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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
'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
Enjoy s'mores and more at Nov. 9 ISU Design on Main event
11/06/18 AMES, Iowa — The Iowa State University Design on Main Gallery will host a one-night community celebration from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at 203 Main St. in downtown Ames. “HOT HOT HOT” will feature illuminated cloth fireplaces, s’mores and other snacks and beverages. Members of the Ames and Iowa State communities are invited to create a collaborative mural entirely out of sticky notes during the event. About…

November 6, 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
Iowa State alumnus returns to tell refugee stories, including his own

August 22, 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