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Dean A. Genth resides in Mason City, Iowa and is a self- taught digital photographic artist. Dean has concentrated on photographing subjects from a different point of view, using his lens to filter reality in a way sometimes unseen by the common view. Whether it is a macro shot of something usually only appreciated from a distance, or taking a common form and giving it an abstract impression, Dean is always looking to make common forms via the lens a thing of artistic and awe-inspiring beauty.

Dean was awarded “2010 Best In Show” at the Ankeny, Iowa Art Museum’s Annual Photo Exhibition. His award winning digital photograph is entitled, Through The Hole. This beautiful diptych depicts the exterior of a jail door at the Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin, Ireland and then gives the viewer in a second dramatic image of the view from behind the door by setting his lens to the jailer’s peephole.

Many other awards have been awarded the artist, among those from The MacNider Art Museum- “Best In Show” -2016, The Globe Gazette Newspaper Annual Shutterbug Contest as well as an area-wide calendar photo competition.

The USA-TODAY editorial staff selected Dean to photograph scenes from the Inaugural Festivities at the 2009 Inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington D.C. Dean’s images were posted on the online version of the USA TODAY during Inaugural week.

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Christine Flavin is currently Instructor and Director of the Photography Program at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Prior to moving to Iowa she was Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design and director of the Photography Program at Northern Michigan University. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and her MFA from the University of Iowa. She has worked as a professional portrait photographer and darkroom technician, Director of a fine-art photographic gallery and Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Flavin’s photography includes explorations of history and culture. She combines digital technology with historic photographic processes in making her prints. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Midwest region as well as in Seattle, Washington; Dallas, Texas; and Suwa, Japan. Her photographs are part of the permanent collection at several national galleries and museums including the De Vos Art Museum in Marquette, Michigan; Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids; Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Illinois. She has published two photographic instructional lab manuals for students and teachers and has lectured at several museums and universities on topics in the history of photography.

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Making a paper mache dinosaur in sixth grade showed me art could work for me. I knew it, and so did Miss Zeminck, my art teacher. From then on, art was a wonderful world of putting ideas and materials together. But it seemed too easy, so I went into Interior Design and Architecture for a different challenge. With my shiny new BA from University of Northern Iowa, I worked with architects doing commercial interiors. Later, deciding to venture back into art with a MA from University of Iowa, this time in design and sculpture and printmaking.

From then on it was all about working in a studio and producing my own work. Following themes of ideas helps center me. Producing 50-100 pieces and finding half of those pieces that work. Combining foil, wax, and oil paint allows me to play with transparency, shine, light, and movement.

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In her work, Alison Filley explores the trappings associated with domestic expectations and contemporary
popular culture using elaborate ornamental patterning and photographic imagery. Her body of work includes
two-dimensional prints, sculptural objects, and installations that combine glitter, flocking, screen printing, and
digital print media. She is currently the Coordinator of Studios and Outreach Programs at St. Ambrose
University in Davenport, Iowa. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa and her BFA from Washington
University in St. Louis. Over the last year she has created multiple mixed-media paper and fiber installations as
the window display designer at Hands Jewelers in Iowa City.

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Felderman has been a professional photographer since 2012, and is owner, pilot, photographer with General Bob Photography. His specialties range from commercial, aerial, real estate, portrait, entertainment, food, seniors, construction inspections, tower inspections, travel, magazine, fine art, gallery competition, and philanthropic.  General Bob has subject matter ranging from local to regional, national, and international subjects.

As well, he is an Iowa real estate appraiser with Felderman Appraisals Dubuque as a certified general appraiser in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.  He is the head real estate broker with Continental Realty Dubuque, serving as a Certified Residential Specialist (CRS), and Military Relocation Professional (MPR).

Felderman honorably served our nation as an Army Brigadier General, enlisting in 1975 and retiring on Halloween Day of 2010, serving almost 36 years in uniform.  He is an internationally recognized professional speaker on subjects ranging from aviation to contingency operations to strategic planning to unmanned aerial systems to real estate to travel to terrorism.

Felderman holds an FAA unmanned aircraft (drone) license and operates as a commercial photographer and videographer, an FAA commercial helicopter pilot license with an instrument rating, and an FAA private pilot fixed wing aircraft license.  He was recently awarded the 365Ink Impact Award for Media, the Dubuque American Red Cross Hero’s Award, and the Boy Scouts of America Merit Award for Heroism.

General Felderman has a Bachelor degree in Aviation Management and Flight Operations from the University of Dubuque, Iowa, a Certificate in Legislative Affairs from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and a Master Degree in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.

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Pam Echeverria has a Masters Degree in painting from the University of Northern Iowa. She has exhibited widely in the United States and Canada. She currently resides in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

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Velga Easker was born in Valmiera, Latvia. She earned a BA in Art from University of Iowa and was employed in various social service capacities for the Iowa Department of Human Services. She attended numerous workshops and conferences with a concentrated interest in fibers and was a founding member and holder of several offices in the Cedar Rapids Fiber Artist Guild.

She began exploring the potential of using discarded everyday materials in creating collages and assemblages twenty years ago with greater concentration in the past five years after leaving full time employment.

Easker has exhibited throughout the Midwest. She involved others in collaborative projects where they have assembled the finished work for exhibition, including University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Marion Arts Festival, All Saints School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Francis Marion Intermediate School, Marion, Iowa, and she has
conducted workshops for children and adults using found materials. Her work was selected for the Arts
in Embassy’s program of the State Department. She created cover design and divider pages for the cookbook, Buffets & Potlucks, published 2010 by Penfield Press, Iowa City.

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The landscape of Iowa and more lately that of Northeast Iowa has been the focus of Fred Easker’s oil paintings for about twenty five years. The Cedar Rapids native has work included in museum, corporate, and private collections and is shown in galleries throughout the Midwest and has appeared in a number of publications. Easker was an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and was featured as an Iowa Master by Iowa Public Television. He has shown work in three world embassies through the Arts in Embassies program. More recent commissions include paintings for the World Food Prize in Des Moines and United States Federal Court House in Cedar Rapids. His work has been influenced by the great American landscape painters of the late 19th century Hudson River School and fellow Cedar Rapidian, Grant Wood.

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Being born in Oshkosh and moving to Cedarburg in the early 60’s gave Patrick Wisconsin Midwest roots to his art. Regionalist Artists Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton and their dedication to technique and recording the passion of Midwesterners strongly influence Patrick Doughman’s art. He believes art should document experiences of the human condition and leave images for future generations to consider. Peoples’ daily lives, their interactions within society and their landscapes are themes repeated in the artist’s work.

Growing up in Wisconsin and having a father who was an artist and educator instilled a passion for the arts at an early age. Mr. Doughman received solid educational training rooted in purpose and meaning through talented instructors at UW-Platteville and UW-Madison. At UW-Madison, he was privileged to work with artist educators Warrington Colescott, Bill Weege, Dean Meeker, and Raymond Gloeckler.

Deep interest in art history and historical art techniques lay the foundation for egg tempera painting, wood and linoleum printmaking which comprise the majority of the artist’s current body of work.