Saturday, 19 Feb 2022
Paint Your Own Pottery: BLM Week
Black History Month Event: 20% of this week's pottery painting will be donated to the Black Student Alliance
Carillon Concert: Let Freedom Ring
A carillon concert in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., performed by university carilloneur and Charles T. & Ivadelle Cobb Cownie Professor of Music Tin-Shi Tam. Part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series.
Sunday, 20 Feb 2022
Songwriter Showcase: Ryne Doughty
Ryne Doughty is a Folk/Americana singer-songwriter out of Des Moines, IA, whose music is deeply rooted in real life stories of love, loss, work, and play. His stripped down, earthy sound is directly influenced by the small, rural town where he was born and raised. The hard-working, simple living, and friendly way of life of the Midwest shines through his music that is understated yet complex and rich with beauty and realness.
Monday, 21 Feb 2022
Drop-In Craft: Ankara Fabric Jewlery
Black History Month Event: Ankara fabric (or African Wax Printing) is created through a wax-resist dyeing technique and is known for its vivid colors and bold patterns. Cover wood jewelry blanks with the Ankara pattern you choose to make a pair of custom earrings. *Not available to go*
Drop-In Craft: Mini Zen Garden and Stone Mandala
Create a set of small visual reminders of the need to slow down and be present in your life.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Dungeons and Dragons Week
Make your weekly game night a critical hit with a personalized pub mug, dice-box, or bank for your loot. Find creatures, monsters, characters, and dragons that will impress the most ruthless DM. Welcome RPG'ers, and to thine own elf be true.
Tuesday, 22 Feb 2022
Drop-In Craft: Ankara Fabric Jewlery
Black History Month Event: Ankara fabric (or African Wax Printing) is created through a wax-resist dyeing technique and is known for its vivid colors and bold patterns. Cover wood jewelry blanks with the Ankara pattern you choose to make a pair of custom earrings. *Not available to go*
Drop-In Craft: Mini Zen Garden and Stone Mandala
Create a set of small visual reminders of the need to slow down and be present in your life.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Dungeons and Dragons Week
Make your weekly game night a critical hit with a personalized pub mug, dice-box, or bank for your loot. Find creatures, monsters, characters, and dragons that will impress the most ruthless DM. Welcome RPG'ers, and to thine own elf be true.
Performance: Cirque Mechanics
Cirque Mechanics, although inspired by modern circus, finds its roots in the mechanical and its heart in the stories of American ingenuity. The shows, rooted in realism, display a raw quality, rarely found in modern circus that makes their message timeless and relevant. The stories are wrapped in circus acrobatics, mechanical wonders and a bit of clowning around.
Wednesday, 23 Feb 2022
Art Walk: Textiles in Public Art
This guided tour will discuss artist, process, and innovation of textiles in the Art on Campus Collection.
Drop-In Craft: Ankara Fabric Jewlery
Black History Month Event: Ankara fabric (or African Wax Printing) is created through a wax-resist dyeing technique and is known for its vivid colors and bold patterns. Cover wood jewelry blanks with the Ankara pattern you choose to make a pair of custom earrings. *Not available to go*
Drop-In Craft: Mini Zen Garden and Stone Mandala
Create a set of small visual reminders of the need to slow down and be present in your life.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Dungeons and Dragons Week
Make your weekly game night a critical hit with a personalized pub mug, dice-box, or bank for your loot. Find creatures, monsters, characters, and dragons that will impress the most ruthless DM. Welcome RPG'ers, and to thine own elf be true.
Performance: Jazz Night
A performance by ISU jazz students.
Thursday, 24 Feb 2022
Drop-In Craft: Ankara Fabric Jewlery
Black History Month Event: Ankara fabric (or African Wax Printing) is created through a wax-resist dyeing technique and is known for its vivid colors and bold patterns. Cover wood jewelry blanks with the Ankara pattern you choose to make a pair of custom earrings. *Not available to go*
Drop-In Craft: Mini Zen Garden and Stone Mandala
Create a set of small visual reminders of the need to slow down and be present in your life.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Dungeons and Dragons Week
Make your weekly game night a critical hit with a personalized pub mug, dice-box, or bank for your loot. Find creatures, monsters, characters, and dragons that will impress the most ruthless DM. Welcome RPG'ers, and to thine own elf be true.
Performance: Marielle Kraft + Skout
When you hear Marielle Kraft's music or experience her candid live shows, you feel as though you already know her. The indie pop singer/songwriter, now based in Nashville, displays craftsmanship beyond her years. Skout is the musical moniker of Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist Laura Valk. She's known for percussive, melodic guitar work and introspective songwriting.
Friday, 25 Feb 2022
Drop-In Craft: Ankara Fabric Jewlery
Black History Month Event: Ankara fabric (or African Wax Printing) is created through a wax-resist dyeing technique and is known for its vivid colors and bold patterns. Cover wood jewelry blanks with the Ankara pattern you choose to make a pair of custom earrings. *Not available to go*
Drop-In Craft: Mini Zen Garden and Stone Mandala
Create a set of small visual reminders of the need to slow down and be present in your life.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Dungeons and Dragons Week
Make your weekly game night a critical hit with a personalized pub mug, dice-box, or bank for your loot. Find creatures, monsters, characters, and dragons that will impress the most ruthless DM. Welcome RPG'ers, and to thine own elf be true.
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.
Saturday, 26 Feb 2022
Drop-In Craft: Ankara Fabric Jewlery
Black History Month Event: Ankara fabric (or African Wax Printing) is created through a wax-resist dyeing technique and is known for its vivid colors and bold patterns. Cover wood jewelry blanks with the Ankara pattern you choose to make a pair of custom earrings. *Not available to go*
Drop-In Craft: Mini Zen Garden and Stone Mandala
Create a set of small visual reminders of the need to slow down and be present in your life.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Dungeons and Dragons Week
Make your weekly game night a critical hit with a personalized pub mug, dice-box, or bank for your loot. Find creatures, monsters, characters, and dragons that will impress the most ruthless DM. Welcome RPG'ers, and to thine own elf be true.
Sunday, 27 Feb 2022
Iowa Maker Series: Metals with Joe Muench
Join metalsmith and ISU professor Joe Muench as he discusses how he came to work with metal as his artistic medium, some themes behind his metal sculpture, and the innovative processes he uses to produce it.
Monday, 28 Feb 2022
Drop-In Craft: Mini Zen Garden and Stone Mandala
Create a set of small visual reminders of the need to slow down and be present in your life.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Cereal Bowl Week
Paint a bowl for your morning staple or late-night snack. When you pick up your bowl after firing, we will throw in a single-serve cereal box to get you started.
Woodshop Orientation with John Burright
Learn the fundamentals of woodworking equipment while creating a tool carrier. Leave class with knowledge of proper machinery use, and most importantly, woodshop safety.