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UIowa S&I MA/MFA
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Come see Let’s Meet in Our Dreams by Thomas Moberg & Jamie Weinfurter through August 23 at Artlink!

As twilight sets in, we lose our ability to see color, and the world that we once knew becomes shrouded in wonder and otherworldly mystery. Let’s Meet in Our Dreams, the two-person exhibition featuring work by Thomas Moberg and Jamie Weinfurter combines nocturne oil paintings and Scollages (Sculpture + Collage) in a dimly lit space to evoke a sense of mystery and the desire to feel at home. The tension between interior and exterior spaces is shown through painted nocturnes that look in on illuminated homes from the outside with a sense of longing, and illuminated sculptures that evoke an uncanny and surreal sense of liminal space from within the home.

Our nocturnal habits have changed dramatically over the last two centuries due to the advent of artificial light. Where we once used to sleep and rise with the rhythm of the sun, we are now untethered from that natural pattern; the feeling of wonder and mystery that we experience after dark is one of being out of place and time. This exhibition highlights our natural human desire for light, which has connotations as security, comfort, and warmth. These feelings are contrasted with the night, which we associate with anxiety, discomfort, and exposure to the cold. The voyeurism of looking in on private spaces is culturally taboo, which creates an emotional dissonance as we catch glimpses of well-lit interior spaces in the dark of the night.

The otherworldly feeling of entering this exhibition will prompt viewers to question everyday objects and spaces and to celebrate the seemingly mundane. The nocturnes and Scollages within the light-controlled exhibition space will draw in viewers as “moths to the flame,” highlighting our shared desire to feel at home.

Learn more about Jamie & Thomas on our website (artlinkfw.org) under exhibitions!

#artlinkfw #jamieweinfurter #thomasmoberg #light taken in Artlink by @jaybyrdart

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Photos from the opening reception of Let’s Meet in Our Dreams @artlinkfw 💙💜💚

Thank you to everyone who made it out for the night and celebrated our engagement 💍🥂

Thank you especially to @possiblyashba and @ellenmensch for the 📸📷

@thomasjmoberg see you forever in our dreams 😘 taken in Artlink by @jaybyrdart

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@michiganstateu students participated in an iron pour at @ccs_detroit with other peers from Cranbrook Art Academy, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University.

These types of collaborative events help build a professional network of artists across the state of Michigan.

Evan Yalowitz, an MSU Studio Art student and recent graduate, learned new metal casting skills at aluminum and bronze pours at MSU and at the CCS Iron Pour in Detroit.

“Hands-on learning is super important, especially in the arts,” Yalowitz said. “There’s only so much that you can learn through lectures and through seeing it with your eyes. Actually getting in and getting your hands dirty is extremely important to the process.”

@msu_aahd Assistant Professor Jamie Weinfurter finds experiences like the CCS Iron Pour offer students new ways to participate in learning and connect with a wider creative community across Michigan.

“Making these processes more approachable to students and opening metal casting events to the public highlights the value of the arts and humanities through unforgettable creative and educational experiences,” Weinfurter said.

Read more through the link in our bio or at cal.msu.edu/news. People in protective jackets, gloves, and helmets work together pour molten metal into molds in an industrial setting outside. taken in College for Creative Studies by @jaybyrdart

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Opening TOMORROW!! Come hangout with us from 5-8PM on July 30 as we celebrate these three new exhibitions! Absolutely everyone is welcome, so bring your family, friends, or fly solo for an evening of great art!

We’re pleased to present Let’s Meet in Our Dreams by Jamie Weinfurter & Thomas Moberg, and juried group exhibitions Lucent: The Art of Light & Mirroring Reality, on view July 30 - August 23.

See you tomorrow evening!

#artlinkfw #artscampusfw #light #realism #art taken in Artlink by @jaybyrdart

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Come out this Thursday, July 30 from 5-8PM for the opening of three concurrent exhibitions: Let’s Meet in Our Dreams by Jamie Weinfurter & Thomas Moberg, and juried exhibitions Lucent and Mirroring Reality!

Let’s Meet in Our Dreams
Let’s Meet in Our Dreams is a two-person exhibition by Thomas Moberg and Jamie Weinfurter, featuring nocturne paintings and shadowed sculpture collages within a light-controlled space. The tension between exterior and interior space and the parallels of darkness and light are meant to draw in viewers like “moths to the flame,” highlighting our shared desire to feel at home.

Lucent: The Art of Light
In the words of James Turrell, “light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.” For Lucent, rather than just using lights to reveal artwork on our walls, we wanted the artworks to reveal light. Whether symbolically, metaphorically, or literally. Juried by Ellen Mensch, this exhibition includes 26 works created through a variety of media and with one shared focal point—light.

Mirroring Reality: Realism Today
Juried by Andrew Dubach, this group exhibition will highlight diverse interpretations of Contemporary Realism and explore how artists mirror, challenge, and reconstruct reality through representational imagery.

#artlinkfw #exhibitions #fortwayne #artscampusfw #downtownfortwayne taken in Artlink by @jaybyrdart

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Come out to Artlink from 5-8PM this Thursday to celebrate the opening of Let’s Meet In Our Dreams by Jamie Weinfurter & Thomas Moberg, as well as juried exhibitions Lucent and Mirroring Reality!

It’s absolutely free to attend, all are welcome, and we’ll have some snacks and a cash bar!

See you then ✨ taken in Artlink by @jaybyrdart

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𝐿𝑒𝓉’𝓈 𝑀𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝒪𝓊𝓇 𝒟𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈
A two-person exhibition by Jamie Weinfurter and Thomas Moberg
July 30 - August 23, 2026

Opening reception @artlinkfw in Fort Wayne, IN, from 5-8 pm on Thursday, July 30th! Join Thomas and I in celebrating our first exhibition together since our senior undergraduate exhibition at UWSP 🔥🫶🏻🎉

“Let’s Meet in Our Dreams is a two-person exhibition by Thomas Moberg and Jamie Weinfurter, featuring nocturne paintings and shadowed sculpture collages within a light-controlled space. The tension between exterior and interior space and the parallels of darkness and light are meant to draw in viewers like “moths to the flame,” highlighting our shared desire to feel at home.”

DM us for physical show cards, and we hope to see y’all there 💖

#letsmeetinourdreams #pleinairpainting #scollage #artlinkcontemporarygallery #twopersonexhibition taken in Artlink by @jaybyrdart

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@michiganstateu students participated in an iron pour at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit with other students from around Michigan.

@ccs_detroit invited students from MSU, Cranbrook Art Academy, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University to be a part of this community focused creative event.

These sorts of hand-on experiences help students participate in metal casting firsthand as they work and learn together with other artists.

#MichiganArt #SpartanArt by @jaybyrdart

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Introducing 𝕃𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕣𝕠𝕠𝕞/𝕣𝕠𝕠𝕞 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕘𝕣𝕠𝕨𝕥𝕙 🛋️🌿📚
A living, living room installed on the trails @iparkct

Included are a couch and armchair made from woven sweet ferns still planted in the soil, a coffee table planter housing native witch hazel and chicken of the woods mushroom plugs in the logs, a stump bookshelf containing paper seed pouches of the three sisters (corn, climbing beans, and squash), a stacked rock lamp with a solar powered light covered in mica fragments to shine during the night and day, a huckleberry houseplant rooted in the ground with a pot made from concrete and red brick detritus at the park, a moss rug, and a pine needle floor surrounding the perimeter of the site and making a path from the room to the existing trail.

The living room is expected to change throughout its life, and I cannot wait to see how it develops, reshapes, and grows throughout the years. I intentionally chose all native plants and building materials for this project thinking about how an outdoor sculpture can be part of the existing ecology, how I can give back to the park as a visitor to the area, and how can large-scale works adapt to changing environments. If you’re in the area, feel free to take a seed pouch, eat a huckleberry, and harvest the mushrooms in a year 🤞🏻🍽️

Thank you so much to Ralph, Carm, and Aiden at I-Park for all of your logistical help! And of course, big thank you’s to the other June residents for photos, support (especially in helping me move the stump), and for an unforgettable experience at the park 💖🔥🌿🫶🏻

I miss CT already! Hopefully I’ll be back on the east coast soon ✨✨

#ipark #artistinresidence #publicsculpture #livinglivingroom #livingsculpture taken in I-Park Foundation, Inc. by @jaybyrdart

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Open Studios @iparkct are this Saturday, June 27th from 2-5 pm! 🌱🎉🌿🔆

Join residents @leighaamick , @anneestoner , @kalinawinska , @lil.meretz , @dianathehumanoid , @blessings_j_c , and I in celebrating the culmination of our month long residency 🐻🫶🏻✨

I’ll be showing a new installation on the trails, as well as several new Scollages in the studio. Hope to see all my East Coast friends! 🔥🔥🔥

#ipark #artistresidency #openstudios #wechosethebear taken in I-Park Foundation, Inc. by @jaybyrdart

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She (Doris) Bites 🔥🔥🔥

For the month of May, our MSU team, Made in the Annex, brought Doris to life for Scrapfest 16

Great work by @jacquelynn.sullivan.gould @daniel.roscaa @maddiehiggs @madebyevanlove @junebat6 @amandaroberts_art and Harold Perkins

See Doris in person (and try not to lose your head) this July 10th and 11th in Old Town, Lansing

@scrapfestartfestival @msu_aahd #scrapfest16 #scrapmetalsculpture #mantis #madeintheannex taken in Old Town, Lansing, Michigan by @jaybyrdart

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@michiganstateu students and faculty from @msu_aahd were invited to participate in the 40th Iron Pour hosted by the College of Creative Studies (@ccs_detroit).

The Iron Pour offered a chance to learn and participate in the process used to melt and pour iron into molds. It also was a chance to build community and camaraderie among artists and educators across Michigan.

This was the second year that MSU participated in the hands-on event alongside peers from the College for Creative Studies, Cranbrook Academy of Art, University of Michigan, and Wayne State University.

MSU puts the ART in SpARTan! 💚 Four people in protective leather and Kevlar jackets, gloves, and helmets position molds before the iron pour. taken in College for Creative Studies by @jaybyrdart

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