Articles from October 2024

A graphic comprised of four movie posters on a red-purple gradient background.

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."
A close up of a student working on assembling their cyanotype; they are laying various materials on top of the blue paper.

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!
A photo of the entire setup: approximately one dozen printed blue paper bags are lined up along the top of a table, waiting to dry, set above a bottle of white ink, a plate with white ink on it, the ink covered linoleum block, an inked up brayer, and a clean brayer that has been used to apply pressure to the back of the plate to help transfer the ink.

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!