2013 MIU BFA graduate Hilary Nelson’s steady progress towards a career in art has been both thoughtful and reality based. “You can progress on your own,” she tells me, “but a BFA program can speed that up. It can be a huge push.”
ICON is a fitting name for Iowa Contemporary Arts and an apt description of the gallery’s well-loved founder/director/curator, Bill Teeple. I recently visited him there.
I chatted recently with MIU Artist in Residence Lawrence Sheaff. His one-man show, Absolute Image: the Structure of Consciousness in Visual Form, opens October 16th at ART52 Gallery in Fairfield. The exhibition explores the relationship of art, consciousness and Vedic Science.
Last weekend, MIU’s Ethiopian community held their largest annual celebration: Ethiopian New Year. Students, staff, faculty, and community members of all cultural backgrounds joined together to enjoy traditional food, dancing, performances, and socializing. You can learn more about what makes this holiday unique at last year’s blog on the subject.
Below, we’ve included more than 40 pictures of the event. Enjoy, and contact us if you’re included in the pictures and want a copy for yourself!
All photos are property of photographer Emanuel Schachinger.
On August 25th, 2015, we officially welcomed 68 new MS in Computer Science students to MIU from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, USA, and Viet Nam. See photos of the lunch below in the gallery!
Every year, the MIU art department brings in an outside evaluator to review their program. The evaluators are always impressed with the department’s top-notch quality – most recently Susan White, Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa, who rated the program’s 2014-2015 academic year.
On Saturday, the largest graduating class in MUM history celebrated their accomplishments with a graduation afterparty in the Argiro Student Center.
On May 16th, MIU students dressed to impress for the 2015 Graduation Ball.
The Grad Ball is an annual MIU event that celebrates the year’s graduating class. It is held in the Arts and Convention Center (the same space that hosts the EcoJam fashion show) and features music, dancing, food, a photobooth, and more. This year’s event was catered by Cafe Dodici, a much-beloved Italian restaurant located in Washington, IA known especially for their chocolate-covered strawberries. Live music was provided for the first hour by...
