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SUMMARY:2023 Elementary/Middle/High School Annual Student Show
DESCRIPTION:The Octagon Center for the Arts highlights artwork by local elementary\, middle\, and high school students annually. \n \n\n\n\nGRADES K – 8 (Virtual):\nSHOW DETAILS: \n\n\n\nGoogle Form Submission Due: 5 pm\, Saturday\, April 1\, 2023\nVirtual Exhibit Opening: Monday\, April 17\, 2023\nArt from Grades K – 8 will be displayed virtually.\nEach elementary and middle school student may submit one piece to exhibit. \n\n\n\n\nENTRY REQUIREMENTS: \n\n\n\nAll submitted artwork must be entered into the Google Form by April 1st at 5:00 pm to be included in the show.\nAll media will be accepted.\nPhotographic reproduction of entries may be used or copied by the Octagon Center for the Arts\, without further agreement by the artists\, for exhibition and/or publication (print or online). Artwork may not be credited in publications due to space limitations.\n\n\n\n \nGRADES 9 – 12:\nIMPORTANT DATES: \n\n\n\nShow Opening in the Community Gallery: Monday\, April 17\, 2023\nReception: Thursday\, April 20\, 2023\, 4:00-5:30pm in the Community Gallery. Our juror will announce high school awards and share comments on the show.\nShow Closing in the Community Gallery: Saturday\, May 13\, 2023\n\n\n\n\nENTRY REQUIREMENTS: \n\n\n\nIf you are a 9-12 art instructor or homeschool parent and would like to enter your students’ work into the show\, please email the Gallery Director to recieve a copy of the complete submission guidellines.\nEligible high schools or homeschool students must be located within 20 miles from Ames.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 EXHIBIT JUROR: SUSAN NORRIS \n \nSusan Norris\, an Ames artist\, is a human magpie. Walk with her and you’ll witness her exclaim as she picks up a bit of rusty metal or a shard of plastic. Variety is the spice of Norris’ life from the colors\, patterns and textures of her thrifted clothing and garden to the way she sets a table. \nShe is a scrappy collector and determined connector who can stitch Humpty-Dumpty back together again in a variety of imaginative ways. During the 2021 Ames Artist Studio tour folks asked\, “How did you think of so many different ways to put things together?” \nNorris is passionate about rescuing discarded objects\, likening them to discarded people. The process of finding\, sorting and grouping objects inspires ideas for expression through assemblage. Norris is currently experimenting with ways to combine her lifelong love of hand stitching and her newfound interest in mending with found object art. \n\n\n\n\n  \nQUESTIONS?\nContact: Casey Bridgham\, Gallery Director \nAddress: 427 Douglas Avenue\, Ames\, IA 50010 \nPhone: 515-232-5331 \nEmail: exhibits@octagonarts.org \n 
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SUMMARY:515 Week at the Octagon
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 15th – Friday\, May 19th\, 2023 \nClick the above image for more information about this event! \n\nDowntown Ames has a lot of fun scheduled each day from 5/15 – 5/19. On 5/16 and 5/17\, help us add some fun color to our patio and paint on our fence and exterior walls! \n\nThe Shop will be open late Tuesday\, Wednesday and Thursday for 515 Week!\nMonday special 15% off discount on several artists in the Shop!\nWe invite anyone and everyone to get creative with our patio fence! Paint will be provided during the evening on Family Night (Tuesday) AND during the 5th Farmer’s Market (Wednesday)!
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SUMMARY:Party on the Patio - May 18th - Featuring Leo Bird
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 18th\n5 PM – 8 PM \nParty on the Patio is every third Thursday of the month\, May – September from 5 PM – 8 PM. Performers are scheduled to perform from 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM unless otherwise noted. Drinks and light refreshments provided for a donation. \nThursday\, May 18th Performer:\nLeo Bird\nMotivational + Comical Speaker\nPerforming: 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM \n \nLeo’s website: https://leobirdstandsup.com/about-leo-bird/ \n 
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SUMMARY:The Words He Cannot Say
DESCRIPTION:The Words He Cannot Say — Exhibition by Leo Bird\nMay 22nd – June 17th\, 2023\nA exhibition by Leo Bird\nExhibiting in the Community Gallery\n\n \nThis exhibition is a collection of works of Leo’s art accompanied by Leo’s writings.\n \nAbout The Words He Cannot Say:\n\n\n\nI\, Leo Bird (b. 1991\, Ames\, Iowa) was diagnosed with autism when I was three years old and created the graphic memoir The Words He Cannot Say. In this memoir I show how I overcame alienation and bullying\, succeeded in my job search\, and learned from mistakes through the patient help of parents\, teachers\, and classmates.  \nFrom analyzing my past\, I learned how I or someone else could have acted differently so the conflict could have had a better outcome. I write and draw to provide commentary on actions that my peers and I took in the past\, without being influenced by any book\, movie\, author\, or genre. My work is life becoming art instead of art imitating life. Some parts of The Words He Cannot Say were written objectively enough to allow subjective opinions. Audiences react to it in ways that surprise me and I learn from the audience. My stories inspire audiences to be kind\, self aware\, courageous\, and adventurous and have debunked myths. The artist I draw like is Alex Katz\, whom I had not heard of before artists had analyzed my art. I aim to use a color scheme that creates the maximum amount of contrast between adjacent colors using the minimum amount of color. \nI got the idea for The Words He Cannot Say an interview in the summer between my junior and senior year of college in 2013. The interviewer suggested I could teach people about autism. I thought I could do that by using the true storytelling techniques I learned in my Writing Short Stories Class. When I shared my stories\, I learned that nuerotypicals (people without autism) and even cats and dogs faced the same challenges fitting in as I did and found the topic interesting\, so I shifted the focus of The Words He Cannot Say to fitting in\, building talent and character and allowed The Words He Cannot Say to lose the autism theme. This discovery motivated me to write about my life.\n\n \nLeo Bird’s Website: https://leobirdstandsup.com/about-leo-bird/\n\n \nUpcoming event dates:\n\nMay 22nd – Exhibition Opening Day and Reception\nJune 17th – Exhibition Closes\n\n \n 
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