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SUMMARY:2021 Octagonal: The All Media Show
DESCRIPTION:Octagonal: The All-Media Show 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 53 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: The All-Media Show\, launched in 2018 taking a note from the past while moving forward to continue to provide an exciting opportunity for artists across Iowa\, the Midwest\, and the nation. This exhibit features a regionally-recognized juror each year\, attracts artists from across the United States\, and provides significant cash awards.\n\n\n\n \nAwards\nWinifred V. Brown Best of Show award:  $1000\nMedia award for each category: $100\n \n\n\n  \n\n2021 Juror: Jenie Gao\n\nJenie Gao is a full-time artist\, creative director\, and entrepreneur. She specializes in large-scale projects including murals\, public installations\, curatorial works\, and creative direction. She is an interdisciplinary leader with a professional background in the arts industry\, public education\, and lean manufacturing\, and an advocate for equity for artists and creative labor. As a first generation American\, she is a spokesperson for the arts as a path to cultural relevance for a diverse citizenry. \n\n\nJenie is an arts ambassador who has served as the Vice President of Wisconsin Visual Artists\, Chair of the Biennial at Museum of Wisconsin Art\, and Public Art Committee member for Madison Arts Commission. She is a founding member of Arts + Literature Laboratory and Dane Arts Mural Arts\, where she has served as a fundraiser and systems builder for the financial longevity of these nonprofits. Jenie is a TEDx Madison speaker and outspoken advocate for the value of the arts in our ecosystems. She is a former artist-in-residence at Proyecto’ace in Buenos Aires\, Argentina; Museo de Arte Moderno in Castro\, Chile; Iowa Lakeside Laboratory\, Madison Public Library\, and Artist Campaign School with Fractured Atlas. As a curator\, she has produced exhibits at companies like Promega Corporation and AC Hotel\nMarriott as a way to build bridges between artists and businesses. \n\nJenie currently runs a 1\,700 square foot production studio and has hosted 20 interns since 2018. Through her interdisciplinary work\, Jenie has become a visionary leader who knows how to bring together industries\, education systems\, and cultural representation to create a more equitable ecosystem for everyone. https://jenie.org/ \n \n\n\n\n \nThe competition was fierce this year. Jenie Gao chose 41 pieces from a total of 349 submissions by 134 artists. This means that 12% of the overall submissions were chosen for this show. The artwork is selected through a blind process (the juror sees the artwork without the artist’s name or location). Award winners will be selected by the juror just before the show opens. Awards are partly funded through an endowment from the Brown Family. We would also like to thank our Octagonal sponsor: Haila Architecture\, Structure\, and Planning.\n \n2021 Award Winners\n\nPriscilla Sage Fiber Award: “Iridescent Turkey Sticker on the Outside” by Lily Martina Lee. Sponsored by Haila Architecture\, Structure\, and Planning.\n \nJanet Harris Squires Clay Award: “Ignorant” by Ingrid Lilligren. Sponsored by Haila Architecture\, Structure\, and Planning.\n \nMartha Benson Metal Media Award: “Quilted Grid” by Jeremy Diamond. Sponsored by Haila Architecture\, Structure\, and Planning.\n \nVeronika Ruedenberg Mixed Media Award: “The Transition of Venus” by Jamie Malone. Sponsored by Haila Architecture\, Structure\, and Planning.\n \nPaper Media Award: “Frozen Floral Waste #1” by Jody Boyer. Funded by the Brown Family Endowment Fund.\n \nWood Media Award: “Tortuous” by Tom Whalley. Funded by the Brown Family Endowment Fund.\n \nPainting Media Award: “Self Portrait as an Invasive Species” by Caylin Jayde. Funded by the Brown Family Endowment Fund.\n \nEmerging Artist Award: “Baptism” by Paige Holzbauer. Funded by the Brown Family Endowment Fund.\n \nWinifred V. Brown Best of Show Award: “Stretched Thin” by Katie Walberg. Funded by the Brown Family Endowment Fund.\n\n \nPlease visit our YouTube channel to see the virtual reception\, which includes juror comments and a panel discussion with artists (Jody Boyer\, Tibi Chelcea\, Cyndi O’Hern\, and Josh Sorrell) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvK13pCHrqg\n \n \n \n2021 Accepted Works\n\n\n\n\nFirst Name\nLast Name\nTitle\n\n\nChris\nAbigt\nRock Bridge\n\n\nJanet\nBergeron\nKetchikan\n\n\nJody\nBoyer\nFrozen Floral Waste #1\n\n\nMakayla\nCarlson\nTesting the Waters\n\n\nMakayla\nCarlson\nWhatever Keeps You Is All Right By Me\n\n\nNanette\nCatigbe\nHeart of Glass\n\n\nTiberiu\nChelcea\nRandomly Accessed Memory #4\n\n\nKelly\nDevitt\nOutward\n\n\nJeremy\nDiamond\nQuilted Grid\n\n\nTerry\nDooley\nLittle Big Creek\n\n\nMaggie\nDouglas\nSurroundings\n\n\nJennifer\nDrinkwater\nMan\, Superman\, Gunman (March 11\, 2013: Part I)\n\n\nNathan\nEdwards\nHorizons\n\n\nCharlie\nEsker\nthe divine feminine\n\n\nDesiree\nFuller\nStill Life #4\n\n\nDavid\nGarrison\nRushing Water\n\n\nCindy\nGould\nSalt Flats: Great Rann of Kutch\n\n\nJill\nGuffy\nSmall Quilt Collage II\n\n\nSusan\nHeggestad\nEmbellishments: Adorn/Repress\n\n\nPaige\nHolzbauer\nBaptism\n\n\nRandy\nHoshaw\nSWITCHGRASS ON 69\n\n\nCaylin\nJayde\nSelf Portrait as an Invasive Species\n\n\nMarcia\nJoffe-Bouska\nRIO DE MI CORAZON (triptych)\n\n\nCarole\nKunstadt\nPRESSING ON No. 8\n\n\nDiane\nKunzler\nTurbulence\n\n\nLily Martina\nLee\nIridescent Turkey Sticker on the Outside\n\n\nLily Martina\nLee\nPot is the New Tanning\n\n\nIngrid\nLilligren\nIgnorant\n\n\nJamie\nMalone\nThe Transition of Venus\n\n\nChristopher\nMerchant\nEnd Table Cabinet\n\n\nCynthia\nO’Hern\n(F)emanate\n\n\nChuck\nRichards\nA Gallery of Grotesque Self-Portraits\n\n\nAnna\nSegner\nBite Back\n\n\nJosh\nSorrell\nViral\n\n\nJac\nTilton\nBullis Discount\n\n\nJac\nTilton\nChillin’ Below Michigan Ave.\n\n\nKatie\nWalberg\nStretched Thin\n\n\nGina\nWestergard\nWith The Stars and With Me\n\n\nTom\nWhalley\n3-D Portholes: A Study in Black and White\n\n\nTom\nWhalley\nTortuous\n\n\nAlicia\nWilkinson\nSetting The Oppressed Free
URL:https://octagonarts.org/event/2021-octagonal-the-all-media-show/
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SUMMARY:What's Good Project JENNIFER DRINKWATER
DESCRIPTION:LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY \nPlease join us for a closing reception on  Thursday\, May 20th\, 5 – 7pm with artist\, Jennifer Drinkwater! The reception will be at the Octagon Community Gallery. \nWhat is What’s Good\, you ask. \nCulturally\, it seems that we are addicted to negativity. What happens when we deliberately acknowledge and discuss the assets in our communities? What happens when we make a choice to look for what is working where we live? Can this build community momentum and lead to a “spiraling up effect” within the community? \nThe What’s Good Project stems from asset-based community development and highlights community strengths. According to research\, shifting focus from community challenges to strengthening community assets can result in more effective community improvement. Using that as a framework and art as the output\, The What’s Good Project explores what we value where we live. \nA Mississippi native\, Jennifer Drinkwater has lived in various communities across the country – including the Mississippi Delta\, a state park in Western Massachusetts\, New Orleans\, multiple Appalachian Trail crew base camps\, a Blackfoot reservation in Montana\, along the shoreline of Lake Turkana in Kenya\, Eastern North Carolina\, Mississippi suburbia\, college-town Iowa\, Atlanta\, and artist residencies in Truth and Consequences\, NM; Peoria\, IL; Marquette\, NE; Johnson\, VT; and New York Mills\, MN.\nShe has spent one year of her life in tents\, and currently lives with her beloved husband and dog in a house in Ames\, Iowa. \nJennifer is an assistant professor with a joint appointment between the department of art and visual culture and Iowa State University extension and outreach. She has a B.A. in both studio art and anthropology from Tulane University and earned an M.F.A in\npainting from East Carolina University. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally in juried and solo exhibitions and have been featured in New American Paintings and Studio Visit magazine. \nJennifer explores how we bring artwork from the studio into the world\, and accordingly\, how this work can both build and shape community. During the past few years\, she has partnered with communities in Iowa and Mississippi in various community\nart projects\, programming and theatre productions. She helped to organize a community-wide steamroll printmaking event in Perry\, Iowa; created installations in restored prairies in Nebraska; collaborated on public art projects in vacant sites on\nIowa main streets; spearheaded a community knit-bombing project; and painted two murals with middle school children on a juke joint in the Mississippi Delta.
URL:https://octagonarts.org/event/whats-good-project-jennifer-drinkwater/
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SUMMARY:Octagon Member Show
DESCRIPTION:LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY \nMore information coming soon.
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SUMMARY:Theater of The Absurdo LEON RICHMOND
DESCRIPTION:LOCATED IN COMMUNITY GALLERY \nArtist Statement \nWhy is when\, and now is why\, and we will ALWAYS want\, AND all is “What the holy crap!” \nNever has this been an obstacle for lucid critical or crucial thought for whom the dummbbbell tolls in the skies of material wantonness. Q: How did we even get here? The needs\, creeds and greeds of all the wants are re-assembled in this body of work. Faux luxury facilitated by dead corporate machines like Sears\, JC Penny’s and Montgomery Wards with 1200 page catalogs are a good place to begin perhaps. Paper bricks printed on glossy non-archival paper layered to the sky for empire building. If aliens from outer space were to visit us right now\, many of their questions could be answered in those catalogs. Core samples have been gathered in these non-fine art things and born again from merely rummaging through the grave yards of consumable “goods” re-swapped for $$ in the stores of thrift and performing fleas. By the process of cultural anthropology\, many of these cheap consumer goods have been given a new life\, again to adorn the walls and tables of mainstream America. The artist has found inspiration in the cheap stuff of yester-year\, thusly re-arting the stuff that was mass-produced to give the façade of style and class. So hurry! We’re running out of stuff fast! \nThe white middle/upper/other classes examined have been recorded in both the good and bad books of history and consequently flushed out the birth canals of the unimaginative landfills (progress). Facsimiles with objective meanings defy our understanding in the rubbish now\, yet provide proof-positive of who we were\, who we are and what we mostly still want to be. So uselessly useful in their time now become “utilitarian fine art” again for their utilitarian purpose in the third place. Artistic alchemical license has freely given the artist a full-on-all-out-all-American stratagem with these junk store findings. America in its most peculiar vintage hour… American at its final artistic process… \nSo for now\, we look to the past for where we went wrong\, right and/or left. Based on the hunting and gathering of antiquated pictorial evidence\, allegorical signifiers\, aggressive branding and personal insider insights\, observable clues are given in an absurdist\, unflinching and often lowbrow way for your viewing entertainment. To laugh or to cry?… You decide… \nMeet the artist at the closing reception Friday\, August 13\, 5 – 7pm in the Community Gallery. Everyone is welcome and masks are required.
URL:https://octagonarts.org/event/leon-richmond/
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SUMMARY:Image & Text: Visual Art and Creative Writing in Partnership
DESCRIPTION:LOCATED IN COMMUNITY GALLERY \nImage & Text features visual and written artworks crafted from partnerships between visual artists and creative writers. Whether the individual artworks or the overarching concepts behind the artworks are the collaboration\, this gallery installation intends to show artwork generated by the interplay between (or among) visual artists and creative writers. A call for artists took place in the summer of 2019. Originally planned for the 2020 gallery season\, the pandemic required rescheduling of this gallery show. \nAdditionally\, throughout the month of September\, The Octagon will be hosting several events to celebrate the collaboration of visual art and writing. We would love to have you join us! \n  \nWednesday\, September 1st\, 7:00 PM  \nGallery Talk with Debra Marquart and Ingrid Lilligren \nA conversation with Ingrid and Debra involving art\, readings of poems and excerpts\, and a view into how collaboration between the artists creates new visual art. Watch the recording here: https://fb.watch/8b3U_6AZd4/ \n  \nThursday\, September 9th\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM  \nEraser Poetry + Collage and Open Mic Night \nA drop-in activity to learn about and create eraser poetry and collage alongside a public open mic night. Share the creative writing in your life. $5 suggested donation to help The Octagon cover material costs. Partnership with the Emerging Writers. \n  \nThursday\, September 16th\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM  \nGalley Show Reception \nA reception to celebrate the works of all artists in the show. Plus impromptu poetry readings of the show artists in attendance. See the Facebook event here. \n  \nThursday\, September 23rd\, 6:00 PM NEW TIME! \nWords Meet Art with Ana McCracken \n A literary arts event that demonstrates through words how art invokes feelings\, triggers memories\, and inspires conversations across divides and demographics\, plus a special announcement. \n  \nThursday\, September 29th\, TBA \nReading Night with the Emerging Writers at Dog-Eared Books \n A literary arts event that demonstrates through words how art invokes feelings\, triggers memories\, and inspires conversations across divides and demographics. \n  \nSaturday\, October 2nd\, 12:30 – 4:00 PM \nBookbinding: The Cross Structure Book\, Ages 16+ \nA class on bookbinding. The Cross Structure binding is a non-adhesive structure that offers much freedom to the text block. This 20th century design is greatly inspired by the Long Stitch bindings of the medieval era. It is suitable for conservation or new bindings\, such as travel journals or decorative bindings. The structure is uniquely constructed by interlocking the front and back covers at the spine. Instructed by Peggy Johnston. Pre-registration is required. Cost $95 class fee.
URL:https://octagonarts.org/event/image-text-visual-art-and-creative-writing-in-partnership/
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SUMMARY:The Art of Climate Planning
DESCRIPTION:LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY \nThe Art of Climate Planning is produced by The EcoTheatre Lab and funded by a City of Ames Small Art Grant. The project is inspired by the City of Ames’ commitment to developing a climate action plan in the coming months. The EcoTheatre Lab commissioned seven local artists to develop art pieces with the aim of encouraging community participation in the climate action planning process. These art pieces will be displayed in various community spaces through March 2022. A big thank you to everyone involved in the Octagon Center for the Arts’ Outrage to Change Project in Summer 2020\, which inspired the structure for The Art of Climate Planning.  \nAbout The EcoTheatre Lab: The EcoTheatre Lab is a small collective of three Ames artists (Charissa Menefee\, Taylor Sklenar\, and Vivian M Cook). They partner with fellow ISU and Ames artists and community members to produce arts events that build community and engage audiences in sustainability conversations. They approach their work from an asset-based perspective\, examining the many assets that exist within our community and identifying ways to amplify and build on those assets through art. Follow The EcoTheatre Lab on Facebook and Instagram.  \nWork in image by Keygan Sands. \n 
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SUMMARY:AMENDA TATE
DESCRIPTION:LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY \nArtist Statement: \nIn Latin\, the word Manibus means “from the hand.” I created the Manibus robotic painting device to utilize as an extension of the artist’s hand. A dancer wears a motion-sensing remote directing Manibus to render an artistic depiction of elapsed time and motion. Using this tool\, I capture and translate the movement and visceral dynamics of dance into painted works of art.  \nI facilitate collaborative processes as a director combining the necessary components for creating the work of art. With a nod to Abstract Expressionism\, I allow for spontaneity in the mark\, but utilize my own set of constraints to orchestrate order in the process. I determine the scale\, width of the brush\, the color\, the starts and stops\, while resigning myself to accept some aspects of the output as they occur.  In the spirit of Happenings\, I encourage the contribution of creative energy within a prescribed structure.  \nMy process yields an observable abstract representation of what has transpired. It is an opportunity to analyze the fleeting movements of dance. The works take shape as dynamic linear renderings that embody kinetic verve. The emotion of the dance becomes a painted vestige honoring that instance in time. The lingering traces are mapped connections facilitated by social interaction\, art\, engineering\, and technology. \nMy work explores how art and dance can be utilized in a participatory way to cross societal divides\, break down barriers and increase empathy through tangible and embodied interactions.  Through imagination\, curiosity\, and courage\, we can increase our self-awareness to grow introspectively and consciously thereby enabling us to better understand the experiences of others. I have been conducting happenings/events that encourage public participation in the performative and improvisational creation of a collaborative work of art as a means to explore social structures and confirm connections to being emotionally intelligent humans. \nThis work questions responsible use of technology\, the construction of identity in a socially digitized world\, authorship and ownership\, privacy\, and legacy.
URL:https://octagonarts.org/event/amenda-tate/
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SUMMARY:The Colors of Nature BRIDGET MARCUS & PAMELA DOUGLAS
DESCRIPTION:Bridget Marcus has been bird watching for most of her life and her wonder and love for birds is only increasing as the vulnerability of our avian neighbors becomes ever clearer. Growing up in South Africa much of her free time was spent in the “bushveld” resulting in a deep knowledge of South African birds. Since emigrating to the midwest United States\, she has grown to know and love the birds of eastern deciduous forests and urban gardens. \nBridget loves intense\, highly saturated color and so has been drawn to pastels. Jack Wilkes\, her private teacher and mentor\, has exposed her to the magic of this medium. \nInspired by the depth of color with pastels\, Bridget has recently started developing a body of work depicting American birds that are attracted to the Michigan woodland property where she and her husband\, Rick\, are actively birdscaping by planting native plants to attract the insects on which specific bird species depend. This summer’s birds of note include scarlet tanagers\, indigo buntings and cedar waxwings bathing in the pond\, which was built as a source of water for the birds. \nAs a part of Bridget’s commitment to aid in bird conservation\, she will donate 30% of any sales at this exhibition or from online sales to the Audubon Society to assist them in the meaningful work being done by this important organization. \n“My lifelong connection with nature feeds my soul but I fear that opportunities to experience first hand its exquisite beauty and wonder are rapidly diminishing with the inexorable rise in extinction rates of so many species. I aim to share my love of and reverence for some of these magnificent creatures by depicting them through the use of texture and vibrant color. I hope to inspire those who see my work to slow down\, notice\, and feel.” \nPamela Douglas specializes in painting and drawing. She has worked in a lot of dierent mediums\, but over the last several years\, her works are primarily created in pastel. Landscapes and still life are the subject matter she paints most often. Rather than represent the row crops of the midwest\, Douglas is  drawn to the beauty of the natural landscape. Her still life work contains contemporary compositions representing simple objects set in a specific orientation in space. \nWhether in the studio or outside along a dusty road\, Douglas enjoys the experience of being in the moment while painting. Through her works\, she invites the viewer to imagine the serenity found in nature and hopefully to realize how important those places are in our world. \nIn Douglas’ work\, the interaction of color intensity and temperature strengthens the illusion of light\, color\, and form. Through her continued investigation of the use of color\, she intentionally works to produce the limits of depth or atmosphere. \nDouglas applies pastel in a layered method\, working first with the hardest density pastels and then finishing with soft pastels. Values are generally applied from dark to light. Depth of space is created by applying just the right temperature\, value and intensity of color where needed. \n“As a child\, most of my fondest memories are about creative play. I believe being actively creative was something important enough to have brought me to what I do today. Making art teaches me something new about myself and the creative process every day. I feel most fulfilled when I am alone and experiencing the creative process.”
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LOCATION:Octagon Center for the Arts\, 427 Douglas Avenue\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Catching My Breath CAMERON GRAY
DESCRIPTION:Community Gallery — View from the Sidewalk \n \nShow Statement\n \nDo we have time to slow down? And I don’t mean that Only in the sense of physically\, but mentality. Though we are living in a pandemic and things are to supposed to me moving much slower\, I feel that is far from the truth. From the multiple Deaths to trials\, when have we had time to be at Peace! \n \nCatching my Breath is the visual representation of me finding (or trying to find) that peaceful state through the trauma and chaos. We live in a society where it is not hard to be wrapped up in the sensationalism of the media with Black death being the tagline. That you can get lost in it all. This installation is all about taking and making space/room to breathe.\n \nThe gallery space will not be entered after install to allow the Black Spirit to be able to flow and breathe uninterrupted! I truly believe that is what Every Black person deserves and needs! \n \n \nBio\n \nCameron Gray was born in Birmingham\, Alabama in 1991. It was growing up in Birmingham when he started to see the effects of racism. He focused on feelings stemming from these effects when he entered his first art class at Auburn University. He graduated from Auburn University in December of 2013 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Printmaking. In 2014\, he moved to St. Louis\, Missouri to work as a press assistant with a printmaker. In 2020\, he graduated from Iowa State University with a Master of Fine Arts.\n \nGray has shown his artwork in solo and collaborative shows\, nationally and internationally\, including in Cortona\, Italy\, Oklahoma\, Alabama\, Texas\, Iowa\, North Carolina\, California\, and New York. In 2020\, he founded a community-based initiative called The Buxton Initiative where he conceives community-based projects that celebrate Blackness in art\, literature\, music\, and film. His first major project is the Black’d Out Book Library where he is providing space where only Black voices are being heard and felt.
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SUMMARY:2022 Octagonal: The All Media Show
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Community Gallery \nOctagonal: The All-Media Show 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 53 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: The All-Media Show\, launched in 2018 taking a note from the past while moving forward to continue to provide an exciting opportunity for artists across Iowa\, the Midwest\, and the nation. This exhibit features a regionally-recognized juror each year\, attracts artists from across the United States\, and provides significant cash awards. \nJoin the Octagon staff\, exhibit artists\, and exhibit juror for the 54th annual Octagonal: The All-Media Show’s opening night reception on Friday\, March 4th at 6:00 p.m.! Juror Akwi Nji will announce Octagonal 2022 award winners and share juror comments. Then\, join four Octagonal artists in a panel discussion on “Identity and Connection: Art as a Reflection of our Environments.” Featured artists are Natalie Deam\, Jennifer Gauerke\, Kimberlee Rocca\, and Anda Tanaka\, who will discuss how connections to their environments – social\, ecological\, occupational – shape their identities and their artwork.  \nOctagonal 2022 will be open for viewing in the Community Gallery\, starting March 4th at 6:00 p.m. and until April 9\, 2022. The Octagon requires proper mask wearing and physical distancing while in all parts of the building. \nThis event is in partnership with the Ames Community Arts Council. A big thank you to the 2022 sponsors: 10Fold Architecture + Engineering\, Cook’s Emporium\, Dog-Eared Books\, Gilger Designs\, Nook & Nest\, Sherwin Williams\, Z.W. Mercantile\, Brown Family Endowment Fund\, Huff Endowment Fund\, Iowa Arts Council\, City of Ames Commission on the Arts.  \n\nAwards\nWinifred V. Brown Best of Show award:  $1000 \nMedia award for each category: $250 \nPriscilla Sage Fiber Award\nSponsored by: Z. W. Mercantile\n“Siphonophore” by Betty Busby \nJanet Harris Squires Clay Award\nSponsored by: Cooks’ Emporium\n“Socially Distanced” by Hank Hall \n\nMartha Benson Metal Media Award\nSponsored by: Gilger Designs\n“Exhale” by Katie DuVal Mihelich \n\nVeronika Ruedenberg Mixed Media Award\nSponsored by: Nook & Nest Ames\n“Forces of Change” by Maggie Douglas \n\nPaper Media Award\nSponsored by: Dog-Eared Books\n“Stink Eye” by Mattea Whetstone \n\nGlass Media Award\nSponsored by: 10Fold Architecture + Engineering\n“Highland Meadow” by Jerene Kruse \n\nWood Media Award\nSponsored by: 10Fold Architecture + Engineering\n“Carousel” by Amelia Currier \n\nPainting Media Award\nSponsored by: The Sherwin-Williams Company\n“Beautiful Nymph” by Jess Quinn \n\nEmerging Artist Award\nSponsored by: The Octagon Center for the Arts and Brown Family Endowment Fund\n“Untitled (For Nona)” by Anda Tanaka \nWinifred V. Brown Best of Show Award\nSponsored by: Brown Family Endowment Fund\n“We’re all under the same sky” by Linda Lewis \n\n2022 Juror: Akwi Nji\n\nAkwi is an award-winning artist creating in words\, performance\, and visual art. She specializes in creative personal narrative storytelling across artistic mediums. Her work and words have appeared on stage from California’s Wine Country to New York’s Fashion Week. \nShe is owner of Threshold Gallery\, an artist-run gallery and micro venue with a mission to support women artists and artists of color in the Midwest; creator of The Remoir Project\, a nationwide audio and visual storytelling arts initiative\, and a champion of the artist and the arts through her role as producer of multi-media arts events in the Midwest. \nAkwi has served as an arts ambassador in multiple roles including as founding executive director of The Hook\, an Iowa Arts Council board member\, producer of nearly 100 events in recent years\, involving more than 300 writers and performers; and advisor of Arts Midwest initiatives. \nHer art serves as manifestations of her exploration of race\, gender\, Black history as American history\, and a parallelism of current social issues with their historical and cultural counterparts\, tensions between the ‘outsider’ and ‘insider’\, and concepts of spiritual and geographic home. As a writer\, voice artist\, performer\, and producer her collaborative partners include Emmy-award winning composers and nationally-renowned dancers and choreographers. She has been an Iowa Arts Council Fellow and\, for her efforts in the business community\, she was named one of Corridor Business Journal’s Forty Under 40.  \nAkwi was born in Iowa City\, Iowa\, and raised in Cameroon\, Africa. Her experiences as a Cameroonian and Cameroonian American inform her work as artist and advocate. She lives in the Midwest with her two daughters\, the family dog\, and her daughters’ cats. \nPROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND\nAkwi’s professional background is in nonprofit leadership\, public education\, journalism\, and strategic communications. Prior to launching her businesses\, she was most recently Director of Communications at the fourth largest employer in her county and serving more than 20\,000 stakeholders. Her professional expertise uniquely spans the corporate and creative world\, positioning her as a sought-after voice on strategic creative communications in the Midwest region. \n\nWe would like to thank everyone who submitted work to be juried for Octagonal 2022: The All Media Show. The following artworks have been accepted by juror\, Awki Ngi. Congratulations!\n 2022 Accepted Artworks\n\n\n\n\nLast Name \n\n\nFirst Name \n\n\nTitle \n\n\n\n\nAdam \n\n\nPenny \n\n\nSunny Day Window \n\n\n\n\nAlberda \n\n\nJoanne \n\n\nWoven Toss \n\n\n\n\nBauerle \n\n\nMarcia \n\n\nSaint Analogous \n\n\n\n\nBrown \n\n\nSara Slee \n\n\nSouls Ascending Green Gate \n\n\n\n\nBusby \n\n\nBetty \n\n\nSiphonophore \n\n\n\n\nCourter \n\n\nCherie \n\n\nBuck Run #2 \n\n\n\n\nCurrier \n\n\nAmelia \n\n\nCarousel \n\n\n\n\nDayton \n\n\nA K \n\n\nLarch Creek \n\n\n\n\nDeam \n\n\nNatalie \n\n\nBloom (Invasive) \n\n\n\n\nDouglas \n\n\nMaggie \n\n\nForces of Change \n\n\n\n\nDouglas \n\n\nMaggie \n\n\nWhere does the time go? \n\n\n\n\nDuVal Mihelich \n\n\nKatie \n\n\nExhale \n\n\n\n\nEastburn \n\n\nJudith \n\n\nGolden Hills #2 \n\n\n\n\nEllis \n\n\nAmee \n\n\nLaundry Day \n\n\n\n\nElshout \n\n\nKaren \n\n\nWild Hair \n\n\n\n\nFlynn \n\n\nMeghan \n\n\nTiger (Lily) Queen \n\n\n\n\nGauerke \n\n\nJennifer \n\n\nSister Earth \n\n\n\n\nGuffy \n\n\nJill \n\n\nMini quilt Aerial Blocks \n\n\n\n\nHall \n\n\nHank \n\n\nSocially Distanced \n\n\n\n\nHarris \n\n\nAmy \n\n\nEbb and Flow 2 \n\n\n\n\nHensley \n\n\nKatharine \n\n\nSeawall \n\n\n\n\nHerren \n\n\nKenneth \n\n\nShofukan \n\n\n\n\nJoffe-Bouska \n\n\nMarcia \n\n\nRio De Memoria (River of Memory) \n\n\n\n\nKruse \n\n\nJerene \n\n\nHighland Meadow \n\n\n\n\nLaursen \n\n\nAnnie \n\n\nLandscape Nesting Bowls \n\n\n\n\nLehmkuhl \n\n\nGayle \n\n\nGus\, Mike and me: we are from the land \n\n\n\n\nLewis \n\n\nLinda \n\n\nWe’re all under the same sky \n\n\n\n\nLopez \n\n\nAna \n\n\nLondon Wall \n\n\n\n\nPasutti \n\n\nLynsi \n\n\nCoil Vessel Part 1: Wave \n\n\n\n\nPiippo \n\n\nMariah \n\n\nUntitled Textural Painting (Size: 16Hx20Wx2D) \n\n\n\n\nQuinn \n\n\nJess \n\n\nBeautiful Nymph \n\n\n\n\nRocca \n\n\nKimberlee \n\n\nFish Out of Water \n\n\n\n\nSchnitzer \n\n\nAmy \n\n\nThe Quest \n\n\n\n\nShook \n\n\nRichard \n\n\nThe Magician \n\n\n\n\nSorrell \n\n\nJosh \n\n\nErupt \n\n\n\n\nStewart \n\n\nLori \n\n\nMaintaining Equilibrium \n\n\n\n\nTanaka \n\n\nAnda \n\n\nUntitled (For Nona) \n\n\n\n\nTanaka \n\n\nAnda \n\n\nWalking With Amira \n\n\n\n\nWhetstone \n\n\nMattea \n\n\nStink Eye \n\n\n\n\nWhetstone \n\n\nMattea \n\n\nTomorrow \n\n\n\n\nWilkinson \n\n\nAlicia \n\n\nHealing Landscapes Series: From Mexico City to the Midwest\, USA \n\n\n\n\nYavorskaya \n\n\nIrina \n\n\nDancing Penguins ’19 \n\n\n\n\nZeitler \n\n\nDeborah \n\n\nThree Bowls in a Bowl
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LOCATION:Octagon Center for the Arts\, 427 Douglas Avenue\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cherish LIZ MOYER
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Reading Room (Small Wall Gallery). \nShow Statement \nCherish (2022) is a collection of interactive soft sculptures that seek to ask “How do we view end-of-life planning?” Death is a universal experience\, and yet remains in many ways a taboo conversation topic. These works are derived from questions of why we collectively struggle to talk openly about death and dying\, and how that impacts the quality of our death. By shifting the lens of how we have these conversations\, from one of discomfort and foreboding to instead an act of love for those around us\, these pieces consider what a more communal\, open approach might look like. Combining circuit driven interactive elements with traditional quilting aesthetics\, these pieces are driven by human touch and exploration. Quilting becomes a metaphor in these works for what end-of-life could be. Life is in some ways like a quilt\, made up of pieces or moments that combine to create a whole mosaic of experience; why not treat death the same way? By planning for end-of-life you are creating a warm\, comforting legacy to be there when you are no longer able to be.  \n  \nArtist Bio \nLiz Moyer is a graphic designer living in Ames\, IA. Born in South Dakota in 1990\, she perused a degree in Printmaking from the University of South Dakota\, before resettling in Seattle\, WA. After several years working in the arts in Washington state\, she returned to school to pursue a Master’s degree in Graphic Design. Liz is currently an MFA candidate set to complete her degree in the spring of 2022.
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LOCATION:Octagon Center for the Arts\, 427 Douglas Avenue\, Ames\, IA\, 50010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Apricity ISU BFA ISA STUDENTS
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Community Gallery\n \nSeventeen Integrated Studio Arts seniors from ISU’s department of art & visual culture will be exhibiting artwork in Apricity\, their BFA exhibition\, with media ranging from ceramics\, painting\, metalwork. wood\, drawing\, textiles\, printmaking\, photography\, and digital media. Students designed the exhibition and decided on Apricity as their exhibition title\, which means the warmth of the sun on a cold day.\n \nThe Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Integrated Studio Arts focuses on in-depth studio work with an emphasis on crossing conceptual and media boundaries. It is designed for students intending to become professional artists and those planning to continue their studies in a graduate program in studio art.\n \nThe show runs Saturday\, April 16 to Saturday\, April 23\, in the Octagon’s Community Gallery. Gallery hours are M-W 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.\, Thurs. 10 – 8 p.m.\, Fri. 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.\, and Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. A public reception will be held on Thursday\, April 21\, from 5 – 8 p.m.\n \n\n\nFeatured Artists: \nMali Bilstad\nEmma Bolles\nKalie Callison\nHelen Chandler\nMaddison Edwards\nNicole Eppens\nKalli Goerdt\nJacob Graeber\nCarolyn Henry\nAlyssa Mendoza\nClara Mikovec\nKhue Nguyen\nNur Sachleben\nMarilyn Schuling\nElynn Tan\nAshley Vance\nNikole Vollmer \n 
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SUMMARY:2022 Elementary/Middle/High School Annual Student Show
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Community Gallery/Virtual \nThe Octagon Center for the Arts highlights artwork by local elementary\, middle\, and high school students annually.  \n\n2022 Kindergarten – 8th Grade Student Show\nSee the K – 8th Grade Show virtually! Visit our YouTube channel to see the Show: https://youtu.be/l_N0KeDsDNI \n\n2022 High School Student Show\nSee the High School Show in the Community Gallery April 30 – May 14\, 2022. The reception for High School Show was held on Thursday\, May 5\, 2022\, 6:00 – 7:30pm in the Community Gallery. Our juror announced high school awards and share comments on the show. The award presentation and comments can be viewed on the Octagon Facebook page. \n2022 High School Show Juror: JAMIE MALONE \nJamie Malone (they/them) is an Iowan traditional and graphic illustrator who graduated with a B.A. in Biological/Pre-Medical Illustration in 2019 from Iowa State University. They have been working as a freelance illustrator for many non-profits\, authors\, and schools in the central Iowa area. Their art is heavily influenced by celestial bodies\, music\, mysticism\, and the natural world. \nJamie worked at the Octagon Center for the Arts as the 2021 Curator in Residence. \n  \n2022 High School Show Award Winners \nJeffrey L. Brown Memorial Photography Award: “Cue!” by Derek Peng\, Senior\, Ames High School (Art Instructor: Lindsay Wede) \nDavid Burton Stone Memorial Painting/Drawing Award: “Self Portrait” by Cecilia Moyer\, Senior\, Nevada High School (Art Instructor: Mark Beauchene) \nJuror’s Choice (Sponsored by Ames Silversmithing): “Beautiful Wonders” by Emma Brockman\, Freshman\, Ames High School (Art Instructor: Lindsay Wede) \nJuror’s Choice (Sponsored by Ames Silversmithing): “Starlights” by Emma Hudnell\, Freshman\, Madrid High School (Art Instructor: Danielle Dalluge) \nJuror’s Choice (Sponsored by Ames Silversmithing): “First Night” by Carter Wolfe\, Junior\, Ballard High School (Art Instructor: Lisa Bell) \nJeffrey L. Brown Best of Show Award: “Ancestry Nesting Dolls” by Lorna Schuckert\, Senior\, Ames High School (Art Instructor: Lindsay Wede) \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nTHANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS 2022 SPONSORS:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Brown Family Endowment Fund\nThe Stone Family Endowment Fund\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Place and Memory CINDY LESPERANCE\, CAROLYN ALBRACHT\, & JEANINE COUPE RYDING
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Community Gallery \nExhibit Reception: Join us at our exhibit reception on June 9\, 6-8pm at the Octagon! Come meet some of the artists\, see the show\, listen to our crowdsourced exhibit playlist\, and if weather permits\, hang out on the patio and enjoy some light refreshments! Masks are required for events. \nArtist Panel: Register here to join a virtual panel event featuring the artists of Place and Memory! Carolyn Albracht\, Jeanine Coupe Ryding\, and Cindy Lesperance will discuss their artistic process\, their artwork that is currently exhibiting at the Octagon Center for the Arts\, and how their work reflects on place and memory. Tuesday\, June 14th\, 6:00-7:00 p.m. CT\, Zoom. \nGallery Show Statement: Place and Memory \nSometimes a place is experienced from the ground. Sitting in the window of a rural coffee shop\, imagining the lives of passersby. Or walking through the prairie as birds flit from one tall stem of grass to another as the sun beats down overhead. Place is made from the detailed goings on\, the minutia\, of everyday life within local communities and ecosystems.  \nSometimes a place is viewed from above\, distilled down into forms\, colors\, and textures. As the scale expands\, the intricacies of place become less important. The composition of the geographies and tone of the topographies as the sun casts shadows across the landscape take precedence over the experiences of the people who live there or the ecosystems those people exist within.  \nSometimes a place is built from the experiences had\, the relationships created\, and the opportunities taken by those who lived there or perhaps those who passed through. Humans bestow emotional meaning. Meaning creates place. Over time\, the place is remembered and re-remembered. The remembering is reflective and performative. As memories are made and re-made\, the place changes.  \nThe concept of place\, or the historical progression of place as an idea\, traces back to Aristotle and Plato in Ancient Greece. Plato wrote of place as simply a location\, and Aristotle defined place as a container 1. Place can be a physical environment such as a city\, town\, or neighborhood; a complicated interplay between people and the environment; or\, more obscurely\, a way of knowing 2. Place is as much a way of knowing as it is a thing in the world 3. With the addition of meaningfulness through experience and memories\, a geographical place has a sense of place\, or essence\, formed by the subjective and emotional attachment that people have to place as profound centers of human existence. 4 \nPlace and Memory is a compilation of three artists. Who come from different backgrounds. Who have different lived experiences. Who\, using different media\, share their conception of place\, and the importance of memory\, through their artwork.  \n\n[1] Tim Cresswell\, Place: An Introduction (Chichester\, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons Ltd\, 2015)\, p. 25. \n[2] Ibid.\, p. 18. \n[3] Ibid.\, p. 18. \n[4] John A. Agnew\, Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society (Boston\, MA: Allen & Unwin\, 1987). Also Edward Relph\, Place and Placelessness (London\, United Kingdom: Pion\, 1976)\, p. 43. \n\nBiography: Carolyn Albracht \nCarolyn Albracht is Associate Professor of Art Education in the department of Art and Design at Wayne State College. She is also owner and director of Blue Cat Gallery & Studio in downtown Wayne\, NE. She formerly owned and operated L’eglise Art Center & Gallery in Aurora\, NE and taught K-12 art at Hampton Public School in Hampton\, NE. Carolyn served as the Visual Arts Coordinator for the Fall Arts & Music Festival in Aurora from 2004-2007\, and served on the Fine Arts Board of the Hamilton Community Foundation for ten years. She has been a member of the Nebraska Art Teachers Association since 2008\, has served as the organization’s secretary since 2016\, and served as the organization’s 2014 Fall Conference Chair in Aurora. Carolyn studied Studio Art and Psychology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney where she earned a BA in 1999. She continued her studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln\, earning an MA in Museum Studies in 2003. She completed a K-12 Art Education teaching endorsement in 2009. And finally\, she earned a PhD in Education Studies at UNL in August 2016. Carolyn’s personal artistic and teaching philosophy includes the idea that the arts are a necessity and not a luxury\, and so she strives to make the visual arts as accessible as possible to people in her corner of the world. \nFind Carolyn at https://bluecatgalle \nBiography: Jeanine Coupe Ryding \nJeanine Coupe Ryding’s prints\, collages and artists books are in museum and private collections in the U.S\, Europe and Japan. Her work focuses primarily on woodcut prints\, etchings\, artist’s books\, collage and most recently\, painting. She founded both Shadow Press and Press 928 in Evanston\, Illinois for fine art printing and publishing. She received her BA degree from The University of Iowa and her MFA from the Universitat der Kunste\, in Berlin\, Germany. Jeanine has received various awards and residencies including Illinois Arts Council Award\, Arts Midwest Grant\, Frans Masereel Center residencies in Belgium and Anchor Graphics residency in Chicago. She taught in the PrintMedia Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1991 to 2019. \nFind Jeanine at www.jeaninecouperyding.com  \n  \nBiography: Cindy Lesperance \nCindy Lesperance is an award-winning Chicago based artist who works out of her private studio in the NW suburbs.   \nHer art has been exhibited in many galleries and museums including:  Zhou B Art Center–Chicago\, IL\, Bridgeport Art Center\, 4th Floor Gallery–Chicago\, IL\, RMU-State Street Gallery–Chicago\, IL \, Atlantic Gallery–New York\, NY\,  Niza Knoll Gallery–Denver CO\, Rockford Art Museum\, Quad Cities International Airport Gallery\, Freeport Art Museum and has been chosen by prominent jurors such as: Joanne Materra\, Kaveh Mojtabai\, Fred Camper\, James Yood\, Aron Packer\, Dan Addington\, Sarah Krepp\, Jerry McLaughlin\, Lisa Pressman and Sergio Gomez to participate and earn awards in many juried shows.  She has been featured in publications including: EA Magazine\, ACS Magazine\, Cover or the Journal of Financial Service Professionals and Featured Artist of the Red Dot Blog.  Her work is displayed in private and public collections throughout the nation and is on view as part of the permanent collection of the Encaustic Art Institute in Santa Fe\, New Mexico.  \nShe is member and Past President of FUSEDChicago (2018-2021)\, a Chicago Based group of Midwest artists who work in Encaustic and a member of the Northwest Area Arts Council.   \nCindy has evolved a personal style that is highly sophisticated and meticulous in attention to craftsmanship. Her process incorporates a technique she developed of applying small droplets of encaustic\, a combination of beeswax\, resin and pigment\, one-by-one to the surface of the painting and exploring the relationship of these drips to the spaces in between them.  The overall effect produces a tactile quality that when viewed in person\, engages those who encounter it.   \nFind Cindy at www.CindyLesperance.com
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