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2025 Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Join us for our awards ceremony and reception, honoring the giants who blazed the trail before us celebrating the incredible accomplishments crafted over the past year!
Refreshments and social time will begin at 3:30 p.m., and the award celebration will begin at 4 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public.
This event recognizes the recipients for the following awards:
May Brodbeck Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty
Susan C. Buckley Distinguished Achievement Award for Staff...

Night at the Museum: Girls' Night
Thursday, March 13, 2025 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for students that occur on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late.
In honor of Women’s History Month, we're teaming up with the Women's Resource and Action Center (WRAC) to host a collage night! We will provide copies of historical materials to pick through, along with journals to work in. If you're already an avid journaler (or junk-journaler), you are welcomed to bring your own journal or paper goods you...

Night of 1000 Dinners
Thursday, March 6, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Unitarian Universalist Society
Night of 1000 Dinners is a community celebration of International Women's Day and features an international buffet, entertainment, and recognition of women-led groups advancing UN Sustainable Development Goal #3, Good Health and Well-Being.
Proceeds will benefit the Free Medical and Dental Clinic, Prairielands Freedom Fund, and Healthy Start for Refugee Children, as well as the educational work of the Johnson County UNA.
To purchase tickets or to make a donation, https://www.eventbrite.com/e...

Weaving Stories, Beading Hearts
Thursday, March 6, 2025 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join the Weaving Our Community Network (part of the Women’s Resource and Action Center) in collaboration with Stanley Museum of Art and UI Libraries Special Collections and Archives to share the stories we tell through our clothing. Come together to enjoy food and conversation as we explore traditions of handmaking, and embellishment of objects passed down through generations of artisans.
Alicia Velasquez will lead a beading workshop during the event. Each participant will have the opportunity...

Free Week | Weaving Workshop
Thursday, February 20, 2025 5:30pm to 8:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Interested in learning about the ancient art practice of weaving?
The Stanley has partnered with ICDD for the upcoming Free Week – a winter festival offering free programming at over 15 venues, celebrating Downtown Iowa City’s Cultural & Entertainment District from Feb. 18 to 22, 2025.
Weaver and Graduate Assistant at the Stanley Museum of Art, Melanie Landsittel, will lead a workshop featuring many types of DIY looms and demonstrate the process of weaving. Visitors will be shown how to create...

The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles: Our Long National Nightmare
Monday, November 11, 2024 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Michael Knowles, from The Daily Wire, is coming LIVE to campus! He is the celebrated host of The Michael Knowles Show at The Daily Wire and The Book Club at PragerU. In 2017, Michael published the #1 national bestselling treatise Reasons to Vote for Democrats, which President Donald Trump hailed as “a great book for your reading enjoyment."
In 2021, Michael published his first book with words, Speechless, which also reached #1 on the national bestseller charts. In early 2020, he teamed up with...

Weaving Connections with the UI Women of Colour Network
Thursday, November 7, 2024 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join the Women of Colour Network in collaboration with The Pentacrest Museums, the Stanley Museum of Art, and Special Collections and Archives to connect with intentionality behind creating and choosing materials in clothing and design. Come together to enjoy food and conversation as we explore traditions of handmaking and embellishment of objects passed down through generations of artisans.
Griselda Lopez, a lifelong practitioner of Guatemalan weaving will facilitate a workshop on simple...

Career Workshop
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Bowman House
Attendees will learn tools and resources to aid in managing work-stress and schedule a slot (QR code located on the flyer) to receive mentorship on career development from a counseling psychology doctoral student.

Women of Colour Network Goes to Farmer's Market
Saturday, October 12, 2024 9:00am to 12:00pm
Pioneer Food Co-op
We'll be meeting in front of the Pioneer Food Co-op to check-in and enter into the drawing for the prize basket. The winner of the prize will be drawn at 10 a.m. to give us time to go about our day and explore all there is. Connect with student organization members, community members, vendors, and the diverse array of people at the Farmer's Market!

Salsa y Salsa: Every(body)'s Invited!
Thursday, September 19, 2024 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Bowman House