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2021 Mixed Media

Ken Bose | Jefferson
​Skeeter Creek Fabricators

As a folk artist for the last 22 years I work with recycled barnboard and tin. l create nostalgic birdhouses replicating barns and other common country structures of Iowa from the past. During the past years my creations have been featured in several media including KCCI's Steve Karlin Covers Central Iowa, Midwest Living Magazine, Country Home Magazine and the Home and Garden Section of the Chicago Tribune. Along with my Birdhouse I have ventured into wooden jewelry and tableware sculptures and cigar box guitars.

Teena Case | Minburn

 As an artist and illustrator I create 
original acrylic paintings layered with vintage fabrics on wood panels, canvas, and printmaking paper. I love the connection with vintage fabrics as they link to past memories and shared times together. 

Katie Jensen
​| Des Moines
Nostalgic Creative

Drake graduate and Des Moines Native Katie Jensen expresses her creativity through multiple mediums including but not limited to painting, drawing, fiber arts, and 3D art made from found objects. The name Nostalgic Creative stems from her passions for creating retro inspired artwork as well as an infatuation with vintage patterns and antique objects. The Midwest's rolling hills, fields of flowers and lush forests remain a constant source of inspiration for Katie and she has formed a deep connection to nature within her work. As a collector at heart, she is in constant discovery mode, combining mediums and reclaiming materials from the past. It is her desire to project onto the viewer a cathartic connection that is reminiscent of childhood innocence and realigning one's connection to nature.

Brad Kiefer | Ogden
​ruby willo llc

As long as I can remember I have enjoyed working with diverse and varied building materials. In the summer of 1978,  I was beginning my senior year of high school, my parents decided to build a log home.  We spent the summer building the log shell of the cabin, at the end of this we concentrated on the interior.  My parents graciously gave me their trust and artistic license to build kitchen cabinets, doors, a kitchen light and stain glass window.  I believe this was the start of my interest with material use and design. 

In early 2000 my wife and I started plans to build our own home in rural Boone County. The entire project from design to building the structure was a family project.

One of the prime interests I developed during the building of our home was my fascination with material texture, and the use of natural and artificial light. I learned how I could use the two to create a mood and an aesthetically pleasing environment.

Copper is such a wonderful material to use to create art in its way it responds to heat and manipulation.   Learning its secrets is where I find the most creative path.

Diane Kunzler | West Des Moines
​​Diane Kunzler Art

​I work in both oils and pastels. My work focuses on landscape both realistic and imagined. While some work is very photorealistic, much of my current work is moving towards a more emotional reaction to the idea of landscape. 

Michael Lundberg
​| Ankeny
MeekaMouse Art

Iowa native and animal lover, Michael Lundberg, received her bachelor's and master's degree in painting and 2-D mixed media from Iowa State University. Her passion for horses and Spanish art history led her to live in Salamanca, Spain, for six years working on a doctorate degree in art history at the Universidad de Salamanca.  Michael has always loved nature, animals and telling visual tales. Her work varies greatly in subject matter and medium: from landscapes and animal portraits to illustration and abstract art; Michael is constantly changing and challenging herself artistically. Recently, she has been participating in the Inktober drawing challenges on Instagram.  Following designated weekly and daily prompts have encouraged her artistic productivity, creativity and development while interacting with artists around the world. 

Lauren Pesta | Des Moines
​Lauren Pesta Art 

I create modern heirlooms, drawing with cut paper throughout my work symbolizing the layers of our lives, like chapters in a book. Creating interesting texture combining ink painting with layered paper.

Betty Chamness Trost | Des Moines
​Three Smooth Stones

Betty Chamness Trost is a Des Moines, Iowa artist who creates a life of color and texture through mandala stone painting, embroidery, and needle felting. She is a life-long and self-taught maker. Since 2016, when she retired from teaching at Iowa State University, she has focused on creating her art. She sells at a variety of indoor and outdoor art shows in the midwest. She enjoys teaching adult classes and does so at garden nurseries, wineries, art galleries, offices, and homes.

Betty works with stones for their weight and warmth. Smooth stones seek to be held and encourage meditation, making them the perfect medium for exploring the use of texture and color in everyday life. 

In her work, Betty transforms these naturally smooth stones into soothing and meditative objects of art. On some stones, she hand-paints dotted mandala designs using multiple layers of brilliant acrylic paints to create captivating 3-D textures. On other stones after wet-felting them with wool fibers, she adorns them with hand-embroidered blossoms and leaves. She sources her stones from the coasts of the Pacific Northwest and beaches around Lake Superior. She also needle-felts wool garden themed pictures, often featuring delightful bumble bees with silk wings.

Rachel Weber | Ankeny
​​A Little Eggstra

A Little Eggstra is the name of a mother/daughter pair that decorate eggs using the ancient Ukrainian art of Pysanky. Pysanka (plural pysanky) is a batik method using beeswax and dye to create colorful and symbolic art on the shell of real eggs. We decorate eggs ranging in size from the tiny parakeet up to the very large Ostrich. 
"...share the magic and meaning of one small town set on the Prairie, but connected to the world."
~Inside the Hotel Pattee
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