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--Dan Cummins (Board President)
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Thanks For Coming Out To Gallery Walk
We had a great time at Gallery Walk a few weeks ago and there were lots of people out on a beautiful fall evening. It was good to see old friends and meet new ones. Kimberlee Rocca was featured and had a fascinating exhibit and some fun hands-on activities.
The ArtiFactory continues to have a full slate of activities planned for the next month. Please take a look at our online calendar. Our featured Art in the Afternoon artist for October is Omer Sanan. Join us to hear about his interesting journey from physician to artist.
We have a private art studio available in the lower level of 120 N. Dubuque Street. The studio has a window and also a sink. Rent is $125 per month. Please contact us if you would like more information.
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October 23 | 1 pm in the gallery
Art in the Afternoon | Omer Sanan
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Omer Sanan is a retired general surgeon. He dabbled in visual arts during his working years. Mostly sketching his colleagues during meetings or when they were dozing on couches in the surgical lounge. After his retirement and relocation to Iowa City seven years ago, Marcia Wegman encouraged him to start attending Phil Dorothy’s drawing studio. That is where he learned how to see. He had been looking intensely inside of people’s bodies as a surgeon, but drawing and painting are a different way of looking.
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Free Admission | Vaccinations are encouraged and masks are required while in the ArtiFactory. Please maintain a social distance.
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Kimberlee Rocca Exhibit is OPEN until Oct 23
Saturdays | 1-3 pm Wednesdays | 3- 5:30 pm
lower level 120 N. Dubuque St.
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Life Drawing at the ArtiFactory
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Join us for life drawing in the lower level of 120 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA. Please register for each session. Sessions may be canceled if the minimum enrollments have not been received by 24 hours in advance. We will be drawing from nude, scantily clothed or dressed models. Must be over 18 to attend.
Attention: Regular oils using odorless terpenoid will now be permitted.
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The Foiling Studio Group
October 22 - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
November 5 - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Foiling Studio Group is an ongoing studio group open to both new foilers and those with past experience. Plan on taking multiple sessions to take your foiled prints from start to finish. Sessions do not need to be consecutive. ,,,more
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Hasn’t it been a long, beautiful fall? I was on my way back to Iowa City yesterday, driving through the Mark Twain National Forest in SE Missouri. The road goes through gentle mountains and the color was spectacular! There was a potential painting around every bend in the road.
I have a few items I want to share with you. The first is a “call” for artists' donations of a piece of art work to the Shelter House. They are holding a five-day online art auction called “Artists Ending Homelessness”. It will run December 5-9, and have an In-person Viewing Reception as well as the online exhibit. If you are an artist and would like to donate something to this very worthy local cause, please contact T’Shailyn Harrington.
The next item is a show that you won’t want to miss at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. It is an exhibit of circus paintings by Byron Burford. His son Kevin, who often draws with us has provided the following story.
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Upcoming CRMA exhibit: Byron Burford Ringmaster
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 I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art would be hosting an exhibit of paintings by my father, Byron Burford, starting in November. My father was born in Greenville, Mississippi in 1920 and grew up in Jackson. He studied art at the University of Iowa, and was Grant Wood’s last teaching assistant. During the war he joined the Army Air Corps and afterwards returned to the University of Iowa where he received his MFA in 1947. He was hired to teach painting at the University and did so for 38 years. Byron was a figurative artist and worked mainly in oil, but also worked in encaustics, acrylics and serigraphy. According to his obituary in The New York Times, “Mr. Burford was perhaps best known for depicting circus life. Among his many works are whip-cracking lion tamers, midflight trapeze artists, feather-bedecked ladies riding high on elephants, and sideshow attractions like the tattooed man, the bearded lady and the two-headed dog. When some of Mr. Burford’s paintings were shown at a gallery in Manhattan in 1966, Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times that ‘motifs drawn from carnival and circus life, from popular culture and nostalgic glimpses of forgotten wars are transformed into graphic symbols of notable complexity.’ He added, ‘There is no mistaking the fact that a genuine and interesting imagination has been engaged.’”
The exhibit Byron Burford: Ringmaster will be at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art from November 19, 2022 to October 29, 2023.
-Kevin Burford
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Another exhibit to take in is the “Small Works” show at Art Domestique in Washington…..just a half hour away! It will be there from November 1 until January 2023. Right next door is Cafe Dodici which is a great place for lunch or dinner! Opening reception is 11/11, 5:30-8:00. Make it a little outing! Check their hours on line or call 653-8550.
One last thing that may interest you. I visited with the mother of our current artist in the gallery, Kimberlee Rocca. She has recently opened a nature-centered design studio and is offering a variety of classes for kids, families, and adults. Check out the fall and winter schedule on their web site.
By the way, John Preston is still doing watercolor demonstrations on Wednesdays at 1:00 pm. Check him out on Facebook.
Good Bye for this month. Please send me any news you would like to share, and volunteer. We need you!
Beppie
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