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University exhibit encourages Iowans to 'think outside the square' at Iowa State Fair

August 1, 2018

Visual arts student's project looks at habit of reducing animals to toys

AMES, Iowa — "Toy with Animals," an installation by Anna Segner, is on display April 11-30 at 301 Main St., a storefront in the Sheldon Munn Building in downtown Ames. Segner, an Iowa State University graduate student in integrated visual arts from Owatonna, Minnesota, completed the project as an independent study with Olivia Valentine, assistant professor of art and visual culture. The installation "grapples with the reduction of the animal…

April 23, 2018

Photography exhibition at ISU Design on Main Gallery documents former eastern Iowa dairy farm

03/15/18 AMES, Iowa — Photographs by Rachel Deutmeyer, an Iowa State University graduate student in integrated visual arts, will be on display April 5-15 at the ISU Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St., Ames. Deutmeyer’s thesis exhibition, “Traces: A Farm in Eastern Iowa,” documents interior and exterior spaces of a farm owned by her husband’s grandparents, Kenny and June Friederick. Gallery hours are 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday and noon…

March 16, 2018

ISU artists exhibit work highlighting Ledges State Park at Boone History Center

03/14/18 AMES, Iowa — A traveling exhibition celebrating the geological history and landscape of Ledges State Park is on display March 17-April 28 at the Boone History Center, 602 Story St., Boone. “Common Channel: Responses to Ledges State Park” features three-dozen artworks by Iowa State University College of Design faculty and graduate students with a common interest in the Ledges and in nature art, said the show’s curator, Nancy Thompson,…

March 14, 2018

ISU student's thesis exhibition highlights death, life and transcendence March 20-April 2 at Design on Main Gallery

02/26/18 AMES, Iowa — “RezəˈrekSH(ə)n : Resurrection,” the Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition by Iowa State University graduate student Robert Jinkins, will be on display March 20 through April 2 at the ISU Design on Main Gallery, 203 Main St. Gallery hours are from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday or by appointment. A public reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 30. The show’s title…

February 26, 2018

'Here and There' exhibition features work by ISU students who studied in Italy last fall

02/18/18 AMES, Iowa — “Here and There,” an exhibition of work by 38 Iowa State University students who studied in Italy last fall, will be displayed Feb. 26 through March 23 in the College of Design’s Gallery 181. The show will feature projects by graphic design, integrated studio arts and interior design students who participated in the fall 2017 College of Design Rome Program. It will include drawings, paintings, photographs, mixed-media…

February 18, 2018

ISU visual arts graduate student's work explores injustice and racism in exhibition opening Feb. 19 at Octagon Center for the Arts

02/09/18 AMES, IA — An exhibition of artwork exploring injustice from the perspective of a young black man will be on display Feb. 19 through March 9 in the Community Gallery at the Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Ave., with a reception and panel discussion Thursday, Feb. 22. In “The Negro from the South,” Cameron Gray, an Iowa State University graduate student in integrated visual arts, offers…

February 9, 2018

ISU integrated visual arts student wins Best of Show in Octagon's all-media exhibition

02/04/18 AMES, Iowa — Three artists affiliated with the Iowa State University College of Design took home top awards in the Octagon Center for the Arts’ "50th Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood National All-Media Exhibit." Juror Peter Pinnell, a professor of art at the University of Nebraska, announced the awards at a reception Friday, Jan. 26. The show is on display through April 7 in the Octagon's Main and Sweeney…

February 4, 2018

Exhibition of two- and three-dimensional marbles on display Feb. 22-March 17 at ISU Design on Main Gallery

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

Artwork by University of Nebraska faculty couple on display Jan. 16-Feb. 13 at ISU Design on Main Gallery

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