Todd Niccum is a native of Knoxville, Iowa and is a graduate of DMACC and NE Missouri State University (now Truman State University.) His jobs in offset printing, creating retail displays and architectural millwork created the foundation for his own design and build business, T and B Design Lab, in 2013. He has created projects for museums including the Des …
Juanjo Novella
Juanjo Novella is an artist who has been linked to public art since the beginning of his career. With 37 years of experience, he has focused on the intersection of urban and social spheres within the realm of public art. Over the years, he has contributed to urban regeneration projects in cities such as Barcelona, Bilbao, and Madrid. Today, Novella …
Ricardo Gonzalez aka “It’s a Living”
Ricardo Gonzalez is a designer and artist from Durango, Mexico, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. His work is identifiable by his signature script style seen on large-scale murals, commercial work for some of the most notable brands, and sometimes just a simple sticker on the street. He studied graphic design at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Canada, and postgraduate program for typographic …
Ben Schuh
Ben Schuh is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in the Des Moines Metro. Schuh has exhibited in a number of national arts festivals and has collectors across the United States as well as in Canada and Europe. His artworks feature in both private and public venues, where he aims to transform cities, neighborhoods, and private collections.
Thomas Agran
Born in Kentucky, raised in Ohio, and currently residing in Iowa City, Iowa, Thomas Agran is interested in the Midwest — for both its charms as well as its challenges. He is particularly dedicated to the Midwestern landscape, its total transformation through agriculture, and the political, social, and environmental consequences of that change. Some of his paintings also explore the complicated …
Jill Wells
Iowa based artist Jill Wells is best known for her dynamic and colorful narrative paintings investigating race, history, stereotypes, accessibility and the human condition. Born in 1980 in Des Moines, Iowa, Wells was raised in Indianola, Iowa. She studied at Drake University (BFA 2005). An award-winning painter, Wells has been in practice for more than 18 years, with public and …
Huma Bhabha
Huma Bhabha is a Pakistani-American sculptor living and working in Poughkeepsie, New York. Her imposing, fragmented figures draw upon representations of the human form from the Paleolithic to present, generating amalgamations of time and place. She considers the comparisons between found and manmade materials in her work, often using bronze for her large-scale figural sculptures. Bhabha was born in Karachi, …
River Constellation Team
The artist team of Beau Kenyon and Natalia Zubko worked collaboratively to create River Constellation. Learn more about each artist.
Beau Kenyon
Beau Kenyon, an Iowa native, is a composer and educator whose nationally exhibited work typically operates in the public sphere and is rooted in principles of collaboration and empathy. Among his many accomplishments, he was the Boston Public Library’s first artist in residence, was the 2019 Mass MOCA Assets for Artists fellow, has worked in national and International residencies, and …
Natalia Zubko
Natalia Zubko is a NYC-based sculptor whose inquiries into ‘intimate minimalism’ seeks to activate forgotten spaces through both studio and public practice. Regularly exhibited in New York City, she also curates Brooklyn’s vital ART LOT public gallery space. Zubko is a lecturer at CUNY and faculty at Parsons New School. Zubko’s work ranges from large, often public, site-responsive environments and …