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2200 C St. SW , Cedar Rapids(319) 362-85001400 Inspiration Place SW , Cedar Rapids
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Spooky Saturday
<p>Spooky Saturday is a Czech Village tradition! <br>The village merchants welcome you to the avenue for safe, daytime family friendly Trick or Treating, 10am- noon, Saturday, Oct 26, 2019. </p> 2019-09-26 12:00:00 -0500
10/26/1910:00 a.m.Czech VillageCedar Rapids -
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Czech Christmas Cookies I
<p>Christmas cookies are part of most families’ Christmas traditions, and not only in the USA. In this course, you will get a great opportunity to extend your current recipe portfolio with three traditional kinds of Czech Christmas cookies, which are very delicious and original. You will learn how to prepare mini walnut rolls coated in sugar, Ischel’s cookies (with a touch of cinnamon and filled with preserves and coated with chocolate coating), and chocolate mini nests with almonds. </p><ul><li>Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</li></ul> 2019-08-27 20:30:00 -050012/03/195:30 p.m.Kirkwood Kitchen at NewBo City MarketCedar Rapids -
Czech Christmas Cookies II
<p>As a continuation of Czech Christmas Cookies I course, this course will also introduce you to two other kinds of traditional Czech Christmas Cookies. You will learn how to prepare linz tart cookies, as well as delicate cookies named after the May beetle (includes a delicate meringue top, and also a delicate chocolate-rum cream). You can attend this course without having attended the Czech Christmas Cookies I class. </p><ul><li>Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</li></ul> 2019-08-27 20:30:00 -050012/04/195:30 p.m.Kirkwood Kitchen at NewBo City MarketCedar Rapids -
Czech Christmas Meal: Schnitzel with Potato Salad
<p>Let’s celebrate Christmas with this traditional and delicious meal. Although Schnitzel originated in Italy, by the mid-19th century it made its way to Vienna. From there, it wasn't long before the Schnitzel become popular in the Czech and Slovak Republics as well. As time passed, it came to be considered a traditional Czech meal. The Czech name for this meal is "?ízek", and is commonly prepared from chicken, pork, or veal. Schnitzel is often served with potato salad, boiled potatoes, or mashed potatoes. </p><ul><li>Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</li></ul> 2019-08-27 20:00:00 -050012/18/196:00 p.m.Kirkwood Kitchen at NewBo City MarketCedar Rapids -
Double St. Petersburg Chain Bracelet
<p>Did you know that this stitch originated in Russia? This class will get you familiar with the double version of this stitch, utilizing lots of repetition to create a bracelet. This stitch is great for making leaf motifs, too. You will use Toho seed beads and pressed glass from the Czech Republic. Materials fee $30.</p><ul><li>Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</li></ul> 2019-08-13 16:00:00 -050010/29/191:00 p.m.Beadology IowaIowa City -
Double St. Petersburg Chain Bracelet through Kirkwood
<p>This stitch originated in Russia. This class will get you familiar with the double version of this stitch with lots of repetition to create a bracelet. This stitch is great for making leaf motifs, too. You will use Toho seed beads and pressed glass from the Czech Republic. </p><p><em>Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at:</em></p><p><a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/">www.kirkwood.edu</a><em> and go to Continuing Education and then search for Beadology Iowa under the instructor search. On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants. </em> Instructor: Karen Kubby.</p><p><strong>$30 instructor fee/$30 materials fee.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> 2019-09-20 16:00:00 -0500
10/29/191:00 p.m.Beadology IowaIowa City -
Make Your NaNoWriMo Book Cover Image
<p>Are you writing a novel this November during National Novel Writing Month? Nanowrimo.org provides space for a small book cover image (a 230 x 300 pixel JPG) on your account screen. Make something that will motivate you to reach the 50,000 word finish line! We'll look at contemporary examples of book covers, find free stock images, and use Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator to create images. There is a limit of 10 participants. (Taking part in National Novel Writing Month is not a requirement for this class. Feel free to register if you have a similar project.)</p><p><br></p> 2019-10-04 19:30:00 -0500
10/28/196:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Delt Lecture: Steven Chu on "Climate Change"
<p>Nobel Prize winner and former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will speak on “Climate Change and Innovative Paths to a Sustainable Future” as the next Delta Phi Rho Lecturer at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, in <a href="https://www.cornellcollege.edu/about-cornell/pdfs/maps/campus-map.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">King Chapel on the Cornell College campus</a>.</p><p>Chu, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology in the Medical School at Stanford University, was invited to campus in honor of the completion of Cornell’s $35 million <a href="https://news.cornellcollege.edu/2017/02/cornell-announces-35-million-science-facilities-project-largest-outright-cash-gift-history/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Science Facilities Project</a>.</p><p>Chu was the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy, from January 2009 until the end of April 2013. As the first scientist to hold a Cabinet position and the longest-serving Energy Secretary, he recruited outstanding scientists and engineers into the Department of Energy. He began several initiatives including ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy), the Energy Innovation Hubs, was personally tasked by President Barack Obama to assist BP in stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, and initiated in 2010 the annual Clean Energy Ministerial.</p><p>Chu has published over 280 papers in atomic and polymer physics, biophysics, biology, batteries, and other energy technologies. He holds 15 patents and an additional eight patent filings since 2015.</p><p>Prior to his cabinet post, he was director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he pursued alternative and renewable energy technologies, and professor of physics and applied physics at Stanford University, where he helped launch Bio-X, a multi-disciplinary institute combining the physical and biological sciences with medicine and engineering. Previously he was head of the Quantum Electronics Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories.</p><p>Chu is the co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to laser cooling and atom trapping and has received numerous other prestigious awards. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Sinica, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology, and the National Academy of Sciences, Belarus. He is the president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.</p> 2019-09-12 20:00:00 -0500
10/24/197:00 p.m.Cornell College, King ChapelMount Vernon -
UN Day Celebration
<p>We celebrate UN Day with the theme "Our Planet; Our Future". We will have a speaker from the UN Foundation in Washington DC to speak. Michael McColpin is a Communications Officer with the Digital Media Team at the United Nations Foundation. As a Communications Officer, Michael created digital content and campaigns for a variety of mediums for the Foundation. He graduated from the University of Illinois-Springfield with a dual degree in Political Science and Global Studies.</p><p>Mayor Brad Hart will read a Proclamation from the city for UN Day. State Sen. Rob Hogg will be celebrated as the Honorary Chair for UN Day.</p> 2019-09-08 21:00:00 -0500
10/24/197:00 p.m.First Lutheran ChurchCedar Rapids -
Double St. Petersburg Chain Bracelet
<p>Did you know that this stitch originated in Russia? This class will get you familiar with the double version of this stitch, utilizing lots of repetition to create a bracelet. This stitch is great for making leaf motifs, too. You will use Toho seed beads and pressed glass from the Czech Republic. Materials fee $30.</p><ul><li>Registration is required prior to the class start date. If you have questions or would like to register, please visit <a href="http://www.kirkwood.edu/ce">www.kirkwood.edu/ce</a> or contact 319-398-1022.</li></ul> 2019-08-13 21:00:00 -050011/18/196:00 p.m.Beadology IowaIowa City -
Great White Hoax: Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America
<p>Acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise explores how Donald Trump expertly tapped into long-simmering racial tensions and rode an accelerating wave of white anxiety and grievance straight to the White House.</p><p>Rejecting the notion that Trump’s racial appeals to white voters during the 2016 campaign somehow represented a break with business as usual, Wise shows how the politics of racial scapegoating have been operative in conservative and establishment Republican circles for decades. He also rejects the notion that the rise of Trump can be explained by the Democratic Party’s failure to speak to the economic anxieties of white working-class voters, showing how it was cultural anxiety, more than anything else, that motivated Trump’s white supporters.</p><p>THE GREAT WHITE HOAX offers a fascinating look at how conservative political leaders and strategists have been tapping into anxieties about cultural change to win the support of white Americans, especially white men, for decades. And it makes a powerful case for why Trumpism, and the politics of racial scapegoating, are destined to fail in the end. (Run time: 1.5 hours)</p><p>This screening will be followed by a Q&A session moderated by <strong>Anthony Arrington,</strong> Managing Partner at Top Rank Solutions.</p><p>Doors open at 5 PM. The screening will begin at 5:30.</p><p><br></p> 2019-10-03 20:00:00 -0500
10/24/195:30 p.m.Cedar Rapids Public Library (Whipple Auditorium)Cedar Rapids, Iowa -
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Noah Doely and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
<p>Opening Reception and Gallery Talks:</p><p>October 19th 5-7pm</p><p><br></p><p>Fall 2019 Kocher Visiting Artist Noah Doely creates cyanotypes, which are photographic images using a process that dates from the mid-1800s. According to Doely, “The Prussian blue inherent to the cyanotype process subverts, enhances, camouflages or otherwise alters how the images’ content is perceived.” A current Iowa Arts Council Fellow, Doely is fascinated by science and mythology and how they interplay with art. This exhibition and Doely’s visiting artist appointment at Coe is generously funded by the Robert and Joan Kocher Visual Arts Endowment. </p><p>T.J. Dedeaux-Norris works in a variety of media, including paintings, performance and film, to explore the “invisibility of blackness in cultural forms built upon the appropriation of popular and sacred black expressions and idioms.” Born in Guam, Dedeaux-Norris received her B.A. from UCLA and her MFA from Yale University. Also known as Tameka Norris, she is a 2017 grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibition is funded in part by the Mabel Cherry Lutgerding Endowment.</p> 2019-10-23 18:00:00 -050010/23/194:00 p.m.Coe College Sinclair Auditorium LobbyCedar Rapids -
Noah Doely and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
<p>Opening Reception and Gallery Talks:</p><p>October 19th 5-7pm</p><p><br></p><p>Fall 2019 Kocher Visiting Artist Noah Doely creates cyanotypes, which are photographic images using a process that dates from the mid-1800s. According to Doely, “The Prussian blue inherent to the cyanotype process subverts, enhances, camouflages or otherwise alters how the images’ content is perceived.” A current Iowa Arts Council Fellow, Doely is fascinated by science and mythology and how they interplay with art. This exhibition and Doely’s visiting artist appointment at Coe is generously funded by the Robert and Joan Kocher Visual Arts Endowment. </p><p>T.J. Dedeaux-Norris works in a variety of media, including paintings, performance and film, to explore the “invisibility of blackness in cultural forms built upon the appropriation of popular and sacred black expressions and idioms.” Born in Guam, Dedeaux-Norris received her B.A. from UCLA and her MFA from Yale University. Also known as Tameka Norris, she is a 2017 grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibition is funded in part by the Mabel Cherry Lutgerding Endowment.</p> 2019-10-24 18:00:00 -050010/24/194:00 p.m.Coe College Sinclair Auditorium LobbyCedar Rapids -
Noah Doely and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
<p>Opening Reception and Gallery Talks:</p><p>October 19th 5-7pm</p><p><br></p><p>Fall 2019 Kocher Visiting Artist Noah Doely creates cyanotypes, which are photographic images using a process that dates from the mid-1800s. According to Doely, “The Prussian blue inherent to the cyanotype process subverts, enhances, camouflages or otherwise alters how the images’ content is perceived.” A current Iowa Arts Council Fellow, Doely is fascinated by science and mythology and how they interplay with art. This exhibition and Doely’s visiting artist appointment at Coe is generously funded by the Robert and Joan Kocher Visual Arts Endowment. </p><p>T.J. Dedeaux-Norris works in a variety of media, including paintings, performance and film, to explore the “invisibility of blackness in cultural forms built upon the appropriation of popular and sacred black expressions and idioms.” Born in Guam, Dedeaux-Norris received her B.A. from UCLA and her MFA from Yale University. Also known as Tameka Norris, she is a 2017 grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibition is funded in part by the Mabel Cherry Lutgerding Endowment.</p> 2019-10-25 18:00:00 -050010/25/194:00 p.m.Coe College Sinclair Auditorium LobbyCedar Rapids -
Noah Doely and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
<p>Opening Reception and Gallery Talks:</p><p>October 19th 5-7pm</p><p><br></p><p>Fall 2019 Kocher Visiting Artist Noah Doely creates cyanotypes, which are photographic images using a process that dates from the mid-1800s. According to Doely, “The Prussian blue inherent to the cyanotype process subverts, enhances, camouflages or otherwise alters how the images’ content is perceived.” A current Iowa Arts Council Fellow, Doely is fascinated by science and mythology and how they interplay with art. This exhibition and Doely’s visiting artist appointment at Coe is generously funded by the Robert and Joan Kocher Visual Arts Endowment. </p><p>T.J. Dedeaux-Norris works in a variety of media, including paintings, performance and film, to explore the “invisibility of blackness in cultural forms built upon the appropriation of popular and sacred black expressions and idioms.” Born in Guam, Dedeaux-Norris received her B.A. from UCLA and her MFA from Yale University. Also known as Tameka Norris, she is a 2017 grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibition is funded in part by the Mabel Cherry Lutgerding Endowment.</p> 2019-10-26 18:00:00 -050010/26/194:00 p.m.Coe College Sinclair Auditorium LobbyCedar Rapids -
Noah Doely and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
<p>Opening Reception and Gallery Talks:</p><p>October 19th 5-7pm</p><p><br></p><p>Fall 2019 Kocher Visiting Artist Noah Doely creates cyanotypes, which are photographic images using a process that dates from the mid-1800s. According to Doely, “The Prussian blue inherent to the cyanotype process subverts, enhances, camouflages or otherwise alters how the images’ content is perceived.” A current Iowa Arts Council Fellow, Doely is fascinated by science and mythology and how they interplay with art. This exhibition and Doely’s visiting artist appointment at Coe is generously funded by the Robert and Joan Kocher Visual Arts Endowment. </p><p>T.J. Dedeaux-Norris works in a variety of media, including paintings, performance and film, to explore the “invisibility of blackness in cultural forms built upon the appropriation of popular and sacred black expressions and idioms.” Born in Guam, Dedeaux-Norris received her B.A. from UCLA and her MFA from Yale University. Also known as Tameka Norris, she is a 2017 grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibition is funded in part by the Mabel Cherry Lutgerding Endowment.</p> 2019-10-27 18:00:00 -050010/27/194:00 p.m.Coe College Sinclair Auditorium LobbyCedar Rapids -
Noah Doely and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
<p>Opening Reception and Gallery Talks:</p><p>October 19th 5-7pm</p><p><br></p><p>Fall 2019 Kocher Visiting Artist Noah Doely creates cyanotypes, which are photographic images using a process that dates from the mid-1800s. According to Doely, “The Prussian blue inherent to the cyanotype process subverts, enhances, camouflages or otherwise alters how the images’ content is perceived.” A current Iowa Arts Council Fellow, Doely is fascinated by science and mythology and how they interplay with art. This exhibition and Doely’s visiting artist appointment at Coe is generously funded by the Robert and Joan Kocher Visual Arts Endowment. </p><p>T.J. Dedeaux-Norris works in a variety of media, including paintings, performance and film, to explore the “invisibility of blackness in cultural forms built upon the appropriation of popular and sacred black expressions and idioms.” Born in Guam, Dedeaux-Norris received her B.A. from UCLA and her MFA from Yale University. Also known as Tameka Norris, she is a 2017 grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibition is funded in part by the Mabel Cherry Lutgerding Endowment.</p> 2019-10-28 18:00:00 -050010/28/194:00 p.m.Coe College Sinclair Auditorium LobbyCedar Rapids -
Noah Doely and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
<p>Opening Reception and Gallery Talks:</p><p>October 19th 5-7pm</p><p><br></p><p>Fall 2019 Kocher Visiting Artist Noah Doely creates cyanotypes, which are photographic images using a process that dates from the mid-1800s. According to Doely, “The Prussian blue inherent to the cyanotype process subverts, enhances, camouflages or otherwise alters how the images’ content is perceived.” A current Iowa Arts Council Fellow, Doely is fascinated by science and mythology and how they interplay with art. This exhibition and Doely’s visiting artist appointment at Coe is generously funded by the Robert and Joan Kocher Visual Arts Endowment. </p><p>T.J. Dedeaux-Norris works in a variety of media, including paintings, performance and film, to explore the “invisibility of blackness in cultural forms built upon the appropriation of popular and sacred black expressions and idioms.” Born in Guam, Dedeaux-Norris received her B.A. from UCLA and her MFA from Yale University. Also known as Tameka Norris, she is a 2017 grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibition is funded in part by the Mabel Cherry Lutgerding Endowment.</p> 2019-10-29 18:00:00 -050010/29/194:00 p.m.Coe College Sinclair Auditorium LobbyCedar Rapids -
Thursday Forum - Slavery and the Civil War in American History and Memory
<p>Controversy is once again swirling in the US over issues and events with deep connections to slavery and the Civil War. Communities are hotly debating removal of Confederate flags and monuments; politicians and pundits routinely reference Civil War causes and leaders; and popular music, movies, and museums grapple with how to tell the stories of slavery and the Civil War. Over the course of this forum, Whipple Associate Professor of History Brie Swenson Arnold will explore the United States’ complicated history and memory of slavery and the Civil War. The series begins with an overview of the origins, expansion, and lived experiences of American racial slavery. It continues with a session on the origins and course of the Civil War, a conflict centered on slavery. Weeks three and four turn to examining how Americans have variously portrayed slavery and the Civil War in national memory and popular culture—including in holidays like Memorial Day and Emancipation Day, Civil War sites and monuments, and films like The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone with the Wind (1939), Roots (1977), Glory (1989), Lincoln (2012), Twelve Years a Slave (2013), and Free State of Jones (2016). Throughout, the series will shed light on broader issues in US politics, culture, and society—particularly Americans’ efforts to come to terms with their nation’s complicated history of race and racism.</p> 2019-10-03 11:30:00 -0500
4/02/208:45 a.m.Coe College, Hickok Hall, Kesler Lecture HallCedar Rapids -
Thursday Forum - Slavery and the Civil War in American History and Memory
<p>Controversy is once again swirling in the US over issues and events with deep connections to slavery and the Civil War. Communities are hotly debating removal of Confederate flags and monuments; politicians and pundits routinely reference Civil War causes and leaders; and popular music, movies, and museums grapple with how to tell the stories of slavery and the Civil War. Over the course of this forum, Whipple Associate Professor of History Brie Swenson Arnold will explore the United States’ complicated history and memory of slavery and the Civil War. The series begins with an overview of the origins, expansion, and lived experiences of American racial slavery. It continues with a session on the origins and course of the Civil War, a conflict centered on slavery. Weeks three and four turn to examining how Americans have variously portrayed slavery and the Civil War in national memory and popular culture—including in holidays like Memorial Day and Emancipation Day, Civil War sites and monuments, and films like The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone with the Wind (1939), Roots (1977), Glory (1989), Lincoln (2012), Twelve Years a Slave (2013), and Free State of Jones (2016). Throughout, the series will shed light on broader issues in US politics, culture, and society—particularly Americans’ efforts to come to terms with their nation’s complicated history of race and racism.</p> 2020-04-09 11:30:00 -0500
4/09/208:45 a.m.Coe College, Hickok Hall, Kesler Lecture HallCedar Rapids -
Thursday Forum - Slavery and the Civil War in American History and Memory
<p>Controversy is once again swirling in the US over issues and events with deep connections to slavery and the Civil War. Communities are hotly debating removal of Confederate flags and monuments; politicians and pundits routinely reference Civil War causes and leaders; and popular music, movies, and museums grapple with how to tell the stories of slavery and the Civil War. Over the course of this forum, Whipple Associate Professor of History Brie Swenson Arnold will explore the United States’ complicated history and memory of slavery and the Civil War. The series begins with an overview of the origins, expansion, and lived experiences of American racial slavery. It continues with a session on the origins and course of the Civil War, a conflict centered on slavery. Weeks three and four turn to examining how Americans have variously portrayed slavery and the Civil War in national memory and popular culture—including in holidays like Memorial Day and Emancipation Day, Civil War sites and monuments, and films like The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone with the Wind (1939), Roots (1977), Glory (1989), Lincoln (2012), Twelve Years a Slave (2013), and Free State of Jones (2016). Throughout, the series will shed light on broader issues in US politics, culture, and society—particularly Americans’ efforts to come to terms with their nation’s complicated history of race and racism.</p> 2020-04-16 11:30:00 -0500
4/16/208:45 a.m.Coe College, Hickok Hall, Kesler Lecture HallCedar Rapids -
Thursday Forum - Slavery and the Civil War in American History and Memory
<p>Controversy is once again swirling in the US over issues and events with deep connections to slavery and the Civil War. Communities are hotly debating removal of Confederate flags and monuments; politicians and pundits routinely reference Civil War causes and leaders; and popular music, movies, and museums grapple with how to tell the stories of slavery and the Civil War. Over the course of this forum, Whipple Associate Professor of History Brie Swenson Arnold will explore the United States’ complicated history and memory of slavery and the Civil War. The series begins with an overview of the origins, expansion, and lived experiences of American racial slavery. It continues with a session on the origins and course of the Civil War, a conflict centered on slavery. Weeks three and four turn to examining how Americans have variously portrayed slavery and the Civil War in national memory and popular culture—including in holidays like Memorial Day and Emancipation Day, Civil War sites and monuments, and films like The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone with the Wind (1939), Roots (1977), Glory (1989), Lincoln (2012), Twelve Years a Slave (2013), and Free State of Jones (2016). Throughout, the series will shed light on broader issues in US politics, culture, and society—particularly Americans’ efforts to come to terms with their nation’s complicated history of race and racism.</p> 2020-04-23 11:30:00 -0500
4/23/208:45 a.m.Coe College, Hickok Hall, Kesler Lecture HallCedar Rapids -
Noah Doely and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
<p>Opening Reception and Gallery Talks:</p><p>October 19th 5-7pm</p><p><br></p><p>Fall 2019 Kocher Visiting Artist Noah Doely creates cyanotypes, which are photographic images using a process that dates from the mid-1800s. According to Doely, “The Prussian blue inherent to the cyanotype process subverts, enhances, camouflages or otherwise alters how the images’ content is perceived.” A current Iowa Arts Council Fellow, Doely is fascinated by science and mythology and how they interplay with art. This exhibition and Doely’s visiting artist appointment at Coe is generously funded by the Robert and Joan Kocher Visual Arts Endowment. </p><p>T.J. Dedeaux-Norris works in a variety of media, including paintings, performance and film, to explore the “invisibility of blackness in cultural forms built upon the appropriation of popular and sacred black expressions and idioms.” Born in Guam, Dedeaux-Norris received her B.A. from UCLA and her MFA from Yale University. Also known as Tameka Norris, she is a 2017 grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibition is funded in part by the Mabel Cherry Lutgerding Endowment.</p> 2019-10-30 18:00:00 -050010/30/194:00 p.m.Coe College Sinclair Auditorium LobbyCedar Rapids -
ROLLER DERBY bout
<p>Join the Cedar Rapids Rollergirls for a fantastic night of Roller Derby as they take on Iowa City's OCCRD Ped Maulers. Plus, it is ***GIRL SCOUT NIGHT!!*** Troop 1590 & 3815 will sing the National Anthem, and all interested Girl Scouts can participate in the half time relay race for a chance to win some CRRG swag! Girl Scouts will have a special seating area and get some shout outs during the bout. Doors open at 6 pm, action starts at 7 pm. Tickets: $10.00 in advance, $13.00 at the door. kids 6-12 $5.00 (sold only at the door) kids 5 and under are free. Buy tickets in advance here: <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brownpapertickets.com%2Fevent%2F4342218%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR128UpSl2UBBdsMQtbGAPpHnrG-cAfwrCumFsimP5QRGmARQUHqjTHmf0Y&h=AT2lYFS8yIUbnRU-8hDgD1OT39nW8QuANkU599flcn4Q0rQFgERE8bDONsPLxKfOm--grZmAdlEDFMXzUdWpOv00xMC6QdHNutkFXxc-MrPwLuSH6UwYTXljkaD5OWhAmg" target="_blank">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4342218</a></p><p><br></p> 2019-10-17 21:30:00 -0500
11/02/197:00 p.m.Veterans Memorial BuildingCedar Rapids -
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Noah Doely and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
<p>Opening Reception and Gallery Talks:</p><p>October 19th 5-7pm</p><p><br></p><p>Fall 2019 Kocher Visiting Artist Noah Doely creates cyanotypes, which are photographic images using a process that dates from the mid-1800s. According to Doely, “The Prussian blue inherent to the cyanotype process subverts, enhances, camouflages or otherwise alters how the images’ content is perceived.” A current Iowa Arts Council Fellow, Doely is fascinated by science and mythology and how they interplay with art. This exhibition and Doely’s visiting artist appointment at Coe is generously funded by the Robert and Joan Kocher Visual Arts Endowment. </p><p>T.J. Dedeaux-Norris works in a variety of media, including paintings, performance and film, to explore the “invisibility of blackness in cultural forms built upon the appropriation of popular and sacred black expressions and idioms.” Born in Guam, Dedeaux-Norris received her B.A. from UCLA and her MFA from Yale University. Also known as Tameka Norris, she is a 2017 grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibition is funded in part by the Mabel Cherry Lutgerding Endowment.</p> 2019-10-31 18:00:00 -050010/31/194:00 p.m.Coe College Sinclair Auditorium LobbyCedar Rapids -
"Rectilinear Solidity / Interconnected Voids" by Carey Nagel
<p>BNIM conceived the new University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art building as a rectilinear solid interrupted by interconnected voids. These light-filled, linked spaces create a home for the display, conservation, and storage of the collection, while guiding patrons physically and visually through the museum. These are exterior exhibition spaces, educational areas, and horizontal and vertical pathways, all connected by a three-story light well that comprises the core of the museum and permeates the entirety of the experience.</p><p>Recalling the timeless academic and cultural brick masonry buildings of Alvar Aalto, Louis Khan, and Eero and Eliel Saarinen, the exterior brick cladding of the museum compliments the masonry characteristics of neighboring structures and conveys the timelessness and stability of the collection housed within. Through an alternating composition of brick texture that refers to the internal organization of the building, the façade will be transformed by the daily and seasonal changes in sunlight, creating oscillating levels of reflection and shadow. The dark, warm brick contrasts with the predominantly red brick of the surrounding buildings, clearly emphasizing the significance of the museum among them. This meaningful dichotomy is further emphasized with the white, light-filled interiors and warm wood detailing.</p><p>Carey Nagle AIA LEED AP BD+C is a principal in BNIM’s Des Moines office. Carey has emerged as a young leader in the realm of high-performance design excellence and professional leadership. He is a holistic practitioner with a broad range of notable project experience, including museums and cultural facilities, as well as higher education projects, office buildings, adaptive reuse, and modernist preservation.</p><p>Carey is currently leading the design of the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art. His projects have been recognized with multiple national awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), including the 2016 AIA Honor Award for the renovation of the American Enterprise Group National Headquarters and the 2012 COTE Top Ten Green Building Award for the Iowa Utilities Board and Office of Consumer Advocate.</p><p>Carey received his Bachelors of Architecture from Iowa State University. He currently serves on the Iowa State University Department of Architecture’s Architectural Advisory Committee and the City of Des Moines’ Urban Design Review Board. In 2016, Carey received the AIA National Young Architect Award.</p>11/05/197:30 p.m.UI Art Building WestIowa City -
Noah Doely and T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
<p>Opening Reception and Gallery Talks:</p><p>October 19th 5-7pm</p><p><br></p><p>Fall 2019 Kocher Visiting Artist Noah Doely creates cyanotypes, which are photographic images using a process that dates from the mid-1800s. According to Doely, “The Prussian blue inherent to the cyanotype process subverts, enhances, camouflages or otherwise alters how the images’ content is perceived.” A current Iowa Arts Council Fellow, Doely is fascinated by science and mythology and how they interplay with art. This exhibition and Doely’s visiting artist appointment at Coe is generously funded by the Robert and Joan Kocher Visual Arts Endowment. </p><p>T.J. Dedeaux-Norris works in a variety of media, including paintings, performance and film, to explore the “invisibility of blackness in cultural forms built upon the appropriation of popular and sacred black expressions and idioms.” Born in Guam, Dedeaux-Norris received her B.A. from UCLA and her MFA from Yale University. Also known as Tameka Norris, she is a 2017 grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibition is funded in part by the Mabel Cherry Lutgerding Endowment.</p> 2019-11-01 18:00:00 -050011/01/194:00 p.m.Coe College Sinclair Auditorium LobbyCedar Rapids -
Welcome Club Mah Jongg
<p>You are invited to come and play Mah Jongg with the Welcome Club ladies. We use the National Mah Jongg League cards and rules. If you don't know how to play, we are happy to teach you. Visit www.welcomeclubcr.com or contact us at wwc_cr@yahoo.com.</p> 2019-10-13 15:00:00 -050011/06/1911:30 a.m.The Quarter BarrelCedar Rapids -
Food and the Making of a People: A Biblical Perspective
<p>In the Bible, food is associated with conflict, struggle, and even oppression—but also with peace, freedom, and bonds of love. This presentation critically examines the role such an association plays in how God makes a people for himself, both in terms of Israel as a nation and Christians as a worldwide community of believers. Implications for our time will be discussed.</p>11/05/197:00 p.m.Mount Mercy University, Flaherty Community Room (204 Basile Hall)Cedar Rapids -
Bruce Beasley: A New Direction
<p><strong>Bruce Beasley: A New Direction</strong></p><p><strong>Now-October 27, 2019</strong></p><p>Bruce Beasley is one of the nation’s foremost sculptors. Born in Los Angeles in 1939, Beasley studied at Dartmouth College and at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1961, he was included in the seminal exhibition “The Art of Assemblage” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1963, Beasley won the purchase prize in the Paris Biennale, one of the world’s most prestigious international exhibitions.Beasley has been involved with innovation and technology his entire career. In 1960, while a student at the University of California at Berkeley, he helped build the first bronze foundry in an art department. He invented a new process for massive casting of acrylic sculptures and he is currently exploring theuse of virtual reality as a new technology for sculpture – a new direction for the artist. Beasley’s Aurai were created using virtual reality. “When I put on the head gear,” Beasley wrote, “the stylus becomes an extension of my hand, and my imagination…. It is completely spontaneous; if I like something I’ve just created, I continue, elaborate; if not I move on.” For these collages, Beasley selects virtual reality gestures that “sing” and then prints monumental versions of these onto canvas. Beasley then studies the printed gestures and cuts them into fragments – “visual words,” as he calls them. Finally, he moves these fragments around like so many puzzle pieces, twisting, rotating, flipping, and adjusting until an arrangement becomes the wall collages currently on view. Beasley’s sculptures are in the permanent collection of numerous art museums around the world, and he has had more than sixty solo exhibitions and has been included in hundreds of group exhibitions. Beasley has also completed more than fifty monumental sculpture commissions in the United States and abroad, including large works for the Beijing Olympic Games, the World Expo in Shanghai, and the City of Cedar Rapids. This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of his new Aurai series.</p> 2019-10-24 20:00:00 -050010/24/1912:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids