Visual Arts
The Des Moines Arts Festival® features 185 of the nation’s top professional artists and 22 emerging Iowa artists in a juried exhibition of artwork in 14 mediums. Providing guests with the unique opportunity to meet artists from around the world and purchase their artwork, the Des Moines Arts Festival® has become a signature event for the community.
The exhibition is juried through ZAPPlication™. For information about how you can apply for future shows, see our How To Apply page or logon to ZAPP™.
A gallery of artwork from past exhibiting artists is available by clicking on Artist Gallery. The web site will be updated soon with the 2012 exhibiting artists.
2012 Artist List
2-D Mixed Media
Rick Abrams
Gene Brown
Jim Brown
Daphne Covington
Dolan Geiman
Steven Graber
Julie Havel
Beverly Hayden
Aaron Hequembourg
Ginny Herzog
Jennifer Ivory
Seung Lee
Nathaniel Mather
Scott Olson
H.C. Porter
Ella Richards
Justin Robinson
Tres Taylor
Marjolyn van der Hart
3-D Mixed Media
David Burton
Nicario Jimenez
Amy Lansburg
Robert Matthews & Leslie Guinan
Jack McLean & Alice McLean
James Mullan & Victoria Mullan
Gena Ollendieck
Anthony Pack
Luke Proctor
Bryan Schultz
Chris Wheeler
Ceramics
Julie Berndt
Mike Bose
Adam Egenolf
Jennifer Falter
Nathan Falter
Delores Fortuna
Steve Frederick & Cherie Jemsek
John Herbon
Peter Karner
Debra LeAir
Elisabeth Maurland
Shadow May
Marti Mocahbee
Martin Pearson
John Sellberg
Gregory Story
Rob Wiedmaier
Computer Generated
John Charbonneau
Dewey James
Daryl Thetford
Drawing
Robert (Chip) DuPont
Ron Hoyle
Aletha Jones
Anne London
Michael McKee
Christian Vandehaar
Nha Vuu
R. Michael Wommack
Emeriging Iowa Artists
Jolynn Anderson
Rachel Arnold
Anna Blake
Lindsay Burke
Rob Burke
Abby Butson
Jessica Calhoun
Reiko Cunningham
Heather Davis
Rick DeVoss
Patrick Doubet
Lauri Ghormley
Ethan Leners
Elizabeth Mason
Cristina Muzzio
Dan Neubauer
Dennis Portz
Rebecca Skow & Roy Evanovich
Mimi Solum
Senid Tabakovic
Kindra Wisniewski
Holly Wist
Fiber
Mimi Damrauer
Marla Duran
Steve Edgar
Amy Gillespie
Diane Harty
Carol Hearty
Joseph Henderson
Olive Kraus
Kelly Marshall
Mary Sly & Dan Wyatt
Lillis Taylor & Tres Taylor
Flora Zarate
Graphics/Printmaking
Alex Abajian
Jim Brown
Lisa Burge
Steve Nowatzki
George Raab
Julie Sutter-Blair
Philip Thompson
Kreg Yingst
Glass
Linda Backus
Molly Barnes
Joseph Becker
Tom Bloyd
Todd Cameron
Stephan Cox
Tony Cray
Scott Gamble
Dehanna Jones
Richard Jones
Jeremy Lampe
Thomas Maras
Chris McCarthy
Steve Palmer
Jewelry
Rebecca Bashara & Scott Macdonald
Spirit Bush & Samuel Bush
Pam Caidin
Donna D'Aquino
Janine DeCresenzo
Marie DesJardins
Devon Driscoll
Ashka Dymel
Robert Farrell
Melissa Finelli
Carla Fox & Dave Fox
Carol Fugmann
Janice Ho
Alex Horst
Serena Kojimoto
Patty Lindbloom-Schwegmann
Felicia Parsons
Julie Powell
Linda Steinworth
Fred Tate
Caroline Viene
E. Douglas Wunder
Metalworks
Louis Andrew
Bozenna and Lukasz Bogucki
Robert Farrell
Anthony Hansen
Janet Miller
Randall Riemer
Jon Route
Holly Rodes Smithey
Elaine Unzicker
David Vigo
Painting
Ashley Benton
Beth Bojarski
Lisa Burge
Steven Graber
Signe Grushovenko & Genna Grushovenko
Aletha Jones
Joachim Knill
Michael Kuseske
Ning Lee
Seung Lee
Jamie Perry
Jodi Perry
James Petran
Christne Schub
Luke Stretar
Brian Sullivan
Conni Togel
Chris Vance
Taman VanScoy
Furong Zhang
Photography
Meyer Abrams
Joel Anderson
Micheal Paul Cole
Chris Dahlquist
Raquel Edwards
Cali Hobgood
Ethan Jantzer
Alan Klug
Rusty Leffel
Mark MacKinnon
Brian Mancl
Xavier Nuez
Lawrence Oliverson
Daniel Powers
Bruce Reinfeld
Mikel Robinson
Bill Sargent
Armond Scavo
Andrew Sovjani
Glen & Gayle Wans
Sculpture
Albert Benedict
David Bryce
Matthew Fine
Linda Lewis
Eric Ober
Nnamdi Okonkwo
John Petrey
Stephen Steininger & Karen Steininger
Dennis Thompson
Thomas Wargin
Mark Winter
Wood
James Barnes
LeRoy Bayerl
Kyle Dallman
Thomas Dumke
Rodney Furgason
Matthew Hatala
Richard Judd
Stephen Lamberti
Michael Mode
Lance Munn & Vicki Munn
Jack Schwab
Steve Smith
Proud Sponsor of the Emerging Iowa Artist Program
THE APPLICATION FOR THE 2012 SHOW IS NOW CLOSED.
Applications for the 2013 Juried Art Fair will open on Sept. 1, 2012. Deadline for application is Oct. 31, 2012.
Information and application information is available by clicking on "HOW TO APPLY" on the left sidebar or logon to www.zapplication.org.
