Friday, 22 Apr 2016
Campus Beautiful Cleanup
Iowa State University is known for its beautiful campus which includes the largest collection of campus public art in the country. Join University Museums staff as we celebrate Earth Day by picking up litter around exterior campus sculptures while sharing the inspiration behind the art. Do your part for the environment and meet in the Anderson Sculpture Garden, south side of Morrill Hall. The earth without art is just eh.
Reception: Biorenewables Art Competition
This 7th annual competition is a collaboration between the Bioeconomy Institute and the College of Design's integrated studio arts program. Award winners will be announced during a 4:15 p.m. program.
Friday Night PYOP: Flower Pots & Yard Art
We will show you the basics of Paint Your Own Pottery, and then we will fire it within a week for you to come pick up.
Performance: Ron White
Comedian Ron "Tater Salad" White first rose to fame as the cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking funnyman from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour phenomenon, but now as a chart-topping Grammy-nominated comedian and afeature film actor, Ron White has established himself as a star in his own right.
General B and The Wiz w/ The Weathered Heads
General B and the Wiz is an indie/psych rock band with a blues influence from Minneapolis, MN which initially started as a duo between college roommate Quincy Voris and Seth Duin in the fall of the 2009.
Saturday, 23 Apr 2016
Piano Studio Recital
Piano students of Mei-Hsuan Huang.
Bob Schneider
Bob Schneider is a fixture on the Austin, TX music scene, having kicked around for years in various bands before embarking on a solo career in 1999. Born in Michigan and partially raised in Germany, he dropped out of the University of Texas at El Paso to front his first band, the funk and rap outfit Joe Rockhead.
Sunday, 24 Apr 2016
BAM Behind the Scenes
With a recent gift of more than 300 objects to the University Museums permanent collection, David and Jay-lin Jane Topel hope to inspire investigation, inquiry, and intellectual challenge. As we process these new acquisitions to the collection, be among the first to view some of these objects as we pull them out of collections storage and share what's behind the scenes at the Brunnier Art Museum.
Argentine Tango Practica
This Milonga (dance party) is a multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance.
MKTO
The California-based MKTO features the talents of actor/musicians Malcolm Kelley and Tony Oller, who first met in 2010 while filming the Nickelodeon television series Gigantic. Their debut single, "Thank You," was released on YouTube in January 2013 and had over 500,000 views within two days of its release. Their follow-up single, "Classic," was released the following June.
Monday, 25 Apr 2016
Paint Your Own Pottery Sale
20-50% off bisque-ware through May 5
Study Break: Coloring Books!
Could you benefit from a play break during to clear your mind during finals week? Drop in and spend some time coloring.
Tuesday, 26 Apr 2016
Paint Your Own Pottery Sale
20-50% off bisque-ware through May 5
Study Break: Coloring Books!
Could you benefit from a play break during to clear your mind during finals week? Drop in and spend some time coloring.
Presentation: Campanile-Carillon model
Mechanical engineering student project teams will present the plans for a 1:5 working replica of the campanile and 27-bell carillon. Once completed, the portable model will be used at events and programs, and serve as an educational tool. Interdisciplinary teams in Design, Engineering and music will build the model over the next two years.
Wednesday, 27 Apr 2016
Paint Your Own Pottery Sale
20-50% off bisque-ware through May 5
Study Break: Coloring Books!
Could you benefit from a play break during to clear your mind during finals week? Drop in and spend some time coloring.
Thursday, 28 Apr 2016
Paint Your Own Pottery Sale
20-50% off bisque-ware through May 5
Study Break: Coloring Books!
Could you benefit from a play break during to clear your mind during finals week? Drop in and spend some time coloring.
Performance: The Birds
Two Athenians guided by a crow and a jackdaw leave their city and all its arguments in order to look for a better life. This is the start of an idea one of them eventually has--that birds were the original gods and should build themselves a great city between heaven and earth. The nightingale calls the birds of the world who begin to assemble and start building that city in the sky. Actors as well as puppets will be used in this new adaptation.
Friday, 29 Apr 2016
Paint Your Own Pottery Sale
20-50% off bisque-ware through May 5
Study Break: Coloring Books!
Could you benefit from a play break during to clear your mind during finals week? Drop in and spend some time coloring.
Concert: Michael Londra, opera
Irish tenor Michael Londra is known internationally for singing traditional Irish music. The evening will include Londra's renowned rendition of "Danny Boy" and also musicians playing fiddles, uillean pipes and bodhran drums to accompany him.
Performance: The Birds
Two Athenians guided by a crow and a jackdaw leave their city and all its arguments in order to look for a better life. This is the start of an idea one of them eventually has--that birds were the original gods and should build themselves a great city between heaven and earth. The nightingale calls the birds of the world who begin to assemble and start building that city in the sky. Actors as well as puppets will be used in this new adaptation.