Opening Reception
Below the Surface: A 21st Century Look at the Prairie
June 12, 5 -6:30 pm
Bucksbaum Rotunda
Opening will feature local foods grown and prepared by Ann Brau, and music by the Too Many Strings Band. Sponsored by Prairie Studies and Iowa Prairie Network.

Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
June 22, 10:30 - Noon
Arbor Lake shelter house
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
June 24, 10:30 - Noon
Bucksbaum Center of the Arts
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Yoga in the Gallery with Jennifer Mavin
June 24, noon - 1pm
Take a noon break in the Faulconer Gallery, practice yoga with Jennifer Mavin and enjoy our exhibitions. Jennifer Mavin engages participants in a warm and welcoming style of yoga accessible to all ages, abilities, and experience levels. She believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform individuals through breathing, strength, flexibility, mental focus, body awareness, and self acceptance. No experience necessary. Mats provided.

Gallery Talk: Daryl Lancaster, Patricia Spark, Kathe Todd-Hooker
Wednesday 24 June, 7 pm (Gallery will re-open at 6:30 pm)
Faulconer Gallery
Three fiber artists featured in Small Expressions 2009 will speak about their work.

Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
June 29, 10:30 - Noon
Merrill Park, west shelter
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu


Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
July 1, 10:30 - Noon
Bucksbaum Center of the Arts
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
July 6, 10:30 - Noon
Ahrens Park, Shelter #1
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Gallery Talk: Jin Lee, "Floating World"
July 7, noon
Faulconer Gallery
Photographer Jin Lee will discuss her photographs of Illinois prairies through the seasons from the exhibition Below the Surface: A 21st Century Look at the Prairie, as well as her recent series on Lake Michigan which explores ideas of transience and deep time. Lee is a Professor of Art at Illinois State University and her photographs have been shown widely, including the Queens Museum of Art, Sioux City Art Center, and Museum of Contemporary Photography. Her works are included in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Madison Art Center, and was awarded 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.

Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
July 8, 10:30 - Noon
Bucksbaum Center for the Arts
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
July 13, 10:30 - Noon
Central Park
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
July 15, 10:30 - Noon
Baily Park
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Yoga in the Gallery with Jennifer Mavin
July 15, noon - 1pm
Take a noon break in the Faulconer Gallery, practice yoga with Jennifer Mavin and enjoy our exhibitions. Jennifer Mavin engages participants in a warm and welcoming style of yoga accessible to all ages, abilities, and experience levels. She believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform individuals through breathing, strength, flexibility, mental focus, body awareness, and self acceptance. No experience necessary. Mats provided.

Stewart Library Summer Teen Program: Matting Workshop
July 15, 2pm
Faulconer Gallery
Teens in Stewart Library's summer reading program will work with Outreach Curator Tilly Woodward to learn how to cut a mat for their artwork, and present it to show. The Faulconer Gallery will provide white mat board and the mat cutter. For more information or to sign up contact: Alexis Steele: alexis@grinnelliowa.gov

Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
July 20, 10:30 - Noon
Jim Miller Park
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
July 22, 10:30 - Noon
Bucksbaum Center for the Arts
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Carl Kurtz, Prairie identification and photography workshop: Discovering the Prairie with your Camera
Sponsored by Faulconer Gallery, Prairie Studies and Iowa Prairie Network
Friday, 24 July, 9:00 am -4:30 pm
Carl Kurtz will help you see and identify prairie plants and improve your skills as a photographer in the field and in the editing process. Participants should bring their own digital camera and laptop if they have one. Open to students 9th grade and up. Free, registration required. For more information and to register, contact Tilly Woodward@ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Faulconer Arts Outreach in the Park
July 27, 10:30 - Noon
Jaycee Park
The Faulconer Gallery is offering free hands-on art activities for kids & families in area parks. Enjoy ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, truck glittering, sculpture and more! No registration is necessary-just show up! For more information, contact Tilly Woodward @ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

July 29 - 31
All activities are free of charge, but registration for Eulenspiegel workshops is required.
For more information and to register, contact Tilly Woodward@ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Puppet Performance Workshop
Here's your opportunity to learn performance skills with internationally known Eulenspiegel Puppets! We'll need 7-24 people (students entering 4th grade- adults, 4 feet or taller) to be puppeteers for "The Flea." The Flea is a Spanish-American folk tale about a goat herder named Pedro who, with the help of an ant, a cockroach and a mouse wins an important contest and achieves his dream of joining a band, performed in both English and Spanish. It is enhanced with live music by Ron Hillis.
Rehearsals: July 29, 30, 31 9am - noon
Performance: July 31, 7pm


Sock Puppet Workshop
A sock is a wonderful thing! Transform your footwear into a puppet with personality! Monica Leo and Pam Corcoran will show you how. Open to children grades one and up, younger with caregiver.
July 29, 1:30- 3PM
Location: Stewart Library

The Old Lady and the Rice Balls (performance)
Eulenspiegel Puppets presents this wonderful Japanese folk tale on the steps of Stewart Library. An ingenious older heroine outsmarts two Oni (Japanese trolls) who imprison her in order to sample her delicious cooking. The show uses a clever stage that rises and folds out of a decorated box. It features several rod puppets and a combination rod puppet/rod marionette.
July 29, 4:30pm
Location: Stewart Library

Finger Puppet Workshop
You can make one finger puppet or a whole cast of five. Complete your project with a mini-stage to perform on with the help of Eulenspiegel puppeteers Monica Leo and Pam Corcoran. Open to children grades one and up, younger with caregiver.
July 30, 1:30 - 3PM

Needle Felting Workshop
Open to students entering 5th grade - adults. Take a little wool, a felting needle and watch a marvelous puppet take shape in your hands. Pam Corcoran is an expert needle felter and will help you learn the process.
July 31, 1:30 - 3:00 pm

Early American Music Demonstration
Ron Hillis has an amazing collection of instruments and a vast repertoire of early American music. Requests welcome!
July 31 - 3-4 PM
Mayflower Care Center

The Flea (performance)
Eulenspiegel Puppets and a local cast of puppeteers present "The Flea" in a public performance at the Faulconer Gallery featuring music by Ron Hillis. "The Flea" is a Spanish-American folk tale about a goat herder named Pedro who, with the help of an ant, a cockroach and a mouse wins an important contest and achieves his dream of joining a band. Performed in English and Spanish, enhanced with live music by Ron Hillis.
July 31, 7pm


This puppet residency is made possible through funding and partnerships including Grinnell College's Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell Area Arts Council, Stewart Library/City of Grinnell, the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust and Iowa Arts Council.
Plant Pressing/Specimen Catching/Naturalist Notebook
Sponsored by Faulconer Gallery, Prairie Studies and Iowa Prairie Network August 1, 1 - 4:30 pm (August 2 rain date)
For more information and to register, contact Tilly Woodward@ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu

Open to people of all ages. People younger than 10 years old may attend with a registered caregiver. Limited van service from Faulconer Gallery to CERA available.

This event is about looking at the prairie and developing our skills of observation and interpretation. . Participants will work with Larissa Mottl and Tilly Woodward to look at art, make a notebook, collect specimens, press plants and draw, using lenses and microscopes to take a closer look.

Schedule:
1 - 1: 30 pm Meet at Faulconer Gallery to pick up your notebook materials and a quick tour of the exhibit Below the Surface: A 21st Century Look at the Prairie.
1:50 -4:30 Meet at CERA. Notebook making, specimen catching, plant pressing, drawing.

Young Artists Reception: Through Our Eyes
August 4, 5-7 pm
Bucksbaum Rotunda
A reception to honor the creative achievements of area young artists, grades K-8. Works exhibited were made in Galaxy and Davis summer programs in partnership with the Faulconer Gallery outreach programs. Enjoy the art and refreshments, and tour the Faulconer Gallery's exhibits Below the Surface and Small Expressions.

Yoga in the Gallery with Jennifer Mavin
August 12, noon - 1pm
Take a noon break in the Faulconer Gallery, practice yoga with Jennifer Mavin and enjoy our exhibitions. Jennifer Mavin engages participants in a warm and welcoming style of yoga accessible to all ages, abilities, and experience levels. She believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform individuals through breathing, strength, flexibility, mental focus, body awareness, and self acceptance. Free and open to the public. No experience necessary. Mats provided.

August 27: Regular Hours Resume
Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday: Noon- 5PM; Thursday, Friday: Noon - 8PM or by appointment.


A Prairie Reading
September 1, 7:3 0pm
To enjoy the final week of Faulconer's Below the Surface and Small Expressions exhibits and in celebration of Grinnell's 150th year in the town of Grinnell, please join Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College Libraries, and Prairie Studies for a Prairie Reading. Students, staff, and faculty will be joining together to read original works about the prairie and favorite excerpts featuring the prairie from poems, short stories, novels, essays, or other writings. Refreshments will be served.

Yoga in the Gallery with Jennifer Mavin
September 2, noon - 1pm
Take a noon break in the Faulconer Gallery, practice yoga with Jennifer Mavin and enjoy our exhibitions. Jennifer Mavin engages participants in a warm and welcoming style of yoga accessible to all ages, abilities, and experience levels. She believes strongly in the power of yoga to transform individuals through breathing, strength, flexibility, mental focus, body awareness, and self acceptance. Free and open to the public. No experience necessary. Mats provided.

Peggy MacNamara, Watercolor Workshop
Drawing/Painting in Watercolor
Sponsored by Faulconer Gallery, Prairie Studies and Iowa Prairie Network
September 5, 10 am - 3 pm
The workshop will review classical drawing techniques and the basics of layering watercolor, using the close observation of prairie specimens. Learn to use the transparency of watercolor to build with successive layers, resulting in strong color akin to oil painting. The technique also allows the artist to change areas and rebuild. All levels welcome. Free, registration required. For more information and to register, contact Tilly Woodward@ 269-4663 or woodward@grinnell.edu.