The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.

Join us for a special workshop this Hispanic Heritage Month, Weaving Our Connections: Remembering and Honoring the Dead across Cultures, led by artist Miriam Alarcón Ávila.Participants will explore the positive and celebratory ways different cultures view loss and remembrance. Miriam will guide you in creating your own ofrenda (offering), a beautiful tradition often seen in Día de los Muertos celebrations. This is a chance to connect with others, share stories, and create a meaningful tribute to...

Terrible Twos: A Second Year MFA Show, Sept. 29 to Oct. 3 in the Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building. Closing Reception: Oct. 3, 7–9 pm.

Terrible Twos: A Second Year MFA Show, Sept. 29 to Oct. 3 in the Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building. Closing Reception: Oct. 3, 7–9 pm.

Poet, photographer and filmmaker Ladan Osman will read her work, followed by a Q&A.

Terrible Twos: A Second Year MFA Show, Sept. 29 to Oct. 3 in the Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building. Closing Reception: Oct. 3, 7–9 pm.

The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.

Terrible Twos: A Second Year MFA Show, Sept. 29 to Oct. 3 in the Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building. Closing Reception: Oct. 3, 7–9 pm.

Mail Art for everyone! Join our art send out!

Terrible Twos: A Second Year MFA Show, Sept. 29 to Oct. 3 in the Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building. Closing Reception: Oct. 3, 7–9 pm.

Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session and...

Join artist Miriam Alarcón Avila for a free, family-friendly workshop where participants can learn about and create their own alebrijes, with examples from the museum's collection on view.

Sinclair W. Bell is Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois UniversityThe wide scatter of small finds, sculpted heads, statues, mosaics, and wall paintings of Aethiopians (Black Africans) indicates that their depictions constituted a popular visual and material commodity over several centuries and across the Roman empire. But how were these works—and more crucially, the people which they sought to depict—understood within the different parts of the vast imperial territories in which they...

The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.

It's time for another Night at the Museum! Calling all paper-lovers and journal-keepers: this month, we're hosting an entire evening of collage arts! Whether you're new to collage or a seasoned artist, feel free to stop by the Stanley for snacks and craft supplies. Have a junk journal or other materials you like to work with? Go ahead and bring them--otherwise, we've got supplies to get you started.Make sure to bring your Stanley Student Challenge card with you to get a stamp for attending the...

In conjunction with the INTO LIGHT Project's Iowa exhibition DRUG ADDICTION: Real People, Real Stories, currently on display at the Old Capitol Museum, our program series Exhibition Spotlight returns with two very special webinars.

The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.

Join artists Julien Creuzet and Aguibou Bougobali Sanou for a talk and performance at the Stanley Museum of Art.

The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery.Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. Stools...

The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.