Our Maggie’s Matt was describing to me a business trip that took him from Brooklyn N.Y., where he and Maggie live, to San Francisco. In terms shaded by an unspoken sense of the irretrievable nature of the past, this transplanted Midwesterner recounted his feelings as he flew over Iowa at 35,000 feet and 700 m.p.h.
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Category Archives: Events
Larry Welo & Talk in the M.U.D.
September 9, 2009, 12:11 pm
Miss Myers, Kimberlee Rocca, and foil stamping
August 27, 2009, 6:47 am
Miss Myers
It’s a little intimidating when a person is described as an “institution”. Mental images of bricks, mortar and imposing classical columns spring readily to mind. But, in fact, Professor Virginia Myers IS an institution in the printmaking department at the University of Iowa. “Miss Myers”, as she has been known to generations of Iowa [...]
Julie McLaughlin / Metro Spring Gallery Tour
April 1, 2009, 6:54 am
I was about 10 years old when Marilyn Monroe was captured on film, her voluptuous, fleshy pillow of breasts rising and falling with a breathy rendition of “Happy Birthday” to our president. Not long after, an improbably skinny “Twiggy” stared out at teen-aged girls from the pages of fashion magazines. Is it any wonder then [...]
Michael McAreavy
March 25, 2009, 7:38 am
Oak Tree, Napa Valley, 8″ x 10″, Photograph, Michael McAreavy / $250 (framed)
Despairing of the ability of their hyperactive son to succeed in a traditional academic setting, the parents removed him from the last of the private schools that they had sought out. For the next year, the 12-year-old boy daily attended the Panama – [...]
Stan Fellows
March 10, 2009, 3:41 pm
About two months ago, a tall man strode into our drawing group’s regular Sunday session. He was late, and he made a fair amount of noise getting his materials prepared as the rest of us drew for the allotted twenty minutes. There hadn’t been much time left for the newcomer to observe the model, but [...]
Mary Snyder Behrens
March 5, 2009, 7:14 am
Judges 9 / Mary Snyder Behrens
So, I’ve come up with a (somewhat) popular musical analogy, which may prove helpful in approaching the enigmatic and beautiful, collaged work of Dysart artist, Mary Snyder Behrens. The rich colors, carefully chosen elements and implied content in Mary’s pieces are not unlike the essence of a Leonard Cohen song. They are not always [...]
Julie Kottal
February 25, 2009, 2:29 pm
X-Scape 6 / 20″ x 20″ / Oil on canvas / Julie Kottal
I work with a group of powerhouses! The professors in the Coe College art department consider the growth of each student so closely over a four-year undergraduate career. They teach well. They continue their own studio work. Julie Kottal is a beneficiary of this teaching practice.
X-Scape [...]