GCMoA is free and open to all.
Regular Hours
Tuesday through Friday 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Thursday evenings open until 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 1–5 p.m.
Closed Mondays
Currently on view
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April 18–May 20, 2024
BAX
The Bachelor of Art Exhibition presents work in the creative arts by third- and fourth-year Grinnell College students. With support from GCMoA staff, students manage many of the exhibition details, including the selection of a juror and the creation of an exhibition catalogue and website. The exhibition includes photographs, drawings, sculpture, paintings, video, installations, and works created digitally. The 2024 juror is Luther Davis ’93, master printer and printshop director of Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, New York.
Image: Kay Sniff ’24, It spoke by itself., steel rods and various automotive parts, 70 x 72 x 33 in.
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Jan. 25–May 20, 2024
not one without water
This exhibition, featuring works drawn from the Grinnell College Museum of Art’s permanent collection, takes its title from W.H. Auden’s poem, “First Things First,” in which water, fittingly, is the last word. Water’s paradoxical nature — life-sustaining and life-threatening, powerful and fragile, abundant and scarce, endangering and endangered — makes it a rich backdrop (if not the primary subject) for artists applying their own creative forces to one of life’s most essential and inscrutable elements.
Image: John F. Phillips, American|Canadian, (1945–2010), Distributing Water, Meredith March, Mississippi, 1966.
Upcoming Exhibition
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June 11–Sept. 8, 2024
Ingrid Lilligren: Tactile Meditations
This exhibition features 18 projects by Ingrid Lilligren. Her art incorporates Braille text to explore social, cultural, and political blindness. Using this visual language can give sighted viewers the experience of being temporarily “othered.” Several works have words in Braille carved into or embossed onto the forms, and some use tiles or pegs to spell out the statement. Her subjects range from concepts about beauty to meditations on climate change. Poems by Debra Marquart, Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University and outgoing Poet Laureate of Iowa, are used in three pieces.
Image: Ingrid Lilligren, Blue Dream, 2020. Ceramic, wood, ice, unfired clay, sheet metal, 64 x 45 x 30 in.
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Campus Sculpture Tour
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A collection of outdoor sculpture can be explored on the Grinnell College campus and beyond.
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Sheltering with Art
Yoga@GCMoA with Jackie Hutchison
If you can't join us for yoga in the museum on Tuesdays with Joy Jones (see our Events page for dates and times) you can experience our virtual yoga with instructor Jackie Hutchinson. Jackie narrates regenerative yoga sessions featuring images of works from the Grinnell College Museum of Art Collection.
