K-12 artwork sought for Des Moines Arts Festival exhibit
My daughter had her artwork shown in the Nurturing a Student’s Vision (NSV) exhibit a few years ago. It was a special point of pride for her to see her picture hanging in the NSV exhibit area, knowing how many people were able to see it. If you have school-age children in the area, I [...]
Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest: Tammy Coy
Tammy Coy - known to her fans as By Coy or The Word Girl - is a native Iowan currently living and producing unique “word jewelry” from her studio, Eclectic Creations ByCoy, in Grimes. In addition to her art, Tammy’s hectic life includes working as a dental hygienist and being a single parent to an [...]
Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest: Sherresse Buzard
Sherresse Buzard lives in Afton, Iowa and is a Studio Art instructor at Southwestern Community College in Osceola. She currently works primarily in watercolor, acrylic painting, and traditional drawing but has worked in many other media as well. Her work reflects her keen interest in surreal and dream images, as well as nature, plants, animals, [...]
Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest: Carroll Danbom
Carroll Danbom is a wildlife and landscape artist working in pastels and acrylics at his studio and gallery in Red Oak, Iowa. He is primarily self-taught, but also attended the Omaha Art School. This will be his third appearance at the HeArt Festival and he will be demonstrating acrylics at his booth. He notes that [...]
Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest: Rachel Sims
Rachel Sims is a 26-year-old jeweler and beadmaker, working primarily in silver and glass. She uses a beadmaking process called lampworking, which consists of melting a ’soft’ glass over a torch, winding it on to a ‘clay’ coated steel rod called a mandrel, and manipulating with metal tools.
For the past six months she has been [...]
Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest: Christian Holmes
Christian Holmes is a Des Moines native now living in Creston, Iowa. He will be showing his work in pryography (woodburning) for his first exhibition at HeArt Fest and says he hopes the show will result in some good exposure for his work. He also works in digital painting and some traditional painting, including oil, [...]
HeArt Fest showcases quality, affordable fine art
Exclusive to DMweblife: I’ll be following up this post over the next couple of weeks with a series called “Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest,” where I’ll be introducing you to several of the participating artists in the show. Stay tuned!
If you’re longing for an opportunity to browse through high-quality, affordable hand-crafted artwork, you won’t [...]
‘Nurturing a Student’s Vision’ Exhibit on Display at Central Library
The Des Moines Arts Festival and Des Moines Art Center’s Nurturing a Student’s Vision: Celebrating Artists K-12 Art Exhibition, sponsored by Hubbell Homes, is now on display at Downtown Des Moines’ Central Library (1000 Grand Ave.) through Sept. 27, 2007.
The NSV display, showcased on-site at the 2007 Des Moines Arts Festival, gave 324 students from [...]
Downtown Art Center previews ‘Sign Language’ August 23
The Des Moines Art Center Downtown is hosting a Preview Party for its next exhibition, Sign Language:
Thursday, August 23
6 - 9 p.m.
800 Walnut St., street level
Admission: $5 Non-members, FREE for Art Center members
Sign Language explores art inspired by the vernacular of signs in the urban landscape and will run August 24 - November 23 downtown. [...]
Metro Arts networking opportunity for artists is August 20
The Metro Arts Alliance invites artists of all disciplines to a networking meeting:
Monday, August 20, 2007
Des Moines Art Center, 4700 Grand Avenue, Des Moines
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
The focus of this meeting will be “opportunities and venues for artists to exhibit and perform.” Our special guests will be Stephen King, Executive Director for The Des Moines [...]
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