GRIN CITY COLLECTIVE

ARTIST RESIDENCY / COLLECTIVE / VOLUNTEER CORPS

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We walked on art and made footprints for Tibi Chelcea's Grinnell Public Art Initiative installation at Brown's Shoe Fit. Our first event of many celebrating Grin City's 10th anniversary this year!

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Meet Grin City’s spring 2016 artists-in-residence!

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Grin City has only one more session before we shut the hatch on our residency program at the Lacina Farmstead. And you only have two more weeks to apply for it. 3 or 6 weeks in rural Iowa with some weird and amazing people making art of all sorts. Deadline February 10.

APPLY FOR YOUR RESIDENCY NOW

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We didn’t see enough public art in our community so this year we’re commissioning four original works of public art commissioned for downtown Grinnell!

Pictured: ink footprints by Tiberiu Chelcea as part of his installation for Brown’s Shoe Fit.

Grinnell Public Art Initiative

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GRIN CITY AND THE GRINNELL AREA ARTS COUNCIL’S 1ST PUBLIC ART COMMISSION CALL FOR ENTRIES

STIPENDS $2,000 - $25,000

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Grin City is teaming up with the Grinnell Area Arts Council to commission 3-5 works of public art for their home in downtown Grinnell, Iowa. Artists may submit proposals for any of the nine listed locations. 3-5 artists and their locations will be chosen. Selected artists receive a stipend to produce the work + a free 4-week residency at Grin City with staff support to produce and install.

APPLY NOW

Deadline: November 30, 2015

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Applications due two weeks from today!

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Former Grin City staff, Kenji Yoshino, talks about what makes Grin City Collective an amazing place to be. Spring applications due two weeks from today!

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Now accepting applications for Grin City's final spring and summer residency on the Lacina Farmstead. It's now or never! 3-7 weeks, April 25 - June 11 & June 20 - July 30, 2016. Deadline Nov 30. Apply at: http://grincitycollective.org/residency.html

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GRIN CITY AND THE GRINNELL AREA ARTS COUNCIL'S 1ST PUBLIC ART COMMISSION CALL FOR ENTRIES

STIPENDS $2,000 - $25,000

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Grin City is teaming up with the Grinnell Area Arts Council to commission 3-5 works of public art for their home in downtown Grinnell, Iowa. Artists may submit proposals for any of the nine listed locations. 3-5 artists and their locations will be chosen. Selected artists receive a stipend to produce the work + a free 4-week residency at Grin City with staff support to produce and install.

APPLY NOW

Deadline: November 30, 2015

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Grin City @ Grin City Pop-Up Show + Potluck 6:00pm-9:00pm Friday, Oct 9, 2015 @ Grin City Collective Enjoy visual art, live music and interactive projects during our second to last potluck of the year! See work by artists-in-residence and artist alumni. Gallery will be open 6-9pm. Dinner and social time may run later. If you come to eat, bring a dish or drink to share. Drop in or stay all evening! Artists: Christiana Byrne Jacqueline Groves Kathryn In Erik Jarvis Kija Lucas Christine Pearl Lindsay Rowinski Wilma Wyss 

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Big News at Grin City

We made a big announcement today about a refocusing of programming at Grin City. Learn more here!

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Spring 2015 Writer-in-Residence L.E. Neal

Photos of her live reading and performance at Grin City’s Rurally Good Festival. Photos by Luke Saunders and Becky Garner.

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Welcome to our incoming Emerging Artists-in-Residence arriving on June 15!

Learn more about these juniors & seniors in college and their fully subsidized residency at Grin City.

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More photos from our May project “Public Writing, Public Libraries.” Pictured here are poets Purvi Shah and Pauliina Haasjoki with their works. 

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 Only one week away! Buy your tickets now!

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Bring a treasured possession to the Rurally Good Festival on May 30 to be photographed by artist-in-residence Kija Lucas for her current project, "Objects to Remember You By"

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Photos of the final “Public Writing, Public Libraries” installation: a massive 250 sq ft, 2,000 word piece at Cedar Rapids Public Library. Thank you to everyone who kept us company during the ten-hour install! It was great meeting so many different library patrons.

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Photos from our ongoing project, “Public Writing, Public Libraries” with authors and poets: Pauliina Haasjoki, Kevin Haworth, Molly Rideout and Purvi Shah.

Listen to the Iowa Public Radio story on this project here.

Thank you to all of our library partners and sponsors for this project! More photos soon!