Past Exhibition Listing
Norman Rockwell: Fact & Fiction
September 12, 2009 - January 3, 2010
In the 65 years since his visit, numerous anecdotes and stories have arisen about the artist's time in Cedar Rapids and the creation of this work. This exhibition uses these five, newly conserved and restored watercolors, along with numerous photographs taken by local photographer Wes Panek for Rockwell, to investigate the many facts and fictions associated with Rockwell's visit and this set of watercolors.
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River of Words: IOWA Environmental Poetry and Art Exhibition
August 1 - August 23, 2009
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is pleased to host the second annual River of Words® exhibition opening August 1, 2009 in the North Carnegie Library at the Museum. This year saw a swelling of interest among Iowa students in the international competition that is designed to help youth explore the natural and cultural history of the place they live, and to express what they discover through poetry and art.
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Under the Big Top: The Circus in Art
June 20 - August 16, 2009
In celebration of Iowa’s importance in the development of the circus (the Ringling brothers were from McGregor, Iowa), the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art will install two galleries of circus imagery from its own collection.
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John Buck: Iconography
May 30 - August 16, 2009
An overview of the Iowa-born, Montana-based, John Buck’s 40-year career in printmaking and sculpture, the exhibit includes over 60 works including prints, large-scale sculpture, wooden constructions (shadow boxes) and glass and wood works created at Pilchuck.
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Christian Marclay's Telephones
March 14 - May 31, 2009
Cleverly conceived and artfully edited, Christian Marclay's 7 1/2-minute video, Telephones, comprises a succession of brief film clips that creates a humorous narrative of its own in which the characters, in progression, dial, hear the phone ring, pick it up, converse, react, say goodbye and hang up.
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American Narratives: Photographs by Thomas C. Jackson
March 14 - May 31, 2009
American Narratives: Photographs by Thomas C. Jackson will focus on a different medium altogether, photography, which Jackson came to only recently. The splicing together of his separate, seemingly-unrelated photographs creates fascinating and intriguing new narratives.
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Mary GrandPré: Harry Potter and Beyond
November 1, 2008 - February 1, 2009
Illustrator of several children's titles, GrandPré is perhaps best known for her illustrations of the American version of J. K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter books. The Cedar Rapids exhibition will be her first in many years and will feature works from all aspects of her career: children's books, Harry Potter books, magazine covers, and poster design.
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The Year of the River: Flood Photography from The Gazette
August 30, 2008 - February 22, 2009
From Marengo to Vinton, from Palo to Cedar Rapids, and from Coralville to Iowa City, The Gazette photographers logged countless hours capturing images of the people and places impacted by the extraordinary flooding that occurred. While some images they shot documented the magnitude of the rising waters, many other photographs sought out the human side of the catastrophe.
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River of Words® IOWA Environmental Poetry and Art Exhibit
August 30 - September 21, 2008
Every year, River of Words® conducts an international poetry and art contest for children aged 5 to 19 in grades K-12, in affiliation with The Library of Congress Center for the Book. This free contest is designed to help youth explore the natural and cultural history of the place they live, and to express what they discover through poetry and art. Entries not chosen as finalists or grand prize winners in the international contest are returned to IOWATER, where they are judged in a statewide IOWA River of Words competition.
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The ESPY Collection
May 31 - October 12, 2008
The ESPY Collection was created in 2001 when photographer Rick Chapman was asked by ESPN to create a series of portraits of the recipients of the ESPY Awards.
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Mothers in Art: Mother's Day at 100
March 29 - June 11, 2008
Mothers in Art: Mother's Day at 100 celebrates the 100th anniversary of the modest origins of the holiday in 1908 by presenting a number of works from the Museum's own collection that represent the ways mothers have been depicted in the history of art.
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American Artists Abroad, 1900-1950
February 2 - May 11, 2008
American Artists Abroad will be an exhibition drawn from the CRMA's permanent collection and will present and contextualize the achievements of a number of American artists traveling and studying abroad in a post-1900 world.
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Ulfert Wilke: A Centennial Celebration
September 1, 2007 - February 3, 2008
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1907 and the 20th anniversary of his death in 1987, the CRMA organized this small but enlightening exhibition of works by painter, printmaker, and calligrapher Ulfert Wilke.
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Stan Wiederspan: Box Chapel
April 28 - August 5, 2007
Cedar Rapids artist and former Cedar Rapids Art Association director Stan Wiederspan has embarked upon a radically new series of paintings: hyper realistic acrylic paintings representing ordinary cardboard boxes.
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Midwestern Visions: Grant Wood, Marvin Cone and Beyond
September 23, 2006 - June 11, 2008
In this new installation, Grant Wood and Marvin Cone, while still possessing major roles, will be joined by a wide variety of other Midwestern artists from the collection, to provide a fuller and more complete picture of the Midwest's contribution to the history of American art.
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Cat Chow: Material Girl
June 9 - September 3, 2006
Chicago- and New York-based contemporary artist Cat Chow puts a new spin on the intersection of art and fashion. Wearable yet sculptural, her creations often use elements of fashion—such as zippers, measuring tapes, and bobbins—to explore a variety of social and political issues.
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