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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.
Susie Ibarra's Rhythm in Nature
Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.
Artist in residence Susie Ibarra will perform and talk about her studies, explorations, and practice guide to discovering rhythm daily in the world of birdsongs, glacial freshwater, oceans, deserts, canyons and resonance, forest, and insects. This will include work developed during Ibarra’s week-long residency at Grinnell College with Professor Putu Hiranmayena’s classes, Rhythmic Exploration, Balinese Sound Ensemble, and Tutorial (Inventing Traditions). In collaboration with Hiranmayena, Susie Ibarra will share sonic explorations with the community and will follow with an artist interview and Q&A.
Hostile Terrain 94 Exhibit and Panel Talk
Oct. 29, 4 p.m.
Hostile Terrain 94 is a participatory exhibition created by the Undocumented Migration Project, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the social process of immigration and raises awareness through research, education, and outreach. The exhibit is composed of approximately 3,400 handwritten toe tags representing migrants who died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert from the mid-1990s to 2020. To mark the opening of the exhibit, please join us for a panel discussion. Speakers from Immigrant Allies of Marshalltown will talk about their advocacy work and/or their own experience as undocumented migrants. The exhibit is sponsored and funded by the Anthropology Department with additional funding provided by the Center for the Humanities and the Rosenfield Program and technical support from GCMoA.
An Artful Halloween Party
Oct. 31, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Trick or treat at the Museum! Grab some Halloween candy, explore the art with a scavenger hunt, and strike a pose in your art-inspired attire. Check out our current exhibition for costume ideas!
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 Thursdays to enjoy art, entertainment, and creative projects. This session will feature zine making inspired by Enrique Chagoya's Les Aventures des Cannibales Modernistes and music by Bruna Sander Foss on guitar.
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.
Gallery Talk: Gemma Sharpe: National Assemblages: Sadequain's Illustrations of Camus
Nov. 15, 4 p.m.
Gemma Sharpe of the Cleveland Institute of Art will discuss her upcoming book, Modernist Agencies: Art and Cold War Politics in Pakistan, and the representation of the presence of Algerian colonialism and liberation war in postwar French art and culture, seen through an Indian artist’s illustrations of Camus’ The Stranger.
First Thursday @ GCMoA
Dec. 5, 6 p.m. (Note that this is an hour earlier than previous First Thursdays.)
Join us on First Thursdays to enjoy art, entertainment, and creative projects. This session will feature a printmaking activity inspired by German Expressionist prints and music by Badphayak, led by Phukao Prommolmard.
Opening Reception: Graphic Medicine
Dec. 11, 4 p.m.
Join us for an exhibition of student comics generated as an assignment for Maria Tapias' class, Graphic Medicine: Reading Medical Comics Anthropologically, in partnership with GCMoA's Curator of Academic and Community Outreach, Tilly Woodward. The course explored the burgeoning field of graphic medicine, works from the museum’s collection, and the ways comics can give voice to the patient experience and increase empathy among health care practitioners. Students conducted ethnographic interviews that became the basis for their comics and will be available for conversation about their preparatory work and final projects during the reception. Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by GCMoA and Humanities in Action.