How these tours are different than standard guided tours: 
•    The pace is a bit slower.
•    The language is clearer and simpler.
•    Participants are encouraged to share their personal experiences and connections to the artwork.
•    Group sizes are smaller.
•    Docents are trained and certified Friends of Dementia.

If you are living with dementia, or you are a care partner to someone who is, you are welcome to join the dementia-friendly tours on the last Friday of each month at 2pm. Admission is free for individuals living with dementia and their care partners. If you have a larger group, please contact us to find out how we can accommodate you. 

Sully’s position on the margins of the art world meant that her work was exhibited only a handful of times during her life. In Becoming Mary Sully, Philip J. Deloria reclaims that work from obscurity, exploring her stunning portfolio through the lenses of modernism, industrial design, Dakota women’s aesthetics, mental health, ethnography and anthropology, primitivism, and the American Indian politics of the 1930s. Working in a complex territory oscillating between representation, symbolism, and abstraction, Sully evoked multiple and simultaneous perspectives of time and space. With an intimate yet sweeping style, Deloria recovers in Sully’s work a move toward an anti-colonial aesthetic that claimed a critical role for Indigenous women in American Indian futures―within and distinct from American modernity and modernism. (Amazon)

Join artist Dori Patrick and a group of like-minded art journalers and journal-curious creatives for an open-studio jam session. $10 per person, payable to Dori Patrick. Please note, this is not a class; this is a casual hang out, where all artistic levels are welcome to come and play. Dori will be on hand to answer questions you might have about getting started, but the time will be yours to experiment and meet fellow creatives. Basic art supplies will be provided for you but you will need to bring your own journal. You are also welcome to bring any of your own journaling supplies that you might want to use: collage papers, paints, markers/pencils/pens, stickers, washi tape. If you like, bring your beverage of choice, or a snack to share with the group. Adults only. Register at least 24hrs in advance by contacting Education Director Erin Thomas at 319-366-7503 or ethomas@crma.org. Jam sessions are held on the third Thursday each month.

Fee: $20

How these tours are different than standard guided tours: 
•    The pace is a bit slower.
•    The language is clearer and simpler.
•    Participants are encouraged to share their personal experiences and connections to the artwork.
•    Group sizes are smaller.
•    Docents are trained and certified Friends of Dementia.

If you are living with dementia, or you are a care partner to someone who is, you are welcome to join the dementia-friendly tours on the last Friday of each month at 2pm. Admission is free for individuals living with dementia and their care partners. If you have a larger group, please contact us to find out how we can accommodate you. 

Art Bites is a free program which is held on the first Wednesday of every month. A question and answer session is held after the program. These programs are a fascinating look into an exhibition or piece of art. All 16 galleries are open to view for free after the program. 

Art Bites is designed for you to be able to attend during your lunch hour. You are welcome to bring your sack lunch and eat in the Carnegie Library either before or after the presentation

How these tours are different than standard guided tours: 
•    The pace is a bit slower.
•    The language is clearer and simpler.
•    Participants are encouraged to share their personal experiences and connections to the artwork.
•    Group sizes are smaller.
•    Docents are trained and certified Friends of Dementia.

If you are living with dementia, or you are a care partner to someone who is, you are welcome to join the dementia-friendly tours on the last Friday of each month at 2pm. Admission is free for individuals living with dementia and their care partners. If you have a larger group, please contact us to find out how we can accommodate you. 

Clar Baldus began making recycled paper from more traditional plant fibers like papyrus and corn husks, but began experimenting with other botanical elements like lavender, marigolds, tomatoes, and onions, and the results are astounding! See—and smell—some of her experiments and learn to do it yourself! While you’re here, pop into the galleries to see Making a Mark: The Art of Astrid Hilger Bennett (9/12/2026-1/3/2027) and Threading the Needle: Fiber Art in Iowa (10/3/2026-1/17/2027).