Ty Smedes, nature photographer
Bright sun reflecting on an egret. A herd of camels trekking across the sand dunes. An elusive bird of paradise flitting in the wild. These are a few of the [...]
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Posted November 05, 2025in Iowa Artist
Posted October 01, 2025in Iowa Artist
Zavalla’s crocheting hobby has endured
Crocheting, knitting and sewing are nearly lost arts. With a glut of online shopping, buyers don’t feel the need to spend hours making something when they can easily find it [...]
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Posted September 03, 2025in Iowa Artist
Majeran’s yarn art builds community
Creating and selling yarn art is essential to Stephanie Majeran’s creativity, yet she takes it one step beyond and provides space for other artists to be creative as well. To [...]
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Posted August 06, 2025in Iowa Artist
Susan R. Wilson doesn’t do beige
Waves of rolling farmland and crop lines often shows up in Susan R. Wilson’s colorful artwork. Being born and raised on an Iowa farm, the inspiration for her paintings arose [...]
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Posted July 02, 2025in Iowa Artist
Art by Luka
As Luke Hubbard approaches a blank canvas with his palette knife and paint, Pink Floyd music fills his basement studio. In the process, the rhythm offers a steady flow in [...]
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Posted June 04, 2025in Iowa Artist
Hanna Piepel’s inspiration is drawn from antiques and fabrics
With 195 artists showcasing their work at the Des Moines Arts Festival, only a selected handful represent artists from Iowa. Hanna Piepel from Ankeny will be displaying her hand-painted functional [...]
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Posted April 30, 2025in Iowa Artist
‘The Beginning of Everything’
Artist Annick Ibsen’s definition of her artwork is complex and ever-changing. With sculptures of nudes and other figures, she identifies as a ceramicist, as she builds items from clay. Her [...]
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Posted April 02, 2025in Iowa Artist
Wood focuses on still life photography of plants and cut flowers
Flowers and plants can be beautiful to see and intoxicating to smell. Yet, when Molly Wood approaches a live plant to photograph with her camera, it is more than capturing [...]
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Posted March 05, 2025in Iowa Artist
Mary Kline-Misol
Entering Mary Kline-Misol’s home art studio is like walking into a high-end art gallery. Exquisite artwork spanning 50 years covers multiple walls, while Kline-Misol recounts stories and inspiration behind the [...]
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Posted February 05, 2025in Iowa Artist
Eric Duke Miller, a surrealist artist
Eric Duke Miller’s artwork is multidimensional. It’s not creating a painting, a sculpture, fashion items or repurposing objects; it’s all of the above. He finds motivation from recently researched history [...]
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