The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (CRMA) is excited to treat the community to another summer of free admission until Sept. 6. The CRMA houses the world’s largest collection of regionalist master Grant Wood’s work and is located smack-dab in the thick of downtown Cedar Rapids (410 Third Avenue SE). What’s on exhibit? There are […]
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UI alum’s forthcoming graphic novel tackles social issues with watercolors that are as gentle as they are powerful
The origin story for Ryan Bentzinger’s nAMUH could be summed up this way: right place, right time. As a University of Iowa student studying studio art in 2009, he was in the right place when UI professor Chungi Choo suddenly appeared one day and announced she needed an assistant. Choo, in addition to keeping him […]
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Interview: artist Ryan Bentzinger talks nAMUH and drawing Science Fiction
nAMUH Cedar Rapids Museum of Art — Oct. 3 through Jan. 17 Tonight from 5-7 p.m. the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art will host an opening reception for a new exhibition by Iowa City artist, Ryan Bentzinger. The exhibition is a series of illustrations taken from the prologue and first chapter of Bentzinger’s forth-coming novel, […]
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Carl Van Vechten’s photography retrospective captures American icons of the ’20s and ’30s
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (CRMA) is honoring the 50th anniversary of hometown native Carl Van Vechten’s death with a retrospective of photo…
