I recently won the creativity award at the International Woodcarvers Congress and often place among the top three in several categories of competition judged at that prestigious event. I have won juried shows with Mid-coast Fine Arts at “Window…
Melissa Newman earned her BFA at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. She was awarded her MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa in May 2003.
Bennett received her BFA in printmaking from Indiana University and has exhibited and taught at various locations throughout the country. She is a resident of Iowa City, Iowa.
Mary Salome Vandergraft grew up in a small farming community in southern Idaho. One of her earliest memories is of getting her mother's sewing scissors and cutting up a pair of pajamas "because of the way the scissors felt cutting through the cloth."…
Jody Boyer is an intermedia artist originally from Portland, Oregon. She received her B.A. from Reed College and her M.A. in Intermedia and Video Art fromt he University of Iowa. Her work has been shown nationally, including at the Des Moines Art…
Elaine Beck earned her MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa in 2004. Her 2001 artwork, the Chair Project, an interactive, collaborative community project in Oskaloosa, Iowa, was featured nationally in the media, and she was awarded Best of…
Sheppard has been painting for thirty years. He spent 27 years as an art educator in Iowa and Nebraska, as well as an adjunct professor at Luther College in Decorah. Sheppard has shown work at galleries in San Diego, Santa Fe, Denver, Colorado…
John Beckelman graduated with an MFA in Ceramics from Illinois State University in 1978. His pieces have been exhibited nationally. He is currently Chair of the Art Department at Coe College.
