first year highlights
July 2024 - Staircase Gallery exhibition Tree Tree Tree: The Iowa Oak Project featuring paintings and drawings by Jacob & Rebecca Lesan, created for their Iowa Arts Council grant.
August 2024 - Farmhouse Art Collective Things are More Possible Here time capsule to be opened in 2033. Over 60 participants wrote about what they hoped would become possible in the future.
August 2024 - Farmhouse Art Collective Things are More Possible Here time capsule to be opened in 2033. Over 60 participants wrote about what they hoped would become possible in the future.
September 2024 - Interactive public art project created for the Crunchberry Run. Over 600 participants added their Crunchberry colored thumbprint to our giant cereal bowl.
October 2024 - Come as a Well-known Artist or Artwork Party. Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo decorate pumpkins inspired by Yayoi Kusama. Banksy reads from a FAC zine created for the event.
October 2024 - Come as a Well-known Artist or Artwork Party. Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo decorate pumpkins inspired by Yayoi Kusama. Banksy reads from a FAC zine created for the event.
November 2024 - Students prepare willow sticks for carbonizing in our Creative Class on Making Your Own Charcoal. Students try out charcoal made using this technique.
November 2024 - Students prepare willow sticks for carbonizing in our Creative Class on Making Your Own Charcoal. Students try out charcoal made using this technique.
December 2024 - Underrepresented artist Anna Bennett poses with her artworks in our retail shop. She is a neurodivergent teen who paints for theraputic purposes.
January 2025 - Nathan C. talks about his dioramas during our monthly Second Thursday Art Chat. Anyone from the community is invited to bring what they’re working on to get feedback.
February 2025 - Musician Amy C. poses by her work at our Staircase Gallery exhibition The Time in All the World. She says our Poetry Nights inspired her to begin writing again.
March 2025 - Self-taught visual artist and writer Lynn O. shares her work during one of our Open Mic Poetry Nights. These take place every other month and average 6-8 readers, plus listeners.
April 2025 - Students place plants and flowers onto light sensitive paper during our Creative Class on Sunprinting with Botanicals. Finished prints on our drying table after being exposed and rinsed.
April 2025 - Students place plants and flowers onto light sensitive paper during our Creative Class on Sunprinting with Botanicals. Finished prints on our drying table after being exposed and rinsed.
May 2025 - Guest teachers demonstrate how to upcycle old t-shirts into cord for weaving and lead a group through movement exercises during our Growth / Process Weekend.
May 2025 - Guest teachers demonstrate how to upcycle old t-shirts into cord for weaving and lead a group through movement exercises during our Growth / Process Weekend.
June 2025 - Artist Mel Andringa gives a talk about his performed painting Jacob’s Dream and poses with guests for the 50th Anniversary of the Drawing Legion’s first public performance.
June 2025 - Artist Mel Andringa gives a talk about his performed painting Jacob’s Dream and poses with guests for the 50th Anniversary of the Drawing Legion’s first public performance.