Midwest Summer: Light and Warmth

Date: 6/6/2015 TO 9/13/2015
Time: 12:00 PM TO 4:00 PM

410 Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401

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Event Description: This exciting exhibition presents recent work by many of Iowa’s best-known artists. Juried by Kate Kunau, the CRMA’s new Associate Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, each participating artist lives in the state of Iowa. The works in the exhibition were created during the past three years and present a wide range of style and media. The theme, Midwest Summer: Light and Warmth, allows the artists to address aspects of summer that appeals to the senses in any manner from representational to abstract. The exhibition may pair a work representing the golden light of a summer evening with one evoking the steamy mugginess of a lazy August day. The origin of this exhibition was a desire on the CRMA’s part to continue its successful series of presentations of Iowa artists, integrating group and solo exhibitions of Iowa artists into the exhibition schedule and folding Iowa art into its presentations of American art. Midwest Summer: Light and Warmth is a testament to the number of talented artists in Iowa and the CRMA plans to continue this success with other themed calls for entries, carrying on the 100+ year tradition of supporting the arts in the local and regional community. This exhibition is made possible by the Hotel-Motel Tax Fund, the Program Grant Fund of the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, Rockwell Collins, the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Richard D. Pinney Exhibition Fund, members of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, and contributors to the Museum’s Annual Fund. Artists featured: Allen, Jeff Bortoli, Dania de Bozaan, Sarah Brown, Bradd Brown, Sara Slee Childers, Teresa Colbert, Jeffrey Coleman, Sue Deegan, Truc Dyas, Sandy Easker, Fred Easker, Velga Evans, John Flugum, Doug Fox, Bob Garner, Katrina Gross, Connie Hagen, Denis Hamer, Gary Hedeman, Donald Hettmansperger, Sue Jackson, Tom Kocher, Bob Kopecky, Tamara Kottal, Julia Lifson, Hugh Lindsay, Nancy Machovec, Kim Magnusson-Secor, Dell Marlow, Paul Moorman, Tara Morris, Hannah Murray, Casey Olson, Hans Eric Olson, Tim O'Malley, Dana Parr, Brian Peters, Denice Peterson, Bob Purington, Nancy Read, Elizabeth Rhodes Reeves, Jeni Ryan, Mike Scarth, Linda & Bob Schwartzkopf, John Siblik, John Sogol, Rashti Sorenson, Sara Stamats, Bill Steele, Priscilla Tade, Mark Townsend Miller, Teresa Wallace, Rob Walls, Brittany Webster-Vore, Joan Wegman, Marcia Wiederspan, Stan Wilson, Michael Zeran, Mary Zirbel, Larry


Directions:
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

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