The broad 15th century Italian concept of a Renaissance Man is one who “can do all things if he will” and who is “limitless when it comes to capacity for development and obliged to further these talents and gifts as fully as possible.” Maggie Argiro is definitely a 21st century Renaissance woman.
ICON is a fitting name for Iowa Contemporary Arts and an apt description of the gallery’s well-loved founder/director/curator, Bill Teeple. I recently visited him there.
MIU Department of Art student Kurtis Kujawski has been invited to exhibit during the 2016 National Council On Education For The Ceramic Arts NCECA conference. Kurtis is one of 6 undergraduate and graduate students from a field of over 200 entrants nationwide whose work was selected on the basis of artistic excellence in ceramics to exhibit at the NCECA National Student Juried Exhibition, which opens on March 4th at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in conjunction with the conference.
Ananda Kesler’s grandmother was a respected Israeli artist. Ananda’s early childhood visits to her grandmother’s studio, “a mysterious, magical place,” fostered her fascination with painting. After her family moved to Fairfield, Ananda began to transcend cultural boundaries – traveling the world to study art, printmaking, textile/surface design, painting and drawing in Italy, Iowa, California and Thailand. In contrast, or perhaps deeply informed by her travels, Ananda’s work explores and reflects her rich inner world.
In keeping with the nationwide trend of community-based makerspaces, which make a variety of tools and technologies available to all comers, MIU now has its own makerspace available to the entire Fairfield community.
As daylight fades on an early summer evening, you’ll find Iowans sitting spellbound in backyards, watching fireflies float in and out of view – like invisible fairies carrying tiny, flickering lanterns.
Taylor Irezumi is a woman of many talents – modeling, writing, and visual art, to name just a few.
I chatted recently with MIU Artist in Residence Lawrence Sheaff. His one-man show, Absolute Image: the Structure of Consciousness in Visual Form, opens October 16th at ART52 Gallery in Fairfield. The exhibition explores the relationship of art, consciousness and Vedic Science.
A Fairfield native and graduate of the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment, Taylor Ross navigates her world with eyes open.
Last August, I grabbed an interview with 2014 MIU BFA graduate, Nicole McIntyre via SKYPE. We start by talking about her pre-collegiate life in Boston where she waited tables while “avoiding the pressure of others’ ideas of success” and maintaining a healthy “distrust of where things were headed education-wise.”
Nicole’s twenty-something concern reflects the pressure this generation faces in a post-collegiate environment of unpaid internships, and an increasing inability to launch into careers-of-choice. Nicole chose to take the time to figure out what she was good at and to cultivate...
