Gail Chavenelle's schooling and careers have been diverse. She has a BA in literature and a Master's Degree in computer education. She has been a teacher, curriculum designer, and has sold and administered computer systems. Now, she has found a...
Born and raised in Iowa and a self-taught, accidental artist, I am now in medical school and spending more and more time in Prague and Olomouc of the Czech Republic. Hanus has received grants from the Iowa Arts Council, exhibited at the Iowa...
Kristin Quinn earned her BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1984 and her MFA in painting from Indiana University in 1988. She has been a Professor of Art at Saint Ambrose University in Davenport since 1989.
A native of Des Moines, Mary Kline-Misol earned both her BFA and MFA from Drake University, where she studied under Jules Kirschenbaum. Kline-Misol now maintains her studio in Panora, where she has spent the last decade working on painting in...
William was born and raised in Spirit Lake, Iowa and attended Iowa State University, receiving a Bachelor of Architecture Degree in 1967. He practiced Architecture in Colorado and received many local, state, regional, national and international...
Sharon Neff has been a potter since before she had permission. As a child she played in the woods behind her house on the Mississippi River bluff. When discovered by her mother, she insisted she was not playing with fire, but explained that she was...
Bob Anderson grew up in Waterloo, Iowa and now is the owner of Sunflower Pottery, located in Pella, Iowa. He throws his pots, pie dishes, plates, etc. on a potter's wheel, then attaches sculpted or molded rural images to them. Some of these images...
An Iowan since 1972, Suzanne B. Aunan is a self-taught artist who has enjoyed painting as far back as she can remember. Born in New York City, she grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York. Suzanne attended the University of Iowa, majoring in...
Helen Marie Casey Cook was born in 1918, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She graduated from the Iowa State Teachers College (now University of Northern Iowa) with a Kg-PRI certificate in 1938. Her specialties are watercolor painting and cut-paper...
Julia Leonard graduated with an MFA in design from the University of Iowa in 2001. She now operates a binding studio in Iowa City and teaches Bookbinding and Graphic Design at the University of Iowa. She works on her own one-of-a-kind and editioned...
Growing up in California, William Barnes attended UCLA before studying painting at Drake with Jules Kirschenbaum. He then studied with Byron Burford in Iowa City, whose course in materials and techniques introduced him to egg tempera and casein,...
John Beckelman graduated with an MFA in Ceramics from Illinois State University in 1978. His pieces have been exhibited nationally. He is currently Chair of the Art Department at Coe College.
Concept: Kangying Guo Video: Katherine Parker Kangying Guo is currently a M.F.A candidate at the University of Iowa Intermedia & Video Arts. Now she devoted the better part of her time and energy to everything she have explored: Video,...
Karen Strohbeen and Bill Luchsinger, two of the Midwest's most successful fine artist for the past 25 years, expanded their audience when they created the nationally syndicated Public Television gardening series, The Perennial Gardener with Karen...
Chad Cooney was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. He is now currently working towards his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Iowa while also taking classes in photography. He is also an undergraduate Research Assistant for the...
Dedicated and restlessly searching, Jack Wilkes is a teacher, painter, and explorer in concrete images and abstract ideas. After studying at the Cleveland Art Institute, Jack finished his BFA in Art Education at Drake which included a Certificate...
River Branch received her B.A. in Psychology in 1990 from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. She is currently working on her M.F.A. in Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa. River has created seven films including Conditioned Love, from...
Richard's work is in the collections of American Express Financial Advisers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Norwest Corporation, Cargill Corporation, and Wells Fargo Corporation. He received a M.F.A. in painting from the University of...