Vicky Grube, Assistant Professor of Art, received her M Ed from the University of Illinois,
her MFA in Theatre Arts and her PhD in Art Education from the University of Iowa. She has taught painting, theatre design, art education and early childhood education at the University of Iowa and surrounding colleges in the midwest. She has a national and a regional NEA in the Visual Arts , has shown her work throughout the midwest notably at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha and won Best of Show at the Nelson Atkins and at the Des Moines Art Center where her work is in their permanent collection.
She has designed sets and costumes for University of Iowa theater productions working
with Rinde Eckert and Ducks Breath Mystery Theatre, Leon Martell. In 1988 she received
a Diverse Visions Grant from the Mc Knight Foundation of Minnesota for her theatre troupe
Pinkys Custom Cakes. Pinkys has performed at the University of Iowa Museum of Art and
at the Catherine Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota. Her doctoral research concerns
critical theory and ethnographic methodology. She has published in Visual Arts Research.
