The Faulconer Gallery provides a wide variety of arts outreach activities/events in the Faulconer Gallery, on the Grinnell College campus and throughout the community, partnering with individuals, departments, schools and organizations to provide responsive community based arts programs.
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All events are in the Faulconer Gallery unless otherwise noted.
For more information contact Tilly Woodward or phone 641/269.4663.

Student Art Salon/Faculty Art 2008
Opening Reception
May 2, 4:30 - 6PM
Please plan to attend the opening reception for the annual Student Art Salon, sponsored by the Art Department SEPC, and the Faculty Art Exhibition 2008, featuring works by Assistant Professor of Art Emma Zghal, Lecturer in Art Lori Raife, and Assistant Professor of Art Lydia Diemer. The Student Salon will continue through May 19th and the Faculty Art show will continue through June 1. Refreshments will be served.

Open Mic Night at the Faulconer Gallery
May 5, 7:45-9 p.m.
The Faulconer Gallery will host an open mic night, co-sponsored by Burling Library, for fiction, poetry and music performance in conjunction with the annual Student Salon and Faculty Exhibition. Bring a favorite piece or something you have personally written or composed to share. Students, faculty, staff, and members of the Grinnell community are invited to participate and listen. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Tilly Woodward or phone 641/269.4663.


Disarticulated Bodies/Destabilized Meanings
Opening Reception
May 9th 4:15 pm
Please plan to attend a receptions in honor of Faulconer Gallery intern Alanna Nissen '09 on the opening of Disarticulated Bodies/Destabilized Meanings. Nissen curated the exhibition of bodily imagery featuring prints and drawings from the college's collection by Kiki Smith, Catherine Opie and Adrianne Gallinari. Refreshments will be served. Print and Drawing Study Room, Burling Library lower level
Kiki Smith, Sueno, 1992, Etching, 41 3/4 x 77 1/2 inches, Grinnell College Collection of Art: Rosenthal, Marie-Louise and Samuel R. Rosenthal Fund

Ice Wall
An installation of ice and light with projected images of the Arctic. Created by Faulconer Gallery Outreach Curator Tilly Woodward in collaboration with Davind Jensen, Elizabeth Grossman, Sannon Hinsa-Leasure, Donald Forbes, Nikita Ovsyanikov, William Shilts, and Jeff Chiarenzelli for Critical Issues for the Arctic, a Rosenfield Program in public affairs, international relations, and human rights. April 1 - 3, 2008

Martin Luther King, Jr. Luminary Project: September 23, 2007; January 21, 2008
Faulconer Gallery Curator of Academic and Community Outreach Tilly Woodward worked with Terri Phipps, Kathleen Skerrett, and Grinnell College students to create an installation of light, words and images to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s visit to Grinnell 40 years ago. Over 300 luminaries were sewn together for the event. Each luminary featured a stitched panel with photographic images from King's Grinnell visit and the text of his speech, "Remaining Awake During a Revolution." Special thanks to Faulconer Gallery Claire Wenngren.

Kay Wilson, Curator of the Collection, worked with Catherine Rod and Jim Powers to mount Martin Luther King at Grinnell, 1967: Images from the Archives in the Smith Gallery, Joe Rosenfield '25 Center

Bioneers Trash Art Project: September 1 - October 20, 2007
The Bioneers Conference is an annual conference focusing on environmental, cultural and social issues. Grinnell, Iowa was one of twenty three locations in the United States linked via satellite to the main site in San Rafael, California for the 2007 Bioneers Conference. Local activities were sponsored by Imagine Grinnell and included workshops on environmental issues, a local food banquet, waterways clean up, an arts walk and more.

One of the components of the Bioneers Conference was a trash art project designed as a teaching tool to increase awareness about the shear volume of trash we produce, its impact on our environment, and the importance of recycling. More than 644 area students, teachers, parents, and Girl Scouts worked with Faulconer Gallery Curator of Academic and Community Outreach Tilly Woodward and Studio Six Director Alesia Lacina, on series of arches made from woven wire, tall enough for a person to walk under, covered with trash collected by area students from their homes, area parks and schools. The arches were installed at loactions through out Grinnell, Including the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts Rotunda on the Grinnell College campus. Special thanks to Faulconer Gallery Intern Claire Wenngren and Milton Severe, Director of Exhibition Design.