Gallery Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sunday: 12:00–4:30 p.m.
Admission to the museum building will end 5 minutes before gallery closing.
Office Hours
Monday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tuesday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Wednesday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Thursday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
![Haring exhibition image](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-05/Website%20exhibition%20image.jpg?h=9550b3ad&itok=qo8du51e)
To My Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa City
Inaugurated on Keith Haring’s (1958–1990) birthday, this exhibition celebrates the revolutionary graffiti artist's ties to Iowa City. It also honors the many individuals who shaped his visits to Iowa City during the 1980s. The 1989 mural Haring painted for Ernest Horn Elementary School, which is on loan to the Stanley Museum of Art during the school’s renovation, anchors the exhibition and is accompanied by other works of art, photographs, and archival ephemera.
![Print "Copyist at the Metropolitan" by John Sloan](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-02/378l.2023_rectocrop.jpg?h=d106097a&itok=FfRUzrWo)
A Year in Print
This exhibition will feature Twelve Prints by Contemporary American Artists, a portfolio recently gifted to the Stanley by collectors Alan and Ann January.
![Text reading "Coming Home Coming Home" side by side with the left part of a large abstract painting with swirls of yellow, pink, teal, and light greenish blue, amid longer, vertical, curved black lines that have a quality of dance-like movement.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2022-07/Untitled-1.jpg?h=e17363ce&itok=xP6kf51Y)
Homecoming
The Stanley's inaugural exhibition, Homecoming, reintroduces visitors to the museum's extraordinary collection. Homecoming comprises a series of related installations: “Generations,” which will foreground the University of Iowa’s history of innovative arts education and scholarship; “Fragments of the Canon,” featuring African art collected by a Black Iowan, Meredith Saunders; and “History Is Always Now,” in which the Stanley’s celebrated collection of African art will be displayed in a new way that emphasizes movement and cultural exchange through time and across space.
![Aerial view of museum with campus recreation center on left and Main Library on right](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2023-01/340-BNIM-SMA-Edit01.00_04_27_21.Still006_tif%20copy.jpg?h=721064c1&itok=ZpoEhxEN)
The Building
Nestled between the Main Library and Campus Recreation and Wellness Center on the west side of Gibson Square Park, the new Stanley Museum of Art is a hub of learning and research for the University of Iowa and the state. The three-story, state-of-the-art building, designed by BNIM of Des Moines, Iowa, includes a range of flexible spaces for research, education, and exhibitions, and is ideally suited to serve as a center for interdisciplinary teaching, discovery, and community building.
Student News
![Student Spotlight picture of Adrian Carmenate](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-06/448339365_1040192514569607_6298192681773748806_n.jpg?h=8e7e960d&itok=qVUZkoSw)
Videographer 2024/2025: Adrian Carmenate
![A photo of Sarena, smiling, with orange-red text overlaid on top that says "Student Spotlight."](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-06/StudentSpotlightSarena.jpg?h=81ffb550&itok=SMM3w7fi)
Communications & Marketing Assistant 2024/2025: Sarena Gibson
![A photo of Bella taken on a street corner; she holds up a croissant in one hand, smiling.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-06/Bella_Epstien.jpeg?h=29e2b672&itok=021HIoah)
Museum Studies Education Intern Summer 2024: Bella Epstein
![A graphic with the words "Student Spotlight" in shades of blue surrounding a photo of Annelies, smiling in a sweater vest.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2024-05/StudentSpotlightAnnalies.jpg?h=0690d250&itok=Jt94ixHO)
Campus Engagement Coordinator 2024/2025: Annelies Knight
![A photo of Amelia Goldsby standing and presenting in one of the African art galleries at the Stanley Museum of Art.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-05/IMG_9799%20%281%29.jpeg?h=d8f1c962&itok=oSiUoT55)
Reflections on the Course Curating the Arts of Africa in America
![A photo of Monica standing beside a poster she made at the Iowa Arts Fest, detailing her work as part of Cory Gundlach's class.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-05/IMG_1825.png?h=cf6c5f8e&itok=4yMq3Rbw)
A Reflection on MUSM:4081 Curating the Arts of Africa in America
![Two students stand in the galleries at the Stanley Museum of Art, posing next to a 6-foot-tall fiberglass Herky statue, that is painted to match a painting in the background of the photo--Marsden Hartley's "E."](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-07/IMG_4152.png?h=83550695&itok=t2l2bZ87)
Herky on Parade 3: Stanley student employees unveil "Herk-E"
![A photo of gallery host Jack Sorenson. He stands, smiling, with his hands behind his back in front of the colorful lobby mural at the Stanley Museum of Art.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-04/IMG_2043.png?h=f72aa826&itok=TOknuKtW)
A Reflection from Gallery Host Jack Sorenson
![A photo of gallery host Georgia Corbin. She stands in front of the wood-slat wall in the lobby of the Stanley Museum of Art, smiling.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-04/IMG_8647.jpeg?h=cac687d8&itok=LmMmZQ00)
A Reflection from Gallery Host Georgia Corbin
![A photo of a collage made by Melanie Landsittel at ARLiS conference.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-04/IMG_2299.jpg?h=e88d16fa&itok=IIo7lVHZ)
Reflections on Art and Rising Water: My Time at ARLiS 2024
Press Coverage
![Students posing in front of Keith Haring’s mural in progress at Ernest Horn Elementary School](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2023-12/Picture3.jpg?h=8cf59e5a&itok=5nRQD33v)
A Mural Keith Haring Painted in an Elementary School Gets a Rare Showing
![A person viewing framed art in a gallery](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-05/IMG_4639.jpg?h=a1e1a043&itok=kYAkfr3v)
An Iowa Elementary School’s Treasured Keith Haring Mural Finally Goes on View
![Print of three figures with the text " Ignorance = Fear, Silence = Death, Fight AIDS Act Up"](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-05/PS_129_khf.jpg?h=8af2bcf9&itok=dZgHaEjB)
Stanley Museum of Art Presents One of Keith Haring's Last Murals
![Keith Haring posing with his mural at Horn Elementary School](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-10/PHOT-1705-cropped.jpg?h=e23db19a&itok=OclqMjNb)
Famous NYC artist had special Iowa link
![Keith Haring with Colleen Ernst, her husband, Bill Radl, and their two children, Sophie Radl (left) and Max Radl (right). Photographer unknown. Image courtesy of Colleen Ernst. © Keith Haring Foundation.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2024-04/9.jpg?h=0dca3afc&itok=1pobe7l_)
Keith Haring & Iowa City: An Artist’s Lasting Mark on an Iowa City School
![Keith Haring at work on the mural at Ernest Horn Elementary School, 1989. Photographer unknown. Image courtesy of Colleen Ernst. © Keith Haring Foundation.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-04/image00213.jpg?h=f0ced765&itok=b7Ow9gzL)
When Keith Haring Painted a Mural for an Iowa Elementary School
![Ron Harvey, an art conservator with Tuckerbrook Conservation, assists with the installation of Keith Haring's A Book Full of Fun earlier this spring at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2024-04/img-2425-body2.jpg?h=35ffd627&itok=DFcaHMCp)
New Iowa Exhibit Reveals ‘Hidden’ Mural by Artist Keith Haring
![“Octopus Shoe”](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2024-04/Untitled-1.jpg?h=a1e1a043&itok=eLrZ96O8)