2022 Octagonal: The All Media Show

2022 Octagonal: The All Media Show

by | Friday, Mar 4, 2022

Located in the Community Gallery 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...
Wax Cathedral KAT SILENT WATER

Wax Cathedral KAT SILENT WATER

by | Saturday, Oct 10, 2020

LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY   Kat Silent Water is a printmaker based out of Ankeny, Iowa, working in woodblock and linoleum relief since 2014. She recently embraced the alchemical properties of encaustic painting in her latest body of work, ‘Wax Cathedral’....
OCTAGONAL 2020: The Annual All Media Exhibit

OCTAGONAL 2020: The Annual All Media Exhibit

by | Friday, Feb 7, 2020

LOCATED IN THE MAIN GALLERY Octagonal: The All-Media Exhibit 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...
Measured Perceptions APRIL KATZ

Measured Perceptions APRIL KATZ

by | Saturday, May 25, 2019

LOCATED IN THE COMMUNITY GALLERY Artist Statement for Measured Perceptions During a 2015 trip to Spain, Katz encountered evidence of La Convivencia (the coexistence of Muslim, Jewish and Christian populations) in Medieval Spain that provided hope for our current time...
Twenty Years: APRIL KATZ + 29 former printmaking students

Twenty Years: APRIL KATZ + 29 former printmaking students

by | Saturday, May 25, 2019

LOCATED IN THE MAIN GALLERY Print Retrospective   Artist Bio: April Katz April Katz received her M.F.A. degree from Arizona State University. She is Morrill Professor at Iowa State University where she has taught printmaking since 1999. For nineteen years she...