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  • In thesis exhibition, Segner grapples with humans' attempts to replace the 'lost wild'

    03/25/19 AMES, Iowa — Artwork exploring humans’ artificial approach to replacing the “lost wild” will be on display March 26 through April 4 at the Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. Toy (with) Animals will feature paintings, mixed-media works and an installation by ISU integrated visual arts graduate student and master of fine arts candidate Anna Segner, Owatonna, Minnesota. Gallery hours are 2–5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday,…

    March 25, 2019

  • ISU MFA student's printmaking exhibition explores significance of human-made surfaces

    3/19/19 AMES, Iowa — Prints by Andrew Zandt, an Iowa State University graduate student in integrated visual arts, will be on display April 1-5 at the ISU College of Design’s Gallery 181. Zandt’s thesis exhibition, Time, Action, Wear, Memory, explores the relationship between the human body and surface through the lens of skin and clothing. Varied combinations of pressure-printed fabrics and photolithographs of human skin yield unique identities for each…

    March 19, 2019

  • 'Festival of Personal Geographies' explores unexpected ways to create meaningful maps

    01/31/19 AMES, IOWA — The Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery will host an exhibition and workshops as part of a festival exploring how art can be used to create personalized maps. Organized by Ames artist Tibi Chelcea, “Festival of Personal Geographies” will take place between Feb. 13 and March 17 in several Ames locations, including the Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St.; Little Woods Herbs & Teas, 136…

    January 31, 2019

  • 'Weather Permitting' exhibition highlights artifacts from and responses to ISU event at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

    01/30/19 AMES, Iowa — An exhibition of architectural projects, drawings, writings, installations and short films by Iowa State University architecture students will be on display Feb. 4-9 at the ISU Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. “Weather Permitting: Artifacts from the 2018 ISU DoA Venice Architecture Biennale Colloquium and Beyond” features artifacts from and work developed in response to an educational Biennale Session sponsored by the ISU Department of Architecture…

    January 30, 2019

  • 'Very Very Real' exhibition at ISU Design on Main Gallery highlights the familiar in the unfamiliar

    01/14/19 AMES, Iowa — An exhibition of works merging the analog and digital will be on display Jan. 16 through Feb. 2 at the Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. Titled “Very Very Real,” the show will include still-life surfaces of vegetative matter and digitally-derived works by Roman Chikerinets, ISU lecturer in architecture; embroidery by Leslie Forehand, lecturer and the David Lingle Faculty Fellow…

    January 14, 2019

  • Thesis exhibition explores human perception through comics Nov. 19-30 at ISU College of Design

    11/15/18 AMES, Iowa — An exhibition exploring comics and the interaction of words and images will be on display Nov. 19-30 at the Iowa State University College of Design. Perception is Everything is the thesis exhibition of work by Dan Shea, graduate student in integrated visual arts from Marcus, who will receive a Master of Fine Arts from Iowa State in December. The show will feature several comic book pages Shea has…

    November 15, 2018

  • Ames artist Matthew Merritt's digital drawings on display Nov. 11-Dec. 2 at ISU Design on Main Gallery

    11/10/18 AMES, Iowa — An exhibition of digital drawings and hybrid digital drawing/photographic collages by Ames artist Matthew Merritt is on display Nov. 11 through Dec. 2 at the Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. “01100100 01110010 01100001 01110111 01101110” features 20 framed artworks, 12 tote bags and even a rug printed with original imagery by Merritt, all drawn by hand or drawn…

    November 10, 2018

  • Printmaker Andrew Kozlowski to share work in exhibition, lecture and workshop at Iowa State University

    09/04/18 Ames, IA — Artist Andrew Kozlowski, an assistant professor of printmaking at University of North Florida, will present a lecture and workshop Sept. 20-22 at Iowa State University. Kozlowski, whose work explores how human histories are shaped by the objects we possess, will speak about “Art and Our Culture of Ephemerality” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Iowa State Memorial Union’s South Ballroom. Using images of his…

    September 4, 2018

  • ISU faculty share art 'for the common good' Aug. 22-Sept. 8 at Design on Main Gallery

    08/27/18 AMES, Iowa — Recent artwork by 18 faculty of the Iowa State University Department of Art and Visual Culture is on display Aug. 22 through Sept. 8 at the ISU Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. “For the Common Good” features prints, paintings, photographs, illustrations, furniture, video, and fiber, metal and interactive works. The exhibition was inspired in part by an essay by Johnnella E.…

    August 27, 2018

  • Iowa State alumnus returns to tell refugee stories, including his own

    August 22, 2018