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Area artists will exhibit Saturday on Mississippi observation deck
For the Daily Gate City
The Cultural and Entertain-ment District's Activities Committee will host Art Over The Mississippi, an art fair showcasing area artists.
A small but enthusiastic group of artists are coming together for this first-ever event from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday on the observation deck of the old Keokuk-Hamilton bridge.
“One of the goals of the CED is to promote and encourage artists and art related activities,” said Carole Betts, the activities chairperson. “We began planning this event a few months ago and everyone understands that this invitational art fair is in its infancy stages. We feel that the bridge observation deck is a wonderful location for such an event and hope it will grow in the future.”
Leo Lemberger from Ottumwa, an award-winning photographer and artist, will be among the artists participating in the event.
During his photographic career, he has won more than 100 national, regional and state awards for excellence in news, feature and portrait photography. More than 25,000 of his photographs have been published in newspapers and magazines around the world.
He was chief photographer for The Ottumwa Courier, a daily newspaper, for 17 years, and freelanced as a news photographer for national news networks and for newspapers and television stations across a three-state region.
Lemberger was trained in aerial photography in the United States Air Force. He was the first photographer to have motion picture film admitted as evidence in district court in Iowa and was considered an expert witness in the photographic field.
His pen-and-ink drawings are intricate and highly detailed, created in a pointillist technique. His first limited edition print, of a scene in the Missouri Botanical Garden's Japanese garden, was released in 1992 in Toronto, Canada. Seven additional limited editions have subsequently been released.
A noted public speaker and teacher, he regularly conducts seminars at the University of Iowa's Summer Writing Festival and has taught photography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the community college level.
Lemberger is a member of the National Association of Press Photographers and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
In addition, Lemberger was hired by the Army Corp of Engineers to take aerial photos of the Flood of ‘93. He will have prints of those at the fair.
Keokuk artists will include Rita Noe, Rebecca Everett, Ed Swena and Dave Deming.
Rita Noe has bachelor's of arts and master's of arts degrees in art from the University of Northern Iowa. She taught art at Keokuk High School for 12 years, prior to working as a photojournalist. From 1972 to 1992 her medium of choice was serigraphy. She established her own graphic design studio in 1982 and in 1998 began producing digigraphs.
Now retired from the graphic design business, Noe continues to produce digigraphs. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Midwest, Southwest and Japan, where she has had 12 solo exhibits. She is also an adjunct faculty member of the Carl Sandburg College Art Department, teaching photography, art history and art appreciation.
Ed Swena captures the rugged history of the west and the cultures that are part of the saga in his limited edition bronze sculptures. Swena's love of animals led to an early career as a veterinarian, and after a long and successful career as a prominent thoracic surgeon in Arizona, he pursued his love of art, history and nature through sculpture. Swena's works reside in numerous prominent private collections, including President George W. Bush, and the extensive military collection of Bill Jones, council to the governor of Texas. Galleries from Arizona, California, Oklahoma, Utah, New Mexico and Arkansas have housed his works of art.
“If I have done my work as an artist, the stories that have moved me to create these moments in history, should become part of the viewers' own experience,” he said.
Swena sculpts from his Keokuk studio near the Mississippi River.
Dave Deming's specialty is woodcarving. He is a member of the Tri-State Woodcarvers.
Rebecca Everett did her fine arts foundation at Brigham Young University, College of Fine Arts, focusing painting in oils. She and husband Dennis, a Russian linguist for the Department of Defense, lived in California, Arizona and Texas before moving to Maryland where they remained for 25 years with interludes in Bavaria.
While in Bavaria, Everett completed studies in weaving, stained glass and pottery. During a three-year stint in England, she began work in photography and continued her studies at Gloucester College of Art and Technology. She spent the next three years at the University of Gloucestershire School of Art, Media and Design in Cheltenham focusing exclusively on printmaking - studying Intaglio etching.
Later, during five years living in Hawaii, she resumed her printmaking studies at Honolulu Academy of Art including work in relief - mainly linocut and collagraph. She works in all printmaking processes including drypoint, aquatint, mezzo tint, wood block printing, lithography, cliché verre, photogravure, monoprints and serigraph.
Today, Everett's interests include letterpress and handmade papers using cotton and abaca fibers. She studied at Pyramid Atlantic Center for Print, Paper and Book Arts. She acquired and restored a circa 1896 Chandler and Price letterpress.
Copies of the CED quarterly publication “The Confluence” will be available including a limited number of the first issue.
In case of rain, the Art Fair will move to the River City Mall main entrance.
The Cultural and Entertain-ment District's Activities Committee will host Art Over The Mississippi, an art fair showcasing area artists.
A small but enthusiastic group of artists are coming together for this first-ever event from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday on the observation deck of the old Keokuk-Hamilton bridge.
“One of the goals of the CED is to promote and encourage artists and art related activities,” said Carole Betts, the activities chairperson. “We began planning this event a few months ago and everyone understands that this invitational art fair is in its infancy stages. We feel that the bridge observation deck is a wonderful location for such an event and hope it will grow in the future.”
Leo Lemberger from Ottumwa, an award-winning photographer and artist, will be among the artists participating in the event.
During his photographic career, he has won more than 100 national, regional and state awards for excellence in news, feature and portrait photography. More than 25,000 of his photographs have been published in newspapers and magazines around the world.
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Lemberger was trained in aerial photography in the United States Air Force. He was the first photographer to have motion picture film admitted as evidence in district court in Iowa and was considered an expert witness in the photographic field.
His pen-and-ink drawings are intricate and highly detailed, created in a pointillist technique. His first limited edition print, of a scene in the Missouri Botanical Garden's Japanese garden, was released in 1992 in Toronto, Canada. Seven additional limited editions have subsequently been released.
A noted public speaker and teacher, he regularly conducts seminars at the University of Iowa's Summer Writing Festival and has taught photography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the community college level.
Lemberger is a member of the National Association of Press Photographers and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
In addition, Lemberger was hired by the Army Corp of Engineers to take aerial photos of the Flood of ‘93. He will have prints of those at the fair.
Keokuk artists will include Rita Noe, Rebecca Everett, Ed Swena and Dave Deming.
Rita Noe has bachelor's of arts and master's of arts degrees in art from the University of Northern Iowa. She taught art at Keokuk High School for 12 years, prior to working as a photojournalist. From 1972 to 1992 her medium of choice was serigraphy. She established her own graphic design studio in 1982 and in 1998 began producing digigraphs.
Now retired from the graphic design business, Noe continues to produce digigraphs. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Midwest, Southwest and Japan, where she has had 12 solo exhibits. She is also an adjunct faculty member of the Carl Sandburg College Art Department, teaching photography, art history and art appreciation.
Ed Swena captures the rugged history of the west and the cultures that are part of the saga in his limited edition bronze sculptures. Swena's love of animals led to an early career as a veterinarian, and after a long and successful career as a prominent thoracic surgeon in Arizona, he pursued his love of art, history and nature through sculpture. Swena's works reside in numerous prominent private collections, including President George W. Bush, and the extensive military collection of Bill Jones, council to the governor of Texas. Galleries from Arizona, California, Oklahoma, Utah, New Mexico and Arkansas have housed his works of art.
“If I have done my work as an artist, the stories that have moved me to create these moments in history, should become part of the viewers' own experience,” he said.
Swena sculpts from his Keokuk studio near the Mississippi River.
Dave Deming's specialty is woodcarving. He is a member of the Tri-State Woodcarvers.
Rebecca Everett did her fine arts foundation at Brigham Young University, College of Fine Arts, focusing painting in oils. She and husband Dennis, a Russian linguist for the Department of Defense, lived in California, Arizona and Texas before moving to Maryland where they remained for 25 years with interludes in Bavaria.
While in Bavaria, Everett completed studies in weaving, stained glass and pottery. During a three-year stint in England, she began work in photography and continued her studies at Gloucester College of Art and Technology. She spent the next three years at the University of Gloucestershire School of Art, Media and Design in Cheltenham focusing exclusively on printmaking - studying Intaglio etching.
Later, during five years living in Hawaii, she resumed her printmaking studies at Honolulu Academy of Art including work in relief - mainly linocut and collagraph. She works in all printmaking processes including drypoint, aquatint, mezzo tint, wood block printing, lithography, cliché verre, photogravure, monoprints and serigraph.
Today, Everett's interests include letterpress and handmade papers using cotton and abaca fibers. She studied at Pyramid Atlantic Center for Print, Paper and Book Arts. She acquired and restored a circa 1896 Chandler and Price letterpress.
Copies of the CED quarterly publication “The Confluence” will be available including a limited number of the first issue.
In case of rain, the Art Fair will move to the River City Mall main entrance.
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