Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces. Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists. Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session...

The Washington Public Library will be holding its next Washington Writers Workshop on Saturday, Feb. 8, beginning at 10 a.m. Join us for a presentation by poet Amiya Moretta from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The first hour is devoted to the author presentation and the second hour to writer submissions. If you would like to be on the submission and reminder list, please email leann.kunz@washington.lib.ia.us Amiya is a poet and multimedia artist. She is a Fulbright scholar and an MFA candidate at...

English Department VIEWS presents: poet francine j. harris reading, Q&A, and book signing. Books will be available for purchase. francine j. harris’ third collection, "Here is the Sweet Hand," won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tuft s Award. Originally from Detroit, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She is Professor of English at the University of Houston and serves as Consulting Faculty Editor at Gulf Coast.

Join us at the Stanley Museum of Art for our Sundays with the Docents tour where Stanley docents create unique tours to share with our audiences throughout the year. In the Art by Indigenous Americans tour, Docent David Duer will look at some of the ways Native artists examine and express their cultural heritage. The Muscogee poet and musician (and former U.S. poet laureate) Joy Harjo, in her poem “Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings,” offers words that serve as our tour theme: “Recognize...

Hour-long free concert by the Schumann Quartet, hosted by the Iowa Writers Workshop.