Dr. Elliott Sohn and his team at the Wynn Institute for Vision Research — WIVR have developed a cure for inherited retinal blindness. But there is more to Dr. Sohn than meets the eye…
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Little Village Drawing Board: Sonia Kendrick of Feed Iowa First (video)
Sonia Kendrick is a combat veteran who returned from Afghanistan with what she calls a “moral injury” about US complicity in global food insecurity. She turned her experience into action back home as the founding farmer at Feed Iowa First.
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Fashion Forward: Poet and Curator Anaïs Duplan of the Center for Afrofuturist Studies (Video)
A look into the mindset of Anaïs Duplan, poet and director of Iowa City’s Center for Afrofuturist Studies. Duplan’s “Take This Stallion” is out now on Brooklyn Arts Press, and collection “Blackspace” is forthcoming from Black Ocean Press.
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Indie artists converge in town on Mission Creek Saturday
ICE CREAM Public Space One — Saturday, April 8 at 11 a.m. No, it doesn’t stand for “cash rules everything around me“. Over 50 independent vendors will congregate for the day-long, bazaar-like Iowa City Expo for Comics and Real Eclectic Alternative Media (ICE CREAM) on Saturday, April 8, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m, at […]
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Studio Visit: Inside Iowa City’s Preucil School of Music (video)
For over 40 years, Doris Preucil has taught the Suzuki method to budding artists, establishing a tradition of top musicians coming out of Iowa City.
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Little Village and Dead Coast Present: Willy Tea Taylor, Ryan Joseph Anderson and J.Aubertin
Willy Tea Taylor, with Ryan Joseph Anderson, J.Aubertin Cortado — Saturday, March 25 at 8 p.m. New baristas on the block Cortado (26 S Clinton St) will host their first live music event this Saturday, March 25 at 8 p.m., in partnership with Little Village and Dead Coast Presents. Singer-songwriters Willy Tea Taylor, Ryan Joseph […]
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LV Presents: Advance Base at Public Space One
Advance Base and Karima Walker head to Public Space One on Friday, March 17 for a low key evening of solid songwriting and some of the most beguiling vocals in current music. Owen Ashworth, who from 2007-2010 spun his midwest melancholy as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, dropped his first record as Advance Base
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Drawing Board: Las Cafeteras Visit West Liberty Middle School (video)
Little Village Drawing Board highlights work being done to advance social conditions in Iowa. Here, Hancher brings Las Cafeteras to visit West Liberty School District — the first district in the state to offer a dual-language program.
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Studio Visit: Jewelry Artist Jillian Moore (video)
Jillian Moore invites you into her world of otherworldly delights.
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The Center for Afrofuturist Studies closes out a stellar year with Interstellar 3
Interstellar 3 FilmScene — Saturday, Dec. 17 at 10:30 p.m. Pack away your year of cares and get ready to dance — the Center for Afrofuturist Studies is celebrating! With a year under their belt now, the center is closing out 2016 the same way they welcomed it in: with a dance party of epic […]
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Opening Reception Friday for Lucas Underwood
Opening Reception for Lucas Underwood: Grappler Little Village HQ — Friday, Dec. 9 at 5 p.m. Little Village is pleased to welcome the latest exhibit to our offices (623 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City). For the next month, we will be hosting Grappler, by Lucas Underwood, the third artist to brighten up our walls. Grappler, […]
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Studio Visit: Ceramacist Shumpei Yamaki fires his Anagama kiln (video)
Presented by Artifacts Just a couple of times each year, Shumpei Yamaki lights up his Anagama kiln for 4-5 days of continuous firing. The technique gives each individual piece its own unique, unpredictable finish. Yamaki is currently a resident artist at Scattergood Friends School and a member of the studio art faculty at Grinnell College. […]
