Wednesday, 01 Feb 2023
Curator's Tour of "Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy"
Join curator Sydney Marshall for a tour through Harriet Bart's retrospective exhibition "Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy."
Thursday, 02 Feb 2023
Comedy Night: Daphnique Springs
Comedian, writer, & actress Daphnique Springs has opened for Martin Lawrence, been featured on HBO's All Def Comedy, and has been seen on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, BET's The Comedy Get Down, CBS's How I Met Your Mother, NBC's Last Call With Carson Daly, and more!
Friday, 03 Feb 2023
Performance: Hairspray
Broadway's Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon is back on tour. Join 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960s Baltimore as she sets out to dance her way onto TV's most popular show. Can a girl with big dreams (and even bigger hair) change the world?
Sunday, 05 Feb 2023
Exploring the Different Beadwork Techniques of American Indian Peoples: Discussion and Demonstration
Join Dr. Brianna Burke, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies and English, to learn more about the importance of beadwork to multiple American Indian nations. Participants will have the opportunity to try different beading techniques.
Argentine Tango Drop-In Lessons
This Milonga (dance party) is a multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance. Classes meet every Sunday and drop-ins are welcome. Purchase a dance punch card and attend as often as your schedule allows. Open to ages 18+.
Monday, 06 Feb 2023
Woodshop Orientation with John Burright
Learn the fundamentals of woodworking equipment while creating a key rack and shelf. Leave class with knowledge of proper machinery use, and most importantly, woodshop safety. Students may purchase the key rack for $10 after class or we will use them for our Art Mart fundraiser. The orientation is required in order to use the woodshop on your own.
Wednesday, 08 Feb 2023
Valentine's Day Pop Up Art Sale
Choose from an array of adorable succulents planted in pottery from The Workspace. Personalize your flora with add-in options including tiny animals and sweet messages on plant stakes. Complete the package with a cheeky Valentine's Day card created by artist Kristin Erdman.
Grandma Mojo's Improv Comedy
A group of ISU students gets together for an improv comedy show like no other! There are screams, tears, and lots of laughter! You don't want to miss it!
Thursday, 09 Feb 2023
Valentine's Day Pop Up Art Sale
Choose from an array of adorable succulents planted in pottery from The Workspace. Personalize your flora with add-in options including tiny animals and sweet messages on plant stakes. Complete the package with a cheeky Valentine's Day card created by artist Kristin Erdman.
Sketching on Napkins Take 2 | The Jack Trice Tribute Story: "Breaking Barriers"
This program will explore the recent sculpture by public artist Ivan Toth Depeña that honors, commemorates and memorializes Trice's campus legacy as expressed through the power of art.
Concert: Shawn Holt & The Teardrops
Shawn Holt is the son of blues legend Magic Slim. The high energy, hard-driving sound of The Teardrops is still alive and well and if you like what Magic Slim and The Teardrops had been doing for the last 35 years, you can continue to enjoy that unique sound and energy with Shawn Holt, a chip off the old block, fronting his dad's band.
Friday, 10 Feb 2023
Valentine's Day Pop Up Art Sale
Choose from an array of adorable succulents planted in pottery from The Workspace. Personalize your flora with add-in options including tiny animals and sweet messages on plant stakes. Complete the package with a cheeky Valentine's Day card created by artist Kristin Erdman.
Date Night at the Christian Petersen Art Museum
Try something new for date night and visit the Christian Petersen Art Museum to make a mini zine and look at art together, with friends or a special someone.
Sunday, 12 Feb 2023
Embracing Ambiguity in Greek Vase Painting with Sarah Bartlett, former Pohlman Fellow
Join former Pohlman Fellow Sarah Bartlett (M.A. Anthropology '23) as she explores a new way to look at ancient pottery to better include female voices in our discussion of Ancient Athens with ethnographic consideration of early interpretations of the ancient world.
Argentine Tango Drop-In Lessons
This Milonga (dance party) is a multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance. Classes meet every Sunday and drop-ins are welcome. Purchase a dance punch card and attend as often as your schedule allows. Open to ages 18+.
Monday, 13 Feb 2023
Valentine's Day Pop Up Art Sale
Choose from an array of adorable succulents planted in pottery from The Workspace. Personalize your flora with add-in options including tiny animals and sweet messages on plant stakes. Complete the package with a cheeky Valentine's Day card created by artist Kristin Erdman.
Performance: My Fair Lady
From Lincoln Center Theater that brought you "The King & I" and "South Pacific," comes "a sumptuous new production of the most perfect musical of all time" (Entertainment Weekly), Lerner and Loewe's "My Fair Lady." Director Bartlett Sher's glowing production is "thrilling, glorious and better than it ever was" (New York Times).
Tuesday, 14 Feb 2023
Valentine's Day Pop Up Art Sale
Choose from an array of adorable succulents planted in pottery from The Workspace. Personalize your flora with add-in options including tiny animals and sweet messages on plant stakes. Complete the package with a cheeky Valentine's Day card created by artist Kristin Erdman.
Open Mic Night
ISU students - are you looking to impress your fellow Cyclones with your singing, comedy, chainsaw juggling, or other talents? Then don't miss Open Mic Night at the M-Shop! (No chainsaw juggling, please)
Thursday, 16 Feb 2023
Exploring Careers in Museums and Archives
Interested in a career in museums, libraries, or archives? Join University Museums staff, University Library archivists, conservators, and many more professionals from around central Iowa for an informal meet and greet to learn more about these unique career paths.
Stained Glass Class with Rod Simpson
Create a small panel using an array of beautifully colored glass. Learn how to handle glass, choose colors and textures, fit glass to patterns, cut, grind, foil, and solder. Enhanced by daylight, your piece will change based on the weather, season, and time of day.
Sunday, 19 Feb 2023
Leave it in the Ground: Poems and Drawings
Debra Marquart, Distinguished Professor and Iowa Poet Laureate, will read from her in-progress book-length poem, "Leave it in the Ground," and share images created in collaboration with visual artist Tom Rice. Together, the book and art will examine the true cost of oil extraction to the planet.
Argentine Tango Drop-In Lessons
This Milonga (dance party) is a multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance. Classes meet every Sunday and drop-ins are welcome. Purchase a dance punch card and attend as often as your schedule allows. Open to ages 18+.
From the Console to the Stage - Jazz Combo
Join Seth Watgen and his jazz combo for a reimagining of video game music from the Persona 5 soundtrack. The music has been rearranged from the ground up to make it the central experience over the visuals and gameplay. Video will be paired in concert with the live-performed music to provide listeners with a multimedia experience.
Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023
Glass Beads Class
Learn to create colorful beads by heating and shaping glass with a torch - yes, we get to work with fire! Build your skills with step-by-step instruction and see how the quality of your beads evolves. Use these beauties in your next jewelry project, or display them as tiny works of art.
Performance: ZuZu African Acrobats
Hailing from Tanzania, the ZUZU African Acrobats celebrate the 2,000-year-old Bantu culture of East Africa in every performance. Performing ancient traditions passed on by elders, this troupe delivers incredible acrobatics, energizing African drumming, singing and dancing, and gravity defying stunts while simultaneously displaying the grace, beauty and strength of the Tanzanian culture of East Africa.
Wednesday, 22 Feb 2023
CANCELED: Art Walk
This has been canceled due to weather challenges.
Grandma Mojo's Improv Comedy
A group of ISU students gets together for an improv comedy show like no other! There are screams, tears, and lots of laughter! You don't want to miss it!
Friday, 24 Feb 2023
Concert: Iowa State Symphonic Band
The 80-member symphonic band will perform works by Tchaikowsky, Copland, Thomas, Ticheli, Bach, Kistler and Galante.
ISU AfterDark
Students are invited to the Memorial Union from 9pm-1am to participate in a variety of free activities that include bingo, entertainment and a novelty activity.