2025 Mixed Media 2D
Sara Burrier | Des Moines
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After 20 years as a professional artist, I've cultivated my love for storytelling across illustration, design, and mixed media in 2D and 3D. Every piece I craft tells a story, whether it's through my artwork, gardens, or teaching approach.
I aspire to bring God's creation- colors, nature, imagination, dreams, and magic, to a stand still, a captured moment. Allowing it to remind us that life's true harmony lies within ourselves and the Eden among us. When I paint in watercolor I have the freedom to create textures and color quickly, while keeping my detailed drawings focused and intact. I delight in exploring the medium's behavior when it is combined with 3D elements such as dried naturals. To bring awareness of our environment, our relationship to the environment, and an emotional resonance. When I build my fairy houses I aim to bring the narratives and whimsy found in my watercolor work to life in a tangible and interactive world. As I progress as an artist, these two art forms continue to merge and expand, telling a story I am proud to share. |
Maggie Douglas
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This body of work is a series of abstract, mixed-media paintings on canvas inspired by memories of landscapes. As memories distort reality, these abstracted landscapes, seen from different angles, are not immediately recognizable, yet they still maintain familiarities through the use of color, movement, and shape. The combination of natural canvas and fibers with brightly colored paints and other collage materials relates to an attempt to bring the natural and manufactured together harmoniously. Some pieces have been cut apart and sewn back together in new arrangements, creating a fragmented view of the image. Along with this, the organic shapes and patterns formed from the watered-down paint are contrasted with sharp lines and stitching, bringing in signs of human intervention. Through the destruction and mending of each piece, I present my vision of healing and coexistence between humans and the natural world.
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Maggie Douglas is an artist based in Des Moines, Iowa. She graduated from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa with a BA in Art and Digital Design. She has worked as a graphic designer while developing her art practice. Her body of work consists of abstract, mixed media pieces on canvas as well as murals. She creates as a form of self-guided therapy. Working on art gives her a space to escape reality and focus on something outside herself. Her work has been shown throughout Iowa at the The Octagon Center for the Arts, The Dubuque Museum of Art, The Cedar Rapids Art Museum, The Iowa State Fair, and The Polk County Heritage Gallery. In 2024, she painted a mural along the bike trail for West Des Moines Parks and Rec and a bench for Waukee Parks and Rec. In 2021, she was selected to paint a mural at Lauridsen Skatepark in Des Moines. Her work has won Best in Show from the "Iowa Exhibited" show at the Polk County Heritage Gallery in 2024, First Place in Mixed Media at the Iowa State Fair Juried Art show in 2023, and the Veronika Ruedenberg Mixed Media Award at The Octagon Center for the Arts in 2022.
Michael Lundberg | Ankeny
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I am an Iowa native and animal lover who loves telling visual tales. Although my work varies greatly in subject matter and medium, I am constantly changing and challenging myself artistically. I am a veteran Inktober participant on Instagram and follow designated weekly and daily prompts. This platform allows me to spread joy through my artwork and interact with people all around the world. I use ink, gouache, colored pencil, and acrylic paint to create my whimsical animal illustrations. Ink, gouache, colored pencil, watercolor, and/or acrylic illustrations |
Rhonda Scott | Ames
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Rhonda Scott is a teaching artist from Ames, lowa who works in multiple media. She is passionate about the value of creativity and lifelong learning. She is especially fascinated by age-old processes with a modern twist, such as lampwork and paper marbling. These two art forms have many things in common, aside from their long history; both allow her to play with colors, pattern, visual texture, mark making, and negative space, as well as surface tension and chemical reactions.
Rhonda primarily uses the Turkish method of paper marbling with a carrageenan bath, alumed paper, and acrylic paint. She also uses suminagashi techniques on paper with inks and creates paste paper with acrylic paint. She sells the hand-decorated paper, cards, and framed art. Rhonda does not sell copies or prints of her hand decorated papers, nor use copies or prints in her paper packs, cards, journals, or framed work. |
Rick von Holdt | Minburn
The Foolproof Press
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Operating as a private press for 49 years as a hobby only. I have managed to build the second largest collection of handset type in private hands in the United States. Everything I print has been set, inked, and printed by hand. My main output deals with typography and community events.
Posters and ephemeral items. Ink on paper. |