Octagon Center for the Arts

Wheelthrowing: Beginning Bowls Jan 8 - 22
2019-01-08 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Wheelthrowing: Beginner Bowls, ages 16 +
Tuesdays, 6 – 9 pm
January 8 – 22 (3 weeks) $85
Create beautiful bowls using the potter’s wheel. Price includes 12 lbs of clay, glazes and firing.
Instructor: Jackie Comito
Ceramics Studio
Class Limit: 7
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Registration closes on at 6am on 1/4/19.

Exploring Art: Jan 8 - 29
2019-01-08 09:15 - 10:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Exploring Art, ages: 18 months – younger 3’s
Tuesdays, 9:15 – 10am
$55 for each 4 week session below:
January 8 – 29
February 19 – March 12
April 2 – 23
May 7 – 28
Children and their adult partner will explore art together in a relaxed environment. Toddlers will create their own works of art while learning new skills like tearing paper, gluing, cutting, coloring over texture, painting with different objects, moving through transitions and imitating art making processes. Activities will focus on age appropriate, playful, artistic and sensory materials.
Limit: 6 adult/child pairs.
Instructor: Beth Weninger
Hunziker Studio
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Registration closes on at 6am on 1/6/19.

Winter Art Camp, ages K – 5 (Session 3)
2018-12-28 09:00 - 12:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Winter Art Camp, ages K – 5
You may sign up for one or more sessions.
Sessions in this series are being held on:
Friday, December 21
Thursday December 27
Friday, December 28
9 am – 12 pm
$35 per day
Pre-registration required. Class limit: 8 students
Children’s art studios, 2nd floor
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Winter Art Camp, ages K – 5 (Session 2)
2018-12-27 09:00 - 12:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Winter Art Camp, ages K – 5
You may sign up for one or more sessions.
Other sessions in this series are being held on:
Friday, December 21
Thursday December 27
Friday, December 28
9 am – 12 pm
$35 per day
Pre-registration required. Class limit: 8 students
Children’s art studios, 2nd floor
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Registration closes on at 6am on 12/24/18.

Winter Art Camp, ages K – 5 (Session 1)
2018-12-21 09:00 - 12:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Winter Art Camp, ages K – 5
You may sign up for one or more sessions.
Other sessions in this series are being held on:
Friday, December 21
Thursday December 27
Friday, December 28
9 am – 12 pm
$35 per day
Pre-registration required. Class limit: 8 students
Children’s art studios, 2nd floor
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Registration closes on at 6am on 12/19/18.

MAKER NIGHT: Creative Gift Wrapping
2018-12-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
MAKER NIGHT: Creative Gift Wrapping
Thursday, December 13
6:30 – 8:30 pm
$25
Do you love giving gifts but dread wrapping them? Grab a friend and catch up on some creative gift wrapping techniques. Bring your boxes/gift items (up to 8), and we will supply all materials and unique methods that to make your holiday wrapping fun and stress-free. Need help with awkward shaped items? No problem! We can help you get those items wrapped as well.
Maker Nights are for adults 21 and older. Feel free to bring an adult beverage and/or snacks if you wish. Class limit: 20
North Studio
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Registration closes on at 6am on 12/11/18.

MAKER NIGHT: Fine Silver Origami Pendant
2018-12-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
MAKERS’ NIGHT: Fine Silver Origami Pendant
Thursday, December 6
6:30 – 8:30 pm
$45 Materials included
MAKER NIGHTS are for those ages 21 and above. Bring your friends and your favorite beverage & snacks to enjoy while you create! Or come by yourself and make some new pals. Novice and experienced makers are welcome!
The Japanese art of paper folding plus metal clay equals beautiful fine silver jewelry! First learn to fold your design with lovely origami paper. Next create your design with metal clay. The piece will be fired and ready for you to take home within a week. No previous experience is needed.
Instructor: Rhonda Scott
North Studio
Minimum class limit: 6 Maximum class limit: 12

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Registration closes on at 6pm on 12/5/18.

Thursday morning Art Projects, ages 5 - 10
2018-12-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Thursday morning Art Projects, ages 5 – 10
11 am – 12 pm on December 6
Other classes in this series are held on:

September 7
October 11
November 15

$15 per class. Pre-registration required. Class limit: 8 students
Create unique and interesting art projects each class while learning about new artists, their methods and materials. All supplies included.
Instructor: TBA
Children’s art studios, 2nd floor

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Registration closes on at 6am on 12/4/18.

Exploring Art (Session 4)
2018-11-27 09:15 - 2018-12-18 10:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Exploring Art
Ages: 18 months – younger 3’s
Tuesdays, 9:15 – 10am
$55 for each 4 week session below:
*Register for all four sessions and take $5 off total! Membership discounts do not apply to this special rate.
November 27 – December 18
Children and their adult partner will explore art together in a relaxed environment. Toddlers will create their own works of art while learning new skills like tearing paper, gluing, cutting, coloring over texture, painting with different objects, moving through transitions and imitating art making processes. Activities will focus on age appropriate, playful, artistic and sensory materials.
Limit: 6 adult/child pairs.
Instructor: Beth Weninger
Hunziker Studio

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Registration closes on at 6am on 11/23/18.

MAKER NIGHT: Easy Silver Earrings
2018-11-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Easy Silver Earrings
Thursday, November 15
6:30 – 8:30 pm
$35 materials included
MAKER NIGHTS are for those ages 21 and above. Bring your friends and your favorite beverage & snacks to enjoy while you create! Or come by yourself and make some new pals. Novice and experienced makers are welcome!
Learn about wire work and make your own earrings. Learn about metals, wire, gauges, tools, and also learn about gemstones, wrapped eye loops and how to make head pins, bead links and dangles. Each participant will be able to create one pair of earrings from silver wire and beads. You may bring your own beads, or use ours
Instructor: Terrie Hoefer
Adams Studio
Minimum class limit: 6 Maximum class limit: 12

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Registration closes on at 6am on 11/13/18.

Gallery Night with Sarah Perkins & Gwen Walstrand
2018-11-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Join us for Gallery Night — FREE and open to the public!
Meet the artists and hear about how they collaborated in practice to create this exhibit.

The holidays are just around the corner. While you’re here, why not pop into the Gallery Shop and get a unique gift for someone special on your list.

Thursday morning Art Projects, ages 5 - 10
2018-11-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Thursday morning Art Projects, ages 5 – 10
11 am – 12 pm on November 15
Other classes in this series are held on:

September 7
October 11
December 6

$15 per class. Pre-registration required. Class limit: 8 students
Create unique and interesting art projects each class while learning about new artists, their methods and materials. All supplies included.
Instructor: TBA
Children’s art studios, 2nd floor

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Registration closes on at 6am on 11/13/18.

Cairo, Illinois: Photographs & Enamels SARAH PERKINS & GWEN WALSTRAND
2018-11-15 - 2018-12-21 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Cairo, Illinois: Photographs & Enamels by SARAH PERKINS & GWEN WALSTRAND
November 15 – December 21, 2018
COMMUNITY GALLERY
This work is a collaboration, of sorts, by Gwen Walstrand, photographer, and Sarah Perkins, metalsmith and enamelist. The works themselves are not collaborations, but instead are designed to be viewed together in order to have an impact and a narrative that neither could possess on its own. We are artists working in different media but with the same subject matter — the town of Cairo, Illinois. Cairo is a unique place with both rich and tragic histories, a visual showcase of all that is best and worst in our American history.
Driving through what remains of Cairo it appears to an outsider that most of the town, along with its historic buildings and extensive business district, was abandoned within the same year, as nearly all the structures are in the same state of decay. In actuality, many
events and circumstances caused the precipitous decline of Cairo. The town’s history includes booming success as a shipping town at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, elegant hotels and mansions, and an impressive business district. The more recent history is one of race riots, appalling violence, multiple lynchings, domination by white supremacist groups, and eventual boycotts of local businesses by African Americans. The 1920s city of over 15,000 people now is home to under 3,000 people, hundreds of strangely patched up, decaying buildings, and a handful of struggling businesses.
The enameled bowls are a response to not only the reality of present day Cairo, but also to the images of it that were chosen by the photographer. The work seen together offers insight into the working processes of the artists and the choices made by different viewers. The photographer gathers and selects visual material, the metalsmith/enamelist edits the material again and transforms the flat images into three dimensions, but on a functional form that speaks to basic human requirements. The photographs, as both independent images and references for the bowls, are aesthetic explorations of Cairo but with an attempt to consider more deeply the complexity of human histories that form such places.

All Kinds of Art! November 9
2018-11-09 09:00 - 15:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
All Kinds of Art!
Fall Conference Workshops, K – 5
Thursday & Friday, November 8 & 9
9 am – 3 pm
$45 per day. Sign up for one or both days. Pre-registration required.
Bring a sack lunch and get creative on your days off!

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Registration closes on at 6am on 11/7/18.

All Kinds of Art! November 8
2018-11-08 09:00 - 15:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
All Kinds of Art!
Fall Conference Workshops, K – 5
Thursday & Friday, November 8 & 9
9 am – 3 pm
$45 per day. Sign up for one or both days. Pre-registration required.
Bring a sack lunch and get creative on your days off!

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Registration closes on at 6am on 11/6/18.

Knitted Stocking Cap
2018-11-07 18:00 - 21:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Knitted Stocking Cap
Wednesday, November 7
6 – 9 pm
$30
If you already know how to knit and are looking for a simple, quick winter cap project, this is YOUR class. Knit this classic stocking cap on 2 needles in any size (provided pattern includes sizes Child through Adult XL). Class will introduce 2-color knitting and include ideas for Pompoms and tassels. Skill level: Advanced Beginner
Instructor: Diane Corson
Studio: Adams
Class Limit: 10

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Registration closes on at 6am on 11/5/18.

Make Your own Mugs, ages 16+
2018-11-06 18:00 - 2018-11-27 21:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Make Your own Mugs, ages 16+
Tuesdays, 6 – 9 pm
November 6 – 27 (3 weeks) No class November 20
$80 includes 25Lbs. of clay, all glazes and firing.
Learn to wheel throw the base of the mugs, attach handles and finish your piece with glaze. Everyone will have mugs to take home and enjoy!
Instructor: Jackie Comito
Ceramics Studio
Class Limit: 6

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Registration closes on at 6am on 11/4/18.

Hand Built Clay Ornaments, ages 16+
2018-11-06 18:00 - 2018-11-13 21:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Hand Built Clay Ornaments, ages 16+
Tuesdays, 6 – 9 pm
November 6 – 13 (2 weeks) $50
Create autumn and winter hand built ornaments for your holiday packages, wreaths, and for use in decorating. Students will learn to using slab and hand building techniques. Bring your favorite cookie cutters for shape ideas.
Instructor: Susan Anderson
Ceramics Studio
Class Limit 8
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Registration closes on at 6am on 11/2/18.

Needle Mittens
2018-11-03 09:00 - 12:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Needle Mittens
Saturday, November 3
9 am – 12 pm
$30
Want to learn to knit mittens but can’t handle working on 4 needles? Relax – this easy 2-needle mitten method will allow you to make them easily. Skill level: Advanced Beginner/ knitters with basic skills or who have taken a Beginning Knitting class
Instructor: Diane Corson
Studio: Adams
Class Limit: 10
Bring to class: a 16” circular needle, size 7 or 8 (or a pair of 10” or 12” straight needles, size 7 or 8 – your choice), a skein of worsted weight yarn, a small stitch holder and a tapestry needle. The usual tools such as scissors, tape measure and notebook are also helpful. (Suggestion: look for wooden or plastic needles, which are much easier to handle than aluminum ones.) Handouts and all other materials will be provided. Please contact The Octagon if you have questions about the materials required.

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Registration closes on at 6am on 11/1/18.

Exploring Art (Session 3)
2018-10-30 09:15 - 2018-11-20 10:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Exploring Art
Ages: 18 months – younger 3’s
Tuesdays, 9:15 – 10am
$55 for each 4 week session — See the class listing for the other 4 week sessions.
October 30 – November 20
Children and their adult partner will explore art together in a relaxed environment. Toddlers will create their own works of art while learning new skills like tearing paper, gluing, cutting, coloring over texture, painting with different objects, moving through transitions and imitating art making processes. Activities will focus on age appropriate, playful, artistic and sensory materials.
Limit: 6 adult/child pairs.
Instructor: Beth Weninger
Hunziker Studio

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Registration closes on at 6am on 10/26/18.

Drop Spindling, ages 14+
2018-10-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Drop Spindling, ages 14+
Sunday, October 28
1 – 3 pm
$55
Making yarn without a spinning wheel has never been so much fun! We will discuss varieties of wool; its various preparations and how to buy it; while learning to spin wool roving into yarn using a drop spindle. You will use and take home your own wooden drop spindle, and we will provide several kinds of roving. Come with a sense of adventure and a sense of humor; this is a tricky skill and takes time, but well worth it! Maximum class limit: 8 participants
Instructor: Maggie Howe
North Studio

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Registration closes on at 6am on 10/25/18.

MAKER NIGHT: Paper Marbling
2018-10-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Paper Marbling with Rhonda Scott
Friday, October 26
$35 all materials included
6:30 – 8:30 pm
MAKER NIGHTS are for those ages 21 and above. Bring your friends and your favorite beverage & snacks to enjoy while you create! Or come by yourself and make some new pals. Novice and experienced makers are welcome!
Join Rhonda Scott in creating a collection of beautiful marbled papers using the Ebru method. Each paper is unique, made one-at-a-time — and the process is lots of fun. Frame your decorated papers. Or use them in collage work, journaling / book arts, scrapbooking, or other creative projects.
Minimum class limit: 6 Maximum class limit: 12
Studio: TBA

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Registration closes on at 6am on 10/23/18.

Felted Tote Bag
2018-10-24 18:00 - 2018-11-07 20:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Felted Tote Bag
Wednesdays, 6 pm – 8 pm
October 24 – November 7 (3 weeks) $60
Looking for a classy, fun-to-make knitting project that will give you a chance to learn some new skills? This versatile felted tote is perfect as a handbag, for shopping or carrying books to and from the library. Skills required: basic knitting skills (cast on, knit, purl, increase, decrease, bind off). Skills added: knitting “in the round” (circular knitting), I-Cord making, changing colors, working with natural fiber yarns, and the entire felting process. Skill level: Advanced Beginner
Instructor: Diane Corson
Studio: TBA
Class Limit: 10

Bring to class: a 24”circular needle, size 11, a set of 10” or 12” double-pointed needles, size 11, 3 skeins of all-wool, worsted weight yarn, in 1 or 2 contrasting colors, and four decorative buttons to compliment your completed bag (optional). The usual tools such as scissors, tape measure and notebook are also helpful.(Suggestion: look for wooden or plastic needles, which are much easier to handle than aluminum ones.) Handouts and all other materials will be provided. Please contact The Octagon if you have questions about the materials required. Yarn selection note: Using the correct kind of yarn is critical to the success of a felted project. DO NOT use any yarn with partial synthetic fiber content such as acrylic, nylon or polyester, Do NOT choose a wool yarn marked “Superwash” or “Machine Washable” – those yarns will not felt. Finally, choose a color/colors other than white, since the bleaching process used on white yarns also makes them “Un-feltable,”

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Registration closes on at 6am on 10/22/18.

Hands on Harps, ages 16+
2018-10-20 10:30 - 12:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Hands on Harps, ages 16+
Saturday, October 20
10:30 am – 12 pm
$35
Learn more about the harp and try out different sizes of folk harps. Participants will have the opportunity to learn to play simple melodies and chords, in unison and in rounds. The harp is a very beginner friendly instrument (even mistakes sound good on the harp!) No musical experience necessary. Class limit: 12 students
Barb Evenson
Community Gallery

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Registration closes on at 6am on 10/18/18.

Thursday morning Art Projects, ages 5 - 10
2018-10-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Thursday morning Art Projects, ages 5 – 10
11 am – 12 pm on October 11
Other classes in this series are held on:

September 7
November15
December 6

$15 per class. Pre-registration required. Class limit: 8 students
Create unique and interesting art projects each class while learning about new artists, their methods and materials. All supplies included.
Instructor: TBA
Children’s art studios, 2nd floor

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Registration closes on at 6am on 10/9/18.

Thursday morning Art Projects, ages 5 – 7
2018-10-11 09:15 - 10:15 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Thursday morning Art Projects, ages 5 – 7
9:15 – 10:15 am on October 11
Other classes in this series are held on:

September 7
November15
December 6

$15 per class. Pre-registration required. Class limit: 8 students
Create unique and interesting art projects each class while learning about new artists, their methods and materials. All supplies included.
Instructor: TBA

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Registration closes on at 6am on 10/9/18.

Mixed Bag of Art, K - 5
2018-10-08 09:00 - 15:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Mixed Bag of Art, K – 5
Monday, October 8
9 am – 3 pm
$45
Bring a sack lunch and get creative on your days off!

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Registration closes on at 6am on 10/4/18.

Contemporary Collage
2018-10-07 12:00 - 2018-10-28 16:00 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Contemporary Collage
Sundays, 12 – 4 pm
October 7 – 28 (4 weeks) $300 nonmember/ $270 members
1 credit: Heartland AEA credit available $35(registration for credit at AEA website by the first day of class)
Explore new uses of unexpected materials while introducing conceptual ideas into your art practice. Complete mixed media projects based on current issues and discover the relationship between found objects and visual art.
Instructor: Jack Wilkes
North Studio
Class limit 20 participants

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Registration closes on at 6am on 10/4/18.

Gallery Night: Aperture Awards & Smithsonian Exhibit Tailgate
2018-10-04 17:00 - 19:00 | IA
Join us for an exciting Gallery Night — FREE and open to the public!

Ames Downtown will host a tailgate event on Douglas Avenue in front of the Octagon. Details to follow!
The awards for Aperture 2018 will be announced.
Artist Bogumil Bronkowsk may also be with us; we are still working on this possibility.

Worlds Apart BOGUMIL BRONKOWSKI
2018-10-04 - 2018-11-10 | Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
Worlds Apart by BOGUMIL BRONKOWSKI
October 4 – November 10, 2018
COMMUNITY GALLERY
My current body of work explores the concepts of struggle, place, and belonging. I immigrated to America at the age of nine; initially, no one told me that my family was permanently moving here. I boarded that international flight thinking that my family and I were coming for a vacation. It was devastating. I never said goodbye to many of my family and friends. I left behind everything that was familiar and came to a completely new environment, and since I was moving from a small town in Poland to Chicago, one of the most populated cities, the change was drastic. I had to navigate through this new, strange, yet exciting world without knowing the language or the customs of my new land. The process was scary, and many things did not make sense when I first arrived. It was similar to an alien being beamed down to a new planet; I had to learn a total new way of life.
My paintings reflect my personal experiences in that the viewer has to work to solve and make visual sense of each image. I play with the sense of space and depth, and my painting do not always make formal sense, much like America did not make sense to me when I first arrived here. Sometimes the image balances coming together as a whole, while other times it threatens to disintegrate into the separateness of the elements that compose it. My paintings are alien landscapes, confusing, exciting and intriguing.
