Back in 1984, Colleen Ernst, a teacher at Ernest Horn Elementary School, invited Keith Haring to visit her school and students. This invitation sparked a mutual love and appreciation between Haring and Iowa City. His 1989 mural made for the school, A Book Full of Fun, rests as the centerpiece of a new exhibition at the Stanley Museum and is accompanied by other works of art, photographs, and archival ephemera. To My Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa City is on exhibition until Jan 7, 2025.

At the invitation of Ernst and Davis, and with the assistance of the Horn Parent Teacher Organization, Haring returned to Iowa City for a single day in 1989. On May 22, which was proclaimed Keith Haring Day at the school, he painted a mural titled A Book Full of Fun in the story well. A Book Full of Fun pays tribute to the literary imagination, depicting an open book and a thought bubble above it swirling with whimsical characters, letters, and numbers.

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