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Pajama Storytime: Rome Antics
Birds of Prey: Iowa Raptor Project Interactive Experience
Doodlebugs: The City Skyline
Art Lover’s Book Club “Schocking Paris; Soutine, Chagall and Outsiders of Montparnasse” by Stanlty Me
Pajama Storytime: Rome Antics
Art Lover’s Book Club “Schocking Paris; Soutine, Chagall and Outsiders of Montparnasse” by Stanlty Me
Art Lover’s Book Club “Schocking Paris; Soutine, Chagall and Outsiders of Montparnasse” by Stanlty Me
Pajama Storytime: Rome Antics
Art Lover’s Book Club “Schocking Paris; Soutine, Chagall and Outsiders of Montparnasse” by Stanlty Me
New Calendar Event
Another Sweet Event
Art Bites: "Kick Up Your Heels: The Fine Art of Shoes"
Guided Meditation at The Grant Wood Studio: Heart Mosaic
CRMA Summer Art Camp: Into the Blue
Free Third Thursday on Third
Doodlebugs at the Marion Public Library: Doodlebugs Sing the Blues, Free
Doodlebugs at the North Liberty Public Library: Wild Blue Yonder, Free
Doodlebugs at the Hiawatha Public Library: Blue-Footed Booby Dance, Free
Art Bites: Into the Blue,, Free
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Embracing Wonder-Open Heart, Open Road
The Hue of Blue: Family Fun Day, Free
High Heeled History Talk, Free
Doodlebugs at the Hiawatha Library: The Hue Of Blue, Free
Artist Salon, Free
Doodlebugs at the Marion Public Library: The Hue of Blue, Part 2, Free
Doodlebugs at the North Liberty Public Library: The Hue Of Blue, Free
Art Bites: Artist Talk: Into the Blue
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Checking In with Self: Identify & Elevate
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Agency
Gallery talk: Emperor Caracalla
Art Lovers Book Club: The Collector of Lives: Giorgio vasari and the Invention of Art
Art Lovers Book Club: A Month in Siena
Art Lovers Book Club: The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting
Art Lovers Book Club: Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
Art Lovers Book Club: Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
Zoom Doodlebugs: Happy Birthday CRMA!
PJ Storytime: A Wiggly Line
Pajama Storytime: Her Long Arms
Pajama Storytime: Election Day
Pajama Story time: Mexican Wrestler's Vest
Pajama Story time: Double Trouble
Pajama Storytime: Chess Game
Pajama Storytime: Orientalisches
Pajama Storytime: Inaugural Print
Zoom Doodlebugs: Drawing with Scissors
Zoom Doodlebugs: Picasso Was His Name-O
Celebrating Black Creators at the African American Museum of Iowa
Guided Meditation: The Turning
Rembrandt or Not: The CRMA’s Intriguing Etchings
125! 125 Masterworks from the Collection, print-themed
Americans in Paris: Grant Wood and Marvin Cone’s 1920 Trip to Paris
Director’s Choice with Executive Director Sean Ulmer
Seriously Funny: American Gothic Parodies
Grant Wood Revealed: Rarely-Seen Works by an American Master
Virtual Family Fun Day
Virtual Doodlebugs via Zoom: Boxing Day
Guided Meditation: Celebrate its 6th anniversary
Rembrandt or Not: The CRMA’s Intriguing Etchings
Rembrandt or Not: The CRMA’s Intriguing Etchings via Zoom
Free Third Thursday!
Virtual Family Fun Day!
Guided Meditation at the CRMA: Humanity Lights the Way
Free Third Thursday
Virtual Doodlebugs via Zoom: Funny Farmers
Virtual Doodlebugs via Zoom: Grant's Gothic Glass
Virtual Doodlebugs via Zoom: Grant Wood Land
Virtual Doodlebugs via Zoom: Lilies of the Alley
Free Third Thursday:
Sgraffito Pottery Tile Workshop
Guided Meditation: Sensing Into the Vision
We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold by Faith Ringgold
Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
Artlovers Book Club: Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim by Anton Gill
Artlovers Book Club: Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
Artlovers Book Club: Lady in Ermine: The Story of a Woman Who Painted the Renaissance by Donna DiGiuseppe
Virtual PJ Storytime via YouTube and Facebook: Lilies of the Alley
Artlovers Book Club: The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis
Guided Mediation at the CRMA: Random Acts of Kindness Meets Midwest Values
Virtual PJ Storytime via YouTube and Facebook: Happy Birthday Grant Wood!
Virtual PJ Storytime via YouTube: Happy Birthday Grant Wood!
Virtual PJ Storytime via YouTube: Map of Iowa
Virtual via PJ Storytime via YouTube: Chandelier of Corn
"Seriously Funny: American Gothic Parodies" Exhibition Open
Virtual PJ Storytime via YouTube: Where Artists Work
Virtual PJ Storytime via YouTube: Portraits of Iowa
Free Third Thursday
Guided Meditation at the CRMA: Light & Shadow
Guided Meditation at the CRMA: Water & Bloom
Free Third Thursday!
"Grant Wood's Sleeping Porch" with Jessica Peel-Austin
GW lithographs and 1930s print culture with Professor Joni Kinsey, Professor of Art History, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
Grant Wood’s Abandoned Plans with author/historian Paul Juhl
Zoom Lecture "Revisiting American Gothic" with Wanda Corn, Professor Emerita, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University
Zoom lecture "Painting a Picture of Iowa Dairy: Grant Wood and J. G. Cherry" with Tara Templeman, Curator and Collections Manager, The History Center
Zoom lecture: "The Allure of Paris as a New Urgan Center for Art, Culture and the Development of Modern Identity with Professor Amanda Strasik
Art Lovers Book Club Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
Art Lovers Book Club, "Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim"
Art Lovers Book Club, "Ninth Street Women"
Art Lovers Book Club, "Lady in Ermine" by Donna Digiuseppe
Free Zoom Art Bites with Executive Director Sean Ulmer, "Here’s Looking at You: Grant Wood’s Portraits"
Summer Camp 2021: Artists in Real Life
Summer Camp 2021: Artists in Real Life
Summer Camp 2021: Artists in Real Life
Summer Camp 2021: Artists in Real Life
Summer Camp 2021: Artists in Real Life
PJ Storytime: "When in Rome..."
Art Bites: "Happy Cinco de Mayo!" with Associate Curator Kate Kunau
Art Bites: "A glimpse into the life and art of Grant Wood" with Associate Curator Kate Kunau
Zoom Doodlebugs: "A Roman Rabbit," Free
Zoom Doodlebugs: "Peace and Dove," Free
Zoom Doodlebugs: "Coy Cats," Free
Zoom Doodlebugs: "Art & Neigh-ture," Free
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Color's Influence
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Imagine and Engage
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Emancipation
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Rising Above
Zoom Doodlebugs: "Mix Me a Rainbow"
Zoom Doodlebugs: "Silver Sparks & Golden Glow"
Zoom Doodlebugs: "Opposites Pop!"
Zoom Doodlebugs: "Red+White+Blue"
CRMA Gala 2021
Zoom Art Bites: Grant Wood Studio with Executive Director Sean Ulmer
Art Lovers Book Club: The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
Zoom Art Bites: Grant Wood's Lithographs with Suzy McGrane-Hop
Free Summer Admission Begins!
CRMA and Grant Wood Studio Closed
Zoom Art Bites: What if Grant Wood Had Been a Girl? with Deba Leach
WACKY LANDSCAPES with DORI PATRICK
IDEA LAB
Making Faces with Miss Erin
Grant Wood and 1142 East Court Street
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Ground and Release
Zoom Doodlebugs: Night Animals
Zoom Doodlebugs: All Sheeps and Sizes
Zoom Doodlebugs: A Roman Rabbit
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Supporting Inner Conflict
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: The Colors of Gratitude
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood: Silent Night, Artful Night
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: The World We're Imagining
Art Bites: Sneak Peek: Three New Grant Wood Acquisitions! Via Zoom
Art Lovers Book Club: The Bookseller of Florence
Art Lovers Book Club at the CRMA: The Elgin Affair
Art Lovers Book Club at the CRMA: Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Art Lovers Book Club at the CRMA: A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
Art Lovers Book Club at the CRMA: Napoleon's Plunder
Zoom Art Bites: Mildred Pelzer
Zoom Art Bites: Five Five Contemporary Iowa Landscape Artists
Zoom Art Bites: Dick Pinney: Jack of All Trades
Zoom Art Chat: Stan Wiederspan on Larry Zirbel
Zoom Art Chat with Marcia Wegman
Zoom Art Chat with Mike Ryan
Zoom Art Chat with Al Sabin
Zoom Art Chat with Nancy Lindsay
Art Lovers Book Club:Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast by Cynthia Saltzman
Art Lovers Book Club:Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast by Cynthia Saltzman
Museum Closed for Thanksgiving
It's All About the Art Artist Market
Zoom Art Bites: Collection Confection with Registrar Jaci Falco
Zoom Art Bites: Freedom’s Daughters: New Work by Kathy Schumacher
Zoom Art Bites with Executive Director Sean Ulmer: Carl Van Vechten.
Zoom Art Bites: Abstract Ideas: Abstract Art from the Collection
Family Fun Days at the CRMA!
Museum closed
Family Fun Days at the CRMA!
Family Fun Days at the CRMA during regular Museum Hours
Family Fun Days at the CRMA during regular Museum hours
Family Fun Days at the CRMA during regular Museum hours
Museum Closed for the Holiday
Free Third Thursday
Free Third Thursday
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: The Voice Of The Heart
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Seeds of Inspiration
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Watering Intentions
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Color Lights the Path
Free Third Thursday
Free Third Thursday
Free Third Thursday
Free Third Thursday
Free Third Thursday
Free Third Thursday
Free Third Thursday
Free Third Thursday
Doodlebugs: Jackson's Actions
Doodlebugs: Renoir's Hands
Doodlebugs: Van Gogh's Nose
Doodlebugs: Morse’s S.O.S.
Dance, Dance, Dance: The Photography of Arnold Genthe and Carl Van Vechten via Zoom
Grant Wood and the Lure of Europe with Executive Director Sean Ulmer via Zoom
Art Chat with Kathy Schumacher and Akwi Nji
Art Chat with Curator Kate Kunau: Carl Van Vechten
Art Chat with Curator Kate Kunau: Carl Van Vecthen Part 2
Spring Family Fun Day at the CRMA!
Spring Family Fun Day at the CRMA!
Spring Family Fun Day at the CRMA!
Spring Family Fun Day at the CRMA!
Spring Family Fun Day at the CRMA!
Spring Family Fun Day at the CRMA!
Spring Family Fun Day at the CRMA!
Spring Family Fun Days at the CRMA!
Gala
Art Lovers Book Club: Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
Art Lovers Book Club: Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt
Art Lovers Book Club: Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Durer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare
Art Lovers Book Club: The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made: A Family Memoir by Flora Miller Biddle
Art Lovers Book Club: The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits by Jennifer Higgle
Art Lovers Book Club: Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime by Patricia Hampl
Art Lovers Book Club: Back to Japan: The Life and Art of Master Kimono Painter Kunihiko Moriguchi by Marc Petitjean
Art Lovers Book Club: The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
Mini-Camp Workshops at the CRMA
Noisy Mini-Camp Workshops at the CRMA
Messy Mini-Camp Workshops at the CRMA
Messy Mini-Camp Workshops at the CRMA
Stinky Mini-Camp Workshops at the CRMA
Stinky Mini-Camp Workshops at the CRMA
Üglî Mini-Camp Workshops at the CRMA
Üglî Art Mini-Camp Workshop at the CRMA
Mini-Camps for Mini-Artists
Mini-Camps for Mini-Artists
Mini-Camps for Mini-Artists
Grant Wood in Focus Zoom Lecture: Grant Wood's Impressionist artwork
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Color Lights the Path
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: The Freedom of Flow State
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Exploring "Üglî"
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: An Artistic Union
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Embracing The Light
Art Bites: Eve Drewelowe: Painting Her Way
Art Bites: Tomas and Charlie Lasansky: An Artistic Union
Closing reception for Freedom's Daughters
Zoom Doodlebugs: Amanda's Anthem
Zoom Doodlebugs: Frida’s {Many} Faces
Zoom Doodlebugs: Poe's Crow
Art Bites: Carl Van Vechten Man About Town
Eve Drewlowe: Painting Her Way Opens
Carl Van Vechten closes
Free Summer begins
Free Summer Ends
Art Bites, Behind the Scenes: New Acquisitions at the CRMA
Art Bites, Exhibition spotlight: Mauricio Lasansky at the CRMA
Tomás and Charlie Lasansky: An Artistic Union exhibition reception
Tomás and Charlie Lasansky: An Artistic Union opens
ARTISTRY IN THE 1920’s: Marvin Cone, Jazz and the Symphon
Grant Wood in Focus Zoom Lecture, “The Big Reveal”
Opening Reception
Grown-Ups Summer Camp Night
Art Bites: Abstract Ideas: Abstract Art from the Collection
Art Bites: Dreamscape: Surrealism from the Collection
Art Bites: The Collector’s Eye: The Collection of Thomas C. Jackson and Joanne Stevens
Art Bites: Byron Burford: Ringmaster
Family Fun Days, September 1-4
Family Fun Days, September 1-4
Family Fun Days, September 1-4
Family Fun Dayy, September 1-4
Tomas and Charlie Lasansky: An Aristic Union Closes
Free Third Thursday
Doodlebugs: With My Bear Hands at the Marion Public Library
Doodlebugs: With My Bear Hands at the North Liberty Library
Doodlebugs: With My Bear Hands at the Hiawatha Public Library
Doodlebugs at Home: With My Bear Hands via Zoom
Doodlebugs: Doodlebugs in Space!
Doodlebugs: Doodlebugs in Space! at the North Liberty Public Library
Doodlebugs: Doodlebugs in Space! at the Hiawatha Public Library
Doodlebugs at Home: Doodlebugs in Space! via Zoom
Doodlebugs: Piece of Cake! at the Marion Public Library
Family Fun Days at the CRMA
One NIght Stand via Zoom with Executive Director Sean Ulmer
Special Guided Tour: Surrealism
The Collector’s Eye: The Collection of Thomas C Jackson and Joanne Stevens opens
Special Guided Tour: Printmaking
Abstract Ideas: Abstract Art from the Collection Closes
Behind the Scenes Tour with Tom Jackson and Joanne Stevens
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio
Special Guided Tour: Surrealism
Chunghi Choo: The Master at Work Opens
One Night Stand with Executive Director Sean Ulmer via Zoom
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio
Doodlebugs: Piece of Cake at the North Liberty Community Library
Artists Market: It's All About the Art
Special Guided Tour: Surrealism
Doodlebugs: Piece of Cake! at the Hiawatha Public Library
Art Lovers Book Club
Free Third Thursday
One Night Stand: Kara Walker's Occupation of Atlanta with Curator Kate Kunau via Zoom
Behind the Scenes Tour with Tom Jackson and Joanne Stevens
Doodlebugs at Home via Zoom: Piece of Cake!
Dooglebugs: Ballerinas’ Balance
ONE NIGHT STAND WITH THE CRMA with Curator Kate Kunau via Zoom
ONE NIGHT STAND WITH THE CRMA with Executive Director Sean Ulmer via Zoom
dreamscape:Surrealism from the Collection opens
Doodlebugs: Art from Scratch at the Marion Public Library
Doodlebugs: Art From Scratch at the North Liberty Community Library
Doodlebugs at Home: Art From Scratch
Doodlebugs: Art from Scratch at the Hiawatha Public Library
Reception for Chunghi Choo: Master at Work and Byron Burford: Ringmaster
Free Third Thursday
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Signs, Symbols, and Surrealism
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Putting a Bow on 2022
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: A Vision for the New
Thanksgiving Museum Closed
Special Guided Tour: Printmaking
Grant Wood in Focus via Zoom with Curator Kate Kunau
Christmas Day Museum Closed
New Year's Day Museum Closed
Art Bites: Chunghi Choo: The Master at Work ,
Free Third Thursday
Thanksgiving Museum Closed
Zoom Doodlebugs: Piece of Cake
Reception for Chunghi Choo and Byron Burford
Art Lovers Book Club: Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban
Art Lovers Book Club: My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, Free
Art Lovers Book Club Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven by Ross King, Free
Art Lovers Book Club: Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life by Laurie Lisle, Free
Art Bites: Through the Lens: Photography After 1950, Free
Art Bites: Built This Way: Architecture in Art, Free
Art Bites: surprise!, Free
Art Bites: Surprise! with Executive Director Sean Ulmer, Free
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Center Of Gravity
Art Bites: Work & Society in the 1930s, Free
ONE NIGHT STAND WITH THE CRMA
PJ Storytime:Pajama Party at Grant Wood’s House!, Free
PJ Storytime: Artsy Architecture
PJ Storytime: Rainbow Magic, Free
PJ Storytime: Under the Big Top, Free
PJ Storytime: It's a Bust, Free
PJ Storytime: May the 4th Be With You, Free
PJ Storytime: Mystery at the Museum, Free
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: What Moves The Heart
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Ringmaster
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: The Call Of The New, Childlike Wonder
Guided Meditation at the Grant Wood Studio: Center Of Gravity
Art Lovers Book Club: April: Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny by A.S. Byatt, Free
Art Lovers Book Club: Matisse on Art by Jack Flam, Free
Art Lovers Book Club: Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov, Free
One NIght Stand with the CRMA
One Night Stand via Zoom, Free
One Night Stand via Zoom, Free
One NIght Stand via Zoom, Free
Presentation and book signing by Thomas C. Jackson and Fritz McDonald
100 Things to do in Cedar Rapids Before You Die by Katie MIlls Giorgio book signing
Doodlebugs at the Marion Public Library: Bookish Art
Doodlebugs at the North Liberty Community Library: Bookish Art
Doodlebugs at the Hiawatha Public Library: Bookish Art
Doodlebugs at the Marion Public Library: Building Bridges
Doodlebugs at the North Liberty Community Library
Doodlebugs at the Hiawatha Public Library: Building Bridges
Doodlebugs at the Marion Public Library: To Be Frank
Doodlebugs at the North Liberty Community Library: To Be Frank
Doodlebugs at the Hiawatha Public Library: To Be Frank
Doodlebugs at the Marion Public Library: The Houses That Jack Built
Doodlebugs at the North Liberty Community Library: The Houses That Jack Built
Doodlebugs at the Hiawatha Public Library: The Houses That Jack Built, Free
Doodlebugs at the North Liberty Community Library: Building Bridges
CRMA Gala
Free Third Thursday
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Artlovers Book Club: Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim by Anton Gill