Art

By
  • Becky Lang
Sep. 27, 2007
This is no kindergarten art. No scented crayons here, no safety-scissors, and absolutely no smiling, Kool-Aid sun in the corner of the page. "Rotten Sun," the current art exhibit put on by the school's professors, is art in the vein of the freak show...
By
  • Becky Lang
Sep. 13, 2007
If a college student were to write down everything he or she consumed - ate, read, smoked, etc. - on an average Friday, it might look something like this: three cups of coffee, two cans of Mountain Dew...
By
  • Stephanie Dickrell
Sep. 13, 2007
Governed by invisible forces, our lives are constantly pulled and prodded into a submission. Gravity causes us to fall. Social norms cause us to behave. Societal pressure causes us to act...
By
  • Stephanie Dickrell
Sep. 13, 2007
After constantly pressuring their students to grow in their artwork, the faculty of the art department finally get the opportunity to do so themselves. In a faculty art show this year, the art department faculty strives...
By
  • Becky Lang
Sep. 06, 2007
The word "Segrelicious" was born when Sean Smuda, creator of The Shoebox Art Gallery, was chatting with curators of Obsidian Arts, a neighboring gallery. "It is so delicious when people are forced to combine, but also when they are forced...
By
  • Sara Nicole Miller
Jul. 11, 2007
Artists Ben Moore and Telos first met in 1998 on a college campus in the heart of Iowa. Almost a decade later, with some artistic oddities and creative revelry under their belts...
By
  • Sara Nicole Miller
Jul. 03, 2007
The image seems innocent enough, like something out of a kiddie pulp comic: a raven-haired schoolgirl with a bob cut and a striped orange blouse licks a chocolate lollipop. But upon closer glance, the lick...
By
  • Amber Schadewald
May. 03, 2007
Monet's "Water Lilies" has traded hands wearing a quarter-billion dollar price tag, while a perfectly crafted sock monkey can sell for a cupronickel quarter at a garage sale. Apart from their supposed worth...
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  • Sara Nicole Miller
Apr. 26, 2007
Artist Jillian McDonald is obsessed with two things: Billy Bob Thornton and zombies. Some of her favorite people are strangers. And she has been known to rent out a salon chair and shampoo people's hair for free...
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  • Sara Nicole Miller
Apr. 12, 2007
Not many artists have the capacity to radically distort the human sensorium and leave viewers in a state of lingering stupefication. It usually takes a psychotropic cocktail and a few days at a festival in the desert to produce similar effects...
By
  • Sara Nicole Miller
Apr. 12, 2007
Easter: It isn't just for Jesus anymore. In fact, it seems as though the iconographic carpenter from Nazareth has officially been one-upped (on the anniversary of his own death, no less) by an animal made entirely out of marshmallow and sugar - the Peep...
By
  • Amber Schadewald
Mar. 01, 2007
Honking motorists, barking shih tzus, "Fergalicious" ring tones and those people in the coffee shop who won't shut up while you're trying to read the paper all melodiously make up the soundtrack to daily life in the city...
By
  • Amber Schadewald
Mar. 01, 2007
Honking motorists, barking shih tzus, "Fergalicious" ring tones and those people in the coffee shop who won't shut up while you're trying to read the paper all melodiously make up the soundtrack to daily life in the city...
Mar. 01, 2007
Honking motorists, barking shih tzus, "Fergalicious" ring tones and those people in the coffee shop who won't shut up while you're trying to read the paper all melodiously make up the soundtrack to daily life in the city...
By
  • Sara Nicole Miller
Feb. 08, 2007
The robust American lunch lady, scoop of mashed potatoes in hand, is encapsulated in the heart and mind of every American child. Similarly, we have varying nostalgic notions...
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