Here’s your opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at studios of local artists on Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 10am to 4pm. Featuring 11 artists in six different locations, the very first West Iowa Art Tour is taking place from Denison to Carroll, and will allow visitors to not only visit working studios, but also see recent artwork, talk with the artists, and see works in progress. The event is free and open to the public.
Carroll will feature Sasha Backhaus Foley’s home studio, along with Cecelia Comito and Laura Comito in their downtown Artworks Studio. Haley McAndrews will be showing work along with Lee Shiney in his studio in Arcadia at the old Ar-We-Va school, and between Westside and Manning will be Mary Phillips at her farm studio southwest of the Five Mile House. Denison includes Denice Peters’ home studio, plus Randy Carrillo, Luis Guzman Montano, Ted Mallory, and Justin Tedford will all be at Carrillo’s studio upstairs in the Donna Reed Theatre.
