Design on Main

02/05/18 AMES, Iowa — What does sustainability have to do with happiness? A lot, according to Arizona State University researchers who study the connection between issues of sustainability and human/community well-being. Scott Cloutier — an assistant professor in the ASU School of Sustainability and a senior sustainability scientist in the university’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability — and Beth Ann Morrison, a doctoral student working with Cloutier to…

February 5, 2018

01/30/18 AMES, Iowa — Central Iowa artists Art Ciccotti, Napier, and Flo Hayes, Urbandale, will share their complementary work in an exhibition Feb. 22 through March 17 at the Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St., Ames. “Luminosity” will highlight the reflective and tactile qualities of spherical objects, displaying Ciccotti’s glass marbles and mobiles in tandem with pastel drawings of marbles by Hayes. Gallery hours for spring…

January 30, 2018

01/11/18 AMES, Iowa — Iowa City Mayor Jim Throgmorton will speak about his first two years in office and the challenges of responding to unexpected events in a lecture Monday, Jan. 22, at the Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St., Ames. Throgmorton’s presentation, “City Crafting in a Contested Age,” will begin at 6 p.m. Drawing on his background as both a scholar and an elected official, Throgmorton…

January 11, 2018

01/09/18 AMES, Iowa — An exhibition exploring landscape, architecture and a sense of place will kick off the spring 2018 season at the Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. “Fractured Vistas and Mechanical Topographies: Jody Boyer and Russ Nordman” will be on display Jan. 16 through Feb. 13, with a public reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26. The artists will lead…

January 9, 2018

11/08/17 AMES, Iowa — “Culture and My Art,” the final thesis exhibition by Iowa State University integrated visual arts graduate student Xin Chen, will be on display Nov. 12-18 at the ISU Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. “[Through my work] I reflect on my personal experiences growing up in China and being immersed in Chinese culture and later pursuing higher education in the United States and…

November 8, 2017

10/11/17 AMES, Iowa — The work of three Iowa State University faculty members from different art and design disciplines will be highlighted in an exhibition Oct. 13 through Nov. 4 at the ISU Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. “Where is Here?” features complementary works by Firat Erdim, assistant professor of architecture; David Parker, lecturer in graphic design; and Olivia Valentine, assistant professor of art and visual…

October 11, 2017

08/23/17 AMES, Iowa — Paintings by Storm Lake artist and Buena Vista University faculty member Mary Mello will be on display Sept. 5 through Oct. 9 at the Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. The exhibition, "Everything to Everybody," will feature mixed-media work including encaustic, oil, graphite and printmaking. A closing reception will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, with a…

August 23, 2017