10/29/13

(image) AMES, Iowa — Artwork by 31 students from the Iowa State University Colleges of Design and Liberal Arts and Sciences is on display in the university's annual Studies in Creativity Exhibit, which runs through Dec. 10 in the Iowa State Memorial Union Gallery.

A free public reception will begin at 6 p.m. today, Oct. 29, with remarks by ISU alumnus Asa Wentzel-Fisher, printmaker and owner of Whole Hog Editions, a collaborative printmaking studio in downtown Ames.

Wentzel-Fisher selected 40 works by 28 students from integrated studio arts, integrated visual arts, architecture, landscape architecture and graphic design, and three biological and premedical illustration majors. He will talk about the work and present awards at the reception.

Media featured in the exhibition include acrylic and oil painting, ceramic and clay, charcoal, collage, colored pencil, digital and video, etching and aquatint, furniture/wood, graphite, intaglio, marker, mixed media, markers, knitted trash bags, watercolor and woodcut.

Accepted artists include the following:

Architecture
Clark Colby (2), Urbandale, graduate student
Kristen Greteman, Ames, graduate student
Amanda Hoefling, junior, Marcus
Mohammed Ali Khesroh, senior, Bayan, Kuwait

Biological and Premedical Illustration
Amanda Miller, sophomore (pre-biological and premedical illustration), Edina, Minn.
Andrea Schmitz, senior, Waverly
Christina Sidorowych (2), junior, Lake Zurich, Ill.

Graphic Design
Becca Saladin, senior, Cedar Rapids

Integrated Studio Arts
Madeline Baartman, junior, Pine Island, Minn.
Cody Beetler, sophomore, Madrid
Zoe Broerman, sophomore, Mason City
Liz Fisher, senior, Knoxville
Caroline Freese, sophomore, Indianola
Rachel Horn, junior, Adel
Omar Ibrahim, senior, Coralville
Leah Koolstra, senior, Pella
Sara Madison, junior, Council Bluffs
Chase McFarlane, senior, Cedar Rapids
Amelia McMurrin, senior, Cedar Falls
Madeline Mitchell, senior, Waukee
Edison Moody, senior, West Des Moines
Eric Rolek, senior, Waukee
Matthew Scheetz, senior, Johnston
Stephanie Schoeller (3), senior, Ames
Jared Uhlenhake, senior, Lawler
Brodie Wilson (2), freshman (pre-integrated studio arts), Reisterstown, Md.

Integrated Visual Arts
Alexis Dwyer, graduate student, Columbia, Mo.
Nick Friess, graduate student, Jefferson
Sodam Lee, graduate student, Seoul, South Korea
Heather Whittlesey, graduate student, Boone

Landscape Architecture
Victoria Dewitt, sophomore, landscape architecture, Waukee, Iowa

Wentzel-Fisher received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in integrated studio arts from Iowa State in 2008 and completed a two-year apprenticeship at the Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Prior to opening Whole Hog Editions, he worked for a printing shop in Berlin, Germany.

Because the Memorial Union Gallery also is used as a meeting space, please contact exhibition coordinator Letitia Kenemer, (515) 294-8081, for public viewing hours.

Contacts:
Letitia Kenemer, Memorial Union, (515) 294-8081, letitia@iastate.edu
Asa Wentzel-Fisher, Whole Hog Editions, (515) 290-3140, asa@wholehogeditions.com
Heather Sauer, Design Communications, (515) 294-9289, hsauer@iastate.edu

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