With it raining most of the day, we decided to take a couple of hours and head over to Amana, Iowa, and visit Catiri's Art Oasis to look over some of the artists' work.
We found some interesting 3-D works by Deda Happel and Doug Adams.
Deda creates raised block works and we found a print of one of her creations. See more of her works here. Our pick was a print titled "Comforter." It reminds me of one of the views to the north at the acreage.
Doug creates trees using wire and often uses various native Iowa lumber pieces as foundations to his "trees." It makes out to be a very interesting combination of walnut, maple, oaks and other woods with black, silver and copper colors of twisted wire. While we didn't purchase any of his interesting works, I appreciate the name of his website, The Twisted Tree Gallery, based in Fairfield, Iowa.
We also found a print of a photo from Steven Hunter. Our pick was view from a covered bridge to hills of fall foliage of reds, orange and yellows. http://www.stephenhunterart.com/home for more information and other works.
This visit has given us some ideas of combining the different creative talents that our family members have. It was our first visit and we intend to go back as there was much more to see. Maybe we won't have to wait for another rainy day but as you all know, work needs to be done.
(Out of respect to the artists, we did not take pictures of their works. Please click on the links for more information.)
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