Learn how to make handmade recycled paper with artists Heather Steckler & Harper Folsom in this community workshop as part of their Hold On/Let Go project and exhibition. Bring your junk mail, paper scraps, unwanted documents, and other paper you’d like to recycle. Learn how to make recycled pulp and pull your own sheets of handmade paper. Participants will have the chance to participate in a community-made artwork for display in the October Hold on/Let Go exhibition and make their own sheets of paper to bring home. This drop-in workshop is open to participants of all ages & no experience is necessary!

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is highly encouraged!

A time for (optional) show-and-tell of works in progress/recent projects, and to check out the progress in the Cloud House studio.

Open to all PS1 members! If you’re not already on the Media Arts Co-op list, or have questions, contact: john@publicspaceone.com

Fantasy Aerobics is a fun and silly aerobic dance event using a variety of fantasy, anime, cartoonish, and whimsical music. This event is free and open to all ages and fitness levels. Demonstration of basic aerobic-inspired dance moves will be provided.

Admission: Free

Date & Time: 3rd Saturday of the month at 3:30 pm

Location: Public Space 1 Close House - Dance Hall - 2nd Floor (stair access only)

538 S Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA 52240

Join us for an artist talk by Center for Afrofuturist Studies artist-in-residence Courtney Desiree Morris. Courtney will share recent work and work-in-progress from her Iowa City residency.

free and open to all

The talk will also be livestreamed on the CAS Instagram.

Courtney Desiree Morris is a visual/performance artist and an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua (2023, Rutgers University Press). Her mediums include large-format portraiture and landscape photography, experimental video, performance art, and installation art. Her work is primarily concerned with ancestral memory, ritual work, ecology, climate change, death, mourning and funerary practice, erotics, and black feminist aesthetics.

Courtney’s residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Ruth Foundation for the Arts.

Join us for a community gathering to meet visiting artists from the MIPSTERZ collective, learn more about Muslim Futurism, and share your own stories and ideas!

All ages & identities welcome! Halal food and tea provided.

“ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM” is a project created by MIPSTERZ that explores Muslim Futurism—a cultural and artistic aesthetic that learns from frameworks of Afrofuturism and imagines a broader Muslim future free from the oppression of today, set in a utopic tomorrow of our collective creation.  

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Open Studio at the Iowa City Press Co-op is the second Saturday of each month from 12-4pm.

Drop by for a free studio tour, or sign up to use ICPC studio equipment for the afternoon.

The afternoon of studio use costs $20 for non-members and $10 for PS1 members, and advanced registration is strongly encouraged.

**Open Studio participants must be proficient with the equipment they are using. If you’re interested in learning, check out our workshops.

Questions? Contact icpresscoop@publicspaceone.com

Join us second Saturdays for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!

June: Rubber Stamps

Design, carve and print your own original stamp.

Drop in between 11a-1p at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert).
Free to participate; donations are welcome.

All ages are welcome! Kiddos must be accompanied by a parent/guardian (who is encouraged to participate as well!).

RSVP (encouraged but not required)

Free second Saturday workshops are made possible by:
• the Community Foundation of Johnson County
• the Johnson County Board of Supervisors

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Art
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11a-13pm
Outside PS1 Close House

$10 / Close House Dance Hall (2nd floor)

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A trio of Kory Reeder, Ryan Seward, and Andrew Weathers visit Iowa City to share their music ("high plains ambient noisecapes"). An ensemble comprised of Christine Burke, Justin K Comer, Tâmila Freitas, Mark Rheaume, and Levi Raleigh Brown will open the show with music for objects and instruments (works by Burke, Comer, Brown, and Rheaume). 

Kory Reeder is an American composer and performer whose music, drawing inspiration from the visual arts and political theory, is often introspective and atmospheric, investigating ideas of objectivity and immediacy, while exploring the social implications of musical interaction with pieces ranging from symphonic and chamber works to field recording, text scores and computer-assisted improvisations.

Described as “one of the most captivating composers in modern classical music” (Dallas Observer), Kory’s music is performed frequently around the world in concert halls, festivals, academic settings, basements, and DIY venues. A dedicated collaborator, he has worked with opera, theater, and dance programs, as well as noise, free-improv, and new media artists on projects ranging from video collaborations to 24-hour live performance art works.

With a catalog of over 100 programmed works, his music has been released on Edition Wandelweiser Records, where one may also find scores of his work, as well as portrait albums released on Full Spectrum Records, Sawyer Editions, Sawyer Spaces, Impulsive Habitat, and Another Timbre, with further releases planned for 2024 and 2025.

Kory is from Nebraska and currently resides in Denton, Texas where he is an active performer and received his PhD from the University of North Texas.

Ryan Seward is a musician, composer, and artist living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His work is situated within and across a number of forms, including composition, improvisation, installation, performance, phonography, photography, sculpture, and videography.

Ryan’s work has most recently been performed by TAK ensemble, Filament, and Sam Wells, and presented at CO-OPt Research + Projects (Lubbock, Texas); Blo Back Gallery (Pueblo, Colorado); Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany); Washington Street Art Center (Somerville, Massachusetts) for co-incidence festival 2020; Die Station (Neufelden, Austria); California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California) for The Dog Star Orchestra 15; and Casper College (Casper, Wyoming) for the Second Annual New Music Day. His recordings have been released by Editions Glomar, emic rite, Marginal Frequency, and Sawyer Editions.

He has previously collaborated with Gabriela Areal, Nat Baldwin, Jaap Blonk, Eugene Chadbourne, Tashi Dorji, Sandy Ewen, Douglas Farrand, Simon Labbé, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Bob Marsh, Cecyl Ruehlen, Daniel Ryan, Bret Sexton, Susan Wolf, Ben Wright, and Jack Wright, among others; and currently collaborates with Kory Reeder and Andrew Weathers. He has also commissioned and premiered the work of composers Eva-Maria Houben and Alexis Porfiriadis.

Ryan holds the MA in Music from Wesleyan University, where he studied experimental music and composition with Ron Kuivila, Paula Matthusen, and Neely Bruce. He has also been mentored informally by composers Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé.


Andrew Weathers (1988) is a composer and improviser based in the Llano Estacado region of northwestern Texas. His work is equally concerned with the disjunction of duration and place, as well as improvisation’s prospect as a vessel of discovery and collective practice. His projects and performances span the idioms of field recording, prepared guitar, surrealist soundscape, and minimalist composition rooted in repetition and drone. Apart from his longtime commitment to collaboration alongside a wide swath of figures inhabiting the sonic underground, Weathers is founder and operator of Full Spectrum Records, which has continued to release the works of sundry sound artists and experimental musicians since its inception in 2008 in his home state of North Carolina. On top of frequent credits as a mixing and mastering engineer, he has also produced various projects for Other Minds Records and Rural Situationism.