Finding Beauty Everywhere - Sze Sze BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design promotional image

Finding Beauty Everywhere - Sze Sze BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Thursday, November 5, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
Light Work - Piper Hartman MFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design promotional image

Light Work - Piper Hartman MFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Thursday, November 5, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
Recital: Zachary Bethel, Trombone promotional image

Recital: Zachary Bethel, Trombone

Thursday, November 5, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

Program information will be available here: https://performingarts.uiowa.edu/digital-programs/music

Concert can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

Piano Guest Artist Recital promotional image

Piano Guest Artist Recital

Thursday, November 5, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Geoffrey Haydon, piano.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert program will be available here: https://performingarts.uiowa.edu/digital-programs/music.

Finding Beauty Everywhere - Sze Sze BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design promotional image

Finding Beauty Everywhere - Sze Sze BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Friday, November 6, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
Light Work - Piper Hartman MFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design promotional image

Light Work - Piper Hartman MFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Friday, November 6, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
Bandana Pottery: Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt, Visiting Artists in Ceramics promotional image

Bandana Pottery: Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt, Visiting Artists in Ceramics

Friday, November 6, 2026 (all day)
Visual Arts Building

Join Ceramics in welcoming Handwork Visiting Artists, Bandana Pottery: Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt! We have many exciting events planned for the week of Nov. 2–6, and we hope you’ll join us as you can.

Artist Demonstrations, W221 VAB
Monday, Nov. 2, 8:45 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 8:45 a.m.–noon
Friday, Nov. 6, 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

Artist talk, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 4:30–5:30 p.m. E125 VAB

Kiln Talk, Thursday, Nov. 5, 1:30–3 p.m. W221 VAB

Artist Round Table Discussion: How to be a Self-Sustaining...

Annual First-Generation College Celebration Week promotional image

Annual First-Generation College Celebration Week

Friday, November 6, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa
Held each year on Nov. 8, the National First-Generation College Celebration encourages colleges and universities across the country to celebrate the successes of the institution's first-gen students.
UI Center for the Book - MFA in Book Arts Info Session promotional image

UI Center for the Book - MFA in Book Arts Info Session

Friday, November 6, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

The UICB will be holding a virtual information session about the program on Friday, November 6, 2026 at Noon CST. Videos and slides, faculty and students: we’ll describe the program, answer questions, and welcome anyone (from the curious to the already-committed applicant) who would like to participate.

Link to register: https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/4ANLMceiRoWWuydHzdBmTg

Simon Estes: "A Heart & A Voice" film screening and in-person appearance promotional image

Simon Estes: "A Heart & A Voice" film screening and in-person appearance

Friday, November 6, 2026 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Voxman Music Building
Simon Estes will engage in workshop / coaching with three UI voice/opera student singers, followed by a screening of the professional documentary about his life
Iowa City Songwriters Festival | Dan Wriggins promotional image

Iowa City Songwriters Festival | Dan Wriggins

Friday, November 6, 2026 6:00pm
The James Theater

Dan Wriggins & Olivia Ellen Lloyd

Olivia Ellen Lloyd – 6:00pm

Dan Wriggins – 6:50pm

Dan Wriggins is a writer and musician from Maine. He records and tours with the band Friendship, and releases music on Orindal Records and Merge Records. His debut poetry collection, Prince of Grass, is available via Dear Life Records. He lives in Philadelphia.

Olivia Ellen Lloyd will try anything once. From flight attendant school in Dallas, to producing theater in New York, and teaching in Guatemala, Lloyd sought...

Fall Faculty Reading | Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Geoffrey Nutter & Ada Zhang  promotional image

Fall Faculty Reading | Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Geoffrey Nutter & Ada Zhang

Friday, November 6, 2026 7:00pm
Glenn Schaeffer Library
Fall faculty reading featuring Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Geoffrey Nutter & Ada Zhang
Kantorei and Voxman Chorale Concert promotional image

Kantorei and Voxman Chorale Concert

Friday, November 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert program will be available here: https://performingarts.uiowa.edu/digital-programs/music.

Concert can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

16 Winters, or the Bear's Tale promotional image

16 Winters, or the Bear's Tale

Friday, November 6, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Shakespeare begins Act 4 of The Winter’s Tale with a monologue from “Time,” recapping the 16 years that pass between Acts 3 and 4. In 16 Winters, University of Iowa Playwriting alum Mary Hamilton imagines the journey that each character takes during this enchanted gap in time.

Iowa Percussion w/Guest Artist Victor Provost

Saturday, November 7, 2026 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert program will be available here: https://performingarts.uiowa.edu/digital-programs/music.

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.