[2] Faculty and students have included: Grant Wood, Mauricio Lasansky, David Hockney, Elizabeth Catlett, H. W. Janson, Philip Guston, Charles Ray, and Ana Mendieta.

[citation needed] Iowa was the first major university to accept creative works, rather than written theses for graduate degrees in the arts.

In 1924 the University of Iowa conferred the first graduate degree "Master's in Graphic and Plastic Arts" to Eve Drewelowe.

In 1940 Elizabeth Catlett was awarded the first Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Iowa.

Recognizing Iowa's innovative approach, Peggy Guggenheim donated Jackson Pollock's "Mural" to the art department in 1951.

Undergraduate degrees include: Graduate degrees include: For the past seventy-five years the School of Art and Art History has documented thousands of artworks by artists attending the school's graduate studio programs.

The graduate archive contains over 13,000 images of paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures and other art objects.

The archive is unique in the country and provides a critical glimpse of academic American art over much of the last century.