Featured Artist

Lydia Nong

Lydia Nong (b. 2001) was raised in Iowa and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Iowa State University in 2023.

For Lydia, art is a language for expressing what words cannot. Drawing from vivid dreams and daydreams, she creates visual metaphors that translate raw emotion and imagination into tangible form. Influenced by surrealist and visionary artists. 

The human body is central to her practice, serving as a vessel for memory, emotion, and shared experience. Through anatomical imagery, Lydia examines the connection between the physical and the intangible.

Featured Artist

Ron Netten

Ron Netten is a full-time potter and part-time art education instructor at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. He has exhibited his work across the Midwest for over 40 years. Ron holds a BA from the University of Northern Colorado and an MA from Truman State University, both with an emphasis in ceramics. His high-fire stoneware combines functional and sculptural elements, featuring altered forms and richly textured surfaces. Using metal oxides, porcelain slips, and playful techniques, his work explores rhythm, energy, and tactile appeal.

Featured Artist

Tracy Ingham

Tracy Ingham considers being an artist an identity rather than a profession something innate and inescapable. he pursues challenging, story-driven work across a wide range of themes including Renaissance, military, Western, wildlife, and indigenous subjects.

As a self-taught artist in oils, acrylics, watercolors, and oil pastels, he chooses his medium based on the emotion and narrative of the day.

As a teacher, he brings reverence for the craft and encourages others to push their creative limits finding his greatest reward in watching someone else discover a new artistic breakthrough.