjoy art and music. Check the website for additional details!
Gallery Talk: Andrew Kaufman, Robin Strangfeld, Emily Yurkevicz
Feb. 4, 4 p.m.
Department of Art faculty members Andrew Kaufman, Robin Strangfeld, and Emily Yurkevicz will give a presentation about their work in the faculty exhibition, Everything Left Unsaid.
Gallery Talk: Jeremy Chen, Matthew Kluber, Nicky Tavares
Feb. 11, 4 p.m.
Department of Art faculty members Jeremy Chen, Matthew Kluber, and Nicky Tavares will give a presentation about their work in the faculty exhibition, Everything Left Unsaid.
Gallery Talk: Amy Kan ’27: Sonja Sekula’s Revisionist Zen
Feb. 18, 4 p.m.
GCMoA Collections Assistant Amy Kan ’27 will present her research on Swiss American artist Sonja Sekula (1918–1963) and her relationship with Zen Buddhism as well as implications for Western Zen Modernism at large.
Gallery Talk: Milton Severe ’87: 35 Years of Exhibition Design
Feb. 26, 4 p.m.
Milton Severe ’87, director of exhibition design, began work in 1989 as the College’s first art preparator. In his talk, Severe will look back on those 35 years of designing as a part of the celebration of GCMoA’s 25th anniversary.
Gallery Talk: Playing It Forward: Curating After Grinnell
March 4, 4 p.m.
Emily Stamey ’01, curator and head of exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and Elizabeth Perrill ’99, professor of art history, University of North Carolina Greensboro, will talk about their career paths and how their experiences at the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College Museum of Art, contributed to their practices as curators and educators.
First Thursdays @ GCMoA
March 6, 6:30–7:30 p.m.
Join us on First Thursdays to enjoy art and music. Check the website for additional details!
Gallery Talk: fari nzinga, Curator of African and Native American Collections, Speed Art Museum, Louisville: Louisville's Black Avant-Garde 1950-1980
March 27, 4 p.m.
This talk by fari nzinga, curator of African and Native American Collections at the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, will focus on a constellation of Black artists active in Louisville’s mid-century modern art scene who were connected to the Big 3: Sam Gilliam, Bob Thompson, and Kenneth Victor Young. nzinga will highlight why and how Louisville-based artists were integral to the larger, national arts eco-system, even as they were excluded from participation by museums and commercial galleries. Special attention will be paid to their experimental aesthetics, as well as to the opportunities and resources that Black artists created to support one another. Co-sponsored by Art History, GCMoA, and the Center for the Humanities.
First Thursdays @ GCMoA
April 3, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Join us on First Thursdays to enjoy art and music. Check the website for additional details!
Peterson Lecture: Helen Molesworth: The Night Shift
April 16, 4 p.m.
Helen Molesworth, American curator of contemporary art based in Los Angeles, will present the Peterson Lecture, The Night Shift, exploring the behind-the-scenes labor of buying art for museum collections. How and why do art objects end up in the museum? Who does this work and what does it mean to collect art objects?
BAX Opening Reception and Awards
April 17, 4 p.m.
Juror Summer Ventis will present awards and speak about the Bachelor of Arts Exhibition. Refreshments will be served.
Gallery Talk: Enrique Chagoya
April 23, 4 p.m.
Enrique Chagoya, professor of art and art history at Stanford University, lived on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in the late 70s, and in Europe in the late 90s. His work juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols to address the ongoing cultural clash between the United States, Latin America, and the wider world. He uses familiar pop icons to create deceptively friendly points of entry for the discussion of complex issues. Through these seemingly harmless characters, Chagoya examines the recurring subject of colonialism and oppression that continues to riddle contemporary American foreign policy. His work is found in museum collections internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, and Grinnell College Museum of Art. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities.
40 Minutes @ 4
April 29, 4 p.m.
Artists exhibiting in BAX will talk about their work.
First Thursdays @ GCMoA
May 1, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Join us on First Thursdays to enjoy art and music. Check the website for additional details!