Friday, 14 Feb 2020
Performance: Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland tells the incredible story behind one of the world's most beloved characters: Peter Pan. Playwright J. M. Barrie struggles to find inspiration until he meets four young brothers and their beautiful widowed mother. With a little bit of pixie dust and a lot of faith, Barrie takes this monumental leap, leap, leaving his ole world behind for Neverland where nothing is impossible.
Monday, 17 Feb 2020
Walk-in Craft: Ankara Wrapped Bangle Bracelets
Ankara fabric (or African Wax Printing) is created through a wax-resist dyeing technique and is known for its vivid colors and bold patterns. Find a combination of Ankara fabrics that you like, and we will show you how to wrap them around cord to make a set of three bracelets sized just for you.
Tuesday, 18 Feb 2020
Walk-in Craft: Ankara Wrapped Bangle Bracelets
Ankara fabric (or African Wax Printing) is created through a wax-resist dyeing technique and is known for its vivid colors and bold patterns. Find a combination of Ankara fabrics that you like, and we will show you how to wrap them around cord to make a set of three bracelets sized just for you.
Open Mic Night
Open Mic Night gives students the chance to show off their talents to fellow peers. Many perform as musicians, comedians, and poets. Enjoy a night full of talented Iowa State Students. (Sign Up starts at 7:30 p.m. until all spots are filled)
Wednesday, 19 Feb 2020
Walk-in Craft: Ankara Wrapped Bangle Bracelets
Ankara fabric (or African Wax Printing) is created through a wax-resist dyeing technique and is known for its vivid colors and bold patterns. Find a combination of Ankara fabrics that you like, and we will show you how to wrap them around cord to make a set of three bracelets sized just for you.
Woven Wall Hanging Class
The popularity of weaving is back, and this is a great way to get started on your fibers journey. Learn basic skills including how to set up a small loom, creating shapes by decreasing and increasing warps, knotting, and incorporating wool roving and other textures. Experiment with adding non-traditional elements to your weaving such as paper or natural elements. Finish a 13" x 18" weaving that will be ready to hang in your favorite space.
ISU Jazz Ensembles I
James Bovinette, Director of Jazz 1
Thursday, 20 Feb 2020
Walk-in Craft: Ankara Wrapped Bangle Bracelets
Ankara fabric (or African Wax Printing) is created through a wax-resist dyeing technique and is known for its vivid colors and bold patterns. Find a combination of Ankara fabrics that you like, and we will show you how to wrap them around cord to make a set of three bracelets sized just for you.
Reception: "The Good Sport" exhibit
Artist Rachel Merrill, a multidisciplinary artist and associate professor of art and design at Grand View University, Des Moines, will speak at 6 p.m. Drinks and refreshments will be provided.
Striped Cutting Board Class
Using strips of hardwood like maple, walnut and cherry, create a cutting board that will be a beautiful addition to your kitchen.
SUB Comedy Night w/ Sara Schaefer
SUB Comedy Night with Sara Schaefer
Friday, 21 Feb 2020
Arts Midwest World Fest
Okaidja Afroso's latest album, "The Palm Wine Sea," brings together the deep understanding of Okaidja's own musical transitions and the inspiration of Africa throughout Latin America. The music of "The Palm Wine Sea" is the music of the human experience. It is joyous, tragic and uplifting. It embodies the vast perfect/imperfect shared human story.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Potty Mouth Pottery
hHwhen you paint whatever @#$! words you want on a bowl, mug, or plate at this event.
Arts Midwest World Fest
Okaidja Afroso's latest album, "The Palm Wine Sea," brings together the deep understanding of Okaidja's own musical transitions and the inspiration of Africa throughout Latin America. The music of "The Palm Wine Sea" is the music of the human experience. It is joyous, tragic and uplifting. It embodies the vast perfect/imperfect shared human story.
Performance: Concert of Soloists
The ISU Symphony Orchestra will showcase some of the best student musicians on campus during its annual Concert of Soloists.
Sunday, 23 Feb 2020
Floating World: Karen LaMonte's Kimono Sculptures
Join Alice Hammond, who represents Karen LaMonte at Gerald Peters Contemporary, as she discusses the ways in which Japanese culture and artwork is reflected in LaMonte's Floating World body of work.
ISU Concert Band and Campus Band
ISU students play music from new composers and old favorites.
Monday, 24 Feb 2020
Monday Monologues series
"The Creative Process of Poetry & Prose," readings by Kartika Budhwar, MFA candidate in the creative writing and environment. She writes about porous borderlands where myth meets history, where the colonizer and colonized come together, where languages spar and fuse, where gender and sexuality collapse upon themselves, and where the supernatural and the organic have equal claim.
Wheel Pottery Class
Get your hands dirty and make beautiful things! Start with centering clay and pulling cylinders, the building blocks to throwing on the wheel. Move on to forming bowls, mugs, vases and plates, and learn handle-pulling, glazing and finishing techniques. Open to beginners as well as those with experience who would like to improve their skills.
Woodshop Orientation
Learn the fundamentals of woodworking equipment while creating a tool carrier. Leave class with knowledge of proper machinery use, and, most importantly, woodshop safety. Students may purchase the toolbox for $6 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.
cancelled -Jazz @ the Maintenance Shop
James Bovinette is director.
Tuesday, 25 Feb 2020
Gallery Chat with Dr. Michele Schaal
In conjunction with the exhibition Creating Global Understanding, members of the World Languages and Culture faculty will lead informal discussions of the works of art they researched and interpreted.
Wednesday, 26 Feb 2020
Jazz Night
Professor Michael Giles directs the jazz ensembles
Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival Comedy Troupe
This group is great for those who love the improv comedy humor of their fellow college students and can't get enough of location, occupation, means of death.
Friday, 28 Feb 2020
Paint Your Own Pottery: Raining Cats and Dogs
Pet lovers, this night is for you! Find mugs, plates, bowls, treat jars, water dishes, figurines, and more!
ISU Symphonic Band
The Symphonic Band is an 80-member ensemble that explores traditional as well as contemporary works by composers such as Percy Grainger, Malcolm Arnold, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Leonard Bernstein. The Symphonic Band is conducted by Steven Smyth, Associate Director of Bands.
Performance: The Wolves
From the safety of their warm-up circle, an all-girls soccer team navigates the big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. This production contains mature content.
John Primer
John Primer paved the way for Chicago blues. He has played with Sammy Lawhorn, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, and more.
Saturday, 29 Feb 2020
Performance: The Wolves
From the safety of their warm-up circle, an all-girls soccer team navigates the big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. This production contains mature content.
Trevor Sensor & Halfloves
Trevor Sensor is widely known for his 2016 debut EP and is often compared to artists like Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. His voice sounds aged decades beyond his years. Halfloves mixes pop sensibilities with heady textures and space to create an emotionally charged sound.