For the record...

On Friday, July 31, The Daily Iowan wrote in their article "Some Art Returns" that the University of Iowa Museum of Art collection will no longer be at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport after Sunday, August 2. This statement is incorrect (the paper will be running a correction when it resumes publication in late August). Under a collaborative agreement, the majority of the University of Iowa Museum of Art collection will remain stored or displayed at the Figge Art Museum until a new permanent structure is available on campus. The current exhibition at the Figge, A Legacy for Iowa: Pollock's Mural and Modern Masterworks from the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will remain available to the public though December 31, 2009.

Beginning this fall, a portion of the artwork now housed (not on view) at the Figge Art Museum will be returning to campus to be displayed in the former Richey Ballroom space on the third floor of the Iowa Memorial Union. However, the selection will not include the Pollock Mural as alluded to in the article. Instead, it will consist of more than 250 objects chosen from the over 12,000 in the UIMA collection. These works present a global overview of the UIMA collection that will be useful to UI classes.

In the same article, The Daily Iowan said that UI students, faculty, and staff receive free admission to the Figge. This is correct, but we'd like to clarify that University of Iowa Museum of Art donors will also get in for free when they present their Donor Courtesy Card.

So, please keep planning to visit the Figge Art Museum to view the University of Iowa Museum of Art collection in the A Legacy for Iowa exhibition! And, plan to visit our new on-campus location at the former IMU Richey Ballroom--more info on that coming soon.

--Hilary Leigh, UIMA Intern