Born in Valmiera, Latvia, Velga Easker grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, earned a BA in Art, University of Iowa, and recently left full time employment in various human service capacities. She has attended numerous workshops and conferences with a...
Daniel Weiss was born in 1959 in Mason City, Iowa. He was nurtured by large, industrious families on both his mother's and father's sides. He and his nine siblings were schooled by Catholic P.B.V.M. sisters in his hometown. He currently enjoys a...
Fred Truck is a true Iowan artist. Born in 1946 in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Fred would go on to earn his B.A. at Iowa Wesleyan College in 1969. He currently lives and works in Des Moines, Iowa. Something to note about Fred is that he was a co-founder of...
Jim Shrosbree earned an MFA from the University of Montana. He has received grants from the Iowa Arts Council, the… Idaho Commission on Arts and Humanities/NEA and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (Midwest) Visual Artist's...
Sculptor/arts activist Justine Zimmer received her MFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry from the University of Iowa in 1999. In 1997, she co-founded Studiolo, an Iowa City Fine Art and Craft Gallery which closed in 2002. She is the creator of...
Guy Loraine was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He studied photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and also studied in Derby, England. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and has worked as a photographer for The Smithsonian...
Kate Carr received her Bachelor of Arts (1999) from 1994-1999 Marlboro College in Vermont. She is completing her MFA in the sculpture area at the University of Iowa and has shown work recently at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in...
Wonjae Lee is in his first year of MFA Program in the Design Department at the University of Iowa. His current works explore the spaces and forms that could be captured within his cultural background, East Asia; temples, traditional costume, dance...
Mary Merkel-Hess was born on April 6, 1949 in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in an extended family near Gilbertville, Iowa. She attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI and graduated in 1971 with a BA in sociology and philosophy. She attended...
Currently a resident of Charleston, SC, Jocelyn Chateauvert was raised and educated in Iowa City. At the University of Iowa she studied Spanish, dance and design, earning a BA. Her MFA from UI emphasized metalworking, handmade paper and sculpture....
Mary Merkel-Hess was born in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in an extended family near Gilbertville, Iowa. She attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI and graduated in 1971 with a BA in sociology and philosophy. She attended art school and the...
Vinicius Lima was born in Brazil in 1982. He received a Bachelor in Architecture and Urban Planning Degree in July, 2005 at Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil. He is currently a first semester Graduate Student at University of Iowa School...
Daniel Maw spends most of his time avoiding daylight and considering his place in the human predicament. He also received his BFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2006 and will be an MFA candidate in Printmaking at the University of...
Professor Jane Gilmor says that certain works are intended "to create a ritualistic ambience not unlike that of some bizarre roadside shrine. I am interested in both the construction and deconstruction of myth and in the deeper relationships...