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…
Vivian Torrence was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. After receiving her B.S. degree in Painting and Drawing from Eastern Illinois University in 1967, Vivian continued on to earn her M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from Drake University in Des…
Olga Balema is a BFA sculpture student at the University of Iowa. She often makes work in which animals or objects infest a space, sometimes subtly, sometimes colonizing it in obvious ways. She is interested in things that exist below the surface,…
Currently living and working in Iowa, Michael Peter Cain was not always a Midwest resident. In 1959, Michael graduated Cum Laude from Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He then graduated with an A.B. in English from Harvard in 1964, also Cum…
Charlotte Cain is another East coast graduate transplanted into Iowa. She received her B.S. in Painting and Education from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1963. She has participated in many group and solo exhibitions in Iowa as well as Illinois,…
William Francis Hamilton II is the son of nationally-known artists Gene and Carlie Hamilton. In addition to learning from his parents, Bill attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and also mentored under internationally-acclaimed artist, Jim…
Laurel earned her B.F.A. in Studio Art at Ohio University in 1977 and later received her M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993. She now works as an Assistant Professor for Painting/Drawing at the University of…
Gary Komarin, a New York native, received his M.F.A. in Painting from the Boston University Graduate School of Fine Artis. Gary has done countless exhibitions and both coasts and everywhere in between and his pieces can be found in numerous private…
