This exhibit explores the importance of archaeological methods and museum ethics in the interpretation and representation of Native American history, featuring artifacts of the Indigenous people from archaeologically defined MILL CREEK (1100-1250 CE) and GLENWOOD (1200-1350 CE) cultures.

Organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, this exhibition celebrates a key figure in the history of Black American art, Hayward L. Oubre, Jr. (1916 – 2006). Through a broad range of dazzling works of art, the show explores the achievements of a luminary of American modernism. Hayward Oubre: Structural Integrity is the first monographic retrospective of Oubre’s artwork, and shares a previously unexamined history of American modernism rooted in the South through 52 sculptures, paintings, and prints. 

Accompanying Hayward Oubre: Structural Integrity, this exhibition will be a focused installation exploring the early years of the University of Iowa’s studio MFA program. In the Studio: Art at Iowa in the 1940s places Oubre in the context of faculty and students such as Mauricio Lasansky, Philip Guston, Miriam Schapiro, and Houston Ellis Chandler.