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 Advanced…
Michael Groesbeck was born and raised in Charles City, Iowa, but at age 16 moved with his mother and sister to Des Moines, where he has lived for 23 years. He graduated from Grand View College in 1999 with a BA in Creative and Performing Arts with an…
Sara Fletcher grew up in Western New York State. She received her BFA in ceramic sculpture from Alfred University in 1998, and a post-baccalaureate certificate in painting from Brandeis University in 2003. She is currently an MFA candidate in…
The viewers enter through a dark corridor into an entirely blackened space and find themselves surrounded by a watery void. Slowly a dark swimming figure becomes visible in the bottom corner of one wall. Two adjacent walls in the room have been…
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 series.…
Thomas Knauer holds a Bachelor of Arts from Kenyon College, an MFA from Ohio University in Athens and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Dept. of Print Media, Bloomfield Hills, MI. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at…
Elizabeth Shriver is a native Iowan and a 1987 graduate of the University of Iowa. Her interest in ceramics dates back to her first studio ceramics course in 1985. In recent years she has worked in her own home studio, and exhibited her work in the…
Marcia Joffe-Bouska received her BA in Art and Art Education from Clark College (1973) and her MA from Northern Illinois University (1977). In addition to showing work throughout the Midwest, her art is represented in public and private collections…
