2018 Artist Fellowship Guide to Grants Dc Commission on Arts Humanities
The Creative person Fellowship Program provides support to artists who demonstrate exceptional creativity and the capacity to contribute to the innovation and superlative of the arts in Iowa.
2021 Fellows
Paul Brooke
Paul Brooke is a professor at Grand View University, where he teaches Creative Writing and Literary Theory. He is the writer of six books including Light and Matter. Originally from Minden, Iowa, Brooke combines his love of photography, nature and verse together in stirring means.
Brittany Brooke Crow
Brittany Brooke Crow uses image-making to confront her fear of vulnerability. Her work explores intimacy, ways of seeing, and the expansive possibilities of photograph-based fine art. She considers the performative action necessary to create an paradigm an inherent part of the content of her work. In 2020, Crow turned the camera toward herself to investigate what happens to our understanding of the representation of the nude trunk when the artist and model are one and the aforementioned. With support from a projection grant, the culminating installation Exhibition(ist) questioned what information technology meant to come across and be seen. Crow received a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from the Academy of Northern Iowa in 2013. She is currently working out of Mainframe Studios in Des Moines.
Louise Kames
Louise Kames holds an MFA caste in drawing and printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a professor of art at Clarke University where she chairs the Art + Pattern Program. Her drawings, print, and installation-based work are exhibited widely including solo exhibitions across Iowa and the Midwest region. She is a regular participant in regional, national and international juried exhibitions.
Kames enjoys the creative and cultural substitution offered at artist residencies, including Schloss Plüschow, Mecklenburg, Federal republic of germany: Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium; The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Canton Monaghan, Republic of ireland; Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada; Ragdale Foundation, Lake Woods, IL; Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany; Virginia Heart for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA; and Vermont Studio Eye, Johnson, VT. Kames was one of two artists whose piece of work was selected for The Iowa Women's Art Exhibition in Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds' part in 2018.
Emma Murray
Emma Murray is a writer living in Des Moines. Her works of verse/creative nonfiction can exist establish in or are forthcoming from Entropy, Bennington Review, wig-wag, The New Territory and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Oklahoma Country University and was a 2016 Academy of American Poets Prize recipient.
When she'south not writing, she'due south either helping run an arts + community commonage out of her home, ILK HAUS; teaching Iowa Land Academy Stem students how to harness the power of storytelling; poring over the back catalogs of all things music; or more often than not slapping hands abroad from her turntable, streaming playlists and radio dial.
Francesca Soans
Francesca Soans is an award-winning filmmaker and Associate Professor of Digital Media at the University of Northern Iowa. Her films and videos, exploring place, retentiveness, and identity, have screened worldwide at competitive film festivals, art galleries, and conferences and been broadcast on public and cable television channels. Her flick notes towards a history received the Directors' Citation from the prestigious Black Maria Movie and Video Festival. Her fiction picture show Rebirth received awards from the Iowa Motion Moving picture Association and was nominated for Best Iowa Film past the Wild Rose Independent Picture Festival. Her pioneering documentary Sons of Jacob Synagogue, co-directed with historian Robert Neymeyer received numerous awards, including the Loren Horton Community History Honor from the State Historical Society of Iowa and a Silver Remi from Worldfest-Houston International Motion-picture show Festival. She has received several major grants from the Iowa Arts Council, Humanities Iowa, the Guernsey Foundation, and the Circulate Education Association.
2020 Fellows
Tiberiu Chelcea
Tiberiu Chelcea takes elements and processes of traditional art disciplines, such as printmaking and drawing, and combines them with parts and operations of digital technologies. His work demonstrates unexpected correlations between old and new technologies, and issues of consumption, serial design, automatic vs labor-intensive processes, are brought to the fore. His works have been exhibited throughout the Usa (New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Iowa and other states) as well as United mexican states, Egypt and Brazil, and has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in improver to several Iowa Arts Council projection grants. Mr. Chelcea was born in Romania and came to the United States to pursue a PhD in Computer Science. He has received several awards, fellowships, and patents in the field of electronic and digital design, which continues to be a major source of inspiration for his art.
Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for several other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Information technology was named a Best Book of 2016 by over 50 publications in nine countries, and is being translated into over a dozen languages. His new book of fiction, Cleanness, was published in January 2020. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Option, it has been named a Best Book of 2020 So Far past Time, the BBC, Entertainment Weekly, and Esquire, and was recently longlisted for the Britain's Gordon Burn down Prize. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in Iowa Metropolis.
Catherine Reinhart
Catherine Reinhart is an interdisciplinary artist who makes fiber art, works on newspaper, and conducts socially engaged projects with abandoned textiles. These works centre on the themes of domestic labor, connexion and care. As artist and female parent, Catherine is both archivist and field hand, creating studies in the accretion of domestic life and cataloging its labors.
Caregiving girds up our lodge and is based largely on the undervalued labor of women. Disposed to one'south family and community is built on consistent, repetitive actions which provide comfort, ease suffering, and connect u.s.a. with our boyfriend human.
Mending and stitching by paw parallel these disposed actions. Through their utilize, I communicate the transformative power of caregiving. With these works, I join the growing ranks of a constellation of new creative person-mothers speaking to the maternal and domestic feel. I requite vocalism and hold space for stories of repair, loss, and kinship.
Levi Robb
Levi Robb is an creative person and architect based in Des Moines, IA. Robb's piece of work explores the entanglement of person and context — time and atmosphere. With a focus on the formal objectivity of place, the work is influenced by human interface with environment, landscape, and artifact. The emanation of the work embodies a dichotomy between permanent and impermanent objects and mark making. Human human relationship with site-based artifacts, and the interrelationship betwixt the textile and immaterial, are often mutual underlying themes throughout his work. Through the analysis, manipulation and reinterpretation of latent items and specific spatial conditions the piece of work takes on a continual timeline with an inherent connection to the past. Acts of cartoon, printmaking, sculpture and installation become tools for Robb to reassign artful value to detritus and discarded material. This process yields a unique trunk of formal objects that reflect on fabric culture and concretize the idea of contemporary relics.
Robb holds a B.Curvation. from Iowa State Academy and has spent periods of time studying and working in Rome, Italy and the American Southwest. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in both public and private collections. In 2018 Robb completed creative person residencies at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Potent City, Kansas and at Seljavegur in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Olivia Valentine
Olivia Valentine is an interdisciplinary visual artist working in material construction, drawing, and photography, and in collaborations with composers, architects, and designers. Olivia received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the Rhode Island Schoolhouse of Design. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for Installation Art in Turkey (2012-xiii), The Founding President'southward Honour from the Textile Society of America (2014), and the Brandford/Elliott Honour for Excellence in Cobweb Arts (2012). Recent exhibitions include Museum of Arts and Design (New York) Pasajist (Istanbul), the American University in Rome (Italia), Page Bond Gallery (Richmond, VA), the Rijswijk Museum (The Netherlands), Maquis Projects (Izmir, Turkey) and Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA). She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Iowa State University.
2019 Fellows
Angela Altenhofen
Angela Altenhofen is a sculptor, operation creative person, costume designer and illustrator. She earned her BFA from the University of Northern Iowa, and MFA in Sculpture and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Altenhofen has exhibited her art nationally and internationally, including at art galleries and museums in Tel Aviv, Vienna, Florence, Italian republic and Chicago. Immediately subsequently graduate schoolhouse, Ange was diagnosed with presumed ocular histoplasmosis, a degenerative centre condition that could somewhen pb to blindness. As a visual creative person this forced her to rethink her creative practice, and she began researching how bullheaded people experience art and process visual data. This resulted in "The Braille Serial," an ongoing body of tactile work that incorporates Braille text, represented by chaplet and gemstones, onto various materials and forms. Altenhofen returned to her hometown of Chariton, Iowa in 2015 where she currently lives and works.
Scott Bradley
Scott Bradley is an Iowa-born writer, performer and stage director, whose work has been seen across the United states. His musical We Three Lizas (volume/lyrics) premiered with Nearly Face Theatre and enjoyed multiple productions nationally. As co-founder of The Scooty & JoJo Prove, he wrote books for, directed and performed in Chicago'southward long-running musicals Alien Queen and Carpenters Halloween, as well as the musicals Mollywood, Tran: The Atari Musical, and regular cabaret engagements. Since his return to Iowa in 2015, Bradley was awarded a year-long residency at Scattergood Friends School, received his MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, contributed writing to Hot Tamale Louie, and his documentary drama The Wood Problem was featured at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Fine art and the American Gothic Firm. He is a fellow member of the Dramatists Order, Actors Equity and SAG/AFTRA. Bradley currently lives and works out of West Co-operative.
Matthew Kluber
Matthew Kluber is a visual artist working in the intersection of painting and digital technology. He received a BFA from the Rhode Isle Schoolhouse of Design and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Kluber has exhibited his paintings/projections, films and drawings at galleries and museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Mainland china; FOCUS09/Art Basel, Switzerland; The Painting Middle, New York; Orange Door, Chicago; and Art Basel Miami. His piece of work is in the collection of the Austin Museum of Fine art, Portland Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Des Moines Art Center, Academy of Iowa Museum of Art, Estée Lauder International Inc., and the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. He resides in Cedar Rapids and is currently a Professor and Chair of the Art Section at Grinnell Higher.
Rachel Merrill
Rachel Merrill is an interdisciplinary artist exploring themes of spectacle, American sports and competition. Merrill received a BS from the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, MN, and earned her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. She has exhibited her work nationally and is active in her local art community, sharing a passion for art and education within the central Iowa surface area. She currently works as an Acquaintance Professor of Art at Grand View University in Des Moines, instruction all levels of students in cartoon, pattern, sculpture, fine art history and critical thinking.
Amenda Tate
Amenda Tate is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in fine art and metalsmithing. Her work utilizes scientific and artful processes to accost identity, individuality, longevity and the culture of social interaction in our digital era. Her work has been featured in solo and grouping exhibitions across the United states, and in various media outlets including the Denver Post, Art Jewelry Today 2, the Des Moines Annals, Ameliorate Homes & Gardens, dsm Magazine and Pop Science. Tate has worked every bit an Creative person-In-Residence with the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center and Ballet Des Moines. Special honors include a permanent collection commission by Pointer Electronics in conjunction with Ruddy Arts and the Colorado Ballet, ii Editor's Choice Awards at the New York International Maker Faire, and a special recognition laurels in the 2017 International RobotArt competition. Tate currently lives and works out of Westward Des Moines.
2018 Fellows
Noah Doely
Noah Doely works across various media, primarily in photography, sculpture and video. He received a BFA from the Academy of Northern Iowa and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as Steve Turner Gimmicky (Los Angeles), The San Diego Museum of Art, Locust Projects (Miami), The Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Winter Park), Viafarini (Milan, Italian republic), Seattle Center on Contemporary Art, and the Des Moines Art Center. Doely has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The MacDowell Colony, The Penumbra Foundation, The Hambidge Eye for Creative Arts and Sciences, and the Virginia Heart for Creative Arts. His work has appeared in various publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Juxtapoz Mag and Burnaway Magazine. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Northern Iowa.
Julia Franklin
Julia Franklin uses fine art to tell the stories of what nosotros go out behind. She has been creating art from discarded objects for more than xx years, merely her most recent works are inspired by a single box of her father's possessions given to her years later his tragic death. To make sense of his suicide, she creates displays with his personal holding, letters and documents to examine what people muffle in order to protect, and to brainstorm conversations about mental illness and identity. Franklin received her BFA from Midwestern State University and earned her MFA from Texas Christian University. She worked at the Dallas Museum of Art before moving to rural Iowa in 2001. She now resides in West Des Moines and serves as Professor of Fine art at Graceland University, where she received the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2011. Franklin has exhibited artworks in over 70 shows across the nation.
Lauren Haldeman
Lauren Haldeman is the author of Instead of Dying (winner of the Colorado Prize for Poesy, Center for Literary Publishing, 2017), Calenday (Rescue Press, 2014) and the artist book The Eccentricity is Zero (Digraph Press, 2014). Her piece of work has appeared in Tin House, Colorado Review, Fence, The Iowa Review and The Rumpus. As an illustrator and poet, she has been a recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Colorado Prize for Poetry and fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She works as an editor and web programmer at the University of Iowa.
Mary Jones
Mary Jones makes mixed media artworks nigh urban walking. For 17 years she was Professor of Art & Design at Grand View University in Des Moines where she taught courses in printmaking, book arts and graphic design. Prior to educational activity, she worked equally an illustrator with work published by The Chicago Tribune, Playboy Magazine and the Philadelphia Enquirer, amongst others. She has worked in the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Women in the Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and in the Land Museum of Illinois in both Chicago and Springfield. She has been an artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation and at Anchor Graphics, Chicago. She has received projection grants from both the Illinois Arts Council and the Iowa Arts Quango.
Molly Wood
Molly Wood is a photographer who explores botanicals as metaphors for the natural cycles of life, death and rebirth. Her digital photos use merely window low-cal and are styled with traditional Dutch still life paintings in mind. Woods has a BA in Photojournalism from Texas Christian University and an MA in Art History from Southern Methodist University, Dallas. She manages photograph shoots for Better Homes and Gardens products and teaches History of Photography at DMACC. She has held solo exhibitions at Iowa State University, St Ambrose University and the Muscatine Art Museum. Woods has been included in exhibitions at Olson-Larsen Galleries, the Dubuque Art Museum, the Freeport Art Museum, the Midwest Center for Photography and the Kansas Metropolis Club of Contemporary Photography. Wood lives in Des Moines with her girl, Emma.
2017 Fellows
River Breitbach
River Glen Breitbach of Rickardsville was built-in in Dubuque. He began his musical career at the age of 2 on the violin. Blest with the good fortune of a family that nurtured his love for music and performance, River has become a powerhouse multi-instrumentalist and songwriter with over 20 years of experience performing throughout the Midwest. His original folk-pop music draws on the traditions of conscious lyricism and political relevance to evangelize performances steeped in honesty and kindness that engage listeners of all ages and endorse the idea that music can serve as medicine.
Jennifer Drinkwater
Jennifer Drinkwater of Ames is an banana professor with a joint engagement between the section of art and visual culture and Iowa Land University extension and outreach. Originally from Mississippi, she has a BA in both studio art and anthropology from Tulane University and earned an MFA in painting from East Carolina Academy. Her paintings accept been exhibited nationally in juried and group shows, and she has had solo exhibitions in Iowa, New York, Illinois, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, and Washington, DC. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and Studio Visit mag. Her personal work and instruction often explore how we bring artwork from the studio into the globe, and accordingly, how this work can both build and shape community.
Jack Meggers
Jack Meggers of Des Moines grew upwards in Stonemason City and Clear Lake, Iowa. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Iowa Country Academy, then moved to New York City and began his career in stage theatre. During his seven years in New York, Jack turned his attention to movie theatre. He relocated to Los Angeles, and began his motion picture career in earnest, learning the arts and crafts of filmmaking by acquiring easily on experience in every department. His start short film, "FRIGID", was selected to the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Jack also directed and produced several music videos for bands in the Los Angeles area. In recent years, Jack was the Studio Manager at Quixote Studios, home to the long-running TV series "CRIMINAL MINDS". His current venture, which brings him back to his dwelling house state, is his feature-film debut, currently entitled "THE Burying"
Lee Running
Lee Emma Running of Grinnell makes installations and sculptures inspired by natural phenomena. The materials she works with include animal basic, paper, cloth, fur, raw pigments and gold. She moved to Iowa City in 2001 to amateur with papermaker Timothy Barrett at the University of Iowa Center for the Book where she learned to analyze materials and process every bit well as maintain the discipline of a fine arts and crafts. Lee is an Associate Professor at Grinnell College, and has received Artists Residencies and Jentel, Banner WY, Penland School of Crafts, NC, the Santa Atomic number 26 Fine art Establish, and The Vermont Studio Middle. Her work has been exhibited at the Des Moines Art Center, The Charlotte Street Foundation, The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking, and the Urban Plant for Contemporary Art. Running received a BFA from Pratt Establish in 1999, and an MFA from the University of Iowa in 2005. She is represented by Olsen Larson Gallery.
Rachel Yoder
Rachel Yoder of Iowa City is a founding editor of draft: the periodical of process, a literary journal that features offset and terminal drafts of stories, essays, and poems along with writer interviews about the creative process. She also hosts The Fail Prophylactic, an interview podcast produced in collaboration with the Iowa Writers' Business firm, that explores how today's virtually successful writers grapple with and acquire from failure. Rachel's writing has been awarded with The Missouri Review's Editors' Prize in both Fiction and Sound, every bit a finalist for The Chicago Tribune'south Nelson Algren Laurels, and with notable distinctions in Best American Short Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading. A graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, she is currently at piece of work on an autobiographical collection of stories based on growing upwards Mennonite and leaving that community.
2016 Fellows
Stephanie Brunia
Stephanie Brunia is a photographer who lives and works in Oxford, Iowa. She uses the medium to explore desires and fears surrounding human connection. Brunia received an MFA with distinction from the Academy of New Mexico in 2012. In 2007, she received a BFA with honors and higher distinction from the Academy of Iowa. She has exhibited at the Griffin Photography Museum, Rosalux Gallery, the Center for Art Photography, and Rayko Photograph Center and Musee d'Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2011, Brunia was one of three artists to be featured in the Des Moines Art Center'south annual Iowa Artists exhibition.
Brent Holland
Brent Holland of Des Moines is a visual artist who integrates digital and traditional media applications into paintings and drawings. Using both figurative representation and formal abstraction, he transforms elements of his daily life into works that range in size and content from miniature hyperrealist portraits to wall-size collages. His work is a response to his fascination with the visual diversity of his surroundings – from the details of the human torso to cluttered studio spaces, architectural drawings and urban graffiti walls. His artwork is exhibited widely, held in public and private collections and represented by Olson-Larsen Galleries. Holland is currently an Acquaintance Professor of Fine art and Visual Culture at Iowa State University.
Jennifer Knox
Jennifer L. Knox'southward poems speak in voices that are often ignored in the elevated realm of verse. Through wording and popular culture, she strives to surprise readers with epiphanies of inclusion. Her interest in voice led her to the technique of crowdsourcing poems, which offers an unprecedented opportunity to generate inclusionary narratives. Birds accept always been a central theme in her work. Originally from Southern California, she received her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Iowa and her MFA in Creative Writing from New York Academy. She is the author of four books of poems. Her piece of work has appeared in numerous publications including in the New York Times, the New Yorker and American Poetry Review. She currently lives in Ames and teaches at Iowa State University.
Akwi Nji
Akwi Nji is a operation artist who combines the raw edge of performance verse with silky smooth elements of live creative storytelling. In her writing she explores race, gender, parenthood and those mundane moments that, when given life on stage, go windows into universal truths about the human being condition. Nji has performed at such venues equally Chicago'south Light-green Mill and Martyrs'. Nji spent 7 seasons writing and performing for SPT Theatre's Tales from the Writers' Room before founding The Hook, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide local writers and artists with the opportunity to tell their community'due south stories through creative adaptions produced for the phase. Nji is the producer of The NewBo PoJam, the largest performance poetry and storytelling event in the Creative Corridor.
Yun Shin
Yun Shin of Orangish Metropolis is a Korean artist who believes the procedure of making is a way of reconstructing relationships and remembering home. Relying on family treasures for inspiration, she reinterprets them by engaging in an intense procedure with repetitive movement. Labor and time, the very procedure of making, which is hidden and invested within each object, go a pregnant part of her work. She has exhibited her piece of work at Woman Fabricated Gallery in Chicago and Pen and Castor in New York. She holds an MFA in studio art at the Academy of Texas and a BFA degree in arts and crafts and cloth studies from Virginia Republic University. She currently teaches painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics at Northwestern College as an assistant professor.
2015 Fellows
Rachel Buse
Rachel Buse of Des Moines makes sculptures and drawings depicting emotional perceptions of the man trunk, place and memory. Since 2012, she's been developing a serial of large temporary sculptures exploring what information technology would be like to walk around and approach an overwhelming feeling. Her installations take exhibited throughout Iowa and Nebraska. She participated in the 2015 Tough Art Residency at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh where she created an interactive sculpture for the museum.
Matthew Drissell
Matt Drissell utilizes a multifariousness of styles, from traditional illusionistic representation to conceptual abstraction, to create visual art that addresses themes of sustainability. He has a MFA in Painting from New York Academy of Art and a BA from Wheaton College - Illinois. Drissell believes in making the visual arts an integral role of local communities serving on the local arts council and teaching classes. He is a certified fine art teacher and taught middle and high school art for five years in Milwaukee and St. Louis. Drissell is currently an Acquaintance Professor of Fine art at Dordt Higher in Sioux Center, Iowa where he lives with his wife Becky, ii daughters, and son.
Larassa Kabel
Larassa Kabel of Des Moines is a visual artist who uses photorealistic drawings, paintings and prints to address issues of loss, fear, gender and feminism. Kabel's work has been shown nationally in galleries and museums including the Des Moines Art Center, The MISSION Gallery, Pare Gallery, Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, showroom 101, Visions West, and Moberg Gallery. One of her paintings graced the 2012 White House Christmas card.
Lisa Schlesinger
Lisa Schlesinger is a playwright, author and theatre activist. Her plays include the Celestial Bodies trilogy, The Bones of Danny Winston, and Rock Ends Ahead. A recipient of the NEA/TCG Playwrights Residency Honor, the BBC International Playwriting Award, and a nominee for a USArtists Fellowship, her piece of work is produced in the U.S. and internationally and published in American Theatre Magazine, Performing Arts Journal, Theatre Communications Group and the New York Times. Her plays are forthcoming from Broadway Plays and NoPassport. She is an affiliated artist with Sleeping Weazel in Boston and In Parenthesis in New York City. She teaches playwriting at the University of Iowa.
Robert Stephens
Rob Stephens, of Des Moines, is a printmaker who creates semi-autobiographical works using paint, silkscreen, comic book sequences, and awe-inspiring woodcut prints. His works employ a heavy gestural line and saturated color, often at odds with the themes and narratives depicted. From 2000-2014 he was a professor of art at Graceland University, education painting, printmaking, drawing and art history. He was a visiting artist at Mission Graphica in San Francisco, and has assisted in numerous impress workshops across the land, including those at Frogman'due south Printing and Tom Huck'due south Evil Prints. His salacious tell-all comic features "Good Kid Rob," a neurotic modify-ego. His work is shown nationally and is represented by Moberg Gallery.
2014 Fellows
Lauren Alleyne
Lauren Alleyne of Dubuque is a author who was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. Her fiction, poetry and non-fiction deal with the intersection of place, abode, and belonging. Lauren'south work has been awarded numerous prizes and has been published in several journals and anthologies, including Crab Orchard Review, The Cimarron Review, Black Arts Quarterly, The Caribbean area Writer, and The Belleview Literary Review. Her debut collection, Difficult Fruit, was published in February 2014 by Peepal Tree Printing.
Robert John Ford
Robert John Ford of Des Moines is an award-winning playwright, composer and lyricist whose works take been produced throughout the country. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME Magazine, CNN, CBS, ABC, and NPR. In June 2014, he will complete his 2-yr participation equally a lyricist in the acclaimed BMI Musical Theatre Workshop in NYC. Ford will be launching a major new theatre endeavor in the fall of 2014.
Jordan Weber
Jordan Weber of Des Moines is an fine art-activist/curator. Hashemite kingdom of jordan's work strives to speak for the underprivileged majority against the opulently ruling minority. Weber uses oil, acrylic, spray paint, concrete and neon in numerous bodies of piece of work to stupor viewers from apathy while perturbing routine life. His work has been purchased by private collectors in Torino, Verona, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Seattle, Kansas City, Des Moines, Minneapolis, Houston and Omaha.
Kathranne Knight
Kathranne Knight of Ames is a visual artist who makes fragile, complex, cloth-similar landscape drawings using repetition and straightforward rules of perspective. Her work has been shown nationally in galleries and museums including Mass MoCA, The Des Moines Art Heart, The Danforth Museum, Carroll and Sons Gallery, Muriel Guepin Gallery, and Geoffrey Immature Gallery. She was also published in New American Paintings #56, Northeast Edition.
Christopher Ford
Christopher Ford of Des Moines is a songwriter who writes, records, and performs music as Christopher the Conquered. Ford has played hundreds of shows internationally since 2006. This yr, Ford will complete a fourth studio album in Memphis at the legendary Ardent Studios, release a alive anthology recorded at Des Moines' Salisbury House, and perform regionally and abroad, including a month-long bout of Italy at the end of 2014.
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