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 impacts of precipitation on society are numerous, with daily news reports covering events such as damaging hail, flash floods, and crippling snowstorms. Making better forecasts requires better weather models, and observations of precipitation are needed to improve our parameterizations of related processes. This is easier said than done. Observing precipitation is challenging, especially when precipitation is of the solid variety. Five years ago, development of the Open Snowflake Camera for...

Jim Shrosbree earned a BFA from Boise State University and MFA from University of Montana. His work is included in Collections such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, Eli and Edyth Broad Museum, Mint Museum of Art, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.

Awards include John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (Midwest Fellowship). Iowa Arts Council, NEA/Idaho Commission for the Arts...

Join the photography area in welcoming Jacqueline Bates, Director of Photography at New York Times Opinion via a live zoom event in the Visual Arts Building, room E125.

“Jackie is the founding photography director of The California Sunday Magazine, the Pulitzer Prize-winning print magazine, and “Pop-Up Magazine,” the acclaimed live-magazine show. Under her direction, California Sunday won the National Magazine Award for photography in 2016 and 2017, the first title in 25 years to win in...

Interested in a career in publishing? In this session on Tuesday November 4 at 12pm at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Sara Jo Cohen, Editorial Director at University of Michigan Press, will reflect on her own career path, beginning with her undergraduate experience and the choices that helped shape her trajectory into academic publishing. She’ll discuss how she gained relevant experience, navigated early roles in the industry, and built a career in academic publishing. This is an...