Articles from October 2024
Recap of Refocus Film Festival from Museum Programs Intern Abbie McLaren
Monday, October 28, 2024
Museum Programs Intern Abbie McLaren attended FilmScene's 3rd Annual Refous Film Festival in Iowa City this October with a pass received through FilmScene's partnership with the Stanley. She watched a total of four films--check out this post for Abbie's thoughts on "Nightbitch," "Pavements," "Aelita: Queen of Mars," and "Plastic."
Night at the Museum: Cyanotype Photograms
Thursday, October 17, 2024
For our second installment of Night at the Museum this academic year, we hosted a making workshop focused on cyanotypes. Students were able to stop by the Stanley on Thursday night to create cyanotypes with us, or they could instead opt to pick up a
take-home bag with all the materials and instructions to make their cyanotype photograms at home by themselves. Click here to learn more about how this event went!
DIY Block Printing
Monday, October 7, 2024
The creative component of our September Night at the Museum event with student org Hawk the Vote involved making political inspired block prints with event attendees. After this event, we decided to use the same process to stamp the take-home-kit bags for our October event. If you are interested in learning how to make your own block prints to decorate your clothes, bags, or walls with, read this blog post for information about how we designed and made ours!