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Creston:Arts presents works in collage, book binding & assemblage
By SARAH BROWN
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Box, Book & Board — an exhibition of collage, book binding and assemblage by Kathy Svec, Deb AndersBond and Eduardo Garcia, all of Ames — opens 6 p.m. Friday at Creston:Arts gallery, 116 W. Adams St. Artist Kathy Svec — whose mixed media shadow box assemblages will be included in the show — said Box, Book & Board has become a traveling art show. After their first show together at the Octogon Center for the Arts in Ames, the trio was invited to display their work at Warren Cultural Center in Greenfield and Creston:Arts gallery. Svec said she feels her work partnered with the work of Anders-Bond’s and Garcia’s work “is a very good marriage visually.” All three artists infuse their differing styles into their work made from paper and fibers.
“I had a hunch it would look good together and it did,” she said.
About the artists Svec has been showing her work since 1978. With two art degrees and a career of teaching and managing art-related programs at Memorial Union at Iowa State University, she has worked
in a variety of mediums before finding her current medium of combing bookbinding with collage. “When you teach at a high school level, you have to be good at a hundred different things,” said Svec. Svec’s work is a combination of the written word and collage art made from ar-
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Cut and paste: Top, this collage assembled by Deb Anders-Bond is one piece that will
chival mat boards, textiles, marbled papers and other high-quality artist papers. Some of Svec’s pieces are displayed in shadow boxes, giving observers a peek into the layers of textures, patterns and phrases. In an artist statement, Svec said she hopes the words and images connect personally to the viewer and cause them empathize with the words and feeling of the piece. Eduardo Garcia creates hand-bound books with handmade papers made corn paper, mulberry bark made by Mexican Otomi Indians, leather and other fibers. According to an artist’s statement, Garcia, who grew up in Colombia, said the books speak of his cultural identity where corn, gold and flowers are objects of myths and legends. Garcia has studied bookbinding techniques in the Czech Republic and the United States. His handbound books and handmade
DES MOINES (MCT) — The Iowa Senate voted 26-23 Wednesday to spend an extra 6 percent in state aid in fiscal 2016 to boost base budgets and categorical funding for K-12 public schools. The vote on two separate measures split along party lines, with 26 Democrats supporting the 6 percent increase for the 201516 school year and 23 Republicans voting no. Sen. Hubert Houser, R-Carson, was absent when Wednesday’s votes took place. Sen. Herman Quirmbach, D-Ames, the bills’ floor manager, said Iowa currently ranks 37th nationally in per-pupil spending, or more than $1,500 lower than the national average. He said the Senate action would begin a multi-year effort to get Iowa back to the national average. “Our kids are watching what we’re doing today,” said Quirmbach, who praised Senate Democrats for abiding by the state’s forwardfunding law while others choose to “defer, diddle and delay” by refusing to take up fiscal 2016 funding until next session. Sen. David Johnson, R-Ocheyedan, said minority GOP senators support abiding by the state law, but he called Democrats’ proposed 6 percent increase “unsustainable, unsound and unwise,” noting that the state has failed to keep its promised funding commitments in six of the last 13 years due to shifting tax collections. “Ladies and gentlemen, when will we ever learn?” he said. “This is a modest step to catch up and we need to do it,” countered Sen. Rob Hogg, DCedar Rapids. GOP senators who opposed the 6 percent increase joined in a unanimous 49-0 vote to provide $26.3 million in state aid to replace local property taxes that would be raised, as
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be on display during a February showcase — Box, Book & Board — at Creston:Arts gallery, 116 W. Adams St. Above, a small book hand-bound by Eduardo Garcia features handmade and fine artist papers.
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Slide: Heidi Robertson and her daughter Hannah, 13, both of Creston, skid sideways down “bus barn hill” Wednesday when the family went sledding and snowboarding.
Clearing the way: Creston City Roads Superintendent Jon Hayes, right, works to remove
the snow from the middle of Adams Street Wednesday morning by blowing it into a truck driven by Mark Loudon.
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