Hours
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday;
10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday;
12-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Locations
After the June 2008 flooding of the UIMA's former Riverside Drive home, the building was deemed unsuitable for the return of artwork. However, the UIMA collection was saved, and through the use of temporary facilities and creative outreach, the Museum continues to offer the invaluable experience of art to the University, the community, the state of Iowa, and beyond. We invite you to visit our temporary locations:
Iowa Memorial Union
125 North Madison Street, Iowa City, IA 52242
imu.uiowa.edu
The UIMA@IMU, an on-campus visual classroom, features an expansive installation of art from the Museum's permanent collection. The display, located on the third floor of the Iowa Memorial Union in the Richey Ballroom, covers a range of locales and periods, including Africa, China, Japan, Tibet, and the Ancient Americas, as well as 20th-century European and American ceramics, conceptual art, and figurative art. In addition, the UIMA@IMU stores 250 prints, drawings, and photographs for a total of more than 500 available objects.
- Admission to the UIMA@IMU is free and open to the public.
- Schedule an appointment for classes online today or call 319.335.3232.
- Parking for the UIMA@IMU is available in the IMU Parking Ramp on North Madison Street, located across the street from the IMU's east side, as well as at the meters in the small parking lot on the IMU's south side.
- The UIMA@IMU is sponsored by Yvonne L. McCabe in memory of Dr. Brian F. McCabe.
Black Box Theater
The Iowa Memorial Union also houses a second temporary UIMA location, the Black Box Theater, which has been renovated for periodic use as a Museum exhibition space.
Studio Arts Building
1375 Highway 1 West, 1840 SA, Iowa City, IA 52242
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday
- Temporary UIMA administrative offices will be located at the Studio Arts Building on Highway 1 West in Iowa City until a permanent Museum is constructed.
- Cambus runs a shuttle from downtown Iowa City to Studio Arts on a 30-minute schedule daily and weekends. For more information, see Studio Arts Cambus Schedule.
- Free student parking is available in the Studio Arts lot. For more information, see Parking - Studio Arts.
Levitt Center for University Advancement
1 West Park Road, Iowa City, IA, 52244
uifoundation.org/lcua/
Open by appointment only.
319.335.3232
- A selection of art from the UIMA's African art collection is currently on view at the University of Iowa's Levitt Center for University Advancement.
- Get map and directions to the Levitt Center
- If you'd like to see more African art, visit the UIMA@IMU, located in the Iowa Memorial Union's third-floor Richey Ballroom.
Figge Art Museum
225 West Second St., Davenport, IA, 52801
Tuesday through Saturday 10 am-5 pm;
Thursdays 10 am-9 pm;
Sundays 12-5 pm
563.326.7804
The Figge Art Museum in Davenport, located approximately one hour east of Iowa City, graciously offered the UIMA gallery space and storage of its permanent collection after the 2008 flood prevented the UIMA from returning to its former Riverside Drive building. UIMA-organized exhibitions will periodically be on display at the Figge Art Museum, including the ongoing A Legacy for Iowa: Pollock's Mural and Modern Masterworks from the University of Iowa Museum of Art, which includes major works from the UIMA collection.
University of Iowa students, faculty and staff receive free admission to the Figge with their UI ID cards; UIMA donors get in free with their Donor Courtesy Cards. Please visit the Figge Art Museum's website for more visitor's information.
About
The University of Iowa Museum of Art, established in 1969, has one of the top university art collections in the country. Approximately 12,400 objects constitute diverse collections that include paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, ceramics, textiles, jade, and silver. The Elliott Collection includes paintings by Braque, De Chirico, Kandinsky, Léger, Marc, Matisse, Picasso, and Vlaminck, among others. The Stanley Collection of African Art is part of one of the most significant collections of African art in the country which today numbers almost 2,000 objects. Other significant areas of the collections include nearly 5,300 prints spanning the history of Western printmaking, several hundred ceramics (primarily American studio ceramics), Pre-Columbian objects as well as small but superb groups of ancient Etruscan and Roman art, and Native American ledger drawings. Two of the most well-known works in the collections were given to the Museum by the School of Art and Art History: Max Beckmann’s triptych, Karneval, purchased by the faculty in 1946, and Jackson Pollock’s Mural, painted in 1943 for Peggy Guggenheim which she gave to the School in 1951.
Since its inception the UIMA has enjoyed a close working relationship with the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History and for several decades has sponsored the annual MFA show as well as the faculty exhibitions. Faculty from the SAAH and elsewhere, and graduate students on campus have curated shows at the Museum that are closely linked with their research, courses, and seminars. The teaching mission of the UIMA embraces the curriculum of the University of Iowa and extends throughout the state.
After the flood of June 2008, the Museum building was permanently evacuated. The collections were moved out in time and today are temporarily located in the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, fifty miles from Iowa City. The Museum’s dedicated spaces on campus include the "UIMA@IMU," a new 4,000-square-foot visual classroom in the Iowa Memorial Union that houses more than 500 works of art from the collections. In addition, objects from the African art collections are located in the Stanley Gallery of the Levitt Center for University Advancement.
Through the use of temporary facilities and creative outreach, the Museum continues to offer the invaluable experience of art to the University, the community, the state of Iowa, and beyond. The Museum remains steadfast in its mission despite losing its permanent facility and continues to:
- Build and preserve its remarkable art collection
- Present ground-breaking exhibitions
- Offer K-12 programming for hundreds of Iowa students each year
- Create opportunities for UI art students and faculty, including access to works from the UIMA collection
- Provide free community programming including openings, lectures, and readings
As part of its historic dedication to the Fine Arts, the University is committed to building an architecturally significant new Museum building to replace the building flooded in 2008. This new building is part of the re-envisioning of the arts on campus. The new building will house the Museum’s world-class collections and will provide classrooms and labs as a mode of integrating the Museum with the study of the visual arts and the academic mission of the University.
Collections
- European Art 1900-1970
- A selection of works in the UIMA's collection of European Art from 1900-1970 is now on view at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa.
- American Art 1900-1970
- Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
- African Art
- Works on Paper before 1900
- European and American Prints, Drawings, Photographs 1900-1970
- Arts of the Ancient Americas and Native America
- Ceramics and Metal Work
- A selection of ceramics from the UIMA permanent collection is now on view at the UIMA@IMU, a temporary, on-campus visual classroom located in the Iowa Memorial Union's third-floor Richey Ballroom.
Exhibitions
Iowa: Inspired by Landscape
Eye on UI Faculty
Events
ART|IOWA: INSPIRED BY LANDSCAPE
February 2, 2012
UI Old Capitol Museum
Inspired by Landscape, featuring art from the Meskwaki people, Grant Wood, and several contemporary Iowa artists, opens Thursday, February 2, at the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum.
The exhibit is a collaboration involving Old Capitol, the UI Museum of Art, and UI Museum of Natural History.
The opening will be celebrated with a free, public reception from 5 to 7 p.m. with light hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar.
Contemporary Iowa artists featured in the exhibit will include Barbara Fedeler, John Klopp, Bruce Morrison, Thomas Agran, Judy Bales, and Robert Craig. Their works have previously been displayed on the Daily Palette, which was started by the Experimental Wing, a part of the Virtual Writing University.
Interviews with each of the contemporary artists -- conducted by Kallie Holt, a recent UI graduate in Art and Art History -- will be featured on a website within the exhibit. The newly opened Digital Studio for the Public Humanities -- directed by Jon Winet, associate professor in the School of Art and Art History -- is handling technology design and implementation of the mobile web app featured in the exhibit.
For more information on the Old Capitol Museum, please visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~oldcap.
Eye on UI Faculty
Spring 2012 Semester
Second Floor North Reading Room, UI Main Library
Washington St. and Madison St., Iowa City, IA
This spring semester, the UIMA is pleased to again feature works in the second floor reading room of the UI Main Library.
The display will feature paintings by Stuart Edie and James Lechay, as well as silkscreens and mixed media work by Byron Burford.
Kathy Edwards, chief curator of the UIMA, comments:
“Occasionally, a generation of faculty is recalled as more than the sum of its parts. The department of painting in the School of Art and Art History boasted three fantastic educators, whose work this display commemorates. Professors Byron Burford (1920–2011), Stuart Edie (1908–1974), and James Lechay (1907–2001) are fondly remembered by hundreds of students for their many talents. As this display attests, their aesthetic contributions were as significant as their dedication to teaching.”
This presentation is co-sponsored by the UI School of Art and Art History and the UI Main Library.
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