When Stephanie Miracle moved to Iowa City in 2019, she visited the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History in Macbride Hall with her 1-year-old son.
“I totally fell in love with this museum space. I immediately started to dream up a project for this space,” she said.
Miracle came to Iowa City as a visiting assistant professor at UI’s Department of Dance. With cinematographer Auden Lincoln-Vogel and composer Ramin Roshandel, Miracle has created Mammal Hall, a short film that explores museums and how we relate to them.
The roughly 16-minute short functions as an entry point into questions like: What is the purpose of museums? How do we encounter that purpose? Why is it important to share that information?