Click here to learn more about Lauren Smith and the work she will do as the Campus Engagement Coordinator at the Stanley Museum of Art beginning summer 2025 and lasting through academic year 2025/ 26.

Spring 2025 marks the graduation of six of our gallery hosts--that's half of the year's team! Additionally, half of this year's graduates have been with the museum since it reopened in August of 2022. Read this post to hear a bit more about these students, their experiences at the Stanley, and where they're headed next.

Annelies Knight was our Campus Engagement Coordinator for academic year 2024/25. In this blog post, she reflects on the time she spent in the role and the events she planned, the resources and engagement tools she developed, and how her experience helped prepare her for what's next.

Abbie McLaren has been Museum Programs Intern at the Stanley since 2022. In this blog post, she reflects on her past three years in the role and how her experience at the Stanley shaped her time at Iowa. As part of the graduating class of 2025, Abbie will be leaving this role at the end of the spring 2025 semester.

For our final installment of our Night at the Museum series for this academic year, we hosted our pop-up Student Exhibit! Working with the Undergraduate Art History Society (UAHS), and student artists across campus, we turned our lobby space into another gallery which hosted over 150 guests! Click here for photos and a recap.

Want to learn more about some of our student artists, or see more from them? Keep reading to find out what their inspirations are, and where you might be able to see more of their work!

For our March installment of Night at the Museum, we hosted a collaging, junk journaling, and button-making night. Students were welcomed to join us, work on crafts, listen to music, have snacks, and learn a bit from a pamphlet we made featuring women in the arts--both at the Stanley and in the Iowa City community. Click here to learn more about how the event went!

Click here to learn more about Josie Duccini and the work she will do as Learning & Engagement Intern at the Stanley Museum of Art during the Spring 2025 semester.

Our first Night at the Museum for the spring semester was a slightly different one--we hosted a week-long drop-in event over Valentine's Day week. Read this blog post for more information about how it played out!

Click here to learn more about Katharine Cummings, the Stanley Museum of Art's Graduate Assistant of Collections & Exhibitions.