Mark Peterson brings formal training in traditional disciplines to his own work as a painter. Originally from West Des Moines, Peterson earned his B.F.A. in painting from Drake University in Des Moines under the influence of Jules Kirschenbaum, at...
About the artist: Jenna Montgomery was born in 1978 in Loma Linda, California. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 2000 and is currently pursuing her masters degree at the University of Iowa.
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...
Of herself, de Kok-Mercado writes "I am a third year Art Education and Spanish major. Last semester was my first semester in a printmaking class, and I've found it really suits my taste in imagery. Before this relief printmaking class, I...
Barbara Fedeler holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Drake University, Des Moines. She also has studied at Scuola Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, Italy. She currently serves as a...
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 of East Asia temples, traditional costume, dance...
Toby Dimmitt, who graduated from the University of Iowa in May 2006, writes, 'Soy de Fairfield, IA . . . Soy muy curioso y me gusta encontrar y aprender nuevas cosas que me hacen crecer intelectual y espiritualmente. Especialmente me gusta hacer...
Grace Van Voorhis writes, 'Soy un estudiante de Washington University en St. Louis, donde estudio relaciones internacionales. Tomé la clase Taller de escritura creativa con el maravilloso Profesor Ampuero durante mi cuarto ano del colegio porque...
Kerry Egan grew up in Long Island, New York, and received her B.A. from Washington and Lee University and her master's of divinity from Harvard University Divinity School. A year after her father died, she walked through northern Spain on a...
Brandi Homan grew up in Marshalltown, Iowa, and received her BA from the University of Northern Iowa. Currently, she’s working toward her MFA in Poetry at Columbia College Chicago. Her chapbook, Two Kinds of Arson, will be available January 2007,...
Will de Blois is in the seventh grade at South East Junior High School in Iowa City. His poem was selected for the 2007 Poetry in Public project, sponsored by the Iowa City Public Art Program. Now in its fifth year, Poetry in Public displays poems...
Leah de Matta is in the seventh grade at North Central Junior High School in North Liberty, Iowa. Her poem was selected for the 2007 Poetry in Public project, sponsored by the Iowa City Public Art Program. Now in its fifth year, Poetry in Public...
Ray DiPalma lived in Iowa City from 1966-68 and received his Poetry M.F.A. from the Writers' Workshop in 1968. His recent books include L'Usage ancien de la pierre (Éditions Gr?ges, 2007), Quatre Po?mes (Éditions Comp'Act, 2006), and Caper,...
Nicole Pietrantoni is currently working on her M.F.A. in printmaking at the University of Iowa. A native of the Chicago area, she spent the past several years living in Nashville, Tennessee, where she earned her undergraduate degree in art history...
Vinicius Lima was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1982. He received a Bachelor in Architecture and Urban Design Degree in 2005 from The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and a Master of Arts degree from The University of Iowa School of...
Raised in a Christian home in the Muslim state of Pakistan, Annadora Khan was a teenage immigrant to middle America in the late sixties and now resides in Iowa City, Iowa.
Janet Hart Heinicke grew up in Richmond, Indiana. She graduated from Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio, and was an art educator in Indiana and Ohio before completing a master's degree in art education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
Jill Davis Schrift is an Iowa artist who spends as much time as she can in Paris. She has been a lecturer in Art at Grinnell College since 1988. She received her MA in ceramic sculpture from Purdue University in 1980. Schrift teaches all levels of...
Marcia Joffe-Bouska was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1951. She is the oldest of six children, and she grew up in Prairie View, Skokie, and Glenview, Illinois. She received her B.A. in Art and Art Education from Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, in...