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May 10, 2021 On May 12, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. join us for an Art & Healing Tour, led by museum staff and students from the Spring 2021 Museum Procedures class, invite participants to reflect on the relationship of art, health, and healing: How do the visual arts promote physical, mental and emotional well-being? These tours highlight the exhibition Art & Healing: Works by Jim Dine and Corita Kent in the museum’s Smith Gallery, as well as works from other current exhibitions, including Trimpi...

By Nadia Langley langleyn@grinnell.edu The Smith Gallery has re-opened to host two virtual student solo art exhibitions. Hannah Taylor `21 opened her show “Setting” on April 24, and Tommy G Lee `22’s show “Formal” is set to open on May 12. In regular years, students could walk in and out of Smith Gallery on their way to the Dining Hall, stepping in for a curious glance or spending more time perusing the walls of the small space and engaging with the frequently rotating exhibits. With ...

May 6, 2021 On May 12, from 3-4 p.m. join us for an Art & Healing Tour, led by museum staff and students from the Spring 2021 Museum Procedures class, invite participants to reflect on the relationship of art, health, and healing: How do the visual arts promote physical, mental and emotional well-being? These tours highlight the exhibition Art & Healing: Works by Jim Dine and Corita Kent in the museum’s Smith Gallery, as well as works from other current exhibitions, including Trimpin: Ambient...

bakernin@grinnell.edu The first hint that the green, two-story house off the corner of Broad Street and Seventh Avenue isn’t quite what it seems is the light that radiates from the house at night. Not just the twinkling Christmas lights hanging from the porch, still left up from December, but also the purple lights from inside. Most rooms in the house have fairy lights draped along the ceiling. If not, the overhead light fixtures shine blue or purple rather than white. “Very few rooms have ...

Sam Zalutsky Creates Mysterious Beauty On Fire Islands Meat Rack By Sam Zalutsky Into the Woods Sam Zalutskys Meat Rack Series (themeatrackseries.com) is an infrared color film series exploring the deep sense of wonder and desire found in the Meat Rack, a small forest between two Fire Island gay communities, where men have sought connection through public sex since the mid-20th century.  The Meat Rack is shot on medium format color infrared film. (Exhibition size 30 x 30 inches and 40 x 40 i...