Writers' Workshop graduate Juliana Lamy will read from her new short story collection, You Were Watching From the Sand. She will be joined in conversation by Rasheeda Saka. "Every sentence Juliana Lamy writes is like a match being struck. Not many authors debut with her clarity of vision, inventiveness, and verbal agility, and I would wager almost anything that You Were Watching from the Sand will mark only the first chapter in an important body of work." - Kevin Brockmeier

Juliana Lamy is a...

Track Zero is The Englert's new concert series that presents burgeoning, diverse, and boundary-pushing artists in Iowa City.

Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions.

On his first two studio albums Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz and I Think I'm Good, Kassa layered virtuosic drumming, meticulous production techniques, and...

Patricia Foster will read from her new collection of essays, Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter. She will be joined in conversation by author Darius Stewart. In Written in the Sky, Patricia Foster presents a double portrait of place and family, a book of deeply personal essays that interrogate the legacy of racial tensions in the South, the constriction of caste and gender, and the ways race, class, and white privilege are entwined in her family story. After interviewing girls at...

Join us for a live podcast session at the Stanley with Museum Confidential: The Podcast.

Host Jeff Martin will be in conversation with a panel of guest speakers including editor of In a Time of Witness, Derek (DK) Nnuro (Curator of Special Projects, Stanley Museum of Art), Lauren Lessing (Director, Stanley Museum of Art ) and contributing writers from In a Time of Witness.  

The conversation will explore the ideas behind the conception of the catalog, how it merges visual and literary arts and...