This month I’m very excited to share an interview with fellow Iowa artist, Alaine Geeding. I met Alaine a few years ago and I first saw her work at the Snake Alley art Fair. Her glass jewelry is truly unique and I have been enchanted with it ever since. I’d like to start with learning more about you Alaine. Could you tell me a bit about yourself. I am from Mt Pleasant, Iowa and am 29 years old. I graduated from DePauw University with a degree in Vocal Performance with an emph

You can probably imagine my excitement when I learned that my proposal for the Fairfield Art Association's Imaginative Little Library Installation had been accepted. I have always loved visiting the library and stories play a large role within my art. Of course I would want to participate in a project creating my own free little library. Within my proposal, I had dreamed up a fairy tale cottage, complete with stone walls, real shingles, and a faux window showing a scene of th

By now I’m sure you know I love plants, especially trees and flowers. That’s why I was super excited to attend the talk on gardening with native prairie plants given by Greg Houseal of the Tall Grass Prairie Center (in Cedar Falls, IA) lat the Cedar Falls Public Library. If I wasn’t already excited about working with native plants, I definitely was after hearing about the benefits of gardening with natives, where to find native prairie seeds, a brief how to, and what the Tal