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  • Hard and Soft: Contrasts in Nature Expressed Through Clay ELIZABETH SHRIVER

    Octagon Center for the Arts 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, United States
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    LOCATED IN SWEENEY GALLERY From Elizabeth Shriver: I work with clay to create an array of graceful, organic forms. These pieces are constructed using a combination of hand-building methods such as slab-building, coiling, pinching, and forming with molds. Rarely relying on glaze, I use textures, stains, and colored clay to add visual and tactile interest. […]

  • Diary of a Mad World DERRICK BURBUL

    Octagon Center for the Arts 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, United States
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    LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY Diary of a Mad World Artworks by Derrick Burbul July 20 to September 7, 2019 Artist Statement My images and writings have sometimes been juxtaposed, but never combined, until this body of work. The relationship between images and words can be traced back all the way to fourth century B.C. […]

  • A Few of My Favorite Things MEGAN ANDERSON

    Octagon Center for the Arts 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, United States
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    LOCATED IN THE SMALL WALL GALLERY From Megan Anderson: I have always been in awe of nature and its beauty. I see the world through a photographer’s eyes and always wish I had a camera permanently attached to my hand. With the invention of cell phones, my dream came true. I want to show that […]

  • 70K: The Biennial Community of Artists Exhibit

    Octagon Center for the Arts 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, United States
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    LOCATED IN MAIN GALLERY Let’s do a little math! A = πr2 There are 70,686 square miles in a circle with 150 square mile radius. Thus the name for this exhibit…  70K is a juried exhibition of artists located 150 miles from Ames or nearer. This focus on local and regional artists is an important part of the mission […]

  • ANGIE HUFFMAN & ROBERT JINKINS

    Octagon Center for the Arts 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, United States
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    LOCATED IN SWEENEY GALLERY (3RD FLOOR)   Angie Huffman I try to render scenes from generally unremarkable life events that bring me joy when I first see them. Though mundane, they reach out with a harmonious balance of composition and color. Quiet and wordless, they imply a visual narrative and ask for further consideration. Transporting […]

  • Surface Works PETE GOCHE

    Octagon Center for the Arts 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, United States
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    LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY (1st FLOOR/STREET LEVEL) Artist Statement Using site-adjusted installations as my primary mode of practice, I deploy an integrated and focused approach to both theoretical and practical questions pertaining to the nature and impact of materiality specific to the re-occupation of post-industrial spaces. My works provoke a temporal-spatial encounter that reconciles […]

  • A Prairie Seed AUTUMN ROZARIO HALL

    Octagon Center for the Arts 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, United States
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    LOCATED IN THE SMALL WALL GALLERY Artist Statement I first fell in love with the prairie when studying art at UNI. Wandering the twisting paths of the restored prairie calmed my mind. As I drank in grasshopper droning, late summer’s scent of grass, the pollen, the leaves, and the many colors, I felt grounded and […]

  • EMILY VERDOORN & JON KAMRATH

    Octagon Center for the Arts 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, United States
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    LOCATED IN SWEENEY GALLERY (3RD FLOOR) Emily Verdoorn Through drawing, I form vital relationships with the world of my everyday experience. My process often begins by drawing on location. I enjoy drawing places and spaces steeped in the personality of their inhabitants. My drawings develop in response to time spent observing places and things – […]

  • Inklings SARA MERRITT

    Octagon Center for the Arts 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, United States
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    LOCATED IN THE SMALL WALL GALLERY (3RD FLOOR) I think of these works as inklings, for their humble beginnings as tiny ink doodles, and for those small, nagging ideas, fears, and behaviors that have the power to become reality – whether beautiful or monstrous in their realization. The earliest works date back to 1997, when […]

  • ANGE ALTENHOFEN & JOSH SORRELL

    Octagon Center for the Arts 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, United States
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    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 […]