ArtSplash returns to Riverside Park this weekend. The event attracts professional artists nationwide to Siouxland for the juried exhibition. New artists, too, take part. They are given a lift to the professional world of art by the Splash Artists program. This year, one of the Splash Artists is Klaire Pearson, a painter and maker whose work is confident, analytical, and wry. And, new to this year's festival, State Steel and Compressed Steel are sponsoring The Interactive Exhibition Area, an area where Siouxland non-profits are able to create interactive projects to engage festival goers. Siouxland Public Media, for example, will be setting up an interview table for young folks to interview their loved ones. Those interviews will be recorded and sent back to the interviewers as a keepsake and as a way for us to demonstrate the importance of capturing stories. It's going to be a grand time.
An exhibition of Jodi Whitlock's art will be held at Vangarde Arts this Saturday. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Bands begin at 8.
We have used the music of Psychic Greetings and Sammy Dimera in this feature. Both bands will be performing at the exhibition.
"The Art of the Brick," an exhibition of plastic-brick sculptures by Nathan Sawaya, is on display at the Sioux City Art Center through May 8. Though the medium, plastic brick, gives one the idea that the exhibition will appeal primarily to children, the visitor is quick to realize that the sculptures are asking bigger, "adult," questions.
SPM's Gretchen Gondek talks with local artist Klaire Pearson about her creations of wearable art in the form of an apron.