At the Irvine Prairie

 With Mark (Ace) at the Irvine Prairie, La Porte City/Dysart, IA.

In Sync, Part II

 We are not publicly promoting this Collection exhibition in the Gallery, which I have curated and installed in the Main Room, because its purpose is to offer only art students, staff, and faculty a place to view art during in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are 20 objects on display from Romare Bearden to Sonnenzimmer, from Mary Snyder Behrens to Robert Arneson, from Mark Tobey to Kee-ho Yuen, to three of our UNI photography alumni. It was conceived as a continuation of the summer 2018 single-day exhibition presented in association with  partnership with Cedar Valley Chamber Music concert titled L.A. Stories: Forgotten Composers of the Silver Screen.

 

 

Artwork Pickup in Minnneapolis

 Yesterday's trip to the Midwest Art Conservation Center in Minneapolis, MN (in the MIA museum building) was uneventful with calm streets and calmer weather. I met with conservators Dianna Clise and Jen Neville who handed over the many boxes containing all 44 art objects from the UNI Permanent Art Collection that they'd conserved over the past year and a half. Congratulations to them on such hard work!

All objects are home safe.

 

Public Art Conservation at UNI

Contractors repainting Fletcher Benton's Balanced/Unbalanced Beaks (1993) on the path past UNI's Curris Business Building. Image taken July 22, 2020.

It was time to brighten the university skyline.

New Mural in Waterloo, Iowa

The "Diversity Is Our Strength" wheat paste mural in Waterloo.

Completed in June 2020.

Lovely, powerful!

Diversity Is Our Strength

A glimpse of new work

Below is a screenshot of some collages I've completed over the past couple of weeks. Since I realized I was making art again - as opposed to just working through some thoughts about isolation and/or well-being and/or loneliness - it's become clear that these works might need to be assembled into some other form, not just within the confines of a blog. I'm sharing the latest six, but not really. I can tell you that left and center columns are entrances/passages and the right column is radials/mandalas.

More on this path later.

For May: In the Blooms

Laying in euphorbia with spiderwort, ragwort, and wild tulips.