Art Strong is a graduate of The University of Northern Iowa. He has taught art in Waterloo, Estherville, and Charles City, Iowa. He has attended numerous workshops on the art and process of raku, including Raku in the Rockies in Gunnison, CO. He says…
After being born in Boulder, Colorado, Joe Biel would go on to receive his B.F.A. in Painting and Art History from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Two years later in 1990, he earned his M.F.A. in Painting at the University of Michigan.
Marilyn McMurry Annin was born in 1938, and has spent about equal thirds of her life in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. She painted for many years, but in the 1980s, switched to sculpture, mostly in the form of rigid garments.
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…
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, his…
