Join us for an artist talk by Center for Afrofuturist Studies artist-in-residence Courtney Desiree Morris. Courtney will share recent work and work-in-progress from her Iowa City residency.

free and open to all

The talk will also be livestreamed on the CAS Instagram.

Courtney Desiree Morris is a visual/performance artist and an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua (2023, Rutgers University Press). Her mediums include large-format portraiture and landscape photography, experimental video, performance art, and installation art. Her work is primarily concerned with ancestral memory, ritual work, ecology, climate change, death, mourning and funerary practice, erotics, and black feminist aesthetics.

Courtney’s residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Ruth Foundation for the Arts.

Join us for the first ever DIY Pub Lab!

guest artists: KOLXOZ collective (Viktor Vejvoda and Maxim Poleacov), current PS1 artists-in-residence

DIY Pub Lab is a free and open monthly meetup with a guest artist or collective at the Iowa City Press Co-op’s DIY Publishing Studio at 229 N Gilbert St. The guest artist(s) share their work in the first half of the program, and the second half is dedicated to informal Q&A, show and tell, and/or conversation with other participants. (So bring your own DIY publishing projects to share if you want!)

DIY Pub Lab and Viktor Vejvoda’s residency are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Iowa Arts Council, which exists within the Iowa Economic Development Authority. 

Maxim Poleacov’s residency is supported by CEC ArtsLink.

Thanks also to the University of Iowa Center for the Book!

Join us for an artist talk with Kayla Hamilton, presented by the University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and Department of Dance.

[Image Description: This is a headshot of Kayla Hamilton, who is a dark brown-skinned Black woman. She is posing in front of a blurred brick wall. She is wearing a long sleeve black & white striped shirt. She has light makeup and her gaze is towards us. Her black & golden highlighted dreads are down.] Photo by Travis Magee

[Image Description: This is a black & white dance image of Kayla Hamilton, who is a dark brown-skinned Black woman. She is throwing her head back as her dreads flow with her as she pushes her arms outward. Her legs are wide and slightly bent. She is wearing jeans and a knee length cardigan that wraps around her thighs. Behind her are storefronts and cars parked on the street.] Photo by: Travis Magee

BIO

Kayla Hamilton is a Texas born, Bronx based performance maker, dancer, educator, cultural consultant, and the artistic director of K. Hamilton Projects.

Kayla is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Her past performance work has been presented at the Whitney Museum, Gibney, Performance Space New York, New York Live Arts, Abrons Arts Center, and the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD).  

Kayla has developed ‘Crip Movement Lab’- a pedagogical framework centering cross-Disability accessible movement practices that are open to every-body. She has taught dance at Sarah Lawrence College, Amherst College, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Utah, and Texas Improv Festival. 

As a consultant,  Kayla has developed and implemented access strategies for the Mellon Foundation, ArtSpeak, Dance USA, Movement Research and The Shed. 

As a dancer, Kayla was part of the Bessie award winning Skeleton Architecture, she has also danced for Maria Bauman,  Sydnie L. Mosley and Gesel Mason.

Kayla is currently in the process of creating a future organization centering the work of BIPOC Disabled creatives, while co-leading the 10th anniversary season of Angela’s Pulse/Dancing While Black, and developing a new evening length performance set to premier in NY in 2024 (TBA).

Join us for the second Iowa in Print virtual artist talk!
RSVP to icpresscoop@publicspaceone.com to receive the Zoom link.

Catherine Dreiss and Jeffrey Thompson are artists living in Des Moines, IA by way of the upper East coast. For the past 20 years Dreiss has worked mainly with large scale woodcuts that are based on photographs and appropriated patterns. Her works involves a fascination with the human desire for meaning and how we create and interpret signs. Thompson is a painter who dabbles in printmaking. He is influenced by the exaggerated, theatrical tenebrism of Baroque paintings. They share a studio space in Des Moines. They both are featured in multiple private collections and have exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally.

catherinedreiss.com
jeffreythompsonart.com

Join us for a virtual presentation of work by Isaac Campbell and Bettina Fabos exploring the series of wheat paste art Campbell is installing across Iowa, and other creative work generated from the Fortepan Iowa (fortepan.us) public photo archive. This event is third in a series featuring Iowa-based or connected media artists. A program of selected work by Campbell and Fabos will be followed by a live Q&A.

Join us on IG Live for a conversation with gallery artists Davin Watne and Dawn Woolley, who collaborate under the name Hard Stop.

Hard Stop’s work, Dancing for Good, is on view this month outside

We’ll be chatting with Davin and Dawn on our IG @p_s_won