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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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