Events Search and Views Navigation
November 2019
ANGE ALTENHOFEN & JOSH SORRELL
LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY Ange Altenhofen "Metaphorical function" is a term I use to describe my work, dovetailing sculptural form with the innate potential for usefulness and interaction that every three-dimensional object possesses. In this scenario function follows form, recycling art into a prosaic, functional object that is activated through touch and let loose in the world. I tend to think that inanimate objects have "souls", or at least earn something akin to a soul as they get used…
Find out more »January 2020
Alight and Allure EMILY MINNIE
LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY (FIRST FLOOR) Artist Biography Emily Lambertsen Minnie is an artist who specializes in charcoal drawing and oil painting. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Northern Iowa and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee. Emily taught art for three years at Tulane University in New Orleans before living and working as an artist and illustrator for seven years in Brooklyn, NY. In the summer of…
Find out more »February 2020
OCTAGONAL 2020: The Annual All Media Exhibit
LOCATED IN THE MAIN GALLERY Octagonal: The All-Media Exhibit is the annual, juried all-media exhibition at the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames, Iowa. Originally titled the Clay and Paper Show, the exhibit opened in 1968 to provide an opportunity to the central Iowa arts community. Over the past 51 years, the exhibit morphed over the decades to become the Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood Exhibit that has featured hundreds of artists from dozens of states. The newest version of the exhibit, Octagonal:…
Find out more »Limens CHRISTOPHER CHIAVETTA
LOCATED IN SWEENEY GALLERY (THIRD FLOOR) Artist Statement Limen may pertain to the sill of a doorway, the threshold itself, or the point at which a stimulus produces a physiological or psychological response. It marks a boundary of perception. The thresholds presented here explore feelings of liminality, and loss. Things emerge and divide, crystalize in time, accrete, stratify, and dissolve. Sometimes they just burn. I see in these material states of transformation a way to discuss inner experience, but I also…
Find out more »July 2020
#OutrageToChange
You can see all the details about this important and unusual exhibit here.
Find out more »