Visual artist Jen P. Harris’s latest exhibition, Ghost Prairie brings a lost Iowa landscape back to Cedar Rapids. The show at CSPS Hall will be up until Sunday July 3. Harris recently moved to Iowa City after ten years in New York, and the exhibit, composed of new works from the last six months, is […]
Anne Easker
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Cartoonists, bookmakers and independent artists go out for ICE CREAM
ICE CREAM: the Iowa City Expo for Comics + Real Eclectic Alternative Media Public Space One — Sat., Apr. 9 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For cartoonists, bookmakers and other independent artists, few outlets exist in Iowa City to share and sell work — but this year, Mission Creek Festival will include a space […]
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Humanity on the inside: Artist Benjamin Wills reaches behind bars for inspiration
When Benjamin Wills picked up the phone in 2011 and heard that a friend from his music scene received a 25-year prison sentence, he was with his dad, a man 25 years older than himself. “I looked over at him, and it was like, if this was me, the next time I got out of […]
