Museum of Art News

On Friday, September 15, the Grinnell College Museum of Art (GCMoA) will open the exhibition Stephen Appleby-Barr: Correspondence, continuing through Sunday, December 10.

As of July 6, the Museum will be open to the public during expanded hours.

Celebrate 40,000 Years of American Art, an important work by Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), was recently added to the Grinnell College Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

This grant will support a program on food security as part of the Storytime Art in the Park program. Storytime Art in the Park is a collaboration between Drake Community Library and GCMoA that provides eight weeks of free arts and literacy summer programming to children throughout the Grinnell community every year.

The 2023 Bachelor of Arts Exhibition (BAX), which features works in the creative arts by third- and fourth-year Grinnell College students, opens on Friday, April 21, in the Grinnell College Museum of Art. The exhibition will be on display through May 22.

Tilly Woodward, Grinnell College Museum of Art Curator of Academic and Community Outreach, has been welcoming Grinnell community preschoolers to the museum for more than a decade.

The Grinnell College Museum of Art was recently the recipient of a donation of artwork from Ignatius Widiapradja, professor emeritus of Drake University. The gift includes a 1997 acrylic painting by Widiapradja titled The Killing Fields and seven ceramic Martaban storage jars from Burma, China, and Thailand.

Eighty-seven works from the estate of Hans and Barbara Welch Breder were recently gifted to the permanent collection of Grinnell College Museum of Art.