Lure of the Local: Collecting the Corridor, 2006-2011

February 4 - May 13, 2012

Stan Wiederspan, 080405, 2005, acrylic on canvas, Museum purchase, with gift of the artist, Kathleen and Tom Aller, CRST International, and Ann and Henry Royer, 2009.057.

Beginning with its first acquisition in 1906, the Cedar Rapids Art Association (now the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art) has valued art of its own time, often from local origins. Over the last century, the collection has grown to more than 7,000 works of art, including several works by local artists Grant Wood and Marvin Cone. Over the past five years, a concerted effort has been made to ensure that the Museum collection continues to reflect the artistic outputs of artists living in and near the Corridor.

Lure of the Local: Collecting the Corridor, 2006-2011 showcases these recent acquisitions through the exhibition of more than 65 works by more than 40 area artists. Many visitors will be surprised by the variety of media, subjects, and styles that artists are using today, as demonstrated in the paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, collages, photographs, and sculptures included, and in the wide range of materials from oil and acrylic paints to jigsaw puzzle pieces, carved wood, foil, and envelopes.

Lure of the Local is supported in part by the Richard D. Pinney Exhibition Fund, and by GreatAmerica Leasing Corporation and the Momentum Fund, both funds of The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation.

Artists featured in this exhibition...

Thomas Agran	Mel Andringa
Bradd Brown	Steve Carlson
Bryan Davis	John Decker
Velga Easker	Nate and Hallie Evans
Stan Fellows	Michelle Fischer
Robert Fox	Lucy Goodson
Kathryn Hagy	Sue Hettmansperger
Thomas C. Jackson	Karen Kurka Jensen
Gordon Kellenberger	William Kettelkamp
Julia Kottal	Laura Larabee
Tomás Lasanksy	Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret
Nancy Lindsay	Bunny McBride
Shane McCallister	Robert Peterson
Elizabeth Rhoads Read	Mat Rude
Michael S. Ryan	JoAnn Schnabel
John Schwartzkopf	Dean and Gunnar Schwarz
Jesse James Sinclair	Steve Sinner
Bill Stamats	Dena Tollefson
Nina Vetrova-Robinson	Marcia Wegman
Stan Wiederspan	Mary Zeran
Larry Zirbel

Commentary

Juliana Oglesby on 02/17/12	Lure of the Local,fantastic. Variety of media. A pleasure to read the artist's bio and philosophy. McCallister Charlie prints are sheer joy. Wiederspan acrylic boxes reveal such texture - and so much more in this exhibit to enjoy, one must return!
LeRoy Barnhart on 02/17/12	John Decker's stuff is amazing!
Lucky on 01/23/12	Kewl you should come up with that. Execllnet!

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